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...that sadly ongoing saga of contemporary man fighting to stay alive in a world he helped make but no longer can quite control. Cooper carries a lot of keys to doors that have stopped opening. Mulligan and Roth make a great show of unlocking doors that have been ajar for a long time...
...mankind to meet up to the challenges of the future; this self-evaluation is necessarily subjective. The Human Prospect introduces the reader to the more predictable challenges and solutions of the future, and leaves the doors leading into the more irrational processes of self-assessment only slightly ajar...
...Dulles Airport, where a copy of the transcripts arrived at 8:30 a.m., six hours ahead of the regular distribution. Trib executives would not reveal how they got their early copy. Says Kirkpatrick: "We knocked on every door in Washington and finally found one that was slightly ajar." (The White House later admitted giving the Trib a head start because of the paper's plan to print the whole text...
...certain details of a proposed agreement were also suspended at Hanoi's behest. But they were not called off. The North Vietnamese have not packed their bags and gone home. They are apparently waiting to see what happens next. Therefore, U.S. officials think, the negotiations door remains significantly ajar...
...Washington, D.C., technical programmer, mother of a girl who asked if her boy friend could sleep in a separate bed in her room, keeping the door ajar: "I said it was okay with me, because I like this boy and because I know she's free to do as she wants to anyway when she's not here...