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...Simon has more than one bogey in his bag of tricks. From various studies done by the Federal Reserve Board, Simon estimates that the demand for capital between now and 1985 will amount to more than $4.5 trillion. He anticipates particular demand growth in the field of energy production, with heavy requirements also seen for business efforts to meet government clean air and water and occupational health and safety standards. But if one breaks that mammoth number down into year by year figures, with allowances for inflation and for economic growth between now and 1985, $4.5 trillion is not quite...
...great diplomats know, however, success is not a permanent state. One double and one quadruple bogey on the front nine spelled disaster, and not even a sub-par 35 on the back nine could turn the tables yesterday...
...conservative critics is no excuse for Harvard's failure to press forward more quickly in its attempts to raise the position of blacks here. Those who think that powerful institutions like Harvard do not have to make special efforts to make up for past sins cannot serve as bogey men to deflect those institutions from pressing on with fair and effective programs...
Casablanca [1942]. What can you say that's new about Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains, except maybe that Rains is actually a deus ex machina at the end and that you should read the short story, "Sodom and Gomorrah," by Richard Berczeller in the October 14 issue of the New Yorker about Michael Curtiz, the film's director...
...been imploring the Belgians to consider their historical links with France. They reportedly have assured the Dutch that if they buy the Mirage, Paris will help clean the polluted Rhine and increase purchases of food products from The Netherlands. As in the past, the French have been raising the bogey of American dominance, arguing that if the YF-16 or YF-17 is chosen, Europe's aerospace industry may die. Certainly France's aircraft industry (employing 107,000 workers) and balance of payments will suffer if it loses the sale...