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...tangled skein of allegiances that gives Lebanon its bewildering complexity was many centuries in the making. It is a land that through most of its history has been overrun and ruled by outsiders, from Egyptian viceroys and Babylonian governors to Ottoman mutessarifs and French commissioners. In ancient times, it was inhabited by the Phoenicians, who took their name from the purple dye they plied around the Mediterranean. Later it became part of that smaller region known as the Holy Land. The cedars of Lebanon were celebrated by the Psalmists, and its mountains provided inspiration for religious mystics...
...Taber, has produced five cover-length examinations of the workings of the U.S. economy in general and some of its biggest companies in particular. The subjects: Wall Street, Chrysler, high-tech enterprises vs. "rust bowl" basic industries, IBM and AT&T. Running through all these stories has been a skein of numbers: units sold, market share, degree of dominance. For this week's cover story on the new multimillionaires, written by Associate Editor Alexander L. Taylor III, the numbers are more easily grasped than most. They have to do with numbers of dollars, which is to say money. Observes...
Thus almost anywhere one might try to unravel the tangled events of 1983, the skein leads quickly to two figures: Reagan and Andropov. Fittingly so. As Chiefs of State of the prime nuclear powers, they symbolize some of the stark differences in U.S. and Soviet values and political systems that make the Washington-Moscow competition so intractable...
Within months of taking office, he re-established diplomatic ties with China, while preserving Japan's lucrative economic ties with Taiwan. But Tanaka's popularity caught up with him in 1974, when a Japanese magazine exposed the fact that he had used a skein of dummy corporations and false tax statements to conceal his shadowy ways of making money. Amid the public uproar that ensued, Tanaka felt compelled to resign...
Although LaSalle is already making substantial preparations for its February 18 confrontation with the Crimson in Philadelphia and Penn State itching for a chance to break the Harvard winning skein, neither team poses the caliber of competition Bernal wants, But they are start...