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...controlling guns is. Annually, more U.S. citizens die from murder in our cities than in war-torn Northen Ireland every year. Police are finding themselves outgunned by criminals armed with automatic weapons. Schools are installing metal detectors to prevent children from bringing handguns into classes. Strict gun control will not completely solve these problems; guns will still reach the streets illegally. But gun control will help. Making guns more difficult to obtain is worth the effort...
Despite these forces, the call for austerity has come at the worst possible time. Inflation is down in the United States and has slowed almost everywhere else. The U.S.'s impressive start toward full recovery suggests that Europe will soon experience the same rejuvenation. Thus the Northen market for Third World exports looks better than it has in years, and developing nations should be "priming the pump" for a renewed program of industrial building...
...area group called Folks Organized for Responsible Energy has joined the Northen Sun Alliance in opposing the uranium development," he continues. "They have tried to influence county officials but have had little success. A battle in the legislature has resulted only in a standoff. The state regulatory agencies are lumbering into action but can barely keep up with the proposed copper and nickel mining. The state executive board will soon decide whether to allow exploration on state lands. Much education still needs to be done around the uranium mining issue...
...contrary, the book perpetuates worn-out stereotypes and leaves the reader wondering why some of the Irish have turned from hating to loving. He asserts that the British see the Irish as "drunkards, parasites and incompetents." And he claims that the Northen Irish "are in no mood to examine their consciences. It is easier for them to live within a traditional framework that has been imposed on them and that they have accepted, even though they know it is false and unhealthy." He does not qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make...
...were once run by Entrepre neur William L. Moody Jr., who before his death in 1954 had built up a $400 million empire in banking, insurance, real estate, cotton, oil, hotels and ranching. "My father told me never to dispose of these papers,'' said Mrs. Mary Moody Northen, but in a bitter, two-hour meeting, stockholders overrode her. Mrs. Hobby's winning bid was kept secret, and the philanthropic Moody Foundation, which supervised the transaction, would go no farther than to say that the underbidders did not include the Scripps-Howard or Newhouse chains. Said Mrs. Northen...