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...believe, would succeed where liberal intellectuals, Democratic politicians and the the New York Times had failed. But Reagan and Company have managed to ignore reality as completely as they ignore criticism. In spite of everything, he Administration obviously still sees Latin America as nothing more than an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States...
...near disaster area. HUD recently declared it one of the most economically depressed areas in the nation. It is a one-industry town, and that industry is the ailing auto business. Unemployment has escalated to a Great Depression level of 23.9%, almost triple the national average. Into this municipal battleground for survival, old XVI, with its estimated 70,000 out-of-town visitors, its press personnel and its attendant show-business acts, arrives like a relief column of well-off cavalry. Some experts claim that the event may pump as much as $62 million into the economy of southeastern Michigan...
Croydon was a good battleground. The electorate covered a wide spectrum: working-class flats, a few affluent neighborhoods, and street on street of red brick houses occupied by skilled workers and low-level managers. For weeks, the big names of all three parties, including former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath and Labor Leaders Michael Foot and Denis Healey, campaigned hard for their candidates. Although Pitt had earlier refused to stand down in favor of Shirley Williams, he was supported by the S.D.P.'s top team-William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Williams-as well as by Liberal Leader...
...pressure on the city's housing market is great enough that within a decade, most forecasters conclude, the bulk of city apartments would have become condominiums. Rents might still be controlled, but very few people would be paying them. And so the dispute over condo conversion seems the likeliest battleground for tenants and developers to fight it out. For the ideological reasons outlined above, large parts of the traditional CCA constituency may become supporters of the developers; if they do, the pressures on CCA candidates may become enormous. The demands of tenant activists will have to be compromised with...
Even the most exquisitely balanced prospective jury list is only a battleground for the opposing lawyers to start fighting for the jurors they want. "Picking a jury is the most difficult thing a lawyer does," says John Ackerman, dean of the National College for Criminal Defense in Houston. "And few lawyers know how to do it. You get no training or any help at all on that issue in law school." The teachings of courthouse legend are all stereotypes. Prosecutors, says University of Illinois Sociologist Rita Simon, are alleged to favor 1) men, 2) Republicans, 3) the prosperous, 4) bankers...