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...enemy. In retrospect, we can see that Malcolm's ideological development, his evolution from self-hate to nationalistic self-pride to internationalistic solidarity, was ahead of its time. While it is pointless to whine about "what he could have done" had he not died, it is essential to study, grasp, and put into practice the things he showed us while he lived...
...jobless figure hit a confused and querulous American public just as it was trying to grasp the implications of one of the most astonishing budgets ever prepared by any postwar Administration. A conservative Republican President, who had been talking of a tax surcharge and preaching a balanced budget as recently as November, was now proposing tax cuts totaling $16 billion this year and a record peacetime deficit of $52 billion in the fiscal year that begins this July. Even more remarkable, given the general optimism of past Ford Administration pronouncements on the economy, was the grim and brutally candid...
...Detroit's basic trouble runs deeper and has been building longer than either the energy or the economic crisis; it is simply that the auto companies, rightly vaunted for their marketing skills, have failed in recent years to grasp and react swiftly enough to the changes taking place in their market...
...human spirit speaking out when silence is prudent. Yet it is demeaning to praise something not because it is well done but because it was done at all. The truth is the novel reads like English subtitles to an epic silent film, always flickering just beyond its grasp. "Paul Gray
Going into the last event, the 200 yd. freestyle relay, Radcliffe led 65-58. The seven-point spread appeared within Maine's grasp as their strong freestylers pulled two strokes ahead after the first two legs of the relay. A determined effort by Nancy Sato, followed by a very strong performance by Laurie Downey, made up the distance and gained enough...