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Last, but not least, there is the question of enforcement. Outlawing abortion will not significantly change societal attitudes--women who would have legal abortions today would still want illegal ones tomorrow. The pro-life movement will have to deal with that, and with the specter of abortion black markets and back-alley butchers. In practice, it just might be that the costs of abortion laws would far outweigh the benefits...
...presidential election campaign enters its final lap, the economy is waving green and yellow flags, giving the White House cause for both concern and cheer. Government statistics released last week showed that growth is faltering and raised the specter that the U.S. might be headed for a new recession. But at the same time, interest rates dipped, lifting hopes that the recovery will gain new pep. On top of that, Britain cut the price of its North Sea oil by $1.35 per bbl. to $28.65, and Nigeria followed with a $2 reduction to $28. The breaks in oil prices...
...specter of Armageddon, according to Coles, does not haunt the ghettos or working-class neighborhoods as it does the Brown campus. Says he: "The children in the ghetto are worried about the next meal, about where they will find work." Concludes Coles: "The nuclear-freeze movement has become all too tied up with upper-middle-class privilege...
...rates. The consensus report foresees the prime rate climbing back up to 13% by the end of the year from its current level of 12.75%, and moving to 14.5% by the close of 1985. That prospect had Caldwell tempering his own optimism for the year ahead. Said he: "The specter of higher interest rates is disturbing. People in the business community are very concerned." However, Walter Wriston, former chairman of New York's Citicorp who retired in August, offered a more bullish view when he predicted a "drifting down of interest rates over the next six to eight months...
...America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party. Despite the bureaucratic degeneration led by Stalin, the economic gains of the Russian Revolution remain and must be defended against imperialist counter-revolution...