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...sudden growth in the G.N.P., saying, "I'm somewhat surprised at the strength of the economy but will be terribly concerned only if growth reaches 10%." This week moneymen and the financial markets will be peering at the Federal Reserve meeting in the hope of getting a hint about future interest-rate trends...
...Walter Mondale's aura of invincibility was such that almost everybody forgot about New Hampshire's quirky politics and unusual demographics. The polls contained no hint of an upset in the making: only a week before the primary, an ABC-Washington Post poll showed Mondale first with 37% and Gary Hart third (behind John Glenn) with 13%. The Mondale campaign serenely cruised about the state in long motorcades, with scores of reporters and television crews in tow. Hart bounced around in vans, with few reporters and fewer TV cameras in sight. As he wandered into coffee shops, Hart...
...issue of redeploying American forces touches raw European nerves like no other. The slightest hint of altering present arrangements jangles sensibilities; it evokes fears of American withdrawal and prospects of European neutralism. But if present trends continue, it is certain to become a central issue in the alliance relationship. Before dealing with it in the context of a program of NATO reform, a few facts must be noted...
There is more than a hint of superiority in these feelings. Many Christians, for example, prefer to speak French rather than Arabic, as if to say, "I may be Lebanese and an Arab, but I am different...
...pushing 60 in chronological fact but he looks as if he is barely pushing 50' And while it's inspiring to see his famous piercing gaze undimmed by the passing years, his vigor vitiates his attempt to portray a man to whom death has dropped a broad hint, just as it undermined his try at alcoholic despair in The Verdict & year ago He does his best to hide his glow, but the effort makes him seem absentminded...