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...destructive potential of conflict has grown, the political efforts to prevent and restrict it have intensified. Especially in Europe and among the major nuclear powers, a variety of measures, ranging from arms limitations to special procedures for dialogue, have reinforced the strategic deterrence underwritten by the major powers' nuclear weaponry...
...boiler room. Its most significant feature, according to an investigation by Massachusetts securities authorities, "was the high-pressure tactics of management continually exerted on brokers, who then used high-pressure tactics on their customers." Brokers cold-called people urging them to invest in speculative securities and initial public offerings underwritten by the firm. Brokers "implied to investors that they were in possession of important nonpublic information concerning an issuer...
...wants to think that racial discrimination pervades our juvenile justice system, but a recent report underwritten by the Justice Department and six leading foundations makes the assertion unavoidable. The report found that at every step in the juvenile justice system, minorities are treated more harshly than their white counterparts. For similar crimes, minority youth are more likely to be arrested, held in jail, sent to court for trial, and given longer prison terms. The statistics speak for themselves...
...several occasions and in violation of Ivy League policy, head football coach Phil Estes, men's basketball coach Glen Miller, men's soccer coach Michael Noonan and women's volleyball coach Diane Short tried to lure potential recruits by promising them financial aid deals underwritten by the Brown Sports Foundation, a non-profit organization which had no ties to the university...
...grander dream--of contacting extraintelligent E.T.s like those canal-building Martians imagined by the early 20th century astronomer Percival Lowell--lives on in the radio and optical searches underwritten by private outfits like Drake's SETI Institute and the Planetary Society. And even scientists dubious of success don't want to be spoilsports. They agree on the importance of continuing the quest, not just for microbes on Mars or Europa but also for those faint signals from some remote world--if only to underscore the preciousness of life and the importance of protecting perhaps its lone example. Admits Drake: "Even...