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...views of America's allies are even clearer: they are adamant that the Reagan Administration pursue a "two track" policy of building up defenses while making a good-faith attempt to negotiate with the Soviets. A number of West European officials have politely but firmly told visitors from Washington that they consider the initial anti-Soviet thrust of Reagan foreign policy excessive and obsessive. Galled by that attitude from across the Atlantic, some second-echelon hard-liners in the Administration have gone so far as to hope for a Soviet invasion of Poland. It would, they believe, galvanize both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time To Move From Sloganeering To Statesmanship: | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...urgent plot. If Final Payments is a beautifully told and moving story. Women is simply beautifully told. But the dearth of plot is retarding, as all movement is internal. There is little dialogue--used mostly to drop one-liners--and limited action. Nowhere is Gordon s plot problem clearer than in her inability to end Women. There, breaking from the style of rest of the book, she lets her characters reveal their inner feelings in their own words. Except for one figure, her style only serves as a distraction, an afterthought like a eulogy at a funeral...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Saints and Sinners | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

This historical inaccuracies might be forgiven in view of the scope of Bakshi's project, but it seems crucial that the people over 30 in the audience (if there are any, given the ad campaign) get a clearer picture of sixties music...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: American Popaganda | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...part of his commission, as often happens, to bribe officials to keep a deal on track, the act asserts that the U.S. company is responsible if the executives had reason to know what the agent was doing. The GAO study recommends that Congress rewrite the law to give clearer guidance to businessmen as to what they can and cannot do to curry favor with foreign customers. It suggests that Congress repeal the criminal penalties connected with the accounting provisions of the law and that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission clear up the ambiguities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Profits in Big Bribery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...world's moneymen decide that the Reagan Administration's inflation policy is too weak or that it will be killed in Congress, the recent currency adjustments might change again. Said Mohammed Ali Abalkhail, the Saudi Arabian Finance Minister, last week: "We are still looking for clearer indication of what policy Reagan will really follow. That will determine whether the current surge in the dollar is a temporary phenomenon. " - By Christopher Byron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold and the Dollar in a Flip-Flop | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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