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...says Reardon, "we want to improve things one at a time at a reasonable rate. We'd like to fix up the whole thing, but you have to ask. 'Where the hell are we going to get the money?'" Gilbert Fuchsberg assisted with the reporting of this article...
...judge." The Feds evidently infiltrated judicial ranks with at least one visiting informer-judge: flamboyant downstate Circuit Judge Brocton Lockwood of Marion, who claims that he collected evidence of payoffs with a tape recorder stuffed into his cowboy boots. Lockwood found that the going rate to fix a drunken-driving charge...
...part of the car has been more dangerously problem-prone than the rear brakes, and last week the Government took extraordinary steps to force GM to fix them. The Justice Department filed a $4 million lawsuit demanding that the company recall all 1.1 million X-cars made in 1980, the first model year. Moreover, the department accused GM of endangering its customers by covering up the car's defects. The suit charges that GM failed to notify properly either the Government or car owners about the problems and that the company lied when asked about them...
...Principles of Psychology (1891) that the infant is so "assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin and entrails at once" that he views the surrounding world as "one great blooming, buzzing confusion." As recently as 1964, a medical textbook reported not only that the average newborn could not fix its eyes or respond to sound but that "consciousness, as we think of it, probably does not exist in the infant...
...reaction to solution-mongering from the right, liberals argue that what the U.S. really needs is a quick fix of its own attitude: If only we were more willing to accept "change," more self-critical of our own past sins in the region, less hung up on Communism-if only we could bring ourselves to live with the Sandinistas and encourage a "dialogue'' between guerrillas and government in El Salvador. Yes, we would have more leftists running countries in the hemisphere, but those countries are too weak, too poor, too desperate for our help to become genuine Soviet...