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...employees clinging to, but increasingly sliding down the slippery slope of the Laffer curve. As the relentless logic of supply-side economics becomes clearer--that the rich will get richer while the poor grow pooer--strikes will increasingly come to be seen as a necessary tactic. And the "New Beginning" so carefully constructed by the forces of conservatism will crumble, buckling under the weight of the expectations it raised...
...retreat back across the Suez Canal fueled his interest in politics even more. He was elected to the Knesset in December 1973 and in 1977 joined Begin's first government as Agriculture Minister. There he established a reputation less for his initiatives in farming methods than for his relentless encouragement of Israeli civilian settlement in occupied territories (when he took over the portfolio, there were 70 such settlements with 12,000 people; now there are 135 with 28,000 residents). Convinced that Israel's security could be guaranteed only if the territories were controlled by Israel, Sharon announced...
...spectacular surge in the value of American money is an abrupt reversal of a decade-long, disorderly slide that began in August 1971, when President Nixon severed the dollar's traditional link to gold. In the years that followed, relentless U.S. inflation and mounting trade deficits sent the dollar crashing on world money exchanges. In 1978 and again in 1979, the dollar plunged so precipitously that the U.S. Treasury had to spend billions propping up its value. But nothing worked for long. A dollar that bought 3.5 West German marks in 1971 was worth only 1.7 marks...
...princes, as everyone long ago learned from the fairy tales, can be turned into frogs. This relentless and terrifying movie is about how the organs of the state-acting in the best interests of society really-can do that to a man. For Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) knows that in enforcing the law, he and his partners have also bent the law. They have supplied confiscated drugs in return for help from junkie informers. Some of the money they have found on arrested dealers has ended up in their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that...
...nothing can withstand the relentless oil thirst of the "Outside." Yet the Pyrrhic stand has its effect: progress is stopped long enough for the reader to appreciate the value of natural Utopias-and a fiction that salutes them...