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...right stands together on social issues, it risks falling together on the environment. Though conservatives and conservation are linguistically related words, most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that...
...explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...
...amount of hand wringing over his meager margin. But no one should have expected Wilder's candidacy to usher in the millennium of a color-blind electorate. Coleman has contributed to this yes-but mood by threatening to call for a recount, though his chances of a resurrection appear scant...
...implore you, reconsider. You still have time to join me here in scenic New Haven. The Game begins a scant few hours from now, and our Crimson squad needs your moral support and guidance. Just as Tinkerbell needed the applause of all the little boys and girls around the world, so do our gridders demand the sanctifying spirit of the 10,000 men and women of Harvard and Radcliffe. Cheer, hurrah...
Czechoslovakia's normally conservative state-run media, which gave only scant reports on the exodus of 15,000 East Germans through Prague last month, swiftly reported the latest arrivals...