Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a reason that the press is afforded such leeway--leeway which law enforcement officials do not have. The fourth estate has an important role in the political process of the United States, as a kind of watchdog over officials and institutions. The press is expected to scrutinize what public officials do not, and therefore must be allowed greater investigative freedom...
...learn from each other. Moreover, the assembly of minority groups should not be seen as a threat or a desire to be separatist. In a community of such diversity, minorities sometimes need to make associations with people of the same minority background for cultural, social, political, or whatever reason and their right to make these associations should be respected and admired. Mecca J. Nelson...
Most telemarketing crooks insist on payment by credit card. Reason: the vouchers can be cashed in at banks before the buyers have second thoughts. Moreover, purloined credit-card numbers enable con artists to compound the crime -- for example, by charging victims several times for the products they purchase over the phone. By the time the consumers receive a bill, the thieves have disappeared, often without shipping any products...
...East Coast. Then they work their way westward, taking advantage of the changing time zones to make the maximum number of calls. Consumers who call back with questions are invariably told that the salesman is in a meeting. Once stung, many victims are deluged with other offers. Reason: boiler rooms sell sucker lists to one another...
...remain in the position of a hungry consumer with a relatively small larder. The Persian Gulf now holds two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. The U.S. share is less than 3%, while its annual consumption has reached nearly 30% of worldwide usage. Those sobering figures are reason enough for the U.S. to avoid gas- gulping habits that would bring on another painful awakening...