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...will swallow the Administration's cutbacks in aid without major changes. In the short run, the sweeping policy reforms would turn farming into an even riskier business and further reduce farm income. But the bill's defenders insist that increased competition would make U.S. agriculture healthier over the long haul. Some new approach certainly seems worth trying, since the expensive policies of the past have not solved farming's woes. Says Agriculture Secretary Block: "I am encouraged that there is a majority that supports the need for a dramatic change in farm policy in the direction that this Administration...
...wide, each holding eleven bodies. When there was no burial ground left, old tombs were opened and 100-year-old bones were displaced to make room for the victims. Even here the packs of dogs roamed about; if they found a grave that was not deep enough, they would haul out bodies and devour them. "I thought I had seen everything," said Subedar A.B. Bhosale, a soldier in the Indian army, "but this is worse than...
...photographers included about twelve too many sittings of average Americans in their native environment: farms, construction sights, gravel pits. The photos that work are the most incongruous: a beach arcade owner plomped smugly against his daily haul: Steven Jobs riding the Couch down the Macintosh assembly line; meat magnate Wally Mander sitting cross-legged in his slaughterhouse, and my favorite, part-time "model" Tina L Hotsky reclining on a New York streetcorner under the watchful eye of the NYPD...
...stacks of $50s or $100s in which payoffs are often made. By a process known as laundering, criminals deposit money in American or foreign banks, then withdraw it and invest it in construction projects, real estate or corporations. There is a lot to launder. The underworld's haul is estimated at no less than $ 170 billion annually from drug trafficking, prostitution and illegal gambling. Last week a report by the President's Commission on Organized Crime presented recommendations that would make it harder to use legitimate financial institutions to hide profits from crime...
...that information could prevent another crime, it is not an obligation. Religious questions are between me and my God, and not between me, my God and the state." Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, maintains that under the current law a grand jury could haul in every cleric in Florida and ask, "What have you heard about child abuse lately and from whom did you hear it?" But Denny Abbott, a Florida crusader against child molestation, insists, "The overriding concern should be for our children, and clergymen should report these crimes...