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...problem, the researchers found, is that the elderly cannot easily switch from one voice to another. Given sequences of sentences recorded by different people and played back on stereo tapes as if the voices were coming from different locations, the old people were usually confused. Rabbitt asked them to repeat aloud everything said on the tapes, and though the subjects did well as long as they could home in on a single voice, whenever there was a change in voice or location, they had trouble...
When I was a boy (circa 1925), I believed Jimmy Walker was the greatest! He was from Greenwich Village; he was fast with a one-liner; he was a "con" man and a lousy mayor of New York. Now we have a repeat: Ed Koch...
...most explosive issues: the question of nuclear proliferation in the Third World and the perpetual cauldron of Middle East politics. After a day of silence following the raid, Iraq declared that its reaction would be "bigger and better nuclear reactors." Begin made clear that Israel was ready to repeat its attack any time. Considering what might lie ahead, Sigvard Eklund, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which inspects the nuclear facilities of signatories to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, declared: "I do not think we have been faced with a more serious question than the implications of this...
...exports and help close a large trade deficit. But the last time a Mexican government undertook a major devaluation, in 1976, billions of dollars fled the country, inflation surged to an annual rate of more than 50% and economic growth came to a halt. No Mexican government wants a repeat of the 1976 devaluation fiasco...
Marie! Marie! Oh let me repeat that name a hundred times, a thousand times over; for three days now it has lived within me, oppressed me, set me afire. I am not writing to you, no, I am close beside you. I see you, I hear you ... Eternity in your arms...