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Stockman said at a later White House press conference that he regretted and withdrew his own "poor judgement and loose talk." "I deeply regret any harm that I've done," he said, adding, "I am grateful for this second chance to get on with the job the American people sent President Reagan...
Maybe a pharmacist would do no harm in suggesting to a patient what to take for a cold, a cough, a pain or an ache [Oct 12]. But then, who knows what the cold is? What is behind the cough, and what causes the pain? If a clinical pharmacist can treat the patient just as an internist would, why not train a butcher in clinical skills and let him practice medicine as a surgeon does...
Philadelphia was the first official stop on the British rock group's three-month American tour, its first in three years. The tour has aroused widespread interest and anticipation, and, as promoter Bill Graham acknowledged, the Stones' week-long platonic dalliance with Boston earlier this month did no harm in the way of advance publicity...
...push Congress for a federal death penalty; a loosening of the "exclusionary rule" that makes illegally obtained evidence inadmissible at trials; and stricter bail laws, including the right to refuse bail to "dangerous" offenders. Complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "These measures will harm civil liberties without having any impact on crime...
...expressed doubts about Thatcher's economic policies. Afterward Gilmour confessed that he had written his resignation a month ago in the full expectation that he would be fired. "Every Prime Minister has to reshuffle from time to time," he said in his resignation broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher loyalist who has been unable to ease tension in Ulster as Northern Ireland Secretary, was elevated to fill Gilmour's post, while...