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...American companies are women: the numbers numb. Where once, even recently, there was nothing, all those statistics and all their corollaries now show there has been something: some progress forged for women over the past decade of challenge and confusion. Perhaps those numbers are really a crude scale for a new geography, exploring the wide gulf between something and satisfaction...
...James E. Lee told a group of security analysts: "I recognize that in the near term our best shot at reversing our reserves decline may be to buy reserves." Cities Service will provide plenty. The Tulsa-based firm has land believed to hold at least 307 million bbl. of crude and more than 3 trillion...
...British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European caricaturists...
Donaldson gets a lot of mail saying, "You're rude, you're crude, " and feared an avalanche of letters from the offended churchly. So, he concedes, he got across his own unsympathetic feelings by attributing them to unnamed critics...
...throw important ideas, his own and Tocqueville's, into the air. Are American political leaders generally second-raters? So both Tocqueville and Reeves were assured, and so their eyes and ears told them. The French visitor worried about a tyranny of the majority, and the American sees crude sloganized opinions percolating up by means of incessant poll taking to control the nation's political discourse. Tocqueville brooded about the place of blacks in the society. Reeves, in his gloomiest moments, thinks that if violent repression ever does come to the U.S., it will be through hysterical efforts...