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...politically unavoidable: last week the President finally agreed with his party's Senate leaders to slow the defense buildup and endorse a few modest tax increases. "For months the Administration has stonewalled on the budget," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "Today we saw the first crack in the wall...
BALTIMORE--Only an honors student in larceny might be able to pass the latest test at Johns Hopkins University--trying to crack a vintage safe for a $100 prize...
Almost all laws have loopholes, and law defined by the Supreme Court is no exception. Although it is widely believed that the court prohibited public school prayer in 1962, the court in fact merely forbade teachers to organize formal prayer sessions. The door was left open, at least a crack, to prayer that was purely voluntary...
...human rights in El Salvador." Replied Shultz: "I would have to just flatly disagree.' ' Some lawmakers hinted they might want to wait for the election results. If far-right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson wins, they say, he may scuttle efforts to extend land reforms and to crack down on the semiofficial death squads...
...filled out a report two months ago to have them repair a cracked asbestos pipe, and when it was fixed, another crack in the same pipe was ignored," said Mark Skinner, a graduate student who works in the building, adding. "I'm struck by the general blase and negligent attitude of some of the people in EHS [Environmental Health and Safety--Harvard's office overseeing the removal...