Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supporters insist that all-out, Italian-style chaos is unlikely in France because the state and its authority reign supreme, whereas in Italy political institutions are less stable and established. Nonetheless, some political observers last week were starting to speculate about still another Italianization: the possible erosion of central-government authority. They speculated that the state's power could be chipped away from two directions. On one side, there are the protesting students, the spreading strikes and further demonstrations. On the other stands an ambitious government program for privatization, which, if it goes all the way, will sell...
...strategy seemed intended to distance the White House from the scandal's central players, North and Poindexter. Earlier in the week, White House officials said the Administration had unwittingly given misleading testimony to Congress about the Iran affair based on a falsified chronology that North had prepared with CIA assistance last November. "People are coming to grips with the fact that North just doesn't tell the truth very much," said one Reagan aide. But the tactic could backfire if the two rogue former NSC staffers, who have so far kept silent, decide to start talking. "So we're throwing...
...enjoying summer outings to the Jersey shore. He was a bright student, and after graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he spent a year at the Newark extension of Rutgers University. Then, wanting to see something of the world outside his hometown, he transferred to Bucknell in central Pennsylvania, where he acted in college drama productions; founded, wrote for and edited a literary magazine; and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English...
...complications of The Counterlife ripple out from a central conceit. A man with a heart condition finds that the medication he must take renders him impotent. Hence Henry Zuckerman, 39, faces the bleak prospect of life without any more after-work office trysts with his alluring assistant. Similarly, Henry's famous older brother Nathan, 45, cannot marry an Englishwoman named Maria and create both the child and the settled life that, after three failed marriages, he now desperately wants. The only solution in both cases is bypass surgery. The Zuckerman brothers face the same difficult choice, but for diametrically opposed...
...society legitimates the practice, does it imperil its most venerable notions of kinship? Or if surrogacy is prohibited, are childless couples denied a way to realize the most venerated purpose of their union? Such issues are central to a New Jersey trial in which a judge must answer the most searing question of all: Whose child is this...