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...says Fotion. "Let him abuse prisoners, attack cities, use poison gas. We have plenty of ways to fight him and still hold the high moral ground." That is not only the most pious place to be, but it is also the best vantage point from which to begin to reorder the postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Options: Three Ethical Dilemmas 3 | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...delicious cheese products, whatever. In addition to the solicitation costs, commercial operations actually have to supply you with the product after you've signed up (and often a calculator or telephone or small sports car as a premium as well). These businesses, too, usually make money only if you reorder. But knowing that the money you send in doesn't even cover the cost of discovering your propensity to send in money grates more in the case of fund raising for charitable or political causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Check Is in the Mail | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...abacus to help the Council with the higher mathematics skills necessary to reorder their budgetary priorities...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Bureaucratic Excessories | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

Wolfe had planned to call his book O Lost. That title, however, did not appeal to Wolfe's editor, Maxwell Perkins of Charles Scribner's Sons, so Wolfe allowed Perkins to change the title, just as he allowed him to pare and reorder the text. But the theme remained...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: In the Wolfe's Den | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...official silence was, in a way, understandable. Few bills that cross a President's desk have the potential to reorder the national agenda or change the way Government does business. Gramm-Rudman has precisely such potential, but the force that drove it through Congress was an embarrassment, not something to crow about. For at heart, Gramm-Rudman, an amendment to a bill to raise the debt ceiling, is a statutory act of desperation, an admission that Government is incapable of governing itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma! No Hands! | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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