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Those pressure tactics not only threaten the review's attempt to acknowledge formally that the current system has not fostered diversity among the journal's membership. They also imperil the autonomy of leadership of the review itself; such meddling is particularly in appropriate among students who deserve respect for their ability to make their own decisions...
...from Palm Beach south to Key West?is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost...
...resorts managed to stay in business. The area's real estate boom, which doubled the price of an average one-family house between 1978 and 1980, has virtually stopped dead. Even the environment, long the region's most attractive asset, is showing signs of wear. Decades of economic growth threaten to outstrip the water supply; water is occasionally rationed in some parts of the area. "We're at a crossroads," says Jane Cousins, a leading Miami real estate agent. "No city in the world has ever had happen to it what has happened...
...someone who is not American-born and has relatives in Europe, I believe the "position of strength" Reagan wants to bargain from makes Europe the table on which the cards are being played. That carries the domain of American politics beyond its borders. Reagan's policies shouldn't threaten the security of others and the integrity of their political institutions by pressing them to act against their domestic interests. The American position makes leaders feel they don't have control over their internal affairs. These leaders lose their people's confidence and this threatens European security...
...totes a camera and nasally announces his affection. Indeed, Marianna's sister, played by Nini Pitts, seems more frightened of the spectre than does Marianna. Rather, Marianna is victimized by her visions of romance which cling to her and draw her from her sleep. How such notions could possibly threaten her, we do not know; nor are we shown why she is so enamoured of Marion. For Marianna seems a petty and spoiled young woman, a willful coquette, whose illness results from self-delusion, not from the spiritual manipulation of a gracious ghost. Marion's uneasiness seems more tangible than...