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Those, indeed, are legitimate complaints. But focusing on this criticism clouds over a more serious problem raised by the weekend festivities--that the "bosses" continue to latch onto their ironclad control of the party, and are willing to pull almost anything to maintain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Life Of the Party | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...morgue of old newspaper stories next to past media scapegoats of the moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons but for human reasons. The government cannot deal with all future hazardous waste problems by buying out the town and moving...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Cleaning Up The Mess | 3/11/1983 | See Source »

Meuer explained that the new technique involves producing antibodies that do not destroy the T-cells, but rather, latch onto the T-cells, but rather, latch onto the T-cells and prevent them from causing damage...

Author: By Wendell A. Lim, | Title: Doctors Find Potential Means To Prevent MS and Arthritis | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...propensity to seize on one comforting truth and magnify it into the whole truth, blocking out all evidence of continuing or looming trouble. Says one former aide: "You have to be careful with him. If you had nine bad items to tell him and one good one, he would latch on to the tenth favorable item and discount the other nine. The blind spots are very troubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reagan Decides | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...will be ten years next week since a security guard named Frank Wills discovered a piece of tape on the latch of a door in the Watergate complex in Washington. He called the police, and thereby began the destruction of Richard Nixon's presidency. The survivors of Watergate will not be holding reunions. No one died at Watergate, of course, as the bumper stickers say-meaning, rather heavily, that Chappaquiddick was worse. But 25 people went to jail, and Nixon became the first President in Amen can history to leave the White House one step ahead of impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watergate's Clearest Lesson | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

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