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Another of Tsongas's proposed incentives to increase R & D is the relaxation of antitrust laws to provide for a greater freedom in joint ventures. This idea has been a long time in reaching popular politics, but many free market economists have been advocating it for years. Such a plan would allow businesses with little extra capital but a few great ideas to join with their wealthier brethren to compete in the international marketplace...
...corroboration. One of the book's more sensational, if most trivial, allegations is that the Reagans took puffs on a marijuana cigarette at a dinner party hosted by Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale during Reagan's tenure as California Governor. Supposedly Alfred Bloomingdale went upstairs after dessert, brought down the joint and passed it around to the guests, who included the George Burnses and the Jack Bennys. "Within five minutes they all started giggling," writes Kelley, "but claimed they didn't feel a thing and said they couldn't see what the big deal...
...fundamentalist," declared Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif last week, but that did not stop him from introducing broad legislation to make strict Islamic law, or Shari'a, the "supreme law of Pakistan." Addressing a joint session of Pakistan's Senate and National Assembly, Nawaz Sharif outlined a legislative package that includes changes in the education and judicial systems and the restructuring of the economy along Islamic lines. The proposed legislation fulfills Nawaz Sharif's election promise to the small but powerful Islamic parties that helped him defeat Benazir Bhutto last October...
...advice: When you see a poster advertising the Crimson comp next fall, treat it as though it were someone offering you a toke of a fat joint...
Steiner helped to organize a joint police-community committee of students, staff members and police officers that would discuss issues relating to gay and lesbian treatment in law enforcement. In recent months, committee members have held a number of "sit-down" meetings to talk with police officers, and Johnson says he believes that if more arrests take place, they will likely be handled in a very different manner...