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...graduate of adolescence in the '60s, I assure Mr. Morrow that his assessment is perfectly tuned. Many of my peers have become remarkably good parents, bungling through the familiar territory their parents did. Like them, we are making mistakes and being human, to the dismay of our tolerance-strained offspring. My generation is reconciled to our parents, and have a lot of love to give...
...disruptions of regional politics as they are essential to the economies of the industrial West. Thus the current fears about the potential threat to Pakistan from Soviet legions on the other side of the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan may give way within a few years to even deeper dismay over Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout its region: renewed warfare with India over Kashmir, say, or the spread of tribal...
...risk of an outdoor field being spotted by authorities, many growers have moved into abandoned warehouses with low rents. In the biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active ingredient) as the best Colombran grass...
...split since last summer over what to do about a successor for Griffiths. His messy firing in June 1980 of his own heir apparent, Maurice Valente, who had been brought into the company only six months earlier from a top job at ITT, had angered several outside directors. Their dismay merely intensified when Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, RCA's network subsidiary, was let go in even clumsier fashion a few weeks later...
Though the deal would save the Times, the announcement of the would-be rescuer has been greeted with dismay. Britons are already familiar with Murdoch's saucy Sun and sleazy News of the World, and the great worry is that the Times will itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...