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What's needed, as far as the University is concerned, is for students to be reminded of the need to lock their doors whenever a couple of hundred thousand come for a visit. Sure, something unpleasant might still happen to someone, but that's not sufficient cause for a guard at every door...
...Sullivan" of Manhattan's lube tube. "My show is for adults," she says. "If children watch it, it's because parents aren't doing their job." So it would seem. In 1985 Manhattan Cable (a subsidiary of Time Inc.) offered its 228,000 subscribers the option of a "lock box" so parents could scramble Channel J. Only 19 boxes were installed...
...Senate was holding out for $301 billion. The compromise would give the Pentagon $296 billion, but only if the President agreed to hike taxes to help pay for the cost. If Reagan rejected the tax increase, the Pentagon would get just $289 billion. The Democratic resolution attempts to lock Reagan into a damned-if- he-does, damned-if-he-doesn't position, placing the burden of new taxes on his shoulders. It is a game the President insists he will not play...
...economic concerns earned the U.S. large amounts of economic goodwill. Even bankers like former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, who tangled with Volcker on many issues, admired the Fed chief's willingness to do the dirty work of wringing inflation out of the system. Says Wriston: "It took guts to lock the wheels of the world, and I do not know of any other way it could have been done...
...increase in the prison population over the next decade would be intolerable. But the actual increase could be vastly greater. If just one piece of legislation like last year's drug bill, which calls for stiffer sentencing, is factored in, the increase will be much larger. We simply cannot lock everybody up. Something has got to give. Congress must choose: either allocate many billions of dollars for new prisons, or use imprisonment only where necessary and make greater use of such alternatives as fines, restitution, supervised home confinement, community service and probation, particularly for nonviolent and first offenders...