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Dodd's official Democratic response was more emotionally charged than Reagan's carefully modulated address. Calling the President's policies "a formula for failure," Dodd accused him of ignoring the fundamental factors that led to instability in the region. "If Central America were not racked with poverty, there would be no revolution," Dodd argued. He painted a bleak picture of the Salvadoran government, charging that its land-reform program had long been "abandoned" and that its repressive police tactics still terrorized the populace. "I have been to that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each...
...which is the best and most surprising story in the book. It is one from which Savage is absent until the very end, appearing as the narrator with a contrived-seeming entrance that makes us think Theroux wrote the story and then haphazardly adapted it to fit into the formula of the book...
Matched against Brown Saturday Harvard's formula once again paid off. The Crimson surged into an early lead and kept its comport in the rough waters to beat a strong Bruin boat by five seconds...
...selection committee chose one applicant from each state and then added 52 at-large winners using a regional population formula Harvard nominated four sophomores for the committee after a two-month selection process...
Although the results of the Hussein-Arafat meeting were inconclusive at week's end, there were indications that the two leaders were striving for a compromise formula that would try to bridge the Reagan initiative and the plan approved by 20 leaders at the Arab summit in Fez, Morocco, last September. The Fez plan called for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, whereas the Reagan proposal espouses only Palestinian self-rule under Jordanian auspices...