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Given the unsettled state of the environmental movement and the vengeful mood of its adversaries, a party thrown last weekend at Chico Hot Springs, Montana, was a good bet not to happen. But it did. The Wolf Fund, a tiny activist group set up in 1986 by wildlife biologist Renee Askins, 27, declared victory, gave a few cheers and disbanded. Askins had moved to Moose, Wyoming, in 1981 with the idea of helping get gray wolves re-established in Yellowstone National Park. The process, she thought, might take two or three years. It took a decade more than that...
...golf, a bad round can be equivalent to a bad day at the office--one bad round, and the final results in a tournament can be thrown awry...
...agree that if there are ever less thanten signature a petition should be thrown out,"Fine said. "That gives three days for the accusedto badger, bribe or otherwise coerce people intotaking their names...
Liston said he was surprised the council wouldnot let him discuss the issue after the petitionwas thrown...
Social Security, even if that meant trimming the benefits of the seniors currently receiving them. Now Gramm is leading the battle to phase out the earnings threshold that limits the benefits of well-off recipients. Wilson, like most of the others, is punting altogether. At a March 30 breakfast thrown for him by Henry Kissinger in New York City, Wilson deflected a question about Social Security: until the public is better educated about the problem, he said, politicians can't deal with it seriously. On this one, at least, Dole has displayed some of the courage he hopes will carry...