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...point nearly everyone agreed: the chaotic trading and uncertainty were directly traceable to Washington's ongoing failure to slash the runaway federal deficits that triggered crippling interest rates in the first place. Administration officials conceded last week that next year's budget shortfall will be closer to $140 billion than to the $115 billion gap they foresaw just two weeks ago. The Government will have to borrow at least $100 billion in fresh cash during the rest of 1982, and must raise $35 billion of that by the end of September. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist of Manufacturers...
...distance, the world seemed so chaotic, I could not imagine what had happened to the children," says Rosenblatt. "But once I saw that they were fairly safe and I would not be able to get to all of them [they were scattered in Syria, Jordan and southern Lebanon], I decided to try to write an impression of the life that had been thrust on them." At one point, Rosenblatt suddenly found himself conducting an unplanned interview with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and operating as a war correspondent, which had not been his intent. "The real correspondents are in the front...
...austere, seemingly superobjective scholar and a passionate, willful human being"), Critic Van Wyck Brooks and, above all, Patrick Geddes, the Scottish social theorist recognized as the father of town planning. Geddes later drove his student away by insisting that Mumford turn his teacher's brilliant but chaotic mental processes into limpid prose. But Mumford never repudiated what Geddes stood for: "The regional outlook, the urban focus, the unification of all the dispersed and dissociated aspects of our present jumbled technocratic culture...
Gunfire--both rifle shots and, after the start of the Iran-Iraq war, anti-aircraft fire--echoed constantly throughout the embassy compound. Swift says the generally chaotic and uncontrolled atmosphere on the grounds made the months at the embassy particularly terrifying. Many of the students were fully armed, but most seemed inexperienced with handling guns and Swift was constantly afraid of being shot accidentally...
State and local civil defense officials are convinced the evacuation can take place with "a planned and non-chaotic movement, Clanahan says. Douglas Forbes, FEMA's chief planner in Massachusetts, adds that the entire operation will take about 60 hours to complete...