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Thus Reagan, filled with faith that his course was correct, forged ahead with phase two of his revolution, partly as a way to avoid challenges to his as yet unfruitful first phase. He offered no new initiatives to conquer the economic crisis, supplying only amiable optimism that the Reaganomics package passed last year would stimulate the economy some time soon if given the chance to work. Though he had run on a platform of balancing the budget, the President all but ignored the projections of deficits approaching $100 billion. He scarcely noted that interest rates still hover at investment-ravaging...
...Marxism-Leninism have not only denounced each other for various revisionist and schismatic sins, they have also gone to war. China and the U.S.S.R. fought a border conflict in 1969. Ten years later, China invaded Communist Viet Nam to "teach it a lesson" for Hanoi's attempt to conquer Communist Cambodia. China is currently assisting the Muslim "holy warriors" who are trying to topple the Communist government of Afghanistan...
...Zealand to Nigeria. Says John May, managing director of George's Booksellers in Bristol, England: "The cube phenomenon is the biggest thing of its kind we have ever experienced. Books on the cube are selling like mad." Even august Cambridge University Press has entered the field with Conquer That Cube...
...exactly Norman Thayer, but there's a lot of Dad in the part. And I guess there's a lot of Chelsea, Norman's daughter, in me. Like Chelsea, I had to get over the desperate need I once had for his approval, and to conquer my fear of him. We've never been intimate...
...American writers, though, seem even more thyroidal--in the past few decades they have soared in size. Mailer, Wolfe, even John Irving; these men are literary Paul Bunyans, their typewriters 40 axhandles from base to carriage. Unafraid of any subject, they tackle modern life head on, to either conquer (Mailer and Wolfe) or be conquered. There is nothing quiet and little reflective about these men; they sally forth and produce huge, energetic books. Ego--the vain notion that they have some idea why things are so fucked--is their motive force. These are the writers of the ! and the Capital...