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...return to substantial GNP gains will be needed if the White House's ambitious economic forecasts are to prove correct. The Administration last week trimmed its outlook for 1985 growth from 4% to 3.9%. That goal remains well above the 3.5% level that many private economists have been predicting, and may even be out of reach. Concedes Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "If this estimate we have now isn't changed, we would need to average 4.9% growth for the next three quarters. That would be difficult to achieve...
...page volume On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribners; $29.95). Gathering data from experiments of others and performing many of his own, McGee has put together an exhaustive account of foods of all sorts with facts on their chemistry and physical properties, translated into correct cooking methods...
...later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition as a syllabus of dead white males. But he actually belonged to no faction, identified with no cause. Like Ijah Brodsky, the lawyer in his story Cousins, he did no marching. Not even to a different drummer, like Thoreau. No marching, period...
Taunting, the game scrolls phrases like, “You can’t beat me” and “Can you fool 20Q?” at intervals throughout, until it smoothly flaunts the correct answer time after time...
...carefully polled attacks on dirty hospitals, landgrabs by "gypsies," excessive numbers of immigrants and politically correct restraints on police. The Tories' chief strategist, Lynton Crosby, reportedly calls them "dog-whistle" issues: they cut through the noise of a campaign to make an emotional impact most resonant with true believers. At a press conference last week that focused on "yobs," louts whose behavior has shown up in polls as a big issue, Howard used the word "fear" eight times, as in "I want to make yobs fear the police." The association of police chiefs criticized the Tories' use of crime statistics...