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When the fires are finally out, another danger looms. Within the month, winter rains are expected. This year they will descend on barren, burned-over hillsides and dry creek beds with no vegetation to slow the flow of the water. Homes that escaped the fires may yet succumb to the floods and mud slides that are as regular a feature of winter in Southern California as the fires of autumn...
...recognize the conservative coalitions and their peculiarities. Just as the adult should not give a 12-year-old too much responsibility, moderate and liberal voters must not endow the New Right with too much power. While remaining mindful of a growing phenomenon in American politics, the individual must not succumb to fear or acquiesce...
UPSET BY RISING taxes and angered by the inefficiency of state government, Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question 2 on next Tuesday's ballot, a tax-cutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
UPSET BY RISING taxes and angered by the inefficiency of state government. Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question Two on next Tuesday's ballot, a taxcutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
...detached observer will justifiably wonder what all the fuss is about. Surely an enlightened, well-educated populace would want its own constitution, complete with a Bill of Rights and the principle of equality at its center. But a vast country with a heritage of regionalism does not easily succumb to more powerful federal government. The western provinces, newly-rich in oil, have long resented eastern industrial eities like Toronto, which for a long time held an inordinate piece of the economic pie. The Maritime provinces, traditionally the weakest economically, fear that greater centralization could jeopardize their already tenuous position...