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...other side of every hill is a downhill slope. "When you do get to the top, it is beautiful," Collins says. "The sign that says `Trucks Check Brakes' is heaven for a biker...
...Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management. Known by critics as the Assistant Secretary for Oil, this official will help decide whether to continue such controversial Reagan policies as the sale of wilderness areas and extension of oil-drilling rights off the coasts and Alaska's North Slope, and whether to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development...
Still, once sex and violence start drawing ratings, the slope can be slippery. NBC is the only network not to have a weekly hour of news programming in prime time; yet it had no trouble finding two hours for Geraldo's devil special (being produced under the auspices of the entertainment division, not news). TV's new fascination with real-life crime, moreover, has the whiff of pandering. The correspondents on 60 Minutes have been called prosecutorial, but they at least come armed with sheaves of evidence. The hot-button journalists of The Reporters and other tabloid shows pursue their...
...bill, especially small-business owners, fear that temporary replacements would be costly and less productive. Says Texas Republican Congressman Dick Armey: "Parental leave is really nothing but a form of yuppie welfare financed by other American workers." In a letter to his colleagues, Armey describes the slippery benefits slope that might follow, warning that parents would soon be demanding paid parental leave, then health benefits, then mandated day-care services. "I shudder to think what would come beyond that," he writes. Sweden, perhaps...
...sees a long slow decline for our country," says Bush. In truth, Dukakis' campaign weltanschauung is as fatuously sunny as Bush's. And Dukakis, like Bush, asks nothing of voters except to lie back and enjoy it. Those who do fear that American civilization might be on a downward slope think the inability of our leaders to make any demands whatsoever of citizens to protect our freedom and prosperity is both evidence and engine of that decline. They find know-nothing remarks like the Vice President's reaction to the shooting down of the Iranian civilian airliner -- "I will never...