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...intolerance for efforts to legislate morality. The good citizens of Green Bay, Wis., for example, refused to ban the exhibition of obscene material. Californians unhesitatingly rejected an initiative sponsored by Lyndon LaRouchites that could have quarantined AIDS victims. Voters in Massachusetts, Oregon and Rhode Island resisted efforts to restrict a woman's right to have an abortion. Some of the propositions that did pass also reflected a spirit of tolerance for, well, spirits. Voters in Kansas overwhelmingly approved the sale of alcoholic drinks. The last time you could order liquor by the drink in Kansas...
...presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old -- a country crowded, strained, perplexed -- when she will be obliged . . . to pull herself together, adopt a new regimen of life, husband her resources, concentrate her strength, steady her methods, sober her views, restrict her vagaries, trust her best, not her average, members...
Finally, Gerber feels that we should modify our speech in order to facilitate international communication. It has never been the responsibility of any people or government to deliberately fool with its language in order to make things easier for foreigners. Would we deliberately restrict our vocabulary to use of idioms to that end, thus minimizing our own potential for expression? Of course...
QUESTION 1 ON TOMORROW'S BALLOT is a vaguely worded and dangerous attempt to restrict access to safe abortions in Massachusetts. Supporters of the proposed amendment to the state constitution claim that it would only threaten public funding for abortions. If passed, however, the amendment will have much broader consequences than right-to-lifers have been willing to publicize...
...half a dozen of these mutual funds % are winning customers by promising to put money into the stocks or other securities of only those companies that meet stringent standards on issues ranging from pollution control to foreign investments. Many of the funds are now especially hot because they severely restrict investment in companies that have ties with South Africa...