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Alcoholics usually have trouble stopping drinking when they start: after they begin, they persist until they are more or less drunk. Ted Kennedy sometimes has one drink, then goes about his business...
...weaken many affirmative action laws. That is why it is incumbent on employers to hire in the Spirit of affirmative action--a spirit which rejects reverse discrimination, but encourages an extra effort in finding qualified minorities. If Harvard students refuse to take the lead in such cases, inequality will persist beyond a resident tutor post...
...dearth of serious opposition, should it persist, could be Bush's greatest asset as he seeks to win a second term. The problem the Democrats face is neatly expressed by Barbara Kantorowicz of Shoreview, Minn., a single mother who ended nine years on welfare last year when she started work for a local social-service organization, the Family Violence Network. Meanwhile, her own day-to-day financial struggle goes on. "I'm struggling just as much as when I was on welfare," she sighs. Would she vote again for George Bush, as she did in 1988? Maybe. "There...
...these levels of chlorine monoxide--the highest ever measured at midlatitudes--persist for a month, they could destroy as much as two percent of the ozone in a given region, according to Toohey...
...expensive hiatus. By letting Jackson go before March 20, the Royals were obligated to pay only $395,000 of his one-year, $2.3 million contract. His $1.6 million salary for the Raiders this year is not immediately at risk, but it will be if the effects of the injury persist. And a foreshortened sports career may truncate his higher-paying second job as the endorser of Diet Pepsi, AT&T and various sports medicines -- plus his starring role in Nike's "Bo Knows . . ." commercials. All that off-the-field effort brings in about $5 million a year...