Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military interception capabilities are more effective at sea than in the air. One reason: a smuggling vessel can be tracked for a day or more, providing ample time for the Navy to reach, stop and inspect it. But some border-hopping Cessnas can fly to their unloading airstrips and slip out of the U.S. again in half an hour. Even if Air Force radar planes such as the AWACS or E-2C surveillance craft spot the intruders, there is not much time to alert lawmen on the ground, get them to the strip and make arrests before the drug traffickers...
...Crocodile" Dundee II reverses the formula by sending the natural man back to nature, an idea that has the virtue of originality but can be executed only with much tedious maneuvering. For some reason Hogan and his son Brett, who co-wrote the script, have decided that their heavies should be a ring of Colombian drug dealers. They have to be manipulated to New York City in order to menace Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), Mick's perpetually adoring girlfriend. Then an unlikely band of citizens has to be recruited to help him rescue her. Then the criminals must be lured...
...conservative regional officials. While George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is now available, most of the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Soviet novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize, are still banned. Glasnost, it is clear, can go only so far without provoking retrogressive reaction. For that reason, Sergei Grigoryants, editor of a dissident journal named Glasnost, was jailed for a week earlier this month. When he was released, he discovered that the house from which he had published his journal had been sealed by the KGB and all his printing equipment smashed...
...sunniest skies. They noted that exports in March rose 23%, to a monthly record of $29 billion, and that imports went up as well, by 3.5%, to $38.7 billion. Some economists would have preferred to see a more moderate rise in exports, combined with a reduction in imports. Reason: large increases in both categories may indicate that the economy is in danger of overheating. Already, factories are operating at an average of 82.7% of capacity, the highest level in eight years. In many industries, plants are reaching their productive limits, which has stirred fears of higher inflation and interest rates...
...There's a reason the '60s revival is happening now," wrote Richard Goldstein in an article in The Village Voice in March. "At the end of Reagan's tether, as the economy falters and the yuppie shivers in his power tie, we sense an opening again--but to what...