Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West, ideology stands as the principal stumbling block to the adoption of loosely planned economics. For Reagan, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, and to a lesser extent West Germany's new chancellor Helmut Kohl, such a policy stinks of socialism. Yet the "isms" of yesterday seem particularly irrelevant today. Socialism in the East is bankrupt: people are not adequately fed, housed or provided for, Western capitalism seems equally out of breath, insensitive to the cost in human terms of successive crises. The future lies in a break from the constraints of ideology and the embrace of a new, non-sectarian system...
...Harvard authors recommend that the U.S. work harder in areas of arms control that now seem of lesser impor tance but that may turn into hotbeds of U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition. One important example: an attempt to prevent the development of antisatellite weapon ry, which ultimately threatens the communication between the superpowers and their deterrent forces. Strengthening of that communications network, they say, should be among the top U.S. defense priorities. The Harvard authors oppose the development of the B-1 bomber and have reservations about the deployment of sub marine-launched nuclear cruise missiles. But they support the Stealth...
This is a defect it shares with whoever conceived Blue Thunder, which is by far the lesser of Badham's back-to-back releases. The film's nominal plot has Roy Scheider as a good Los Angeles police department chopper ace assigned to test what amounts to a flying gun platform. Once he discovers its illiberal potential, he must fight his way past Malcolm McDowell, an old neofascist enemy from his Viet Nam days now employed as a power-elite gunslinger. After that dogfight comes a showdown with a couple of Air Force jets...
DIED. Temple Hornaday Fielding, 69, guardian of American tourists for 35 years, whose opinionated Travel Guide to Europe has sold some 3 million copies since 1948 and spawned many, lesser Fielding guides; of a heart attack; in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. With help from a small staff and his wife Nancy, he meticulously updated findings that concentrated on Europe's creature comforts, not culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with...
...thriller, part history, part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite. Painfully...