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...liberals are wreaking havoc on the whole confirmation process," says Dan Casey of the American Conservative Union. "We are reluctant to engage in that." Instead, conservative groups have concentrated on mailings to their members. One statement charges that the anti-Bork movement "is a consortium of extremists, kooks, weirdos and America-haters -- the likes of which we have not seen since Jane Fonda held fund-raising dinners for George McGovern...
These proposals, and a similar reform effort expected to come before the California legislature next year, have doctors and hospital administrators around the country up in arms. Changing the hours and responsibilities of residents would not only alter the way doctors are trained, it would also wreak havoc with the staffing of teaching hospitals, which depend on the cheap labor of residents, who typically earn about $24,000 a year...
...United States' only option for shielding the continent from Soviet coercion would be a rapid buildup in conventional forces. However ideal, this option would be impractical considering the country's already strained fiscal resources. Nuclear weapons just happen to be cheap, and increasing our expensive conventional armies would wreak havoc on the budget deficit...
...opening paragraph of his article, Nordhaus insinuates that PBHA is full of uncontrolled college students that need the constant supervision of University officials to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the Greater Boston area. In fact, PBHA has over 30 responsibly run committees, each independently operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years...
...early 1980s, sea levels along the California coast rose an average of 5 in. With the added tides and storms, the effects were catastrophic. Thomas Terich, a professor of geography at Western Washington University, warns that even a slight permanent rise in the average sea level could wreak worse havoc. Says he: "The sites with the highest value -- the sandspits and low beachfront -- are going to be severely threatened...