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...lounge, dining at a sidewalk cafe. A war waged by shadowy enemies who could be almost anyone: the passenger in the next airplane seat, the occupants of the next car driving by. Worst of all, a war in which civilized society so far is a bewildered, if not impotent, loser...
...Socialist Movement (PASOK) had taken 45.8% of the 6.4 million votes cast and gained a clear majority of 161 seats in the 300-member Parliament. The Socialists finished well ahead of the center-right New Democracy party, led by Constantine Mitsotakis, which won 40.8% and 126 seats. The other loser was the Moscow-lining Communist Party (known by its Greek initials K.K.E.), which emerged with 9.9% of the vote and twelve seats. Exultant, Papandreou termed the result of the balloting "a victory for the people and a defeat for reaction...
Sylvester Stallone has a shrewd mythmaker's instinct for that kind of metamorphosis. Stallone's formative influence was the Hercules movies of Steve Reeves, whose physique he energetically and wistfully labored to replicate. Stallone eventually took his splendidly muscled creation over into fiction. He became Rocky, the Philadelphia loser who beats up the heavyweight champion of the world. Now Stallone's pectorals and deltoids are in service again as Rambo. The name sounds like a good ole boy's rendering of Rimbaud. Rambo is a veteran who single-handed accomplishes what the U.S. Army and Marines never could...
...concerned, though, about the concessions to corporations, wealthy individuals and others that the Administration made in order to assemble a politically feasible package. The suggested cut in the rate at which capital gains are taxed and other similar moves, the economists feared, would turn the bill into a revenue loser and worsen the federal deficit. Said Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office who is now at the Brookings Institution: "My big worry is not only that the President's proposal will be a revenue loser, but that as you move through Congress, the temptation will...
Some industries could take a pounding under the Reagan plan. "Clearly, real estate is a big loser," said Alan Greenspan, a New York City consultant. "If the bill goes through as currently stipulated, real estate values are going to fall." Greenspan explained that such proposals as tighter depreciation schedules would make real estate a less attractive investment. As a result, he said, many building owners may be forced to raise their rents. Added Greenspan: "We are going to find that things such as increased rents on properties will create a very large set of secondary consequences that we are only...