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...Dole, including a "spontaneous floor demonstration for Nixon and Agnew." Dissent is muted, polite, served up in small doses. There is no Bella Abzug storming around denouncing the nominee; instead Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, makes a discreet, ladylike case for more lenient abortion laws...
...storeowners seemed to mind. Most stood and watched while people picked through the refuse and some even encouraged passersby: "Take what you want, everything's ruined." A less lenient opinion came from a phone company employee in a yellow rain slicker who said to a fellow worker. "You know what they ought to do to those looters?--take out a gun and shoot them on the spot...
This is Platts-Mills' first feature, and even by the lenient standard adopted for new work, Bronco Bullfrog is rough around the edges. Subtitles are required, not only because the East End accent and slang are often unintelligible (even to Londoners) but because the sound recording is atrocious...
Klein's performance as Senior Tutor hardly endeared him to Pusey. No one objected more than the President to the Ad Board's lenient treatment of disruptive student radicals. Pusey's distaste for Klein's politics probably provided the passion behind his academic objections to the appointment...
History shows that lenient methods of handling this kind of contagion are bound to fail, Bejerot says. In Sweden, for example, light penalties for drug offenders have done nothing to curb addiction. In Japan, on the other hand, authorities stamped out an amphetamine epidemic after World War II by instituting and enforcing a series of tough regulations: legal use of amphetamines was restricted to the treatment of just one disease (narcolepsy, which makes its victims fall asleep constantly); only one doctor per hospital was allowed to handle these drugs; and heavy prison sentences were imposed for possession and peddling-thus...