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...Massachusetts, a peppery redhead who likes to talk and talk. And people listen. She was determined to include in the G.O.P. platform a plank on federally sponsored day-care centers for children, thereby challenging her own President, who had vetoed a child-care bill because, he felt, it would weaken the family. Refusing to take no for an answer, Peggy had a way of converting it to yes. "Language is a barrier," she says. "Words do not mean the same to men as to women." So she held a class for the men on the Platform Committee, who had probably...
...single frequency. These waves are not only parallel but are also in phase: their crests and troughs coincide and reinforce each other, making it possible to produce an extremely intense and concentrated beam. In practice, however, lasers have drawbacks. The beams collide with molecules in the atmosphere and weaken over long distances; like sunlight, they may be blocked by clouds...
...being punished in such numbers that even Western Communists have begun to protest. Last week in the seventh known trial since July 17, former Czech Communist Party College Rector Milan Hübl, 45, and two other men were accused of distributing "provocative printed matter" in order to weaken "the socialist system in the state." That is, they had passed out pamphlets during Czechoslovakia's elections last fall, informing voters of their constitutional right to cross out names of the government-sponsored slate or not vote at all. Hübl,, who was also accused of making contact with...
...observation and from pictures shown her by the North Vietnamese, she concluded: "Not only the dikes are being bombed, but hydraulic systems, sluice gates, pumping stations and dams as well. The worst damage is done by bombs that fall on both sides of the dikes, causing deep fissures that weaken the base of the dikes...
Though name naming could lead to wild and confusing name calling, it might weaken the campaign for "counter-advertising," which is a nightmare for agency chiefs. Counter-advertising, pushed by consumerists and backed by the FTC, would allow special-interest groups to broadcast commercials pointing out what they believe are the dangers or flaws of a particular product or industry. For example, Ralph Nader's forces might lambaste an auto company for alleged safety faults. But if advertisers are willing to call attention to the shortcomings of specifically named competitors' products-and risk retaliation-the drive for counter...