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...irresponsible blueprint for back-door socialism that I ever heard." Ford's challenger was Ronald Reagan--and all Reagan had done was point out that "some economists" had suggested the system might be saved if Social Security funds could be invested in the stock market, exactly the same "fix" being proposed today...
...measure includes provisions to restrict the FDA commissioner's tenure to five years and to allow companies to advertise purported health benefits of certain foods without FDA approval. "This is part of an ongoing attack on the FDA," says Gorman. "There is a political push to fix it, but the FDA itself has already done a lot to streamline the approval rating process...
...from a Republican Congress, he will focus on other strategic alliances rather than push new programs that reek of Big Government--working with business leaders on TV standards, with Governors on welfare reform, with local groups advocating school uniforms. "People don't want to kill government; they want to fix it," argues presidential counselor Bill Curry. "They want practical solutions that don't need a rewrite of the ideological...
...suffering race relations at Harvard are not analogous to my "on the blink computer." If my printer isn't printing, I can turn to page 47 for a checklist of possibilities and then fix it. But I can't really do that with race relations. It just doesn't work and it has an ugly flavor to it. Let me help y'all out: the key to fixing what is "broken" with race relations at Harvard lies not in fine tuning something on the surface-like tightening a screw. It lies in preventing it from getting broken in the first...
...chip system is that it won't protect kids or anyone else from TV's most pernicious messages, like the right cream rinse will make you happier, or there are no problems that can't be solved in half an hour. You know, the kind of quick-fix thinking that might lead someone--a politician, say--to believe that the V chip will be more than just a benign distraction from the genuinely thorny problems--actual violence, say--facing American kids...