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...Sanders Theatre, I plan to convert that into one of the premier entertainment spots in the world. All the top quality acts, all your Wayne Newtons and Rip Taylors, would play there...
...baseball will come to Oakland again this October. The fans -- a little jaded but forever immature -- will cheer their favorites with Bay Area gentility, punctuated by the occasional "Rip it, dude!" Triumph will satisfy but not surprise them; only failure will astonish. The A's know this. As they enter the play-offs, they know their true opponents are not the Blue Jays or the Red Sox, the Pirates or the Reds, but the great ghost of baseball history: the '27 Yankees, the Philadelphia A's of '29-'31, the Yanks of '49-'53, the Oakland...
...Nowadays, if Rip Van Winkle were to fall asleep in the Soviet Union, he would only have time for a very short nap before finding that everything had changed!" It was Ronald Reagan in a familiar mode, the storyteller. But he had an unusual circle of listeners: the foreign affairs committee of the Supreme Soviet. The former President made a five-day tour of the Soviet Union last week, his first visit to the erstwhile Evil Empire since his 1988 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. He got a warm greeting from Gorbachev at the Kremlin, where the two embraced like...
Angered that Congress raised the nation's debt ceiling from $2.1 trillion to $2.8 trillion, Reagan pledges to rip into spending...
...price and a cutoff of supply. True, our interest is in paying as little as possible for oil in the long run, not just today. Too low a price could be sucker bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow. It is impossible to say what price today minimizes the long-run cost of oil for consumers. What you can say for sure is that oil producers have exactly the opposite objective: maximum revenue in the long run. Letting a producer cartel fix the price cannot be good for consumers...