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...evidently found some restraint at 25, and comes whole to her Olympics, choosing to run the 3,000 and pass the 1,500, though qualified to try both. At last month's trials, winding up four preliminaries and two finals over just six days, Decker finished second in the 1,500, her first loss in four years. Reasoning that "one gold is better than two silvers," she has elected a showdown with South African Sprite Zola Budd, though Decker claims to be more concerned about Rumanian Marciana Puica. In the Helsinki world championships last summer, Decker won both, running...
...auto companies a chance to do in the air bag once and for all." The State Farm Insurance Co. and the National Association of Independent Insurers have filed a suit claiming that Dole's order is illegal in allowing state legislatures the power to rule out passive-restraint installations by approving seat-belt laws...
...provided ample documented evidence that all too often governments force people to undergo operations against their will, and that even in the United States some women are compelled to undergo sterilization against their wishes or when they do not comprehend the consequences. Although there is a strong case for restraint in effecting mass sterilization, the claim that all peoples east of Europe want all or most of the children they bear is absurd. And to claim that Western governments are intruding when they try to make contraception available is equally wrongheaded. Greer suggests that we focuses less on how many...
FORTUNATELY, the entire book does not suffer from this juxtaposition of coherent ideas with whining language. There is, through much of the work, the kind of impassioned and exhortative writing that necessarily accompanies calls for social change. Without it, the book would be unbearably dry. Where Greer shows enough restraint to provoke without battering the reader, she shines. This is not say that most, or even many, readers will agree with her forceful arguments. But they are not easily ignored, and much of Sex and Destiny deserves further attention...
...Prime Minister Thatcher set a businesslike tone. Predicting a "great measure of common understanding and agreement" at the summit, she then ticked off a list of conservative economic positions as the basis of unity for the leaders. Among them: that a strategy of economic recovery based on public-sector restraint and limited monetary growth "is the right one, and we intend to stick to it." Thatcher tossed in a plug for one of her favorite topics, "adapting our societies to an unprecedented pace of technological change...