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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They say you can judge a man's value by his enemies. I have an interesting assortment. The National Rifle Association, pro-lifers, the animal-rights people. For years I have fought to abolish Saturday-night specials and those cop-killing bullets that explode on impact. I have taken a strong stand against the church or state telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies. We need animal models ((for experiments)), and I've been fighting this battle for years. It gets tougher and tougher. The animal-rights people are powerful and rich...
...state- planning portfolio to economist Edgar Savisaar, a member of the movement's executive council. During elections last March, the Popular Front did not run its own candidates against party regulars. Valjas garnered 90% of the votes in his district, but a poll for a Finnish newspaper taken just after the balloting showed that if true multiparty elections had been held, the Communists would have placed a distant second to the Estonian Popular Front...
...which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...week after the demonstration, in which more than 300,000 people from around the country participated, the New York Times disclosed that its Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse had marched, in violation of the paper's policy. The Washington Post also admitted that several of its reporters had taken part. It ordered those who had done so to abstain from covering abortion-related stories in the future...
...elder Hwang, by then a C.P.A., launched Far East National Bank, which specialized in loans to Asian immigrants and which now has four branches in California. Two years after the bank opened, he was kidnaped for ransom, then released within a few hours after the money was taken. Says the son: "I was in college at the time and did not hear about it until the crisis was over. The case was never solved, and some people have suggested that my father staged the episode as a publicity stunt. My father may be a little weird...