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...drug use could damage public safety -- air-traffic controller, for instance. All other federal workers will most probably be asked to submit to "voluntary" tests. Critics argue that such a system would involve enough pressure so that the tests would not be truly voluntary or that they would be worthless because only those who are clean would sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Strategies | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...long as it has received a historic stamp of approval from the rest of society. But if White were to study the history of Western rights he would discover that they were designed to protect precisely that area of conduct that is most frequently impugned. The Constitution is a worthless document if it enforces only that which does not need enforcing. A right to privacy that allows one to eat what one wants or to arrange one's furniture to one's liking seems a bit superfluous these days...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Violation of Rights | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...time to write his story so that his family and friends will know the truth. In addition, Rickie Pym has just died, his corpse bobbing in a tub of ice water until funeral expenses can be scraped up. It is a grotesquely comic end for a man who built worthless paper empires and stood for Parliament while scandal swirled at his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...movie becomes unbelievable as we get to know her two husbands because we cannot understand why Alice could want either, much less both, of these worthless...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Women migrate for the same reasons that men do: to survive, because money has become worthless at home, to find schooling and jobs. But they also have reasons of their own. Single women may leave to escape the domination of their old-fashioned families, who want them to stay in the house and accept an arranged marriage. Peasant women have lost their traditional role in society; low-wage jobs have taken the place of a poor but independent subsistence life on the land. Political Economist Saskia Sassen-Koob of Columbia University has described the process that has created a growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Adapting to a Different Role | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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