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...Military Balance: The cushion of safety that we had for 35 years clearly is no longer there. We have to take vigorous steps to restore it. President-elect Reagan is committed to that goal, and so are the American people...
...Saudis are continuing to pump about 2 million bbl. a day extra to make up for the shortfall caused by the Iranian revolution and by the destruction resulting from the Persian Gulf war. This has permitted oil companies and major petroleum-importing countries to maintain large reserves as a cushion against future price increases or production shortfalls. World reserves are about 300 million bbl. above normal for this period, and both the U.S. and Japan have decided to increase their stockpiles. Without that small world glut, OPEC would probably be pushing up prices even faster. Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam...
...municipality to cut its budget by 40%, thus crippling public education as well as police and fire protection. The majority of homeowners evidently were swayed by arguments that the cuts could come from bureaucratic fat. Unlike California in its Proposition 13 days, however, Massachusetts lacks a budget surplus to cushion the blow, estimated at a $600 million loss in state revenues for the first year...
Despite the recent sharp price in creases, farm experts do not expect a total runaway in the cost of grain and other commodities, such as occurred following the disastrous Soviet crop failure in 1972. Grain inventories around the world still provide a modest reserve cushion, and that should stop any serious agricultural shortages during the coming year, when world grain consumption is expected to exceed production by 37 miliion tons. On the other hand, another harvest as bad as this year's, and nations could find themselves facing disturbing shortages...
Although Heymann sees mainly the negative influences of the Lowell family on each of these poets, and their negative influence on each other, American Aristocracy does succeed as a comparative work. Heymann shows that power can hardly cushion a poet attempting to assert the validity of his or her expression, that money cannot buy literary respect, and that the ability to pen lines that seize readers has little to do with heredity. Rhyme and gene conditions do not necessarily mix. This message of the Lowell family leaps out of American Aristocracy. Again and again Heymann shows that distinguished writing flows...