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Just about every bar, restaurant and dining room table in Wichita has played reluctant host to an impassioned debate on abortion this summer. "It's going to take some time to regain a center of gravity," says Mayor Bob Knight, displaying a 6-in. stack of angry letters on his desk. "The passions and feelings are so deep, and the city of Wichita has been criticized by everybody...
...have 2,000 life insurers. I see 200 left by the time this consolidation process is completed at the end of the decade." But while merging permits a recombinant firm to operate more efficiently, it does not guarantee survival. That won't happen until insurers, large and small, regain the trust of policyholders, those who rely on insurance companies for perhaps the most intangible commodity of all: future security...
Such symptoms soon subside and the hairs regain their upright posture -- if the ear gets some rest. But unrelenting noisy assaults can eventually cause the hair cells to lose their resilience and die. They do not regenerate, and the result is a gradual loss of hearing...
Worse, these compliant clubs are in the minority. At least eight others gave up major championships rather than meet the rules, although a few have since begun to admit blacks and can regain eligibility. The St. Louis Country Club in Ladue, Mo., ceded the 1992 Women's Amateur Championships, ostensibly because it is renovating its greens. The Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill., relinquished the 1993 Walker Cup. Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., took in a few blacks as junior members in recent months but withdrew from the 1993 P.G.A. championship because it could not guarantee that such...
...First, I will be able to rebuild myself and regain my self-dignity. When I resigned, I had not intended to make a statement. As it turned out, I did, because I wrote a letter to a local newspaper, and that does make a statement. Many media people said, "You are so naive." I really had not anticipated the reaction to the editorial I wrote. I have been amazed. It is like an abscess that has been festering for years. It's been getting bigger and bigger. What I did was throw a scalpel at it and opened...