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...perceptively saw the murder of Mary Frug as a "symptom of the disintegration of society" (Crimson, April 6). We are called to spend a little more time fighting for humane rules and egalitarian institutions, and perhaps a little less time securing our own prestigious places in the nation's steep hierarchy of privilege and reward...
...word quick can mean vastly different things, however, as Representative Barbara Boxer of suburban San Francisco indicated in January during the course of the House floor debate against the war. Although she argued that any amount of combat would impose too steep a price, she conceded to colleagues, "We will win this war -- quickly! Maybe two weeks, maybe two months -- that's quick. Maybe at most six months -- that's quick, I guess." There is, alas, a huge difference between two weeks and six months in money spent, suffering inflicted and lives lost...
...question of just what they were there for took on fresh urgency. Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and Interior Minister Boris Pugo, who drafted the order in secret last Dec. 29, say the new patrols are intended to combat an odious side effect of economic and political liberalization: a steep rise in violent crime...
With public confidence in the Kremlin steadily ebbing, ordinary Soviets doubted that either politics or public safety explained the security patrols. Citizens suspected that the troop "deployments" were going to be coupled with an announcement of steep price hikes: the Kremlin wanted to be ready in case the people rioted. Government officials assured the population that no such decision was coming any day soon...
...despite their potential down-the-road profit opportunities, these initial costs are high for a worker in today's fiscal climate, especially in light of the steep increase in the price of medallions from $10,000 a decade...