Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic outlook seems gloomy. Why do you expect a recovery...
...senior U.S. officials went to Capitol Hill last week to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the outlook for the Philippines and President Ferdinand Marcos. Their forecast: stormy weather ahead for both. Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz warned that the Philippines was heading toward "civil war on a massive scale." The pace of economic, political and military reform, added Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, was "insufficient to arrest the growth of the (Communist) insurgency." The country could reach a "strategic stalemate" in as little as three years...
Despite that bravura performance, the bleak outlook for the Marcos regime remained unchanged. "It's as if the central nervous system has broken down," said a U.S. policymaker. "Orders are issued at the center, but nothing happens in the provinces." The situation did little to convince the Reagan Administration that Marcos could meet what has emerged as the principal U.S. demands: military reform, open elections and an efficient economy freed from the corrupt grasp of Marcos' cronies. The ultimate fear: an eventual Communist takeover that would result in the loss of a longtime ally and deprive the U.S. of critical...
Though lacking accurate local color, Texas leaves a lot to be desired. But as a novel it is above average. Read as pure novel, Texas is not bad entertainment, even if it is long. The reading goes quickly, and even if the outlook it produces is skewed, it does give non-Texans a thorough exposure to a remarkable, offbeat place and its equally remarkable and offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin...
...importance of this collection outweighs any criticisms about its format. It is rare thing when a human being progresses as far as Baldwin--from clumsy uneducated prose to vivid poetry, from confusion and despair to strength and spokesmanship, and from the resentful mind of a slave to the humanitarian outlook of a true leader. It is a rarer thing still when the public is allowed to witness the birth of such a great philosopher...