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...President with the Soviet leader. The chances of failure, or at least widespread public disappointment, are considerable. Therefore the White House and the Kremlin have been maneuvering in recent weeks to accomplish three goals: 1) lower expectations for success, 2) assure that if the meeting is indeed a bust, the other side will get the blame, and 3) keep open the possibility, however slim, that something of significance can be accomplished...
...Four's boomlet, though, could be followed by a bust. The cut-rate financing applies only to 1985-model cars. When the incentives expire at the end of September, dealers will face the more difficult task of selling 1986- model autos without attractive financing. In the midst of a sluggish economy and rising Japanese competition, that will be a very grueling demolition derby indeed...
...total fertility rate declined from 3.7 births per woman in 1960 to 2.5 in 1970, and has wavered between 1.7 and 1.9 since 1976. The years from 1965 to 1976 are often called "the baby bust." While there was something of a "baby boomlet" in the late 1970s, it was due mainly to the enormous increase in women of childbearing...
...event, assassination is not the right word to describe what is being proposed. What is needed is the ability to bust up terrorist organizations. If someone is killed in the operation, it is not because of his political role; it's because he is a casualty of the operation. The purpose of the operation should be to destroy the power of a terrorist organization, and if there are casualties, so be it. That's quite different from assassination...
...seen this year-yes, Brad Dalton's... whatever? is all of this, three and one-half hours of all of this. Generally well-choreographed, often amusing, absurdly comic, emotionally unencumbering, less tedious than its length suggests, it has that same cheeky appeal as Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" or a bust of George Washington with a tinted-blue Mohawk: it makes us laugh well enough but makes us feel nothing...