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...climate had changed drastically. The humiliating failure of the Blue Light rescue mission in the deserts of Iran in April 1980 burned an impression of military incompetence deep into the American mind. In a single decade the nation had not only lost a war, it could not even cope with the seizure of its diplomatic personnel by a revolutionary government in Iran. With that, the public suddenly took heed of a troubling fact: the Soviet Union had engaged throughout the 1970s in a substantive buildup in all forms of its armament...
...point that the "backyard" we are trying to spare and the molybdenum under the ground both belong to all Americans. Multinationals like Amax, under the existing laws, would take that resource and in return would leave the people of the U.S. with one more ecological time bomb to cope with...
...course, that it wanted to fight the next election with the Prime Minister's office in its control. But some younger party members were arguing that Labor should let Begin have the job again and then stand back and watch him fail as he tried to cope with the country's mounting economic problems, like an annual inflation rate of 130%. Predicts Michael Harish, 44, an energetic Labor member of the Knesset: "Soon all those who are shouting 'Begin, Begin' will be demonstrating in the streets...
...newsmen to mollify, boardroom games to play. "Silverman tried to be a one-man band," notes Perry Lafferty, NBC's senior vice president of programs and talent on the West Coast. "But he encountered a string of bad luck-a crucial ingredient in this business. He had to cope with an actors' strike, a writers' strike and the loss of the Moscow Olympics last year." The Olympics boycott cost NBC a write-off of $33.7 million-and an invaluable opportunity to promote its upcoming fall shows. First Silverman promised that NBC would show significant improvement...
...society that says drug taking is O.K.," suggests Rosenthal, "cocaine gives the user the illusion of being more in control. People feel stronger, smarter, faster, more able to cope with things. It's more than the pleasure principle." What these people tend to overlook, points out Charles Schuster, director of the Drug Abuse Research Center at the University of Chicago, is the tremendous psychological risk: "One of cocaine's biggest dangers is that it diverts people from normal pursuits; it can entrap and redirect people's activities into an almost exclusive preoccupation with the drug...