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...perhaps we are getting the first glimpses of the end of the Age of Warfare, a time when it has it has become both avoidable and unprofitable. Conservatives will scoff and claim that war is forever and we must be ever vigilant. Liberals will applaud the new era, believing the Elysium will come with the cessation of national violence...
...Others scoff at the idea that most pursuits involve fleeing ax murderers or worse. Half the time police are running after someone who has committed a minor traffic violation. Such was the case in Philadelphia last month, when police sped after a car that ran a red light; the ten-block chase through a residential area ended in the deaths of a 52-year-old father of nine and an eleven-year-old girl...
Inevitably, many hardy souls who work in the nuclear plants or whose communities rely heavily on the income they bring scoff at what they consider the alarmist fears being raised. Charges John Poynor, mayor of Richland, the closest town to the vast Hanford spread: "The types of people who are critical of Hanford and other nuclear reactors don't like anything except whales. I'd ship them all off to Alaska and let them rescue those three whales that are stuck...
...finally came out with anti-union mailings and meetings, the workers had been prepped to death by HUCTW about what points the administration would try to get across. The union even disseminated Harvard's union fact book in order to poke holes in it. Employees were skeptical enough to scoff at the University's statistics, or at least challenge its paternalistic preaching in meetings. When Taylor reached out to them with the friendly-employer message, they were already well-versed in the virtues of self-representation...
...shuttling cars and passengers to Marin and Solano counties. Last year Seattle-area ferries carried 18 million riders, more than the number of people who passed through the Seattle-Tacoma airport. "People who live around Puget Sound love their ferries," says Therese Ogle of Washington State Ferries. "They just scoff at bridges...