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...worried when political parties cooperate. Isn't that what happened when they agreed to deregulate S&Ls and bankroll the military during the 1980s? Our hopeless national debt is the legacy of that chumminess. At such times the politicians either award bucks to their friends or bring contracts to their home states. We can't afford to have the directionless Democrats cuddling up to the Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters , Jan. 30, 1995 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...quake, an army rescue detail halted its rescue prematurely. A seven-story building in a working- class Nishinomiya district had rolled over on its side, reportedly trapping 15 to 20 people within. The soldiers removed two bodies and then stopped digging. Shrugged a young lieutenant: ``We think it's hopeless. No one could have survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: WHEN KOBE DIED | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying on like his Wagnerian namesake, giving himself over to romantic brooding, hopeless love, careless violence and long sea voyages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: East Of Eden, South of Canada | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...Rather than feeling hopeless against these cancers, at least we do know vegetables and fruits in this order and vegetables prepared in olive oil may actually provide an easy and rather pleasant way of reducing risk," Trichopoulos said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olive Oil May Prevent Breast Cancer, Study Shows | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point-- he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/18/1995 | See Source »

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