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Despite the criticism, however, Bok has persisted in his defense of higher education as a dynamo for social change in America...
Money talks, the saying goes. We have repeatedly urged the administration to talk back--to consider the ethical implications of its actions, to exercise its moral authority, to act as a dynamo of social reform...
...best possible use for any peace dividend is reduction of the federal budget deficit. That might begin to restore the U.S. economy to the good health it will need to compete with Japan, the emerging European dynamo and increasingly vigorous Asian countries like Taiwan and South Korea. America's abysmal private saving rate (about 6% of GNP, vs. 16% for Japan) is not sufficient to provide capital for private-sector investment, particularly if Washington continues borrowing half the savings to finance the federal deficit. Devoting the bulk of future defense savings to erasing the deficit would be fitting, since much...
...selection as party chief in 1985, Gorbachev has exceeded both the hopes of those who longed for reinvigoration and the fears of those, no doubt including comrades who voted for him, who worried that he would jeopardize the power and privileges of the elite. He has been a political dynamo, showering sparks inside and outside the country. His commitment to the still elusive goal of perestroika, his effort to make the economy produce what the people want to consume, and glasnost, an end to systematic official lying, have transformed the Soviet Union and made possible a transformation of international relations...
...danced like a dynamo in Risky Business, swaggered through the sky in Top Gun and held his own against Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Cruise is Hollywood's biggest attraction, and he is about to be acclaimed one of its best actors. In Born on the Fourth of July, he displays rage and range as Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic. For the engaging, intense young star, life has never been sweeter...