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...such cheap strategy would be to stamp "Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated" on the driver's license of anyone guilty of DWI. A DWI offender would be stigmatized whenever he writes a check at a local supermarket, or gets carded in a local bar. Nobody wants a gossipy supermarket clerk to know he drove drunk...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Driving Them Off the Road? | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...outskirts of the city. There the trio were unceremoniously executed by gunshots to the back of the head. What made the swift justice remarkable was that two of the three were sons of senior Chinese officials. Their deaths were the most dramatic sign yet of Peking's determination to stamp out rampant nepotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Kill One to Teach 100 | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...course being set by the interim government, which is dominated by longtime Duvalier loyalists. Lieut. General Henry Namphy, the presiding member of the National Council of Government, moved swiftly to defuse the tide of criticism. He summarily abolished the National Assembly, a body that had served largely to rubber-stamp Duvalier policies. Namphy also disbanded the uniformed branch of the despised Duvalier secret police corps, the Tonton Macoutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Never, Never Again | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

WELFARE. Reagan is proposing reductions of $238 million in Aid to Families with Dependent Children and $313 million in food-stamp outlays by enforcing stricter eligibility requirements and demanding that employable recipients work in order to continue receiving benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future, Again | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Having cleared several administrative hurdles, the move to change names awaits only the rubber stamp approval of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at its February 13 meeting...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: PSR Simplifies Moniker, Forsakes SR to Become P | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

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