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...Television. I have nine children. I've seen what television has done to them, and I sat there powerless to stop it. They watch it all the time. Their culture is television...
While strong government action helped pull the U.S. out of past recessions, Washington this time seems powerless to play its traditional role of jump- starting the economy. The massive federal deficits that helped fuel the creation of 22 million new jobs in the 1980s have made fresh tax cuts or spending programs politically and economically anathema. Moreover, the Federal Reserve Board has resisted spurring job growth by sharply dropping interest costs, lest the tactic speed up a relatively modest 3% inflation rate...
...charged, were staggering. High on his list of "endangered precedents" are cases involving the right to abortion, affirmative action, limitations on the death penalty, and separation of church and state. The new approach, he added, "will squander the authority and legitimacy of this court as a protector of the powerless...
These monitors are accompanied by 650 lightly armed U.N. peacekeeping troops. Their role is to protect the U.N. observers and to support personnel; they are powerless to stop any skirmishes in the demilitarized zone. There is little concern that Saddam Hussein will risk the consequences of another foray southward any time soon, but the peacekeepers may have to stay for years, just as they have remained in Cyprus since 1964 and in Lebanon since...
...neighbors suffer at the hands of the new society. Tsirele's father is impoverished and powerless under new legal codes, and her brother, educated in a state-run Jewish school, loafs about on the balcony, out of school for a secular holiday. Even Max's friends, the old Warsaw lowlifes, feel that they have lost control of the city's crime networks...