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...record of the U.S. economy in creating new jobs. Says French Finance Minister Jacques Delors: "The dynamism of American researchers, workers and entrepreneurs is one of the reasons for their recovery." Since the recession struck bottom in November 1982, the U.S. has created jobs at a pace unmatched in post-World War II history. More than 6.3 million people have found work during the recovery, and unemployment has tumbled from...
...poet rather than a novelist. This should not be surprising. Haviaras has written both Greek and English poetry, and is the curator of the Woodberry poetry collection here at Harvard. His second novel. The Heroic Age, recounts the turbulent adolescence of a boy, Panagis, growing up in factious, post-World War II Greece...
...brings the number of serious reported crimes down only from the levels of 1980 and 1981, the highest ever recorded. But some criminologists are cautiously suggesting that the statistics do mark the beginning of a long-term decline. A principal cause, they argue, is the aging of the post-World War II baby-boom generation, which is now maturing from its most crime-prone years...
...U.S.S.R. moved to consolidate its control over the countries of Eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. Coined in 1946 by Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," he said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...
WHEN ISRAEL OCCUPIED the West Bank in 1962 it brought upon itself one of the strangest security paradoxes of the post-World War II era. How could one of the most democratic, highly principled nations in history balance the absolute imperative of border defense with what arounded to the subjugation of over a million Arabs? This question was not addressed adequately at the time, and in the intervening decade and a half it has grown in complexity and assessment. The problem's framework remains the same, but important changes have occurred to make it more solveable today than...