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...overthrow the old regime. Differences between the leadership grew. The old brotherhood began to split with collectivization in 1958 ? a disaster. "Mao knew he had been wrong in the Great Leap Forward," said Hu Qiaomu. But when Peng Dehuai circulated a critical letter, Hu went on, he "was scraping at a wound which, left to itself, might heal. To scrape a man with a healing wound rouses all his irritations, angers him." So Mao got rid of Peng ? first to go of the old guard...
Writing for the majority, Justice William Rehnquist brushed aside the argument that parents of children in public schools may find it impossible to scrape up $700 in deductions; nor was Rehnquist concerned that 96% of private school children whose parents took the benefits attend parochial schools. Even though religious institutions may profit most from the law, Rehnquist wrote, a program "that neutrally provides state assistance to a broad spectrum of citizens is not readily subject to challenge under the Establishment Clause" of the First Amendment...
...Another scrape, and no scratches. Another nuclear holocaust averted, and now another woman-the good one, he guessed. All's right with NATO and so to bed, with two martinis, shaken but not stirred, like 007 himself. Bond raised his glass and looked meaningfully into What's-Her-Name's green eyes. "Here's to survival, darling," he said just before he fell asleep...
...Chapters over flow with whispered depositions, missing files and subterranean intrigue. Three key witnesses are professionally murdered; a fourth commits suicide under suspicious circumstances. The Justice Department declines to prosecute Blanton. Claims Maas: "It was already clear that in 1980 Jimmy Carter would need every electoral vote he could scrape up. The President might not like the Governor, but he was stuck with...
American companies over whelmed by imports excuse their failures by blaming foreign industrial policies. In truth, U.S. managers are often outmanaged by foreign competitors. While RCA complained in 1979 that it did not have the $200 million needed to develop a videocassette recorder, it did scrape together $1.3 billion to buy a finance company. In the meantime, RCA ceded the highly lucrative video-cassette-recorder market to the Japanese. RCA has also suffered from revolving-door management: four chief executives in six years. Bureaucracy, territorial feuds and narrow careerism afflict many large U.S. corporations...