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...size of the rocket motor was also reduced to cut blast noise. By the time the contractor finished redesigning it, the Vipers cost not $75, but $787 apiece. Worse yet, the scaled-down warhead could no longer penetrate the front armor of modern battle tanks nor stop Soviet tanks headon. The Kafkaesque solution: if the weapon will not do what it is supposed to do, redefine its mission. The Army decided the Viper should be used to snipe at tanks from the side or the rear, however limiting that might seem to a soldier in the field...
...every husting, one national issue is dominating all others: the state of the recession-ridden economy, and especially the 10.1% unemployment rate. Democrats everywhere are seeking to pin the blame for double-digit unemployment squarely on Reagan. On national TV, the President last week took the issue headon, an action he had been avoiding. In a sober address from the Oval Office that was considerably more effective than his stump speeches on behalf of Republican candidates, Reagan attempted to assure the voters of his concern, argued that his policies are slowly bringing the nation out of an economic mess created...
...questionable assertions as gaffes that voters are unlikely to notice, and point out instead that Reagan's general themes are well received. A partisan audience in Richmond interrupted him for applause 26 times in 23 minutes. Even in the recession-ravaged Midwest, it is risky to attack Reagan headon. Says Eric Kozenman, a press aide for Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky in his reelection race in Ohio: "We don't even like to use the term Reaganomics. We say 'the Administration's policies' are all wrong. That's softer...
...there is more to the appeal of Gregory's Girl than wistfulness for the kind of adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...
...R.S.C. meets Dickens headon. There is not a moment of archness in the comedy, not a measure of sentimentality in the drama. No one is afraid to grapple with what are usually regarded as Dickens' excesses-of feeling or of outrage -and the result is a shameless but triumphant cavalcade of immediate emotion. There is only one textual alteration, which is minor but telling: a rebalancing of the relationship between Nicholas and the orphan Smike, whom he rescues from an oppressive school in Yorkshire and tries to help. His efforts at this, his successes and his failures...