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...British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared war on her cities with a series of draconian policies in many ways similar to President Reagan's, the cities erupted with a wave of violence that negated any minute economic gains from her initiatives. The magnitude of the Reagan cutbacks makes that scenario all too possible here. It would be ironic indeed if the Administration's quest for economic growth undermined the social peace that America's conservatives so desperately desire...
...doomsday scenario seems wildly off the mark today. Many papers all over the country are fat, happy and rich; they have not been replaced by television but rather have adjusted to it. True, television now serves as the main news source of most Americans, but the past few years have shown that there is more than enough room for other media as well. The era of television-newspaper competition has just about ended with print enduring more than a few casualties. But a new era began when newspaper realized their limits and started exploiting their strengths. And New York City...
...Moscow's worst-case scenario, the "Polish disease" might infect other East bloc countries and the Ukraine, posing a threat to the future of the Soviet empire...
This is not exactly a novel scenario; the scarier financial writers have been mulling it over for years. But there is something brave about Rollover It undertakes to explain, in dramatic terms, how the international monetary system functions and to speculate on how a monkey wrench could be inserted into the computerized, satellite-linked works by which currency is instantaneously traded round the world. Someone whose most sophisticated investment was a flyer in 1944 war bonds may not be able fully to assess these maneuvers, but it is nice to be asked...
...first scenario is basketball pretty much as it has been played since the turn of the century; the second is basketball as its been played on the collegiate level since the start of this season...