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Three minutes earlier, Tony Eason had thrown his second TD pass to Stanley Morgan for a 17-13 Patriots' lead. That score came on a wellexecuted flea-flicker, with fullback Mosi Tatupu taking a handoff and passing backward to Eason, who then found Morgan 45 yards downfield...
Every season brought something to celebrate. A breathtaking slide in oil prices made gasoline cheaper than it had been since 1979. Inflation fell so low that it actually ran backward for several months. Even the tax system, of all things, changed for the better when Congress delivered a historic reform law that will lower rates for most consumers and wipe out many of the loopholes long enjoyed by businesses and wealthier Americans. Meanwhile, Government investigators cracked down on Wall Street's insider traders, who had been reaping outrageous profits at the expense of ordinary investors...
During the final years of his "constitutional authoritarianism," Marcos had effectively moved his country backward -- from democracy to autocracy, from prosperity to poverty, from general peace to a widespread Communist insurgency. Treating the national treasury as if it were their personal checking account, the royal couple had looted their land of perhaps $5 billion. "Here in the Philippines," said Imelda, "we live in a paradise. There are no poor people as there are in other countries." Even as she spoke, seven in every ten Filipinos were living below the poverty level...
...feel a resistance to the antihuman cant of modernism. It is not quite so chic to be modern anymore, not a necessary declaration of one's moral and aesthetic worth. We ride on a supersonic vehicle from our century into yours, yet a great many seats are facing backward...
...authority but also to working people and the down and out. Fletch, Too (Warner; 249 pages; $15.95) is Mcdonald's ninth and & allegedly last book about this scamp, although only the second in the chronology of Fletch's career: after the character proved a hit, Mcdonald worked forward and backward to fill in his story. In this volume, Fletch sets off to Kenya in search of his father, who has apparently resurfaced after being presumed dead for 20 years. At least one prominent mystery scholar sees the Fletch cycle as a high-minded quest for identity. Less academic readers will...