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Like Galbraith, Neustadt singled out the area of "economic management" as an essential feature of this new agenda, adding that he sees "nothing sufficiently constructive" in conservative suggestions to make it likely the right wing will supplant the liberal consensus
...Saddam is the Arab world's newest and most determined strongman, and he is not about to allow himself to be toppled from his pinnacle by simple negligence. His bold designs to supplant the late Shah of Iran as the watchdog and kingpin of the Persian Gulf have made him a force to be reckoned with throughout the region. At times, in fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge...
...THAT it hasn't been tried. In 1787 James Madison fought--unsuccessfully--to empower Congress to supplant state charters of corporations with federal charters when the public good required them. In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt suggested--to no avail--that "the Government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate commerce." Thirty-seven years later, populist Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney proposed a more far-reaching program called the "National Charters for National Business." It bombed...
...unpublished works, is planned for release at a later date.) The generally excellent performances, recorded over a period of 41/2 years under Pierre Boulez's direction, feature the London Symphony Orchestra and such guest artists as Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Charles Rosen and the late Gregor Piatigorsky. They supplant in every way the pioneering complete Webern recorded by Robert Craft in the 1950s, also on Columbia. The postman may never whistle Webern's melodies, as Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show...
...what a history: primordial creation, the slow appearance of grassy Edens, the rise and fall of Atlantis and the centaurs, the fatal presumptuousness of Akhnaton and Queen Nefertiti, God Biology's new orders for the progress of mankind: THERE SHALL BE NO ACCIDENT, THE SCRIBE SHALL/ SUPPLANT RELIGION, & THE ENTIRE APPARATUS/ DEVELOP THE WAY TO PARADISE. The dark powers are given the responsibility of setting up a research laboratory to clone worthy souls. Mirabell, the name Merrill gives his chief informant, explains: A MERE 2 MILLION CLONED SOULS LISTEN TO EACH OTHER WHILE/ OUTSIDE THEY HOWL & PRANCE SO RECENTLY...