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...owners into buying it back at an exorbitant price. But this time, he really finds something on the property and refuses to sell it back when the Pasha who owns it gets suspicious. Pascali as the interpreter, is held repsonsible, and he finds himself in a bit of a bind. He can't decide whether to be loyal to the Englishmen. Can he be trusted...
...from the owners of private stores, from everyone, it seemed, who spoke English, I heard the phrase "after the Cultural Revolution." The four most oft-repeated words of my stay in China became a metaphor for the vast changes the country is undergoing, for the experiences of suffering which bind the people together and for the limited extent to which I was capable of communicating with the Chinese people...
...fiscal bind is one that the Pentagon should have foreseen. Carlucci, who spent two years there in the early 1980s as the No. 2 man, has long grumbled, as have others, about the historic "sawtooth" pattern of defense appropriations -- way up for a few years, way down for the next few. In the early Reagan years, reversing a series of deep cuts in the mid-'70s, Congress voted military-spending increases as much as 13% above the rate of inflation; from 1980 to the peak in fiscal year 1985, Pentagon budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion...
There is no painless way out of this bind. Arms control is a fiscal wash for the short term: verification costs money, and so will additional weapons systems required to replace those being scrapped. But Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is trying to pep up a stagnating economy, seems to be casting about for a way to cut Soviet military spending. He has talked about a shift in the U.S.S.R.'s military doctrine from offense to defense. That implies restructuring the Soviet armed forces, making them adequate to defend the U.S.S.R. but not to launch an offensive...
...about pH soil tests. I think I know how to prune a rosebush, but the rosebush may think otherwise. I learned from my father the basic rules of mulching and thinning -- how to stake out the tomatoes, how to make the peas climb up the chicken wire, how to bind up the raspberries -- but the techniques that worked in the fertile hills of Vermont do not necessarily work in the sands of Long Island. Most important of all, I do not have the time (or the energy) to play some character out of Tolstoy. I live...