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...follow federal guidelines for releasing live, genetically altered organisms into the environment but also neglected to conduct an environmental assessment of the risks involved. Stung by the petition and aware of Rifkin's uncanny success in obtaining court injunctions to back his demands, the USDA beat a hasty retreat. Bert Hawkins, administrator of the department's animal and plant health inspection service, conceded that the USDA did not "document" its environmental analysis because "we felt the product was not significantly different from products already on the market. In fact, it was a safer product. But we should have documented...
Pressed on his comments later, Bush did not retreat. He felt "very, very strongly that a strong domestic oil industry is in the vital national-security interest of the U.S.," he reiterated in Bahrain. "Whether it proves to be a detriment politically, I simply couldn't care less...
Historical experience lends appeasement little credence. However it does not follow that blunt demonstrations of force invariably prove more persuasive. Allied resistance, when it came, did not cause Adolf Hitler to retreat. Years later, demonstrated U.S. resolve did not stem the tide in Southeast Asia. The decisiveness of conventional force rested on its material effect, not its deterrent quality...
chief of Mexico City, from 1976 to 1982, Arturo Durazo Moreno enjoyed the good | life. Although he earned less than $1,000 a month, he acquired two palatial homes (one a mountain retreat on the edge of Mexico City), a collection of vintage automobiles, and properties in Canada and the U.S. Mexican officials charge that he built his fortune by extorting millions of dollars from police officers...
...committee's retreat was an extraordinary move for Harvard. Especially on issues relating to South Africa, the University has forged ahead with controversial policies in spite of criticism from many of the same students, faculty and public figures that attacked the internship program. Not since student and faculty protest forced ROTC off campus in 1969 has the Harvard Administration backed down from such a public challenge...