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...greater degree than in most other countries, Soviet foreign policy aims arise from domestic needs. One reason for Nikita Khrushchev's fall from power was his boundless, and groundless, belief in the Soviet ability to overtake the U.S. economically. By contrast, Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other party leaders are aware that their country is falling ever farther behind the West in technology. The Soviet leaders realize that they need Western technology and long-term credit to help overcome their country's backwardness and to open up the rich petroleum and other mineral deposits in Siberia. Russia...
...first publication, the weekly Answers, which consisted of replies to questions-sometimes invented by the editor-on how tall Gladstone was (5 ft. 9 in.), or how many M.P.s had glass eyes (three). A touch of Answers lingered in all his newspapers. Northcliffe's curiosity was boundless, his attention span brief, his commitments transient. But, says Ferris, he knew "exactly what to do about telephones, cars, Boers and the disgraceful export of British horses to make sausages for the Belgians...
...AMERICANS. From our past experience, we in China place immense hopes on the American people. They are a very great people with many different beliefs and races but, we believe, a common aspiration. Their potential and prospects are boundless...
Sacco and Vanzetti is mired in good intentions. And though Montaldo's heart is in the rights place, his camera is not. Narratively, the film is a botch; it wanders and is tedious. Montaldo's boundless sympathy for the anarchist pair erodes his intellectual discipline, and the painstaking journey through the seven-year ordeal is finally not worth the effort...
This fall, the openings for sportswriters (with or without experience) in regular positions are numerous, the opportunity for advancement boundless, the writing experience invaluable, and most of all the fun of weekly football and basketball games--against the likes of Bok's Administration Bombers and the Yale Daily News--unmatched...