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...Anderson problem. Lincoln would have a lot of middle-of-the-road support, and citizens of diverse ideologies would climb on his bandwagon, and he'd win with 55%, maybe 60% of the popular vote...
...been no steady climb, no gradual evolution. The Crimson has moved in spurts, seeing five coaches in a decade, with only the last one achieving what the others sought. There was the brilliant 1973 season, with a 16th place finish in the NCAA s; there was the 1974 NCAA fiasco, when Harvard was disqualified for an entry card foul...
...though they did not say so, there is good reason to believe that even after all the reductions, the deficit will be almost as large as the $15.8 billion that Carter estimated in the first place. Worse, said the Congressional Budget Office, the deficit for the current year might climb to a stunning $47 billion, more than $7 billion bigger than the Administration's latest projection. And forget broad credit controls: there will be no outright limits on the sums that banks can lend to businesses, and certainly no restrictions on how much consumers can borrow to buy houses...
...French Socialists for the title of "the opposition party." A complete severance of its ties with Moscow could make the party politically undistinguishable from its bourgeois opponent. Always on the defensive, the party follows a precarious path, extremely sensitive to the international political climate. Whenever the PCF begins to climb the electoral ladder, unexpected external events drop the party to the bottom rung. The party succumbs to a Sisyphian fate each time it bids for power...
...author's preoccupation with the tensions between child and adult is most dramatically exposed in the vivid journal that Matty keeps and Golding shares with us. This journal allows the reader to climb inside of Matty's distressed head--and is equally the crowning stylistic accomplishment of Golding's narrative. Matty asks: "Can it be that what I am for is something to do with children?" Quickly we realize that Golding is up to his old tricks again, leading us through a labyrinth of original sin, passing characters stained with the blackness of humanity along...