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...task force said all projects should be curtailed pending major policy changes. Other recommendations included alterations in laws which presently allow certain landowners to reap large profits, investigation of Indian water rights, and revision of the Bureau's benefit-cost analysis which discriminates against lower-income groups...
Certainly there is at least a reasonable doubt. If George Jackson did kill Mills, he applied ultimate means to achieve a far less satisfying end. However, in charging Jackson with the murder of Mills, the California prison system was placing itself in the position to reap an ultimate solution to one of its problems...
...project will cost half a billion dollars more than the state's original estimate. A few major corporate landholders in the San Joaquin Valley will reap extraordinary gains from the project, receiving irrigation water well below cost while Los Angeles-area homeowners pay a disproportionately high share of the bill. Also, the report said, unwanted housing developments are going up on good farm land. It concluded that nothing short of convening federal and state grand juries to look into the "mass breakdown in law" could right the extravagant wrongs being done to California...
...fear of crime, fear of disorder, fear even of differences-that allows repression to flourish, those who succumb to their fears are as responsible as those who make political use of them. And in the end both will suffer equally. 'For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.'" Richard Harris, it seems, would add to this list of fears men's fears of making decisions. For the Senate, the Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision would be based...
...shelling secured three months ago but has been kept secret by the Phnom Penh government, informants said. Reports of the shelling came from travellers returning from Siem Reap, the town nearest Angkor. The reports were later confirmed by a government expert who saw photographs of the damage...