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...waiting for hours outside ruined banks in the hope of salvaging at least part of their savings. In 1932 a terrifying 1,456 banks collapsed. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provided a federal guarantee of all deposits under $5,000. The American Bankers Association denounced the bill as "unsound, unscientific, unjust and dangerous," and even Roosevelt had his doubts, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cost little and soon cut bank failures by more than...
...suit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), challenged the statute for violating academic freedom, lacking scientific merit, and bringing religion into public schools, ACLU lawyers worried that the law's vagueness might have invalidated it for being unsound rather than unconstitutional...
...underlying message was reaffirmation of the policy first adopted by the Peking leadership in 1979 to reverse the unsound and unrealistic plans that were formulated earlier in a race to achieve the so-called four modernizations of post-Mao China: industry, agriculture, defense, and science and technology. Both foreign businessmen and the Chinese, Peking's leaders insisted last week, should abandon any further hopes for a quick economic boom...
Harvard defense observers yesterday gave mixed reviews to Reagan's recent proposal for deploying the MX missile, with several terming it politically motivated and militarily unsound...
Fundamentally, the MX is a preposterous idea, a "mass transit system for missiles" that would use resources on an unprecedented scale and destroy vast areas of the desert. But more disturbingly, the need for a mobile missile is based on an unsound premise. That the Soviet Union can destroy all our Minuteman silos in a first strike is a highly suspect assumption, based on as-yet unproven theories of missile trajectory and accuracy. (Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union has ever test-fired a missile on a North-South route, similar to that which both countries' bombs would...