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...When someone casts a vote, for instance, he thinks he is doing one thing, is told by the experts he is doing another, and history decides he has accomplished a third. The fascination for the voter lies in functioning simultaneously as the individual and the mass, in pulling the lever for the candidate who will presumably do him the most good, then discovering his vote is part of a trend, which suggests in turn that everyone carries within his precious encasement a national consciousness, a common sense...
...significance: it is the name of the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, an $18.5 billion structure that was officially dedicated last week by Brazilian President João Baptista Figueiredo and his Paraguayan counterpart, Alfredo Stroessner. Said Figueiredo after the two heads of state pulled a lever opening the dam's orange-colored floodgates: "This is an example for developing countries. Itaipu shows that our people are capable of developing our own technology...
Indeed, 48% of the people questioned said they intended to vote for their Democratic congressional candidates, while only 34% expected to pull the Republican lever. Other polls have shown the Democrats maintaining a roughly similar lead. But the figures are far from conclusive: they follow the approximate breakdown of party registration, and voters do not always let their instinctive party loyalty dictate their choice among candidates in their districts. Despite a general inclination to vote Democratic, 52% of the people in the Yankelovich poll said they expected to vote for their current Congressman, and only 30% intended to vote...
...minds of Reagan's diplomatic planners, these considerations rule out use of the most obvious U.S. lever on Begin's government: a reduction or suspension of U.S. military and economic aid to Israel. The counterargument, of course, is that continued generous U.S. aid to Israel underwrites the very Begin policies that Washington so furiously opposes...
...Kinokawa Mam, a 92,207-ton ore carrier, pulled out of Tokyo harbor last week on its maiden voyage to Australia. When Captain Yukio Imai wanted to change speed, he did not order a crew member to yank the traditional brass-handled lever. Instead, he spoke through a microphone to the ship's computerized engine control, which has a voice synthesizer and recognition device developed by Japan's Sodensha Electronics Ltd. The control device can comprehend eleven verbal commands, from "Full ahead" to "Full astern," given by the captain or two of his officers. To show that...