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...impediment to productive investment is high interest rates," and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau asked: "How long can we wait until inter est rates come down?" Reagan replied that he was trying to reduce rates by trim ming deficits and even claimed that a balanced U.S. budget is "in sight." When? Treasury Secretary Regan later answered wryly: "President Reagan is a man of long vision...
...last the end was in sight. From his secure position on Mount Kent, Major General John Jeremy Moore, commander of the British ground forces on the Falkland Islands, gazed through his binoculars at the blue-and-white Argentine flag fluttering over the capital, Port Stanley, twelve miles away. "We'll hoist the Union Jack down there just as soon as we can get there," he told his men confidently. "And believe me, it won't take long...
...feel conscious of your own inadequacy and afraid of what the future may hold for you," he said. "I say to you: Place your lives in the hands of Jesus. . . He will make such use of your lives as will be beyond your greatest expectations . . . Do not let the sight of the world in turmoil shake your confidence in Jesus. Not even the threat of nuclear war." Like the speech containing similar moral lessons the previous Saturday at Wembley Stadium, which was interrupted 25 times with warm applause from a youthful audience, his strict admonitions against self-indulgence and "sexual...
...Gerry has learned to be mean inside," says Valle, who taught him and had to teach him, since Cooney did not always care for the sight or smell of blood. "Savageness means a lot in the ring. Then, outside it, gentleness means almost as much. If the crowded senses gentleness, it will be for you, and that will give you a feeling of strength. The minute Gerry stretched his hand across the table to me five years ago, just the way that boy smiled at me, it was like God put us together. Destiny...
...Conveyor was particularly painful for the British: the ship was carrying a large load of invasion equipment, possibly including heavy troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and spare parts for the Harriers. What made the attack on the freighter especially disturbing for the British was that the Conveyor reportedly was within sight of the carrier Hermes when struck. Presumably, the Hermes was the real target; the Argentines had taken aim at the wrong blip on their radar screens...