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Though some at the Pentagon urged swift retaliation, White House officials were apparently concerned that a U.S. military counterstrike would trigger new congressional demands that the Administration invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which would require Reagan to notify Congress that U.S. military forces were in a hostile situation, then withdraw the troops after 60 days unless the House and Senate approved their remaining. Senate critics of Reagan's gulf policy promised they would redouble their efforts to force the Administration to invoke the act if the Sea Isle City attack was avenged...
...didn't sell well while Springsteen's album is destined for multi-platinum. One of the primary differences between Reed and Springsteen--besides everything--is the former's ability to be unfashionably early while Bruce is always perfectly punctual. Reed may have his finger on the trigger--and the syringe--but Springsteen's got his on the American pulse...
...Biden stupidly loaded a metaphoric gun and pointed it at his forehead, he had help in pulling the trigger. It certainly was not Biden who alerted the press to those unattributed word-for-word quotations, and it strains credulity to think that reporters for two influential newspapers just happened to discover them simultaneously at the precise moment when the Senator was about to make his big bid for national attention by presiding over hearings on the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court...
What would be a sufficiently frightening financial event to trigger such a crash? No one knows precisely. Panics are based largely on mass emotion rather than analysis, and the global economy has become so complex that economists cannot predict with certainty what combination of stresses and strains is required to produce a chain reaction. For example, no particular dollar figure for U.S. indebtedness will suddenly trigger alarm bells. Says David Colander, an economics professor at Middlebury College: "Our $8 trillion debt is almost an irrelevant figure. Technically this economy could support a $30 trillion debt as long as the people...
...little edgy. Says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management: "For the U.S., it happens when our debts seem to be unreasonable to the rest of the world relative to our wealth, when we start looking like Brazil." At that point, some unexpected event could trigger a panic. Says Rohatyn: "The cause is utterly unpredictable. Some trading company in Hong Kong will go belly-up, or perhaps a bank in Luxembourg...