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...Said he last week: "They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or a religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause of socialism." Harsh as Reagan's words may seem, they rather accurately reflect Soviet leaders' statements over the years. Examples...
...Those harsh words, first spoken at a closed-door party committee meeting in Warsaw, were broadcast throughout the nation on state radio. They appeared to be a stern, perhaps final warning to Solidarity to end the scattered strikes and sit-ins that have cost the economy more than $100 million in the past month...
...served as U.S. Commissioner of Education under Gerald Ford, called the regulations an unwarranted Federal Government "intrusion on state and local responsibility." And he went beyond that to offer a blistering attack on the regulations as a symbol of the bloated Federal Government. The rules, he concluded, were "harsh, inflexible, burdensome, unworkable and incredibly costly...
...years. Consequently, later that month, the legislature revised the repeal-and-rebate law. The new version repeals income taxes for everyone and gives refunds to those who paid 1979 and 1980 taxes. As for the other law, the court approved it, noting that it was fair compensation for the harsh conditions and high prices endured by earlier settlers. Unappeased, the Zobels promptly got a stay of this second decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, which has put the $100 million windfall on hold while it reviews the matter...
...daunting climate, the remoteness of the location and the size of the undertaking will make this one of the most complex engineering projects ever undertaken. In the harsh winters of the Yamal, roughly 150 miles above the Arctic Circle, rubber turns as hard as armor plating and steel rods snap like peppermint sticks. The permafrost is so thick during most of the year that the toughest of excavating equipment must be used to break through it; yet in summer the ground can turn into a quagmire that blocks both man and machine...