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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armed forces or a debilitating slash in spending for readiness" (training, ammunition, spare parts). The whole contretemps raises a harrowing but unavoidable question: Can the U.S. afford to pay for the defense it needs -- and just how much does it need anyway? In his best-selling book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Historian Paul Kennedy points out that such dominant nations as Spain in the 16th century and Britain around 1900 began to fade in part because they were burdened by military commitments greater than their slipping shares of the world's economic activity could support...
...have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into a hilltop garden of crab-apple trees...
...limited leverage over Jackson. His late-night foray to Jackson's hotel was part of a mutual effort to warm up what has been a cool, correct relationship. In his speeches, Dukakis frequently butters up Jackson, making a somewhat stretched comparison between his own immigrant heritage and Jackson's rise from poverty and racial discrimination. Yet Jackson's advisers, themselves divided over strategy, continue to complain that Dukakis does not understand Jackson...
...auto business is never assured. Perhaps the greatest danger to the company's momentum is a slowdown in the U.S. economy. At 5 1/2 years, the current expansion is unusually old, and many economists expect a recession to hit next year. Already, interest rates are on the rise, which could slow auto sales by making it harder for customers to afford car loans...
...first Mazda-engineered Ford, an $8,500 compact called the Mercury Tracer, appeared in March 1987 and was followed two months later by the two-door Festiva subcompact ($5,900). Last year cars that Mazda helped develop accounted for 3% of Ford's sales, and that percentage will rise substantially with the introduction of the Probe...