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...market's 508-point drop shook up the business community and has made the future financiers from the Class of '88 proceed with caution in their job searches. Nonetheless, the storm seems to be over, and its wake was not powerful enough to frighten most seniors away from Wall Street...
...interception, the only Air Force jets with the right type of radar to detect low-flying planes are supersonic; but if they slow to the 150 m.p.h. of the suspect prop planes, they will be near stalling speed. Even then they could do little but frighten the smugglers. The possibility of downing innocents almost certainly would preclude any shoot-to-kill orders to Air Force pilots...
...might be, is increasingly hollow. While the U.S. is without question the world's biggest market for narcotics, some of the drug-exporting countries are developing a taste for the goods. In Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, consumption of basuco, a low-quality coca derivative, has reached levels that frighten health experts...
...national force, not only in exotic places but also in their own familiar country. Americans need to become more attuned to their country's desires before concluding that today's moral crisis is easily handled with secular expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle we heard, debate after debate, did not constitute a last laugh by any means. But we are going to suffer that chuckle's soft...
...believe if we mainline reasonable Christiansdon't take part in current politics, there will bethose highly organized and much more ferevent whowill," said the Rev. Jerry Schmalenberger, of St.John's Lutheran Church. "I'm bold enough to saythat fundamentalists frighten...