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...shortfall in the capital campaign would likely mean cutbacks--cutbacks which could threaten student services, worker salaries and even the breadth of academic offerings which sustain Harvard's reputation...
...backers of the council definition say such standards would threaten the rights of the accused...
Bush's slowness in addressing both the recession and the long-term trends that threaten the nation's well-being, along with the G.O.P.'s emphasis on social conservatism, helped Clinton capture two groups: women and younger voters. In most elections, women are likelier than men to vote for the more liberal candidate, and they feel more vulnerable in hard times. Four years ago, when the country felt confident, Bush managed only a statistical tie among female voters and won his majority from men. This week Bush trailed narrowly among men but lost by a decisive 11 percentage points among...
...perpetrator has skipped town. Someone has to pay the cleanup: either we tax the companies for their use of dangerous chemicals, and indirectly pay ourselves, or we choose to do nothing--an option that seems unconscionable when we consider that deathly sites like the Leominster dump still actively threaten citizens' lives. We choose the former and urge a yes vote on Question Four...
France has had to threaten a major blowup in the E.C. to ward off CAP's immediate demise. In light of the Maastricht debacle and the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco, a war over the CAP might cause a complete E.C. meltdown. Then E.C. would come to stand for "Economic Crisis," and Europe would pull the rest of the world economy down with...