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General Dynamics' version was cigar-shaped and very slightly shorter than Boeing's 20-ft.-9-in.-long trapezoidal model, with its almost triangular cross section. Both missiles are also launched in the same manner. Immediately after being dropped from either wing pylons or out of the B-52's underbelly, air-intake scoops for the rear-mounted engine pop open, wings slam out with enough force to cut a man in half, and the engine begins to whine...
Just as the Republican Party is closer to Reagan's point of view than it was eight or even four years ago, the country as a whole has moved right. Reagan's reach for the center will be shorter now than before. Says Pollster Yankelovich: "Reagan should not assume this is a mandate to define a right-wing program for the country. Rather it is a chance to define a new policy for the center...
CONSIDER A Midsummer Night's Dream as a gamut for the stage, a series of isometric exercises for a theater company. In its roughly 2000 lines--far shorter than a Hamlet or a Lear--are scenes of courtly reserve and natural abandon, metaphysical mystery and droll stupidity, gathered up and joined behind the proscenium of Shakespeare's florid verse. Where a play like Troilus and Cressida yokes different forms of theater violently together, Midsummer Night's Dream carefully weaves them in, under, and through each other--thus the shimmering, unsettled brilliance it displays in the hands of a good director...
...returns. But even those new bond offerings do not sell well. People are afraid to lock themselves into long-term fixed-income bonds; they figure that inflation will send interest rates still higher, and so they prefer to put their money into quick-in, quick-out investments that offer shorter terms or flexible yields. Bond yields may seem steep today, but if inflation keeps on roaring, they will not be as high as the returns on other investments tomorrow. Besides, if general interest rates keep rising, bond prices stand to decline further, and buyers will take a beating when they...
...getting shorter...