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...advisers said if price controls were lifted, if subsidies to state enterprises were stopped, if curbs on imports were ended and if currencies were allowed to trade freely, Eastern Europe could move swiftly from communist stagnation to free-market prosperity. On the way, the unavoidable pain would be initially sharper but also, it was hoped, shorter...
...raid, Pearl Harbor, this is no drill," said the radio message that went out at 7:58 a.m. from the U.S. Navy's Ford Island command center, relayed throughout Hawaii, to Manila, to Washington. But there was an even sharper sense of imminent disaster in the words someone shouted over the public address system on another docked battleship, the Oklahoma: "Man your battle stations! This is no shit!" Across the lapping waters of the harbor, church bells tolled, summoning the faithful to worship...
...Prime Minister is unlikely to change the course of U.S.-Japanese relations in a dramatic way. His basic political philosophy, after all, is much the same as that of previous leaders. But the language and tone of the debates between Tokyo and Washington will surely become sharper -- whether or not that increased candor is helpful...
Last December, my brother came up with a brilliant gift idea. I think he found it in a Sharper Image catalog. It was similar to the Fly Gun, but a little more technologically advanced. It was the Fly Gun of the Nineties...
...culture" of our suburbs has fared little better. This summer every mall Cineplex in the nation showed The Doctor, T2 and City Slickers. Every mall has a Gap, the Wonder Bread of clothing stores. Upscale malls have The Sharper Image; downscale malls have Spencer Gifts. Utility and necessity have faded into the distance as things suburbanites don't have to bother with...