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Where is our pride? We export technology. Why can't we import ways to make streets safe? We spend billions to protect ourselves from the Russians, but it is the street gangs in America who frighten me. It's law-and-order and freedom from fear that allow a nation to survive, and I say no money for New York and other cities until they restore safety to the streets. I'm mad, sick at heart and disgusted with weak Government officials...
...Higher Education Act amendment is of high personal import to Bok, and he has spoken to several legislators about the bill, Robin Schmidt, vice-president for government and community affairs, said yesterday...
...often read the thoughts and emotions of my interlocutor. Thus, immediately the face became the main subject of my photography. I was not adverse to photographing still-lifes, street scenes or landscapes, but the capturing of an expression that reflected the essence of a human being seemed of greater import...
...example, as sales become harder to make at home, businessmen are increasingly engaged in a bruising scramble to boost exports. Their efforts have led to a fresh surge of protectionist sentiment. British unions, for example, are demanding stringent import curbs to protect workers' jobs, and in the U.S. business groups are lobbying for limits on imports of shoes and color TVs. Over lunch last week in Brussels, angry officials of the European Community bluntly warned Japanese representatives that they would close the door to some Japanese goods unless the country moves swiftly to reduce its mammoth $4.2 billion annual...
...infinite. Photography has acquired a status unimaginable a decade ago. Meanwhile, abstract painters, released from the severity of their mission, are no longer embarrassed by pattern and decoration. As the desire to paint one's way into history recedes, a new subjectivity has replaced it, a free permit to import life whole into art through video, performance and participation. A broad and knowing eclecticism prevails...