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...campaign to avoid speaking before big crowds. Stocky, abrasive Muldoon is a cost accountant with a pugnacious political style that proved to be a powerful attraction on the campaign trail. Muldoon criticized Rowling as "too timid and too tentative" to be Prime Minister. Although New Zealand is not exactly beset by a crime wave, Muldoon promised law-and-order government. He also attacked Labor's economic record-inflation has risen from 5.5% in 1972 to 14.8% this year-and accused the government of mortgaging New Zealand's future by borrowing heavily overseas (more than $1 billion since...
...freshman year, Jeff was beset by conflicts. He wasn't sure he could shine at Harvard like he had in high school and that scared...
...such, it is a token of detente, which, with all its dangers, probably remains the world's best hope for avoiding nuclear war. The declaration also is a symbol of the fact that while strong enmity between Communist and Western systems remains, the cold war tensions that beset Europe for a generation have continued to abate. For all the doubts about the meeting's real significance, it nonetheless offers an impressive historical perspective: it takes place 30 years after American and Soviet troops met at the Elbe, 27 years after the Berlin airlift, 26 years after the birth...
...would be premature to judge the resettlement program a failure. The director of the Interagency Task Force, Julia Vadala Taft, concedes that the program has been beset by problems but is still "pleased at the progress that has been made so far." The vast majority of placements have been successful, she argues, while the small number of "sponsor-refugee mismatches" is no more than should be expected in a program "of this size and complexity...
...capitalist declaration of independence from the remaining shackles of feudalism and helped launch an economic revolution that has produced far more wealth than man had amassed in all previous history. Yet today the heirs of that revolution cannot celebrate in triumph. As capitalism approaches its bicentennial, it is beset by crisis. Increasingly, its supporters as well as its critics ask: Can capitalism survive...