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...implies strongly that she would somehow find the funds to hire more firemen, improve the mediocre criminal justice system, and otherwise "improve the quality of life." She repeatedly emphasizes the need to modernize and upgrade the rapid transit system. To do that she would abandon the $1 billion Westway road project, a controversial plan favored by the business community and many political leaders because it would promote development in Lower Manhattan. Most of the money would come from Washington, but under legislation pushed by Abzug while she was in Congress, such highway funds can be "traded in" for mass-transit...
...rapid are the technological advances in personal record-keeping that the Government has been unable to keep pace with controls. Congress enacted the Privacy Act of 1974 to restrict abuses by federal officials, but has done almost nothing about misdeeds in private business. The Linowes report puts forward 162 recommendations for reform. The package may be overdetailed and could lead to a costly bureaucratic nightmare. But, at minimum, Congress should enact legislation that would...
More serious analysts point to the fact that, historically, rapid economic expansion and ethnically mixed populations have produced crime?hence the waves of violence in the U.S. in the middle and late 19th century. Another factor that historically has been accompanied by crime, points out Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, is individual freedom. Some experts today argue that juvenile crime is spreading because everyone is pushing what he considers his "rights" to the utmost limits. Standards are lowered and blurred: any behavior, however deviant, finds its instant defenders. The traditional and constraining institutions of family, church and school have lost much...
...fast-food outlets, typically emphasizing limited menus and rapid turnover, sprout on highways, city boulevards and small-town streets like mushrooms (which they often architecturally resemble). For every dollar spent on food eaten away from home, an estimated 40? goes to fast-food emporiums. The total sales this year are expected to reach $20 billion. McDonald's, the giant of the industry, will very soon sell its 23 billionth hamburger. A Texas chain called Church's Fried Chicken uses up 37 million pickled jalapenos per year. In 1976 the 700-plus units of Taco Bell consumed 1 million...
Some junk food richly deserves that name, although it must be remembered that one man's meat is another man's corndog (a wienie impaled on a stick and dunked in a bubbling cornbread batter). But much prepacked or rapid-fire fare simply tastes better than the meals Mom used to make-when Mom's was the clapboard greasy spoon tucked invitingly along the two-lane highway, with three cars parked in front, all bearing out-of-state plates. Critics like to claim that the major chains are taking the adventure out of eating, that motorists...