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...checks was abandoned some years ago, after pressure from city restaurateurs. In Britain, where the fatality figures (2.5 per 10,000 vehicles) are among Europe's lowest, 20% of road deaths are caused by intoxicated drivers. The government is now considering police requests for "discretionary testing" and is debating stiffer penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe A New Summer of Fatal Traction | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...past)) the P.R.I. won presidential elections with two-thirds or four-fifths of the vote, all seats in the Chamber of Deputies, all seats in the Senate. Today we will enter a new era. ((We)) will have to reform our procedures of campaigning and organization, because we will face stiffer opposition. We'll have to live with a pluralistic Chamber of Deputies and Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Will Enter a New Era | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard seniors applying to law schools, the surge in applications led to stiffer competition for the available slots, says Dina Rakoff, pre-law adviser for Harvard's Office of Career Services...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: More Popular | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...Police Officer Paul Dunbar was buried after being fatally shot outside a suspected crack house by a 16- year-old. In Washington, elected officials from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia met to discuss the record number of drug-related killings and arrests in their region and propose stiffer penalties for selling drugs near schools. Said Washington Mayor Marion Barry: "No young person in this region is not at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...trafficking charges by two U.S. grand juries last month, President Eric Arturo Delvalle sacked him as head of the 16,000-member Panama Defense Forces; the general simply turned around and had the National Assembly dump Delvalle, replacing him with Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma. Now Noriega faces a stiffer test: a rapidly worsening cash crunch that began two weeks ago, when the U.S. froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in U.S. banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama The Big Squeeze | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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