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...essentially American. There are the massing of schools rich and poor, public and private; the opportunity for all to face off neutrally; and the assignment of an indisputable qualitative value. That last element, the seedings, may seem like cruel status reinforcement, but when an upset happens?and upsets always happen???its magnitude can be assessed with statistical clarity, so that we know just how far the mighty have fallen and how high the mutts have leaped...
...around the world there were shudders at the ominous global implications if the war were not contained and short-lived, if it were to provoke direct Soviet intervention or retaliation on behalf of their Vietnamese client. It was a heyday for alarmists: "I would bet that it won't happen???but we are very much in danger of a third world war. It could be starting at this moment," warned New York Senator Daniel Moynihan. Administration advisers and military strategists were less worried, but no one was prepared to deny that the world's newest war contained the potential...
...other products. They aim to get an "indexing" agreement under which their oil prices would go up from the already high base as the prices of their own imports rise. Says Kissinger: "The best thing that can happen next year ?and in fact I think the best will happen???would be that we would achieve consumer solidarity and then have a conference with the producers. That, together with energetic conservation measures and energetic development of alternative resources, may lead perhaps to a lowering of the oil price in return for long-term stability of the price...
...blood tells me,' 'I must listen to my blood,' are phrases sometimes used by this statesman-gladiator, so rational normally in coping with the urgent questions which confront him. 'It is no good!' he will add; 'I ' am like the animals. I feel when things are going to happen???some instinct warns me and I am obliged to follow...
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