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The city definitely has a role in protecting its residents from such hazards. It also has a role in ensuring quality working conditions. The average patron need only endure the smoke for a meal, but a server endures it all day. City officials report emotional pleas from restaurant workers to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tighten Limits on Smoking | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

Lee did not change his not guilty pleas on theother 57 counts of larceny over $250.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee Confesses to Stealing $120K | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

These words, spoken by Mr. Blonde to a kidnapped cop in Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs, are prelude to a scene of exquisitely choreographed brutality. Mr. Blonde pretends that he is going to shoot the cop in the face to make him writhe in terror, and then, to the...

Author: By Charles C. Savage, | Title: A Society Unraveling in Film | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

Even from its first giddy day in power, the House leadership was smelling trouble. On Jan. 4, when majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas did a head count of support for the balanced-budget amendment, he came up as many as 30 votes short. Depending on how the amendment was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMING THE TROOPS | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

If fundamentalism dies out, it will die out slowly. The federal government--especially with a Congress more susceptible to the fundamentalists' pleas than ever before--must maintain a position of absolute austerity until this fundamentalism ebbs away.

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Zealots Hit the States | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

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