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...This pattern of self-centered, deceptive politicking with the future of America--and of the world--at stake, is nothing new to the Nixon Administration.....Nixon's willingness to hire, if not actually direct, men deeply implicated in repeated allegations of organized attempts to sabotage the Democratic Party suggests a remarkable lack of principle or an incrediable lack of judgment...
Quad receiver Jeff Hull then dodged two Leverett defenders and danced down the sideline to turn a flag pattern pass into a 20 yard touchdown...
...This pattern was repeated in game two, as they visitors built a 14-4 lead before limping home to a 15-11 victory...
While keeping watch on interest rates, Wall Street is also sensitive to the winds of politics. For the past two decades the financial markets have followed a pattern: stocks rise in a presidential election year. The increases range from 17.9% in 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, to 4.3% in 1968, when Richard Nixon won his first term...
...follows the same pattern as in Part One: balanced treatment of the historical dynamics behind each actor's position, followed by a much longer slap at American policy. We are told that the Cuban Missile Crisiy "probably contributed to the Soviets' decision to embark on the sustained accumulation of every category of weaponry: conventional and nuclear, battle-field range and globe-spanning, tanks, aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple...