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There are approximately 40 radioactive Soviet satellites orbiting the earth today, all of which will ultimately fall back to earth. The prospect of what columnist Mary McGrory has called "flying Chernobyls" falling on our heads would frighten most of us, but the U.S. government isn't worried. Spurred on by Strategic Defense Initiative advocates, the government is planning to deploy its own earth-orbiting reactors, which would be hundreds of times more radioactive, and therefore many times more dangerous, than anything the Soviets have...
...Murdoch was one of the first to recognize that media companies, which are traditionally asset poor but cash rich, have been tremendously undervalued by the market, observes Analyst Tony Pennie of James Capel, a London-based investment firm. Says he: "That's why Murdoch often pays prices that would frighten other people...
Malone says Kennedy raised a lot of money, hoping to frighten away any competition, because he is uncomfortable "working crowds, standing at factory gates and asking people for their support. He has over the last 25 years become more and more of a Washingtonian. He deals with bureaucrats every day, he deals with other politicians, he deals with lobbyists, but he's not dealing with real live men and women...
Trying to maintain their hold on conservative southern Democrats, Republicans may talk a lot about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, trying to frighten the millions of whites who opposed civil rights and backed Gov. George Wallace just 20 years ago. They'll keep referring to the Dukakis-Bentsen-Jackson ticket...
...quickly will the country's economic strength turn, as it eventually may, into political muscle? How will the Japanese use that newfound might, and what are the consequences for its closest ally, the U.S.? Can Japan become a truly powerful nation without acquiring a military capability that would frighten and antagonize its friends and neighbors and violate its own constitution? Will the world see a Pax Japonica 25 years from now, or will Japan the banker form a partnership with America the policeman to create a sort of Pax Amerippon...