Word: provenances
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...last two decades, the United States has been obsessed with hardening punishments as the prime method for deterring crime. States have moved to institute the death penalty, and the federal government has sought "three-strikes-you're-out" legislation for convicted criminals. But only gun control has had the proven effect of increasing security-and life expectancy...
Your report questioning the price of and need for 20 additional B-2 Stealth bombers for the Air Force [Defense, Jan. 30] barely scratches the surface. The venerable B-52 will be flying long after both the B-1 and B-2 are retired. The B-52 is combat proven and requires no major modifications to carry popular weapons configurations. Why then are we rapidly modifying our new aircraft to match the capabilities of our old aircraft so that these still viable planes can be retired? Yes, I want a strong defense, but imagine how far the $20 billion being...
Fujimori, the epitome of the successful Third World leader replete with Soviet-made weapons and a somewhat democratic mandate, could become an example of the peril of hawkishness. He has proven his readiness to assume dictatorial powers in the past--he declared martial law after a slew of political and economically-related protests--and he could yet have some totalitarian or expansionist ambitions up his camouflage sleeve...
...begin with, the leadership of the club has proven to be nothing less than bigoted and intolerant in its beliefs and behavior. It has alienated large sectors of the student body by endorsing views most decent people would be ashamed to utter--views which hold that Blacks are inferior to whites, that all women are genetically predisposed to be led by men and that homosexuals are somehow not full human beings...
...compelling. The panel's vote split 6 to 3 in favor of further testing, with one member undecided. "I am not all that excited about the data I've seen," admits committee chairman Dr. Stanley Lemon of the University of North Carolina. "But I would be thrilled to be proven wrong...