Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying spree has inevitably become controversial. How does foreign investment affect America's industrial strength and ability to compete? Just how much overseas investment is good for the country, and how much of America should foreigners be allowed to buy? What other kinds of control might follow? What will happen if nothing is done to stem the buying tide? Warns Lawrence Brainard, chief international economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "By the end of this century, the U.S. may have the most modern manufacturing sector in the world, but it won't own it." Says Democratic Representative John Bryant...
...Baxter's methods are ultimately less frustrating than beguiling. In rewinding his story, the author provides a fascinating illusion of consolidation. Hugh and Dorsey do not grow apart; they are put together again, reknit into their shared heritage of parents and the past. Life does not happen that way, of course, but First Light never seems implausible. Instead, the novel moves over everyday details with the inexorable, contrary tug of memory...
...scenarios will be spun about luring one of the reluctant warriors into the fray, though it is already too late for a new entry to organize for the early primaries. Those could of course transform one or two of the active dwarfs into giants. But if that does not happen, the murmurs about Nunn or Cuomo or Bradley sweeping in and brokering their way to victory could start up anew...
...Underbook, the author displays commendable candor in disclosing what parts of his story are invented. He notes that a love affair between Senator John Breckinridge of Kentucky and Anna Ella Carroll, a pro-Union pamphleteer, did not really happen. The trouble is, it hardly happens in the narrative either. When Breckinridge and Carroll get together, the passion they expend takes the form of abstract debate: "Two nights before, in her rooms at the Ebbitt House, they had stayed up through the dawn arguing the details of the ( President's war power." So much for titillation...
...prophetic planetary lineup, Dr. William Gooch of Hayden Planetarium in Manhattan affirms that Mars, Venus and Mercury will pass behind the sun during the last week of August. But, he adds, "as far as science is concerned, there is absolutely nothing unusual about the day. Events like this happen quite regularly. It just depends on which group of planets you choose to pick. The only cycle I see is that a lot of people want to get back to hippie days...