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...STRUCTURAL changes have reshaped the economy since World War II: In relative terms, power on the domestic economic front has shifted to what historian Kirkpatrick Sale calls "the economic sovereigns of America's Southern rim, the 'sunbelt' that runs from Southern California, through Arizona and Texas, down to the Florida keys...
...cowboys," as the Southern rim's entrepreneurs have been called, and the multinational industrialists face three immediate problems...
Watergate was part of the program Nixon men designed to reshape the political system to support their economic and political rule. The Watergate conspirators are closely tied to the Southern rim's magnates. They expected to go unpunished--even if they were caught--because of Nixon's unprecedented executive power, his subversion of the New Deal ethics, and the distance he has established between himself and Congress. They almost got away with it--and Nixon may get away with it still...
...Which occurs when the moon, at one of its more distant points from the earth in its elliptical orbit (when it appears slightly smaller in the sky), eclipses all or the sun except a glowing outer rim...
...Angeles called time out and set up a play on which Erickson took a jumper from the left side. The ball hit off the back rim and Reed came down with the rebound...