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...political-action committees. PACs, which bundle money from people of similar special interests, engender candidates with narrow agendas that contribute to legislative gridlock. We should just get rid of PACs altogether. It will heal a lot of electoral ulcers and still permit individuals who care about issues to contribute on their...
About four years ago, either the new chief of police or the new mayor decided to get rid of the squeegee guys. (The fact that there was some confusion as to who deserved the credit for the crackdown was the sort of thing that eventually led the mayor to get rid of the chief of police as well.) Following the crackdown, it was widely assumed that the squeegee guys, after a decent interval, would reappear. That hasn't happened. New Yorkers, grateful but intractably suspicious, wonder where the squeegee guys...
...mood to comply. Since last August, the Pentagon has been conducting test burns of the weapons stored at Tooele County's Deseret Chemical Depot, just 35 miles southwest of greater Salt Lake City's 1.3 million residents. For the Pentagon, there is a sense of urgency about getting rid of these chemical-laden rockets and bombs, which are crammed into 208 earth-covered igloos. For one thing, the Chemical Weapons Convention ratified by the U.S. Senate last April requires their prompt destruction. But above all, most of the weapons are more than 30 years old, and their aluminum containers have...
...teach an old soldier new tricks, but you may be able to rid him of his nastier habits. GENERAL HALFTRACK, who was doddering when Beetle Bailey first joined the Army in 1951 and must by now be a very old dog indeed, is being sent for sensitivity training. "The real-life sexual-harassment problems the Army was having kind of spilled over onto us," says Beetle creator Mort Walker, 73, who has faced the wrath of feminists in the past. "Some editors felt that although we weren't condoning it, we were on the edge." So, no more chasing MISS...
...strongly against getting rid of shopping period," says Adriana E. Abdenur...