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...passer-by on the street, listening to radios even at the Inaugural itself, Americans learned of the hostages' release and felt a surge of national relief, a rebirth of confidence and hope, however transitory, that rivaled the first landing on the moon. Here was a pageant awash with symbolism and reality that defined democracy: the orderly transfer of authority to the nation's 40th President. And it coincided with the news Americans had been waiting and praying for these long, agonizing, humiliating months. The 52 were free at last...
...Western provinces could do little more than complain about the Eastern Establishment, including the federal government in Ottawa. The West was helplessly beholden to Eastern tariffs, Eastern financial institutions and a Parliament dominated by Ontario and Quebec. Then, the West struck oil. All of a sudden, it found itself awash in energy, profits and power. This inevitably led to an East-West struggle. Last week it erupted into an outright tax revolt as the West balked at new federal excise levies on all natural gas sales...
...rings or so. One of the so-called gaps may contain several dozen ringlets. Titan, the largest moon in the solar system, appears to be wrapped in a dense atmosphere of nitrogen vapors, rather than methane-the best guess before Voyager-and its surface may be awash in a cold sea of liquid nitrogen. Saturn's entourage of other satellites, until now no more than bright gleams in earthly telescopes, also proliferated-by three -to at least 15. Chunks of ice and rock perhaps dating back to the birth of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, these moons...
...reluctance to define, let alone accept, the responsibilities imposed by familial love. The deep desire to evade these responsibilities and the equally powerful imperative to fulfill them provide the movie's tension. They also supply the logic for a nuclear family's final explosion, which leaves one awash in powerful, and powerfully conflicting, emotions. No pat answers here...
Despite Brazil's perilous economic state, few international bankers expect that its funds will be cut off. Most banks are awash in deposits and looking for places to make safe investments. Says Vivian Morgan-Mendez, an economist at Sào Paulo's Banco de Boston: "What other country looks better as a long-run proposition?" The answer, of course, is that many do. But Brazil has achieved that most enviable role of a debtor: it is so far in hock to so many banks that its creditors cannot allow it to go broke...