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...abrupt move by McGee also pushed Keverian into an unlikely alliance with the decade-old House reform movement, and alliance that is credited with providing Keverian much of his strength. Keverian, until his removal from the majority leadership, was never in the reformer camp and, in 1983, twice voted against comprehensive legislation to democratize the legislative process in the House...
...June the Soviets did an abrupt pirouette, proposing talks in Vienna on banning the militarization of space. Washington responded with a conditional answer that linked any new negotiations on space weapons to a resumption of the suspended nuclear arms talks, a move Moscow found unacceptable. Explained a senior Soviet diplomat: "It looked to us as though the Administration was interested in the spectacle of talks but not in doing serious business." The Soviet proposal, however, was hardly equitable: one precondition required the U.S. to agree to a moratorium on the testing of space weapons. This would have precluded the testing...
...economy is a bit like an Olympic bicycle racer rolling along with the breeze at his back. Once he builds up speed, not even powerful brakes can bring him to an abrupt stop. And so, after barreling ahead at an 8.8% annual growth rate during the first half of 1984, the economy will slow in the coming months, but it still has enough momentum to keep going at least through 1985. Even a national auto strike against GM would have only a limited and temporary impact, unless it lasted for many months...
When the afternoon bells rang on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the clamorous trading in financial futures used to come to an abrupt stop. Until last Thursday, traders were forced to wait until the next day to carry out deals triggered by late-breaking economic developments. But in a historic move, the Merc last week opened a late shift running from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. This was accomplished by electronically Unking Chicago trading with a futures exchange in Singapore, which is 14 hours ahead of Central Standard Time. The connection allows traders in both cities to make...
Democratic members nonetheless professed amazement at the abrupt switch in tone. "If someone throws you down a well a hundred feet and then they haul you up fifty feet, you feel a lot better," observed Democratic Representative Larry Smith of Florida. "But you never would have been down there in the first place if they hadn't thrown you down." Israel's immediate challenge, however, is at home, not with its neighbors. The country must solve not just the temporary problem of creating a new government but the more lasting one of how to translate its political will...