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...problem was that it was a majorhurricane moving very fast, pushing a lot of watereast of center, and that it came in at high tide,"Pasch says...
...will hit 12.5 billion by the middle of the next century -- unless mass starvation, disease or war curbs the numbers. Almost all these people would live in developing countries, and it is difficult to imagine how any agreement coming out of Rio could offset the negative impact of this tide of humanity...
Bartley's main error is his narrow focus on a few pet theories and prescriptions and the inevitable special pleading this entails. "The moral of the Seven Fat Years is that economic growth counts," he writes. But the rising tide of '80s-style growth failed to lift all boats as advertised: the rich got bigger yachts, the middle class foundered, and many of the poor went under. The task for the 1990s will be to move beyond the excesses and inequities of the debt decade rather than strive to return to a Golden Age that never existed...
...YEARS AGO: TURNING POINT. Having surrendered to the Japanese, 72,000 gaunt, exhausted U.S. and Filipino troops marched to prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942. Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide started to shift for Allied forces. On April 18, 1942, Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle staged a daring aerial raid on Tokyo. Last week surviving raiders gathered in Columbia, S.C., for an annual tribute to the six Americans who died as a result of the attack...
...brooding inevitability about the data in Stone's studies. Small communities of static population sooner or later lose business from their downtowns to Wal-Mart, which sinks its roots at their edges. Surrounding communities with no Wal-Mart are devastated. Independent stores in growing areas generally rise with the tide even with Wal-Mart scooping up a big share...