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...intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) in Europe. Declared Reagan at his televised press conference: "When I . . . introduced this proposal for zero option, I said that we would negotiate in good faith any legitimate proposal that might be offered . . . So far no legitimate counterproposal has been offered that would warrant negotiation or study." Thus, insisted Reagan about the Soviets, "the ball is still in their court...
None of these cases is so revolutionary as to warrant the Justice Department's comment or intervention; rather, each seems a new pretext for the Administration to assert its predetermined stance on civil rights policies. Even the Boston case, which presents the legitimate constitutional question of whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because...
This freedom-o-choice argument may convince some that the 300,000 annual deaths in the U.S. linked to smoking to do not warrant shareholder steps like divestiture. The question becomes much less fuzzy, however, when we look beyond our own borders to the rapacious marketing practices of tobacco companies in foreign countries, especially the Third World. The ACSR recommendations addresses this concern only briefly, but details of these practices reveal the truly exploitative intentions of films like Philip Morris and provide a moving case for Harvard to divest in tobacco stock...
...years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural-professor vs. professor, lawyer vs. lawyer-as executions took place only once or twice annually at most. Says Florida's Governor Robert Graham, who signed Spenkelink's death warrant in 1979: "We haven't enforced the death penalty much, so we've been able to avoid all the responsibilities that go with that experience...
...swiftest gainer on the N.Y.S.E. was actually not a stock but a warrant, a security that gives its owner the right to purchase a stock at a set price over a period of time. The winning warrant was for Chrysler Corp., at $13 a share until 1985. As the year started, Chrysler stock was selling at 3⅜, so that the opportunity to buy a share at 13 was not worth much: the warrant sold for 1¼. By year's end, however, Chrysler shares had gunned ahead to 17¾, and the warrant was trading...