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If it's any comfort to the Cassandras, nobody -- Cassandra nor Pollyanna -- predicted the 1980s economy correctly. The decade began with the deepest recession since the Great Depression, engineered by the Federal Reserve Board to purge inflation. The early Reagan deficits helped stimulate the economy back into expansion -- a classic...
The extraordinary purge reflected the discontent that has seethed within the lower echelons of the armed forces since the 1986 ouster of dictator Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Two weeks ago, the unrest exploded when noncommissioned officers toppled Lieut. General Henri Namphy as Haiti's leader and installed Lieut. General...
In the Red Guard, the youth corps of Mao's mid-1960s purge against revisionism in the Communist Party, Xueliang led a cadre of Communist youth in marches and rallies around China and worked his way up the ranks of the group's propaganda wing until its decline in 1969...
His poems struck many readers as acts of mind reading. There was no need for them to memorize Eliot; he had, it seemed, already memorized them. He became famous by age 35 without growing satisfied with his accomplishments or happy with himself. Words were not enough. Behind the lectures and...
Once a computer has been hit by a virus, the invader can sometimes be eradicated by a special program that searches out and erases each bit of foreign material. Generally, however, the simplest way to bring an infected computer back to health is to shut it down, purge its memory...