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According to Yashchenko, the police started classifying accurate maps as state secrets in the 1930s because of "spy mania." Not surprisingly, he said, "we received numerous complaints. People did not recognize their motherland on maps." For years, space photography has enabled the U.S. to make highly reliable maps of the Soviet Union. But, Yashchenko said, it has taken Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost to spur his agency into releasing accurate maps...
...offered to help. Bush solicited names and advice but rarely revealed his own feelings, and in the end relied almost defiantly on himself alone. "He had a preoccupation with leaks," recalls a senior staffer. Concern with maintaining firm control of the theatrics of the convention contributed to this security mania, but the primary cause was Bush's memories of the rumors that swept Detroit in 1980 as Reagan was pondering Bush's fate. As a top aide put it, "He was determined that no one be hurt...
...Maserati. He reports that his management team resisted the $1.2 billion AMC purchase, but he asserted his power of paterfamilias. Says he: "I heard everybody out, and then I overruled them." Iacocca's acquisitiveness seems somewhat at odds with his opinion of what is wrong with corporate America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom he describes as a "warm and wonderful human being," but "totally...
...which the Senior Class Gift committee organizes this thanking emphasizes the worst aspects of the University. Not only is the committee's argument about the apolitical nature of the gift specious and manipulative, but the techniques used to raise funds stratify the class and smack of the money mania that makes University fundraising a dangerous ethical game...
...Baby Boom and She's Having a Baby. Even television commercials are using giggling, gurgling newborns to shill for grownup products such as carpets, insurance and automobile tires. Yet despite the highly visible new crop of infants, not all Americans are sure they want to help fuel the baby mania. Observes UCLA Psychologist Jacqueline Goodchilds: "Many people are questioning the assumption that fulfillment for a woman is having children...