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...Carter Administration decided early on that new federal laws were not the answer; Uncle Sam's money would be better spent chasing big-time traffickers. Instead, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drafted a model anti-paraphernalia statute last fall that it maintains will withstand constitutional challenge, and began encouraging interested states and localities to enact it. The model prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, advertisement and use of any object that is intended for growing or ingesting an illegal drug. The trouble with such language is that it tends to be overly broad. Authorities would have to prove...
...those, like Germany and Japan, that were able to recognize and curb inflationary tendencies before they roared put of control. By consistently maintaining a strong currency and exercising a cautious restraint in monetary and fiscal policy, both of these energy-importing countries have thus far been able to withstand the global price spiral...
...rival subcompacts. Then he sprang a surprise: he produced two witnesses who testified that Judy Ann had told them just before she died that her car was stopped when it was struck by the van. Thus, argued Neal, the closing speed was about 50 m.p.h., which no subcompact could withstand...
...Clausen also stress that the IMF will have to carry a heavier share of Third World borrowing, especially from the poorest countries like Zaïre. With some carefully formulated borrowing from the rich in order to lend to the poor, the world's financial system should withstand this severe test...
...attack has deeply alarmed Saudi leaders. Questions are being asked about whether Crown Prince Fahd, the heir apparent to King Khalid, commands enough authority, especially among the armed forces, to withstand a broader-based insurrection. One U.S. expert believes that the regime should embark on an emergency anticorruption campaign, but he is not particularly hopeful. His conclusion: "Some say the royal family can survive. Some say it is too late...