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...price of political activism, a kind of paring down of obligation from the wider membership of an organization to the single person, creating a situation where, so to speak, "the-buck-stops-at-me." As such the political fast is an awesome burden--one that runs the risk of grievous if not ultimate injury to the fasting individual. It is precisely this heavy burden that lends the act of political fasting its special aura--a profoundly self-denying and self-sacrificial aura that, under certain circumstances, has the capacity to cut across the conflicting boundaries of the fasters and their...
...even through Keyworth; he could have learned the aged physicist's views by picking up a newspaper or magazine. Teller has been arguing for an antiballistic-missile system since the mid-1960s. He fell silent after the signing of the treaty banning such systems in 1972, a grievous mistake, in his opinion, but has taken up the cudgels again in a spate of articles during the past two years. His opinions, as summarized for TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson last week, dismiss contrary opinion as vigorously as ever...
...Reagan Administration has certainly had its share of embarrassments in the past, but the EPA tempest combines in one package many grievous errors this Administration seems prone to: subverting stated duties, maliciously politicizing a supposedly nonpolitical body, and demonstrating ignorance of the practical repercussions of its actions. In White House efforts to deal with the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible (i.e., with a minimum of further embarrassment to itself), one can only hope that federal officials do not lose sight of the motivation for the whole investigation: to get the EPA back on track safeguarding our environment...
...operate the longer tandem trailers. It was a healthy exchange, but unfortunately for the industry, 14 states with lower limits exercised the option of maintaining the prior restrictions. The ATA has had its eye on this last vestige of barely intelligent highway management for several years, and despite grievous protestation, it was only too glad to accept the Reagan Administration's offer to override these last recalcitrants and open all of the nation's interstate highways to equal abuse...
...time by the governor's three years teaching and preparing for a new race at the Kennedy School of Government. But policy development often goes beyond mere number-crunching "decision-making," and last time around, Dukakis made some wrong decisions. Cuts in human services spending were among the most grievous. This time around, he should seek to be more creative in dealing with budget deficits, and should not be so quick to cut social programs when the fiscal going gets tough...