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Looking back, Jackson observes that the sheer mass of information that now flows freely to reporters under Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies can, in a sense, make reporting from Moscow even harder. "There is an availability of sources unheard of in the past," Jackson says, "and a past that had not been heard of before. Now we do current events and history all at once...
...that in all his jobs "I don't think anybody has accused me of not having my say." Notably small in stature (around 5 ft. 5 in.), he compensates with aggressiveness and a reputation for wearing down opponents, on the tennis court or in the corridors of power, by sheer tenacity...
...they used for navigation by businesses, policy planners and researchers but they also exert a powerful pull over the tides of the economy. A high monthly figure for the trade deficit, for example, can send floods of money rushing out of the stock market in a sell-off. The sheer quantity of statistics available is immense. Nearly every business day the U.S. Government releases one indicator or another, from the Consumer Price Index and capacity utilization to retail sales and housing starts. Too often, however, the overall impact of the numbers is to generate confusion and anxiety. Some...
...That spark of intuitive hope is not something you can organize. It is there or it is not. It cannot be created out of acts of sheer will," he says...
Union took three years to get right. Childs waited out anxious months for Ricketts' continued collaboration, while he worked on Boomtown. Mostly on sheer instinct, she went from Los Angeles to Swaziland and Zambia to search out a choir and found two. The Sibane Semaswati Singers and the New Generation, who show no traces of a Paul Simon-Graceland influence, are on five of the album's tracks, lending rhythmic backbone whenever Childs' writing tends too much toward the brittle. They also summon ironic memories from Childs' past, casting a kind of sanctified shadow across a childhood spent within...