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Everett I. Mendelsohn. Professor of the History of Science, a leading disarmament advocate, said that the book was "thoughtfully made," has criticized it "for giving the are one language of nuclear strategy the Harvard imprimatur...
...recently as late January, Gallup poll figures showed Washington a staggering 22 points behind the front-running mayor. Small wonder. Byrne had the imprimatur of incumbency and Daley had hand-me-down celebrity. But Harold Washington was hardly a figure of renown, despite 16 years in the state legislature, one full term as a U.S. Representative from Illinois' First District, and re-election to Congress last fall. His $1.1 million war chest left him a comparative pauper in a municipal election touted as the most expensive in American history. (Byrne's campaign cache was about $10 million; Daley...
...free-market competition is paying big dividends for consumers. In shopping for new phones, buyers can indulge their tastes for the fashionable or merely eccentric and choose from a variety of helpful features, like automatic dialing for frequently used numbers and speaker phones. There are phones that carry the imprimatur of high-fashion designers, hide in leather boxes or chime instead of ring. Prices range from $15 for a non-Bell version of the standard rotary dial phone in basic black to the "Elephone," a unit encased in a silver-plated elephant's head that costs...
...even meet again. Chairman Alan Greenspan, a Republican economist, had scheduled what was supposed to be the commission's final meeting for last Friday, but postponed it while he continued to negotiate with White House Chief of Staff James Baker. If Greenspan can get the Administration's imprimatur, and if O'Neill gives some kind of tacit nod, the panel can quickly reassemble and fashion a consensus plan...
...subject of Israel's calendar raises some serious considerations for the United States as well as for Israel. For while beginning next fall all Israeli publications will have the Hebrew word for "destroy" printed on them, less than three scant months later. American calendars will bear the imprimatur "1984." Is it sheer coincidence that by rearranging these digits we get "1948," the year of Israeli Independence? Allowing that year to be named 1984 could be seen as American support for Israeli militarism, and should be avoided at all costs...