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...substantial loss of jobs with middle-class pay. The blue-collar jobs tended to be unionized, goes the argument, while the new service industries typically offer no such wage and , job protection. Says Michael Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford: "Some sectors of the middle class that had implicit security in their jobs have been rudely awakened...
...sneak attack. Numerical reductions alone do not necessarily strengthen the nuclear peace. What is important about the outcome at Reykjavik is not so much the dramatic-sounding goal of a 50% cut across the board, which would probably prove illusory in a final agreement, but the Soviets' implicit admission that heavy ICBMs undermine the stability of the superpower balance...
...Implicit in this attitude lies the idea that male sexuality is natural while female sexuality is dirty. Any time a woman fails to repress that sexuality she is putting candy in front of a baby and must accept the consequences. Perhaps that is why the press continually harps on Chambers' "charming good-looks." Overcome by this handsome young man, Ms. Levin simply lost control and followed Chambers to the park, sealing her own fate...
Responding to Williams and Spence, Loury said in an interview that "no one will come out and say to you `we are using different standards."' But, he said, the pressure to employ the "correct" numbers of Blacks sometimes results in different implicit standards...
Admiral and Lieut. Zumwalt do not speak directly for the thousands of other veterans and their families victimized by Agent Orange, but those ordeals are implicit, as is the likelihood that the book is the pupal stage of a TV movie. So be it. The audience for this story cannot be large enough...