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...cheaper; they don't break; they absorb well and they worked fine for our grandparents. Don't accept bags when you buy things--bring your own if you need one. Use recycled paper; the Boston Food Co-op in Allston sells a limited selection, along with many other environmentally unsound products. Another good source is the Earth Care Paper Company in Wisconsin...
...concern voiced by The Times--no matter how ill-placed, no matter how journalistically unsound--was evidenced in the confirmation hearings for William Lucas, President Bush's nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. A former sheriff, admittedly poorly-versed in social law, Lucas was denied approval for the post of assistant attorney general by the Senate Judiciary Committee. After the vote, conservative white senators accused their liberal counterparts of reverse racism for expecting a Black to be necessarily liberal and pro-affirmative action...
...abortion at least under some circumstances may be wide spread, but the trimester system established in Roe to enforce the legality of abortion is too problematic to endure. As Chief Justice Rehnquist noted, "We have not refrained from reconsideration of a prior construction of the Constitution that has proved `unsound in principle and unworkable in practice.' We think the Roe trimester framework falls into that category...
ALTHOUGH few would contest Tsongas' goal of increasing this country's economic competitiveness, some criticize the referendum as a means of achieving it. "The referendum is unsound, and for a sophisticated politician like Paul, remarkably simplistic," says State Rep. Stephen W. Doran (D-Lexington). He termed the referendum, which would automatically set the annual level of education expenditure, "an anti-government approach to government...
Legislators have called the proposed budget financially unsound because of its dependence on a $604 million tax hike that Dukakis proposed last month. Opponents of the plan also criticized its provision for $495 million in savings that includes a plan to recover $227 million by tightening Medicaid eligibility...