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...cause. But if there were to be another Arab-Israeli war, perhaps accompanied by a new oil embargo, the U.S. commitment that Israel has long taken for granted might be placed under severe strain. Some U.S. officials worry that at some future time, an Israeli government might misread a flare-up of anti-Israeli sentiment in the U.S. as a prelude to American abandonment and be tempted to launch a last attack while they still had American support...
According to Roths child, dying industries, like dying stars, flare out before shrinking into lifeless lumps. American auto manufacturers are now investing abroad and exporting in an attempt to saturate the world market. This effort has been only partially successful, for American firms are losing international ground to newer, more dynamic companies like Nissan and Volkswagen. As American automakers explore abroad, they ignore their domestic obligations: urban small-car designs are pigeon-holed and monstrous recreational vehicles are forced forward; mass transit is suppressed while car use becomes more expensive and unpleasant; pollution control is ignored until the government threatens...
Brown's performance was nearly as unimpressive for most of the period, but in the waning minutes Anderson dropped a flare to Bruin halfback Jan Zlotnick, and the speedy back ran the ball in from 11 yards out for the second Bruin tally. The conversion kick was blocked, and the Crimson trailed by 13 as the half ended...
...write about the value of film as source material, suggested another possible reason for the historians' reluctance to study film. "The principle thing frustrating the proper application of film to history," he wrote, "is lack of awareness of the possibilities; and the lingering feeling, a hangover from the Nathan flare days, that it is undignified for scholars to take seriously what they often chose to call the 'flicks', something associated so uncomfortably closely with the unscholarly masses...
...fact, it is very close to pure fantasy." Says M.I.T. Geophysicist M. Nafi Toksoz: "I'm not going into a bunker or anything like that when all the planets line up." Even those who concede the possible validity of some of the effects -the connection, say, between solar flare-ups and global climate-were highly skeptical about The Jupiter Effect. Don Anderson, director of Caltech's seismological laboratory, describes the book's predicted sequence of events as little more than "one inference piled upon another." His Caltech colleague, James Whitcomb, calls it a blend of "some plausible...