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...Essay that follows, served from September 1982 to July 1984 as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Reagan Administration. One of the leading conservative economists, he nonetheless differed with the White House on several key budget and tax issues, in particular, what he saw as the grave danger posed by large deficits...
...lift the dread with satire and comic invention. An expert explains the poison cloud that threatens Iron City: "This is Nyodene D. A whole new generation of toxic waste. What we call state of the art." There are lampoons (if that is possible) of occult tabloids: "From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.S. foreign policy. Mellowed by death, the strapping actor will advocate a hopeful policy of peace and love." In what may be regarded lightly as a plot, Gladney searches for the source of Dylar, an experimental...
Gromyko was asked what would result if the United States failed to uphold the spirit of the Geneva agreement on preventing an arms race in space, and he replied: "Those consequences would be most grave. If it (the United States) embarks on that path, the talks would be blown up. We made such a warning to the U.S. delegates...
...suggest that the last glacier, movement coincided with a 50 percent rise in carbon dioxide levels. Given that the carbon dioxide level has risen by over 25 percent in the past 25 years and is expected to rise by at least 100 percent by 2090, it would be a grave mistake to ignore the ecological impact of the greenhouse effect...
...because Garcia Márquez was only 19 when the first story, The Third Resignation, was published in 1947. It is a derivative exercise in the macabre and surrealistic, enlivened with a touch of humor. A boy overhears a doctor conferring with his mother: "Madam, your child has a grave illness: he is dead." The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry sweep through these early tales, the fear of being buried alive confirmed or denied through trick endings...