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-- The superpowers are in the midst of a second detente, more profound than the first because it is accompanied this time by a serious Soviet attempt at internal reform. Detente II has yielded an arms reduction agreement (the INF treaty) of marginal strategic importance but of such profound psychological impact...
In Massachusetts a new law signed by Dukakis will require employers to pay for health insurance, and the Governor has proposed a similar program on a national scale. The proposal is regressive, since the added costs threaten marginal businesses and might put the lowest-paid workers back on the street...
The U.S. oil patch is relatively better able to withstand another round of low oil prices. The '86 energy rout forced many marginal producers to pack up their drill rigs for good. The firms that remain in the industry are better capitalized and more efficient. Even so, many oil-patch...
During the end game of a close election, the millions of votes and millions of dollars boil down to a dinky little figure: 270, the electoral college majority that takes its owner to the White House. The battle for that number is an uneven one. For a generation, Republicans have...
Like all of Beene's best work, this coat does not flout tradition, it teases it. Beene keeps rebellion firm but marginal, just as he did as a young medical student, when he sketched dresses on the page borders of his Gray's Anatomy. The year after Geoffrey Beene, Inc...