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...Gee, with a ringing endorsement like that, and for only $149.95 (actual price), how can you refuse...
...baby- boom generation. The publication of Reich's new economic synthesis, The Work of Nations, comes in the midst of a Republican recession with record budget and troubling trade deficits. But rather than indulging in hand wringing and partisan I-told-you-sos, Reich adopts a surprisingly upbeat, almost gee-whiz, tone as he describes the New Age world economy...
More Patriots are not the answer. Despite its gee-whiz exploits in the gulf, the Patriot flies at only three times the speed of sound and covers only a narrow swath of real estate. It has no trouble dealing with the unsophisticated Scud, a Mach 4 weapon that has proved to be the Edsel of missiles. An ICBM warhead, on the other hand, enters the atmosphere at 15 times the speed of sound. A Patriot could scarcely get off its launcher before an ICBM did its damage...
...feeling of unease, if not outright disillusionment, that the fighting seems nowhere near a conclusion? After great expectations of a relatively easy victory, the U.S. public has settled into a more realistic, in some cases too pessimistic, view of what is to come. The initial uncontested air raids and gee-whiz video glimpses of bombing turned out to be less decisive than they seemed in the first flush of euphoria, and the dream of immediate surrender has deteriorated into occasional fears that nothing will crack Saddam Hussein's will...
...writer entered a hospital for a kidney transplant only days - after knocking out a cover on Pentagon cutbacks. Within three months, Church was back in action, dazzling everyone with his wordplay -- and his horseplay. Once, while attending a luncheon, a straight-suited IBM economist whispered in George's ear, "Gee, it must be great to have a job where you can dress like that." At the time, George was sporting a red jacket, red tie, yellow shirt and gray-and-red-checked slacks. "Believe it or not," says Church, "I thought they went very well together...