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...benefits that accrue from having tight regulation over potentially dangerous technology or drugs far out-weigh the costs--simply by saving lives. The FDA's ban on pressurized aerosol mist in the 1960s significantly reduced the number of asthma deaths in the United States. A high tech regulatory agency would unquestionably produce similar benefits...
...staff members, as Reagan does, is wrong. The President is ultimately responsible and the realization that he is so foggy on the issues, no matter how competent his advisers are, is frightening. How can we have coherent and decisive government when the man in charge is caught in the mist...
Once again the Federal Reserve faces a dilemma. Explains Washington Econo mist Michael Evans: "If the Federal Reserve tightens now, it runs the risk of stop ping the recovery. If it waits and tightens later, it may be closing the barn door after the horse of inflation has left...
Some fans might miss the simple seasonal pleasures of the first four albums. "Chocolate Fudge," "Mist," "A Shade Tree," "Red Wine, "Embers." The Fresh Aire project has taken a change of direction, however, as it had to in order to avoid stagnation. And in doing so, the group has put out its most cohesive album to date V holds together as an album in theme better than any previous Fresh Aire album probably because its theme is much narrower than an entire season Although it may lack some of the diversity of the earlier ones, as an entire album...
Only now and then does one catch a handsome exit line today. Gary Gilmore, the murderer executed in Utah in 1977, managed a moment of brisk existentialist machismo when he told the warden, "Let's do it." There was a charm, a mist of the fey overlaying the terror, in the official last words that William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife...