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...multimillion-dollar election was a disaster for the American people and a boon to television. Most of this money was spent to produce worthless political rhetoric. If the Federal Government wants to slash expenditures, it should start by cutting campaign financing, an area that can well afford...
Itaipu has taken seven years to build, and even so will not be producing at full capacity until 1989. Nonetheless, the completion of the project is clearly a long-term boon for energy-hungry Brazil, which will channel much of the dam's power to the industrial state of Sao Paulo, 660 miles away. Saddled with more than $80 billion in foreign debt, Brazil currently imports 750,000 bbl. a day of crude oil, at a cost of more than $27 million a day. Eventually, the mammoth dam could be the equivalent of a 600,000-bbl.-a-year...
...Theodore Roosevelt concurred in this remarkable warning. The result of this act was the construction by the U.S. of the Panama Canal within a ten-mile-wide strip of land extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, one of the great engineering achievements of all time and a boon to the seagoing nations of the world. Within the Canal Zone, our country was granted in perpetuity "all the rights, power and authority. . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory...
...DIFFICULT for many people to accept the notion that rehabilitation, or "gentrification" as it's commonly called, of moribund neighborhoods can be anything but an unqualified boon to the area. Those people include, for example, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, who's convinced it's "a good thing that richer, professional people are moving in, buying condos. Most neighborhoods are whipped right now." To Mayor White, the implication that gentrification could have ill side-effects is outrageous; after Time magazine ran a picture of a burned-out office building "in gentrifying Jamaica plain" he called the photo "a disgrace...
...novel, is his most surprising, an intoxicating mix of all the previous themes, antic, religious and somber. His heroes have tumbled, almost unchanged, from Cervantes' 17th century classic. A Vatican prelate, whose Mercedes is miraculously "repaired" by Padre Quixote (who simply fills the empty gas tank) grants a boon: "There are more sinners among the bourgeois than among peasants ... go forth like your ancestor Don Quixote on the highroads of the world...