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Unfortunately Baker undercut the logic of his new position by saying that if Sihanouk insists on maintaining his unholy alliance with the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. will go along. Sihanouk, in turn, says he will continue to reserve a place for the Khmer Rouge in the coalition as long as the Chinese insist on it. So on this key issue, Washington is taking its lead from Beijing. The aging tyrants responsible for the massacre in Tiananmen Square are, with American acquiescence, bestowing respectability on the butchers responsible for the killing fields...
...United States should insist that plans for the demobilization of the Contras be pushed back until after the results of the these elections are clear and show undeniable evidence of democratic change...
They get little help from colleagues or corporations. "Women's work" is not respected in the marketplace or out of it, and skilled women executives who insist on shorter hours or home leave to do it are thought to have gone soft in the head. This is the Mommy Track problem, though Hochschild does not use the phrase. A Daddy Track is barely in sight, though some men might enjoy not having to seem conventionally ambitious and being able, like modern women, to drop into and out of their careers...
...relationship is actually poisoned on both sides. Patients may insist on the most conscientious care and yet balk at the battery of tests that doctors order to cover themselves. "You come in for an ingrown toenail, and they turn you inside out giving you all kinds of tests that you don't need," says columnist Ann Landers, who receives complaints from all concerned. "The bill is horrendous. The doctors want to be able to prove that they didn't miss anything. It makes people mad, and I don't blame them...
...would be tougher than before. The carmakers could do that by averaging the emissions of every car they ^ produce in a given model year, offsetting the most polluting vehicles with less polluting models. Auto-company experts do not dispute the environmentalists' interpretation of the "fleet-averaging" provision, but they insist that the bottom line will still be cleaner air. "Some cars may be below and some may be above, but they all have to meet the lower standard on average," says an industry lobbyist...