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...many local residents, the case has at least provided a chance to vent frustrations over their inability to control their schools as they see fit. "People are fed up." says Waites. "We have a say-so over Judge Lee; we elected him. But not over Judge Scott." Bumper stickers have sprouted, reading LEE IS HOT-SCOTT IS NOT. A Mobile, Ala., lawyer who is president of the conservative Taxpayers Education Lobby has arrived in town to represent Lee, frankly "looking for a classic confrontation." Says Dan C. Alexander Jr., with obvious relish, "This is the first time...
...negotiations have become a salutary fixture in the superpower relationship. For even when talks are stalled and not producing agreements, they serve as a safety valve for the pressures of intensifying competition and mutual misunderstanding; diplomats and generals are forced, by the very existence of the forum, to vent their mistrusts and probe their common interests...
...have to pay a lot of other penalties," such as being rejected for jobs. There is a practical reason as well. Says Georgetown University Law Professor Herbert Miller: "It's in society's best interest not to hold down ex-cons. You're inviting them to vent some pretty frustrated feelings...
...show is heavily freighted with affable but basically in sipid dining-room pictures of young Wasp rosebuds swathed in yards of white voile, clustered on lawns, playing on beaches, posing on verandas or picking flowers. They make one realize how badly America needed modern art. Not until the ad vent of some of the impressionist-influenced painters of "the Eight"-say, Maurice Prendergast after 1900, with his vigorous friezes of jostling figures by the sea-does vitality reappear...
...Castro who largely decides whether refugees can start streaming toward the U.S. Why the latest exodus? It seems that Castro is using the episode as a way to vent some of the anger and frustration that have been rising in Cuba. Economic conditions have worsened after some improvements a few years ago. The selling price of sugar on the world market has fallen from 660 per lb. in the mid-'70s to a current low of 60. The tobacco crop has been nearly wiped out by blue mold. Cuba today survives on a Soviet subsidy of about $8 million...