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...believes that economic inequality in the face of tremendous prosperity results in a less than great society an assumption that will, no doubt, irritate many conservatives. But he goes far beyond the widespread and simple view that the Great Society faltered and eventually disintegrated because of the increasing economic drain of the Vietnam war. The war's effects, both economic and social, cannot be discounted, but Matusow emerges from the partisan fog to reveal the contradictions and tensions within the Great Society programs...
...MOST distressing example is the annual flock to law school, which lures some of the country's best young minds and sends them out into one of the economy's least efficient and least productive sectors. President Bok best described the brain drain in his most recent annual report, which noted that law schools "attract an unusually large proportion of the exceptionally gifted. The average college Board scores of the top 2,000 to 3,000 law student easily exceed those of their counterparts entering other graduate schools and occupations, with the possible exception of medicine. The share...
...only conceivable reason that Reagan would want to run again is to prevent the Republicans from going down the drain. But even this argument is beginning to evaporate in the wake of the Democrats' leadership vacuum...
...what ultimately bogs the novel down is its lack of irony. Our perception of Nora's leisurely predicament is caught up in her own hesitancy. The parable does not deliver a satisfying revelation, but it still manages to drain us of sympathy for Nora. How He Saved Her entertains us, but leaves us dissatisfied...
...million third-quarter loss and said that it was pulling out of the home-computer market. The company, which will continue to make and sell its Professional Computer for office use, said it is halting production of its 99/4A home model "in order to limit further financial drain." TI's losses for the first nine months of 1983, which were largely due to poor sales of home computers, totaled $222.9 million...