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...unless it opens its markets further, greeted the Japanese pledges with practiced caution. Said Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "Put me down as a skeptic who has seen too many agreements in which the results don't match the rhetoric." Many lawmakers are withholding judgment until they can see signs that the agreement is benefiting U.S. companies. Observed Senator John Danforth of Missouri: "In any commercial agreement with Japan, seeing is believing...
...tale by using the names of real companies, but ABC and CBS have declined to run some commercials for the film because they include fake ads that might upset major network advertisers. Paramount pleads that the movie is a comedy. Starting this week, moviegoers can make that judgment for themselves...
While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency more often wins over intellectual honesty. Exchanges have been vituperative in New York, where a state task force concluded that "African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans have all been victims of an intellectual and educational oppression . . . Negative characterizations, or the absence of positive references, have...
...contrary, adult rape victims are usually named. In the U.S. three states have confidentiality laws that protect the identity of rape victims. But these are in limbo, largely because of the 1989 Supreme Court ruling in Florida Star v. B.J.F. The court overturned a $100,000 damage judgment against a Jacksonville weekly that had been charged with violating Florida's law by printing the name of a rape victim, even though she had been identified in a police report...
...likely that Schkolnick will appeal her case to MCAD, and receive a judgment from the entire commission instead of just one commissioner. In reviewing Schkolnick's appeal, MCAD should correct the procedural mistakes it has made this time around...