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...panicky flight of foreign capital from the U.S. could lift American interest rates. High on the list of victims would be the 15 Latin American countries that are some $335 billion in debt. Brazil, which owes $96 billion, has an extra $750 million added on to its annual interest bill each time the U.S. prime and other international lending rates rise by a percentage point. De Vries suggested that the banks, together with the International Monetary Fund, should consider setting up a revolving loan pool to be used by Latin American and other countries to cope with escalating interest rates...
...face-lift was necessary. Yale was next on the agenda. A year ago, the Bulldogs had been hapless. The Crimson had downed them by 38 points. No less, 38 points. Could Harvard revive that sweet taste of victory? Nobody knew for sure, yet the tracksters hoped for the best. For sure...
...House is getting a total face-lift. The new master can customize the House to his own needs and to the needs of the students coming in," Stephens said...
Churchill had a string of spectacular failures as well as successes. So did Franklin Roosevelt in domestic policy during his struggle to lift America out of the Depression. John Kennedy's first year was one of almost continuous defeat, but fortunately, it was a year also marked by unceasing experiment in diplomacy and military improvement. In the American legend, the discouragements with men and War heaped on Abraham Lincoln in his early years of the Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least...
...explains this scene, which lies at the heart of Golding's novel. Wilde remarked that "while I see there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes." Golding has used this idea to give an old genre a new lift. Where disillusionment and the loss of ideals gave force to the nineteenth century novel of education, the resurfacing of suppressed, forgotten, or missunderstood ideals gives Golding's novel its kick. Barclay, realizing that his beliefs have been Christian and his acts have not, understands that his life is past human...