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...intellectual freedom for our destined lives in the Real World, our quests for truth may not always be as easy as here in this academic haven. That fact is something for which we must try to prepare in our brief stays here but something to which we must not succumb...
Greenspan's first goal is to reassure the financial world that he will be as politically independent-minded as Volcker was. During Greenspan's confirmation hearing July 21, a questioner asked the conservative nominee whether he might succumb to "muscle" from the White House to stimulate the economy with an easy-money policy as the 1988 elections drew near. Greenspan responded that he "obviously would reject" any such pressure and declared the Fed's political independence to be "terribly critical." He has little choice, moneymen say. "His life will be very difficult if he is perceived as someone who will...
After once again piously reaffirming America's resolve not to succumb to terrorism by striking deals with hostage-takers, Reagan did just that. In what was sarcastically referred to as "The Swap That Wasn't a Swap," Daniloff was returned to the U.S. and the Soviet spy went home to Moscow--but it wasn't a trade, the President said. The two actions were not related...
...clinic was established in her name, and she offers a series of case histories of the famous and the obscure who entered the place as emotional basket cases and emerged as feisty, drug-free graduates. There are no miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb to the temptations of self-pity or despair. Betty and Gerald Ford have witnessed some extraordinary changes in life and in politics, and the sounds that now emanate from the Betty Ford Center may be the cheery clatter of the last laugh...
Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...