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...greatest transfer of wealth in world history, they have moved relatively slowly into banking. Considering the complexity and high risks involved in modern international finance, they acted with commendable prudence. As the first petrodollars began to flood in, almost no Arab monetary agencies knew how to protect their new-found riches from the ravages of inflation. Many of the top moneymen had scant training for their high posts. Hence the Arab officials wisely turned to sure things: U.S. Treasury bills and mammoth deposits in the big international American and British banks...
...neighborhood example of Kissinger-style linkage, Cambridge's new-found regulatory control could convert into political currency redeemable in other battles with the University. The next time Harvard scientists decide they need a laser plasma lab, city officials may be able to trade zoning exemptions for increased tax payments, more low-income housing like the River-Howard St. lot recently donated by the University, or even something as small as athletic facility privileges for neighborhood residents...
Despite such bad domestic news, Carter could take considerable satisfaction from his new-found unity with the other summit participants on political, economic and energy issues. Said Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita: "Our seven nations are seven passengers in the same gondola." More prosaically, a top Carter aide summed up: "Nobody is trying to claim we got everything we wanted. But in the realm of the possible, things worked out pretty damn well...
...wave of reform ended when Tom Murton left Arkansas. The new warden reverted to a strict trustie system that eliminated the prisoners' new-found sense of responsibility. A few of Murton's innovations were retained but the system was not new, only dressed-up. "Cosmetic changes only domesticate the animal but don't kill it," Murton says...
...songs, Hall's most obvious slap at his old, burdensome image lashes out on the rocking title track. He hammers at the keyboards as if he's chipping away all the artifacts that used to encase his music. The final creation proves rough, yet confident, and he tests his new-found vocal endurance on a twisting, unconventional chord progression. Like a motorcycle zooming up a winding mountain road, Hall almost falls off the edge, but he finally reaches...