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...size than all but six nations--should be booming before too long with the implementation of these reforms. How can it not? All of the prerequisites for economic success are still in great abudance. The state university system remains the envy of the world. The highway system, though beset by congestion and obliterated in parts by the earthquake, should within a year be serviceable again. Years of drought have produced a side benefit--the improvement of the irrigation systems. Last but not least, it boasts a quality of life that, for the vast majority of its residents, remains untarnished...
...portrays, if briefly and discreetly, the mental problems that beset Lincoln and his wife. It acknowledges their marital troubles. It describes Lincoln as lazy, lacking in ambition, needing prodding to seek office. It depicts him as ideologically cautious and passive, resistant to reform, hesitant even to take up the abolitionist cause against slavery. Sherwood was echoing the populist message of Frank Capra's contemporaneous films, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the only hero to trust is one who doesn't want the job. But Sherwood was also humanizing an outsize figure, pointing out that...
...promises to be an interesting and challenging evolutionary process which will not happen overnight and will be [beset] with extraordinary problems and sensitivities but will be very rewarding," said J. Robert Buchanan, general director...
Kathryn Brookins, a Mission Hill resident andeditor of the Mission Hill News, suggested in aninterview last month that the companies might beset up off-shore in an effort to escape scrutiny...
...emigrants found the paradise promised by the ads and the letters home. The early arrivals were, by and large, poor, ill-schooled and young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within a year...