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...year in the U.S. alone, a 2% increase. These dangers were enough to spur representatives of 24 countries, gathered at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Montreal last month, to agree in principle to a treaty that calls for limiting the production of CFCs and similar compounds that wreak havoc on the ozone...
Judge Robert Bork, the fire-breathing right-wing ideologue who would wreak havoc on U.S. law, did not show up at the Senate Caucus Room last week. Neither did Robert Bork, the quick-witted charmer, "the bearded Ollie North," who would obliterate his opposition. The 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee met a different Robert Bork last week, one who did not quite fit the images drawn by either his liberal critics or his conservative boosters...
...paid to enclose my body within a multiton metal capsule that was then elevated 10,000 feet above New York City. I did this with the hope that, somehow, it wouldn't fall before it got to London. All this at a time when Iranian Fundamentalists were vowing to wreak immeasurable harm on people of my national persuasion. How irksome...
These proposals, and a similar reform effort expected to come before the California legislature next year, have doctors and hospital administrators around the country up in arms. Changing the hours and responsibilities of residents would not only alter the way doctors are trained, it would also wreak havoc with the staffing of teaching hospitals, which depend on the cheap labor of residents, who typically earn about $24,000 a year...
...United States' only option for shielding the continent from Soviet coercion would be a rapid buildup in conventional forces. However ideal, this option would be impractical considering the country's already strained fiscal resources. Nuclear weapons just happen to be cheap, and increasing our expensive conventional armies would wreak havoc on the budget deficit...