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...mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy constituency of diehard automobile fans, has taken pains to economize: once they leave downtown, the trains will speed along an existing right-of-way parallel to the humming Banfield Freeway...
...regional phone companies and the American public will probably adjust to the new world of phone service more easily than they thought last week. H. Trevor Jones, president of PacTel Communications Systems, which is part of the new Pacific Telesis company, which covers California and Nevada, sees a parallel with the 1940s, when utilities stopped supplying light bulbs and people had to buy their...
...that of the Gospel. One forgives in one's heart, in the sight of God, as the Pope did, but the criminal still serves his time in Caesar's jail. And yet if one assumes that the claims of God and Caesar are parallel lines, and do not connect with each other, then it is futile, or merely sentimental, to talk about how a spirit of forgiveness might come into poh" tics and international affairs. It is in the realm of Caesar that the bombing goes...
...considerable courage, she arranged protection for the witness. In his testimony, Balang questioned that Galman could have pulled the trigger. "I heard a shot, and when I looked back, the man in white [Aquino] was falling down," Balang recounted. "At that moment, I saw [Galman] just standing there parallel to Aquino, surrounded by members of the Aviation Security Command (AVSECOM). He was smiling. He was partly hidden, but the palms of his hands were open as though he was handing something to them. Then I heard a shot and saw Galman fall down ... from what I saw, Galman...
...Lesson, Philip Roth ∙Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury ∙5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin ∙The Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose ∙The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton ∙Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon