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CLEAN AIR. Congress is intent on passing clean-air legislation that is more stringent, more expensive and less market oriented than the proposal Bush submitted last year. Asked whether he can afford in an election year to veto any clean-air bill, the President told TIME, "Yes, because I'll be talking about jobs and a person's right to make a living ((as well as)) my commitment to clean...
Your application requires a support letter from a distinguished academic. Normally this is not a stringent requirement; in most universities, student faculty contact is encouraged even outside of purely academic circles. Professors--both junior and senior--often invite students to their house for tea or even dinner. Within three or four years, most undergraduates at these schools have come to know at least one or two tenured professors outside of the classroom...
...legal reasons, the Government preposterously insists that he "surrendered voluntarily." Conservatives are already complaining that civil liberties may let Noriega off the hook -- as if the difficulty of giving a fair trial to a man America went to war against proves that America's fair-trial standards are too stringent...
...focus of contention at the moment is the Wellington Convention, an international agreement that would establish rules governing oil and mineral exploration and development in Antarctica. Proponents say the convention, painstakingly drafted during six years of negotiations, contains stringent environmental safeguards. But many environmentalists see the convention as the first step toward the dangerous exploitation of Antarctica's hidden store of minerals. They argue that the continent should be turned into a "world park" in which only scientific research and limited tourism would be permitted...
...where $40 billion worth of pharmaceuticals is sold annually, the price of prescription drugs has jumped 135% over the past decade; inflation rose 53%. The same trend holds in Western Europe, another $40 billion market. To keep costs down, the West German government last September resorted to stringent price controls on drugs that could cut pharmaceutical revenues there as much as 40%. Last month Japanese authorities cut prescription prices an average of 9.2%. "The price of drugs is running out of control," warns Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House subcommittee on health and the environment and a leading...