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Democrats took aim Rudy Boschwitz in Minnesota in hopes of padding their current 55-45 majority. Paul Wellstone held a small lead...
...consign to the deepening waters. He turns away the pests, the serpents and other species he deems useless to man or too costly to take along. If such a vision strains the imagination, consider the call by some Bush Administration officials to amend the Endangered Species Act. Their aim is to expand greatly the powers of a committee of political appointees that already can exempt species from the protection of the act when man's economic interests so dictate. The committee is commonly known as the "God Squad," not for its collective wisdom but because the decisions it may render...
...save it. The same logic seems to have prevailed in the wake of the 11 million-gal. Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska last year. To help win multimillion-dollar court judgments against Exxon, federal and state officials have funded the deliberate killing of hundreds of healthy animals. The aim of all this destruction? To better estimate the destruction caused by the spill...
...Barrett took aim at what he sees as personal flaws in the candidate. He criticized Silber for his "pontificating," saying that his personality resembled that of "everyone's egotistical grandfather...
...people skills are not Saturn's only strong point. Since they were outfitting a plant from the ground up, Saturn's team members incorporated an array of new equipment and techniques. Their aim was to achieve what the M.I.T. study dubbed "lean production," the Japanese system that uses "half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product." At Saturn, team members rejected the traditional U.S. form of assembly line, where workers do two things at once -- toil and shuffle -- as they struggle to keep...