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...Middle East, ended or substantially abated in well under 90 days. Congress could thus have influenced U.S. policy in them only by a direct vote ordering him to stand down-which is hardly sitting still. In an age of nuclear confrontation, all too much decisiveness can occur within 90 minutes, much less 90 days, and the war-powers resolution does not seem to diminish the President's necessary power to respond to superpower challenges. As for whether the measure might unwittingly extend presidential war powers, Javits convincingly argues in his recently published book, Who Makes War (TIME...
...Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the Clean Air Act requires not only that minimum standards be met, but also that no significant reductions in air quality in cleaner areas occur...
...Esaki, then a young researcher with the Sony Corp. in Tokyo, was working on semiconductors-crystalline substances that ordinarily are poor conductors of electricity unless impurities are added to them. After experimenting with various chemicals, Esaki was able to produce a sample with which he demonstrated that tunneling can occur in semiconductors-something that had been suspected but never proved. Esaki's tiny gadget, called a tunnel diode, quickly found use as a switching device in electronic applications, performing much faster than a vacuum tube or even a transistor...
Since the peak number of accidents occur during hours of dusk and darkness, the following suggestions are offered in order to avoid collisions...
...music. Occasionally, as in his song "I Believe in You," Young cleverly develops an unusual paradox, in that case, the realization that people who respect each other must sometimes admit they don't love each other. But these themes are never startlingly new; at best they represent ideas which occur to everyone but not often enough. When extended into a scene or transformed into clumsy symbolism, Young's use of the commonplace becomes embarrassingly hackneyed...