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...defense of this strict curriculum the task force claims that students need the guidance that requirements would give them. The report says these requirements are necessary to insure that all students are exposed to those significant intellectual skills and elements of culture that, given a free choice, they might well neglect and later regret having done...
Naturally the revolution-based government could not remain indifferent to these plots, and certain strict measures were taken to thwart chaos. Some blamed freedom itself for the cause of the instability and even used religion as a mask to justify their shortsightedness. Autocracy has become our second nature. We Iranians are all dictators, in a sense...
...would be tough in any case, but politics makes it even tougher. An alliance of industry leaders and Republicans loudly insists that making Americans adopt costly energy-saving technology could put the economy into a crash dive. At the very least, they say, a global-warming treaty must impose strict cutbacks on poor, developing countries as well as on rich, industrial nations. Otherwise, they argue, the U.S. will face unfair competition from foreign corporations. Indeed, the Senate voted unanimously last summer to reject any treaty that let developing nations off the hook...
...Romania and trained as an engineer, Paul moved to Los Angeles in 1984, and like all good Angelenos, she decided to become a model. Paul was already svelte and stunning, but despite a near maniacal exercise regimen she couldn't shed a few stubborn pounds. So she abandoned her strict fruit-and-vegetable diet, cut back on carbohydrates and gobbled proteins. Before long, she had dropped the extra ballast and was turning away modeling offers...
...plan required the government to close 58 financial institutions. When that became known, "the panic intensified," Sachs says. "Rather than restoring confidence, the IMF's intervention merely confirmed to investors that they were right to flee." Meanwhile, financial institutions that will be closed because they cannot satisfy strict standards of reserve capital will have their assets, mainly foolhardy real estate developments, auctioned off. But that massive sell-off could lead to a sharp fall in values that will affect the portfolio of even sound financial institutions that hold the same type of properties...