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Critical Juncture. On balance, the pact is a significant success for Soviet foreign policy at a time when the Kremlin has had a surfeit of diplomatic setbacks. Nor is there any doubt that it was a disturbing defeat for U.S. policy (see box). The treaty was signed less than 24 hours after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrived in New Delhi on a visit that had been announced only 48 hours earlier. Before a cheering crowd estimated at 1,500,000 people on the day of the signing, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi insisted unconvincingly that the treaty does not alter...
...customers increases, the purity of the heroin is decreased, leading to bigger volume and bigger profits for the dealer. In less than a year, a diligent pusher with a $100-a-week business can be netting $10,000 a week. What started the killings in Detroit was a surfeit of aspirants for $10,000-a-week businesses...
...hole-in-the-shoe fellow who would walk a mile for a Camel, and the snooty adventurer who incredibly prefers a Silva Thin to a maiden plump. Forbidden by Congress to promote their cigarettes on television and radio after Jan. 1, tobacco companies clogged the airways with a surfeit of last-minute plugs, especially during the New Year's Day bowl games...
Another source of malaise is surfeit with politics, a turn toward personalism. Says Thorn Pringle, 29, an Indianan with degrees in engineering and business administration now living on Spain's Costa del Sol: "I don't want to fight America's problems. I'm too busy with...
Boosterism is dying in Arizona. Meeting at the Grand Canyon, an ad hoc group of 96 leading citizens called "Town Hall" voted surprisingly to stop spending public funds to attract new industry and residents to the state. Reason: a surfeit of success. While Arizona's 20-year boom has brought immediate economic benefits, it is also impairing the state's natural beauty and resources. Though it has no official power, the group wants to conserve the state for future inhabitants. Urging more government attention to the environment, it recommends specific bans on billboards, nonreturnable bottles and detergents that...