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Last week they were started anew by White House Press Spokesman Larry Speakes. Immediately after the banks raised the prime rate, he told reporters, "We have been asking the Federal Reserve Board to allow sufficient monetary expansion to assure noninflationary growth. Although the economy has been growing at a healthy pace and inflation remains at a low level, it appears that the money supply is not accommodating real economic growth...
...Israelis worked as low-ranking security employees, is a quasi-diplomatic Israeli delegation and intelligence-gathering center located in the Christian-held area just north of Beirut. The errant Israeli trio gave the Syrians a long-awaited pretext for drawing widespread attention to the unofficial office and for contending anew that the delegation is, in fact, a conduit for the shipment of arms and ammunition to Christian militiamen in Lebanon...
...Anew book by Saul Bellow is an important event, and not only because he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. That award merely confirmed what thousands of readers had decided years earlier: Bellow's fiction offers a look at life that is not only essential but is unique among his contemporaries. Bellow has been the most rigorous naysayer to nihilism of his era. He has never tried to hide the gloomy truths about modern life or gloss over all the sound reasons (starting or ending with Auschwitz) for a thinking person to despair. His most memorable characters...
...money in dispute is probably no more than $500,000; Mondale is expected to spend a total of $24.2 million before the convention. But more than technicalities were involved. The controversy undercut the pledge Mondale made early in his candidacy that he would not accept PAC contributions and raised anew questions about how beholden he is to organized labor. Mondale took the matter so seriously that when Colorado Senator Gary Hart began taunting him for not actually returning the funds ("Give the money back, Walter-that's the way to solve the problem"), the former Vice President agreed...
...never know the reasons for a suicide--or understand the complex maze of fears and emotions that go into the act. But the deaths of Ru Selle Harwood and John Neumann must memorably raise anew the question of loneliness at Harvard-Radcliffe in the daily rush of exempts, papers, and LSAT preparations they are a stark reminder of the ongoing need for the most important qualities those of compassion and friendship...