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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alice, Let's Eat is not a book by a "grownup" food writer. Its author's spontaneity and childlike view of the world save it from being tedious in the manner of most food books. Instead, Trillin has written a witty and trenchant mishmash of culinary anecdotes and satire--one that will not grow stale upon a second or third helping...
...important to recognise that the dissidents do not hold one view on the alternative society they are trying to promote. The classically liberal outlook of Sakharov and the quasi-mystical vision of Solzhenitsyn--a vision of a conservative, deeply religious and not necessarily democratic Russia--are poles apart. The future to which many of the dissidents look may be one of liberal EuroCommunism--not some cold war vision of right-wing emigres...
Defense analysts differ on how important these installations are to U.S. security interests. The majority view, as one State Department specialist puts it, is that "there is value to the bases for both parties." For that reason, the Administration is urging Congress to approve $120 million in economic and military aid for the Philippines in fiscal 1979. That is expected to make the U.S. bases somewhat less offensive to Marcos, and even to Imee...
...same good sense should apply to the shotgun marriage between Government and business, in Bryom's view. Instead of telling companies how to combat pollution or industrial accidents, the Government should set short-term and long-term goals then use a tax system to reward companies that exceed them and penalize firms that "fail. Exasperated by the managers and regulgators who think that they can make sweeping decisions from a distant pinnacle he likes to say, "Santayana defined fanatics as those people who know what they are doing is what God would be doing if he only...
...been falling earlier in the summer, picked up slightly in August, but it was mainly increases in other areas that sent the index up. The Carter Administration has finally settled on a forecast of 8% inflation for all this year, and most economists tend to agree with that pessimistic view...