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...formal agenda. But it is fair to surmise that it is their own jobs that are really at stake. Voters in the European Parliament elections of the past two weeks gave many leaders a sound drubbing -- while handing a few an unexpected boost -- in a crazy-quilt pattern that presages considerable political upheaval in the year to come...
...Antarctica back up the global-warming theory, prompting scientists to raise new concerns about the possibility of floods. British researchers who monitor conditions at the South Pole have tracked an increase of half a centigrade degree every decade. This marks the fastest mercury rise on record and a pattern that many view as a warning sign pointing to global warming. Some of the cities at risk of being deluged by melting polar ice: Sydney, Bangkok and the American ports of New Orleans and Miami...
There's a pattern to these cases. Once the scandal breaks, the company expresses total shock that any of its employees could have done such a thing. Then it volunteers to work with authorities in nabbing the culprits. No matter how many millions of dollars are involved, the culprits turn out to be loners. Their superiors hardly knew their name. This is the "the butler did it" phase...
...extremely serious problem but not a pervasive one," said Warren Buffett, the country's richest man and a great stock picker, brought in by Salomon to handle its damage control. The Sears version went as follows: "We strongly believe that these instances were isolated and there has been no pattern of this conduct." Sears also said, "In the automotive business, mistakes can and will occur...
Though young mothers are the ones who cash the welfare checks, the reformers are targeting men as well in an attempt to break the pattern of irresponsible behavior on both sides. Clinton proposes that each welfare mother be required to give the name and location of her child's father before she can collect welfare. Men who fail to make payments will have their driver's licenses revoked. Massachusetts has made willful nonpayment a felony punishable by as much as a five-year term in prison. Maine's new welfare law, which threatens to take away the professional and driver...