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Conner, who owns a drapery business in San Diego, works not only his crew like galley slaves but his shipbuilders too. Desiring a twelve even swifter than Freedom, Conner ordered three new $1 million boats after 1980, discarding Magic and Spirit before embracing Liberty. Weighing the virtues of Freedom and Liberty right up until the deadline last week, Conner finally chose the new boat. Besides Liberty and Blackaller's Defender, Turner's old friend Courageous will head out again, skippered by John Kolius...
Reagan's practical intelligence was the deducted from experience," Cannon said, "He feels the system has worked for him." The journalist cited this mentality to explain Reugan's economic programs which Cannon said were designed to make deeper and swifter recoveries than actually possible...
...father of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer enjoyed a postwar eminence equaled perhaps by only one other scientist, Einstein himself. But his fall was even swifter than his rise. He was a political innocent who had never read a newspaper or current-affairs magazine until he was in his mid-30s and did not hear, incredibly enough, about the Great Crash of 1929 until long after it had happened. At Berkeley he associated mostly with leftists-his lover and his brother were both Communists-and although he was never a Communist himself, he lent his name to left-wing organizations...
...never know exactly why holding people up was, for him, the most palatable money-making alternative. But I'm pretty sure of this: that threatening him with longer, swifter or more certain jail sentences wouldn't make it easier for him to find work. They'd hardly assuage his frustration with "the system"--more likely, those conservative panaceas would only aggravate him more. Only steps that strike at the root of the problem, that try to give the rational criminal real alternative to crime, seem to make sense...
...stimulate savings than anything else we've got in the tax package." Some economists estimate that the I.R.A.s will lift the personal savings rate from its low average level of 5.5% in the past five years to 8% by 1984. If that happens, the U.S. will have a swifter flow of funds to finance the capital investment it needs to restore robust economic growth. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York and David Beckwith/Washington