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...dearth of plans for both short-and long-range reform. Experts have exhaustively debated dozens of proposals; it seems most unlikely that the Greenspan commission can come up with any new ones. What has been lacking, and is still lacking, is the political will to overcome the furious opposition that a proposed change in Social Security inevitably arouses...
...little tired these days," says a controller at the Aurora Air Traffic Control Center, which clears all planes coming into O'Hare. "But nobody I know has cut a corner, and nobody is too tired to do his job properly." Indeed, FAA officials contend that PATCO diehards, still furious at losing their union status, are intentionally stirring up talk of trouble in the control towers. Obviously, the nation's airports cannot be run indefinitely under present conditions, and the FAA hopes to bring the force of controllers up to full strength, 13,000, by 1984. Meanwhile, officials point...
...except the company's top executives knew that the bust was coming. Most of the stunned employees at Colony first heard the news on radio or TV. In Battlement Mesa, a half-finished company town built by Exxon, a few furious workers immediately went on a rampage. They overturned garbage cans, tore down company-owned fence and fired shotguns through the windows of their company-owned trailer homes. In the town of Parachute, 15 miles from the Colony site, men piled into O'Leary's Pub and the Old Bank Saloon, where they drank, pounded...
...system he is fighting, in his view, is "corrupt to its core." While his book is primarily an entertaining gloss of his most intriguing legal battles, Dershowitz lays out his case against criminal justice in a furious ten-page introduction. The system is "built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth," he claims. Even respected members of the profession are part of what he labels the "cheat elite," who doctor facts to produce the results they want. They include not only police and prosecutors, he says, but defense attorneys and judges as well...
Mrdfielder Rich Doyle scored a goal with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter and line mate Rich Rainaldi scored another with only three minutes left in the period to thwart a furious Dartmouth comeback and secure a 9-8 win for the Harvard men's lacrosse team in Saturday's showdown at the Business School field...