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The Carters have always been close, but Rosalynn's role as a political adviser is only now becoming clearer. She and she alone was consulted on every move in Carter's bid to revitalize his presidency this past month. The doleful documentation of national dispirit reported by Presidential...
Fear of Viet Nam's military might casts a doleful shadow over the future of every non-Communist country in Southeast Asia. Man for man, weapon for weapon, Hanoi's 600,000 troops constitute the most redoubtable middle-size army in the world, with the possible exception of...
All he had to do was look at the latest doleful statistics. The consumer price index in October rose at a compound annual rate of 10% for the second month in a row. Food and beverages jumped at a rate of 10%, housing 12.7% and gasoline 18.2%. For the first...
Peterson recited a doleful string of 20th century U.S. examples to prove that "we are losing some of our innovative juice." In the 1950s, U.S. spending for research and development was rising at a brisk average rate of 14% a year, but in the entire four years from 1973 to...
Richard Yates is a good but doleful writer who once, titled a short-story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. The stories were first-rate, but the title showed a kind of perverse bravado: You think you're miserable? Listen, I know more kinds of loneliness ... Well, he did and...