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Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.
187, the state ballot measure that passed in 1994, cracking down on illegal immigration.
The NYT recounts on its front page how employers are cracking down on their employees' office use of computers for nonwork-related activities.
Despite the B-2's piddling role over Serbia so far--two missions involving a total of four planes--the Wall Street Journal 's Paul Gigot thumbed his nose last Friday at Democrats who had opposed the bomber, cracking wise about "B-2 Bill" and suggesting the Pentagon could use 40 more of the machines.
In "Cracking the Women's Movement Protection Game" in 1978, a staff writer was honest enough to acknowledge the journalistic--and political--pitfalls of such boosterism.