Word: tanks
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...Superman have drastically expanded their character and given depth to the world he must protect. Things used to be so simple; after a long day of reporting for the Daily Planet. Clark Kent would find out that his shapely cohort had managed to get herself stuck in a shark tank in Saudi Arabia. After checking into the nearest phone booth, he would emerge, leotards and all, leap tall buildings and so forth, to arrive at the scene of the crime just in time to save poor Lois. There would always be a moment of sexual tension and a brief query...
...article on the confirmation hearings of Ernest Lefever [June 1] you falsely state that "Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries." There is no such study. Although I agreed to write a monograph for Lefever. I have not done the study nor have I received a penny...
From the beginning Lefever was clearly the wrong choice for the job. A self-professed "do-gooder" who has worked for various liberal and humanitarian causes over the years, he became a convert to conservatism and founded his own rightist think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in 1976. He advocates making a distinction between "authoritarian" governments of the right (for example, South Africa, South Korea, Chile), which repress dissent, and putatively worse "totalitarian" governments of the left (notably the Soviet Union), which deny both political and economic freedom. Lefever had written that human rights questions should not interfere...
Several Senators had been especially troubled by the ethics of Lefever's supposedly independent think tank in accepting money from the Nestle company, one of the world's largest sellers of infant formula, for a study of the use of baby-food supplements, a highly charged Third World issue. The companies making such products were already under fierce attack; last month the World Health Organization's member countries voted 118 to 1 (the U.S.) for a code sharply limiting the advertising and marketing of infant formulas. In his testimony before the committee on May 18, Lefever...
...stopped short of using terrorism in this country only to leave America "a sleeping giant" until too late. Liberals and civil libertarians are worried about groups that Denton may try to investigate as part of the "disinformation" conspiracy, such as antinuclear organizations and a Washington-based liberal think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies. Some critics have begun to compare Denton to that ultimate American witch-hunter, the late Joe McCarthy...