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...political left as well as the right, have learned to accept the need for free-market solutions, even if it means shutting down loss-making steel mills and shipyards. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor-of economics at the University of Paris Nord, also noted the growth of a new entrepreneurial spirit that helps growth...
...quite obsessed by, his subject, and fixed the readers to the processes of a strong, fair mind. Presidents knew Joe, and he had power in Washington, but his force as a writer came from his dignity. He possessed a scholar's nature fitted to a frenzied profession; a spirit of magnanimity and gentleness; a temperament at once high-strung and serene; a sly sense of fun; a fierce love of words, of his work...
After eating paper-bag lunches, the manufacturers boarded buses to Capitol Hill to buttonhole legislators from their home states. So many Michiganders packed into the office of Democratic Senator Carl Levin that several of the businessmen had to perch on upended attaché cases. Levin warned them that "the whole spirit of Congress is to get away from regulation," but promised to take a careful look at the Danforth bill. Plaintiffs' attorneys, needless to say, oppose all tort-reform plans. They commonly accuse insurers of creating a sense of crisis to enact laws that would deny just compensation to victims...
...investigation of the shuttle disaster continues, evidence is piling up that NASA might have been a victim of some managers' can-do spirit. To justify congressional support, NASA officials felt compelled to prove that the shuttle program could be made self-supporting by launching as often as every two weeks. But in internal NASA memos that have leaked out, Chief Astronaut John Young charges that safety was sacrificed to "launch-schedule pressure." Young, 55, a highly respected veteran of shuttle or bits and Apollo moon flights, warned of an "awesome" list of safety problems, including a runway at Florida...
...Jan.13, 1898, Zola published what Bredin calls "a great document, one which marks an essential date in the history of journalism." J 'Accuse was "an indictment of the forces and virtues of traditional France, its religious passion, military spirit, and hierarchies." Zola's outrage proved contagious. Slowly the bodyguard of lies surrounding the actual villains began to defect. Major Ferdinand Esterhazy, a German agent, fled the country. Lieut. Colonel Hubert Henry, who had forged Dreyfus' handwriting on incriminating documents, committed suicide...