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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayor Coleman owes Congress and the people a sincere and immediate public apology for his irresponsible remarks...
What good can come from removing investment incentives such as tax shelters? Can anyone deny the immense public benefit produced by such tax-sheltered investments as renovated housing, senior-citizen homes, food and job production and the like? Let us stop torturing ourselves into finding ways to spite the rich at the expense of benefits...
...more severely enforced; many single workers live in segregated dormitories. Opportunities for courtship are limited, although, now that the rigors of the Cultural Revolution have subsided, young couples are once again allowed to stroll hand in hand in the streets or even cuddle on benches. Secluded areas of public parks are increasingly used for after-dark trysts...
...mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, said Sun, the republic had no choice but to "establish a more self-sustaining defense industry." It was a popular move. In front of the main Buddhist temple in Taipei, nuns began collecting contributions for national defense from passersby. In just a week the public donated a total of $17 million to the government for the purchase of weapons...
Coveted though they may be, Nobel prizes can be mixed blessings to scientists. At every turn, the winners are beseiged with demands to make speeches, grant interviews and perform myriad chores that leave precious little time for research. Even worse, an awed public often takes their statements with almost oracular seriousness. So says Rosalyn Yalow, the 1977 Nobelist in medicine, who concludes that the most prized policy for a laureate may sometimes be silence...