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...group formed in high school in the Long Island town of Cold Spring Harbor, the stomping grounds of Billy Joel. Though the band can't be the first rock success story from their hometown, they can be novel. Their determination to reject the music world norm of bands who create a false, flashy image for themselves is more impressive than their Ivy League background. They make no effort to conceal or distort their clean-cut image, an image which is a natural extension of the band's honest sound and sincere lyrics. And it is refreshing once in a while...
...Sachs devised a plan for economic reform notunlike one he had implemented in Bolivia in themid-1980s. In short, Sachs recommended that thePolish government immediately reject socialism,move toward a market economy by decontrollingprices and allow them to settle at a marketequilbrium...
Good luck, because under Kennedy's bill, business necessity means bearing "a significant relationship to a significant performance of the job." The court could reject your preference for experience if you failed to demonstrate a "significant relationship" between a Ph.D. and your business objective...
...quieted complaints that the President himself is as guilty as anyone else of dithering amid the economic crisis. Though he says he favors the most radical plan before the parliament, a scheme that would demolish socialism and create a full-bodied market system within 500 days, Gorbachev insists on rejecting one of the proposal's fundamental provisions: the devolution of key economic powers to the 15 republics. Moreover, he suggested last week that the privatization of land, perhaps the most important aspect of the plan, be placed on a referendum for voters to decide. The procedure for balloting could take...
...with the court's precarious pro-choice majority and the lives of millions hanging in the balance, the Senate must dare to err on the side of caution. It can and should reject Souter and other any nominee who will not assure them in unambiguous language that he or she will uphold the right to abortion against all encroachments. Some things are worth fighting...