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The Peary-Cook rivalry began peaceably. Cook, nine years younger, was a steady, valued medical officer on Peary's first Arctic expedition. But Peary jealously guarded the acclaim he earned from the geographical establishment and the millionaires who ran it, so Cook set out on his own. Before long Peary...
At a meeting of national and regional party leaders last week, he proposed his own partial answer. If the party was blocking change by clinging to conservative attitudes, he lectured, then "a purge should take place, a purge was needed." He called for "an influx of fresh forces" affecting every...
Despite concerns that the expansion will falter, most economists believe a modest slowdown is necessary to suppress inflation, which had grown particularly stubborn in the past two years. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.9% during the first half of 1989, up from 4.1% last year. "The economy...
If a recession does occur, it may well be triggered by a sharp erosion in consumer confidence. Americans are saddled with hefty debt loads and could easily become jittery if the economy weakens. Says Doris Drury, president of the Center for Business and Economic Forecasting in Denver: "I'm leery...
But fighting there is -- and has been for more than five years. The Karakoram fastness of northern Kashmir is an area no men ever inhabited, and only a few had traversed, before Pakistani and Indian troops moved in to wage a bitter conflict, largely out of sight of their own...