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...refusing to set deadlines for Iraqi compliance of U.N. mandates or resort to any sort of military action, France and a few other nations have demonstrated to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that there is no unified international front to threaten him. The French foreign minister has stated that France’s goal is the peaceful disarmament of Iraq—but it is unrealistic to expect Saddam to disarm without the threat of military repercussions for non-compliance...
...apparent reason, participants begin hurling insults at me. The insults cease when I threaten to slander anyone who steps out of line...
...vast majority do so within the guidelines of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which says collection agencies may not use deceptive, unfair or abusive practices. That means they can't threaten jail (debt disputes are civil rather than criminal matters) or, in many cases, litigation (often only the creditor has that right). They can't contact uninvolved parties like children, neighbors or co-workers, and can't make a follow-up call so soon that it's unlikely a debtor's situation will have changed...
Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety - and decided to launch anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what the rocket business calls safety waivers - problems that NASA had noted but decided posed too small a risk to bother with. "That's a pretty deep stack; it really is," one member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate - every launch is going to have them - but others are things...
...means should Boston or Harvard stop recycling, and environmental concerns should not be pitted against labor concerns. Boston and Harvard should, though, explore alternatives to KTI so that they can legitimately threaten to cut their contract with KTI. Even if other seemingly viable recycling companies don’t appear much better than KTI, if companies were genuinely competing for Boston and Harvard’s contracts they would all have an incentive to improve...