Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home in Star City, the cosmonauts' training center, Tsibliyev's wife Larissa is more angry--at the Russian press--than worried. "I just wish they would report the truth," she told TIME. "Why are they picking on him? What kind of morals do our journalists have?" The space doctors, who give her regular reports, tell her Tsibliyev will be fine. He's no shirker, she says. "He's been a hard worker all his life. This speculation is all such nonsense...
...truth, the problem isn't quite as pressing as it was a few years ago. With crime rates dropping, so is juvenile crime. But felonies by kids had exploded over the previous 10 years, a legacy of the crack trade and armed gangs, so the recent decline is still a dip in a high plateau. From 1985 to 1995, juvenile arrests for violent crimes rose 67%. Perhaps a fifth of all violent crimes is the work of teens. "In America today, no population poses a greater threat to public safety than juvenile criminals," says Representative Bill McCollum, the Florida Republican...
...general counsel: "We can bring them [the long-distance companies] to water, but we can't make them drink." Retorts Dan Schulman, AT&T's vice president for local marketing: "To say that we're not interested in moving into local residential service could not be farther from the truth...
...belief in elegance is more than a matter of experience. It is an article of faith. We believe the universe is beautiful, and in science there is nothing more beautiful than a large truth expressed with simplicity and brevity...
...Eliminate the $25,000 federal yearly giving limit. Notwithstanding the conduct of the present Administration, the real truth about political money is that it generally buys nothing. Political money doesn't confer power on the giver; it confers it on the recipient. We should allow individuals to contribute, within the law, to as many campaigns as they want. (Note to Democrats: this helps you, as Democrats get substantially more large individual contributions than Republicans...