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...similar case land in Peru cleared for tea crops immediately fell victim to the green menace, Rolla Tryon says. During World War 11, he adds, the ubiquitous bracken quickly sprang up in bomb craters throughout England...
...bureau sprang its trap last week, arresting eight of the nine conspirators in Miami. The ninth surrendered to authorities at week's end in Santiago, Chile. The ringleader of the operation was Gerard Latchinian, 46, who is said to have been one of the wealthiest men in Honduras. He is known among the Honduran military as "the ambassador of death," a nickname he acquired as one of the region's major arms dealers...
...hear critics tell it, supply-side economics, and thus Reaganomics, originated in a faraway jungle where voodoo is in vogue. Supply-side theory, which emphasizes the importance of tax cuts in stimulating economic growth, actually sprang forth from leading universities like Columbia, and has been refined at several respected think tanks. One of these is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Two of the institute's scholars, Charles Murray and George Gilder, have written new books that are already stirring as much comment and controversy as the original supply-side ideas...
...clung to the semiconductor industry like barnacles to a ship. Many experts had assumed that the high cost of developing chips would force all but giants like Texas Instruments and Japan's Hitachi out of the business. In fact, new small firms are thriving. At least 51 chipmakers sprang up between 1977 and 1983, including a record 16 last year...
...statement prepared before the event, the speakers called on the American government to sign the agreement which sprang from the Contadora peace initiative--a 1982 Latin American proposal which calls or self-determination for the countries of Central America and the elimination of outside intervention...