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...your discussion of special interests, it is not correct to include environmental and women's issues. Special interests are single items, like tobacco, sugar, guns and oil. On the other hand, environmental concerns and women's rights are fundamental to safeguard constitutional liberties and earthly survival, for the good of all, not only a certain...
...bill, already has 61 sponsors in the Senate. It would loosen interstate trade in firearms and allow their possession by some categories of felons. In addition, Reagan plans to cut back or abolish the agency that now enforces federal gun laws, the Treasury Department's bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Although 62% of those surveyed in the most recent Gallup poll say they favor tighter gun laws, opponents of gun control clearly have the upper hand. As long as that is the case, America will have to live with one of the world's worst murder records...
...group of Harvard undergraduates got together to beat the high prices of textbooks and firewood that Cambridge merchants charged at the time. The students started a shop in a local tobacco store, and out of their first five-foot-long bookshelf the Harvard Cooperative Society was born. The enterprise has since expanded to proportions its founders could never have dreamed possible. Over the past century, the Coop has grown into a multi-million-dollar retailing operation with six stores in the Boston area...
...times greater in women, the seven-year-long study found. Under the direction of Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the SPH, researchers questioned patients in 11 Boston-area hospitals--369 with cancer of the pancreas and 644 control patients--on their use of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee...
...future, while leaving intact their own pet porkbarrel programs. They seek to cut the budget for clean alternative energy sources by 75%, while giving the nuclear power program full funding. They cut deeply into support for education and scientific research, while barely touching such boondoggles as water projects and tobacco subsidies. These skewed priorities may serve the Republicans' special interests, but they will certainly harm America's longrun national interest...