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...went to Washington believing he had a mandate for the principles and priorities he had espoused for most of his adult life. At home, the source of most evil is swollen, all-intrusive Big Government. It must be cut down, by deregulation and slashes in social spending and, above a11, by reducing taxes. Abroad, the source of very nearly all evil is the aggressive and expanding Soviet Union, which must be faced down by a rapid buildup in the armed might...
...think it odd to describe the immediate future as bright and exciting. Even a sanguine disposition might characterize the present in Charles Dickens' ambivalent words: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Granting all this and more, granting-nay, emphasizing-that a11 times are a mixed bag, still I would emphasize the best of times. Let me put it to you directly as a colleague put it to me when I asked him what I should say in a commencement address. He replied, 'Can you think of a better time...
C.C.C.S. is a nonprofit organization sponsored by banks, loan companies, retailers and other businesses that grant credit. It has some 200 offices a11 over the U.S. and deals with about 110,000 cases a year. Its method is very simple: it makes the insolvent debtor give up all his credit cards and promise not to do any more borrowing without permission. Then it works out a survival budget that will enable the client to pay back part of his debt every month. It persuades the creditors to wait for their money and then assumes responsibility for dividing and distributing...
...round-the-world vagabondage, she stood at the side of the oceanfront highway at Nanakuli Beach Park, waiting for a bus that would take her back to Honolulu. But she did not arrive at her hotel until late the next day. During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already deeply disturbed about the state's rising crime rate. The brutal 1979 gang rape of the innocent tourist who came to be known...
...concluded that the Nablus mayor had been unfairly misquoted as defending the massacre. But at a Cabinet meeting next day, Weizman stood by his original decision and urged the ministers to approve the deportation of Shaka'a. They did so unanimously. Except for one town leader in Gaza, a11 the remaining Palestinian mayors immediately resigned and later announced, for good measure, that they would begin a hunger strike. Many Israeli moderates were embarrassed by the Cabinet decision, believing it to be an exaggerated and heavyhanded response to a minor incident...