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...blizzard of speeches, op-eds and interviews in Europe, he's been trying to reach around the punch-drunk institutions of Brussels to persuade skeptical voters that Europe must modernize or atrophy. Blair loves this role, having perfected it in a career spent admonishing the Labour Party to shape up, but it's a definite departure in European politics. It used to be only the U.S. President who would jet around the world telling other countries how to organize themselves. Blair has no backup band of celebrities to help him make his case for European reform, though. But compared...
...after 140 years of manipulation, can Lincoln's memory ever again find its true shape...
...believe such ideas are gradually gaining acceptance. For example, what has been called the Baker Plan[*] is based on the idea that there can be no solution to the debt problem without economic growth. This is a very important idea. What is now needed is to give it shape...
...m.p.h., the tension at the European Space Agency's control center in Darmstadt, West Germany, became palpable. Images of the cornet, relayed to the center at intervals of four seconds, loomed larger and larger on television screens, finally yielding by far the best look yet at an elongated shape near Halley's heart. It was the comet's nucleus. Giotto Investigator Wolfgang Schmidt, giving a play-by-play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that there is structure on this nucleus," he exclaimed. "Mountains, hills, craters--incredible detail!" Suddenly the image froze and then...
...loss this year for the first time since 1971. Nor is the situation likely to improve quickly, as all three networks face growing competition from cable, videocassettes and independent stations. "The landscape is changing," says Sias, the former head of Capital Cities' publishing division. "We want to shape a company that survives and prospers. ABC is going to be a new entity; I don't know yet what it will be like...