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The automakers' chief objection to airbags is that they cost too much, adding $500 to $800 to the price of a new car. But former Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman, Jr., an airbag opponent, disclosed in 1977 that industry cost estimates--because of accounting manipulation and outright falsification--were vastly...
That brand of anti-Zionism which labelled the philosophy behind the Diasporan Jews desire to create a homeland "racist" was one such disguise. Although many groups--including some Jews--opposed the Jewish state for other reasons, anti-Zionism served for many as a new, more defensible appellation for the same...
One principal objection to Dean's theory, which others advanced as early as 1976, is the inherent implausibility of the ultradignified and instantly recognizable Haig skulking around Washington garages undetected at 2 a.m. All the President's Men contains descriptions of Deep Throat's psychology ("a man...
In another interruption, Bundy explained that a decisive objection to choosing the air strike alternative, rather than the imposition of a quarantine--the option that was taken--was that there was "nothing surgical about it. In fact, both the patient [Cuba] and doctor [The U.S.] could have died." But quarantine...
In a public hearing last night, council members questioned Healy and three members of the commission on specific parts of the report. The only objection to the recommendations by a private citizen came from Daniel C. Crane '72, chairman of the real estate committee of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce...