Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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POODLE SPRINGS by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker (Putnam; $18.95). After 30 years of big sleep in the Chandler literary estate, a barely started Philip Marlowe novel is successfully completed by one of the mystery master's best imitators...
...trick is to become more like Indians without losing the best parts of cowboy culture -- rationalism and the spirit of inquiry. We need more science now, not less. How can we stretch our nerves around those numbers and make them as real and as ominous as our cholesterol readings? Repeat them each night on the evening news? We need feedback, as if we were the audience in a giant public radio fund-raising drive hitting the phones and making pledges. Like expert pilots navigating through a foggy night, we need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments...
...only truly good tax, of course, is a tax on someone else. Failing that, the best taxes are simple, fair and easy to collect, and -- perhaps most important -- they discourage the right things. (When you tax something, you discourage...
Both approaches are being tried around the country. In locations from San Francisco to New York's East Harlem, parents are free to shop around for what they judge to be the best public school in the district. Minnesota goes further: it is phasing in a program that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state so long as the move does not harm desegregation efforts. Earlier this year, Arkansas, Iowa, Ohio and Nebraska adopted similar plans; eleven other states are moving toward choice. But it is unclear how many families will take advantage...
...owner of Columbia, Sony will control a rich library of 2,700 films, including such Best Picture Academy Award winners as On the Waterfront (1954), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Gandhi (1983). The company hopes to use that collection to boost sales of its new 8-mm videocassette equipment...