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...alas, has caught up with the kids of the baby boom. Now, one in every three Americans are products of the population surge that began right after World War II and lasted until the mid-1960s. According to the Conference Board, a blue-ribbon business research body, the aging of this generation "will be the single most important economic stimulant of the 1980s...
Neither road is open yet to the casual motorist. Lawmakers are still debating the highways' economic and environmental impact. But the Dempster is slated for a formal ribbon-cutting in September, and, with some backstage horse trading, the Haul Road may not be too far behind. Then virtually anyone with a sturdy enough car, a firm hand on the wheel and a taste for the outdoors, arctic-style, can contemplate a splendidly eye-opening joyride to the far north...
...Revolution (now the Place de la Concorde) to see the spectacle. After the blade fell, an executioner displayed the severed head of the King to the crowd. Shouts of "Vive la nation!" rang out. Louis' tricornered hat was auctioned from the scaffold and Ms hair and hair ribbon were also sold by the executioner's aide. Some people took home hand kerchiefs and scraps of paper dipped in the King's blood as souvenirs. Many danced around the guillotine, singing the Marseillaise...
While the ethics commission has yet to take an active role in the investigation of King appointees, the House recently proposed a resolution calling for it to launch a preliminary inquiry. The state's only other investigative commission, a blue-ribbon panel on the MBM contracts scandal, is currently seeking the authority to look into the Massachusetts Port Authority, an agency directed by King until his firing in 1975. Whether either commission will eventually plunge into the King affair remains in doubt, but Harshbarger said the suggestion "would have to be taken very seriously...
...believe that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently had a hand in an important critique of it that was released in 1977 by the International Theological Commission, a blue-ribbon group of scholars that advises the Pope. "Christians do not persuade the masses to destroy violence by counterviolence," said the theologians, nor, they added, should they identify the church with any transitory political theory...