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Tower said he regards his weekend vow to quit drinking if he wins confirmation as "sacred...and I can assure you I will abide...
...performance this year. But the revival has ignited a bitter lobbying battle between Big Steel and its customers. The $ mills claim they need import restraints to keep the good times rolling. But major buyers, notably the manufacturers of automobiles and heavy machinery, argue that such protectionism is inflationary and vow to oppose it in Washington...
...also what happens when a new President takes office without an escape route from the fiscal cul-de-sac he has backed himself into. Candidate Bush's no-new-taxes vow means he will not be able to keep promises to propose spending for new programs in education, child care and the war on drugs unless he breaks other promises to protect the defense budget and farm subsidies. Asked last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that...
...dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state and the choral potboilers like The Vow of the People's Commissar were a small price...
...least four hundred years from now/ Your tale will still be told, I vow." The prophet is Queen Elizabeth I, and she is celebrating Sir Francis Drake, His Daring Deeds (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). So is Roy Gerrard, who imaginatively charts the rise of Britain's supersailor from cabin boy to conqueror of the Spanish Armada. Although the author-illustrator employs rhymed couplets and a suite of exuberant watercolors, he is textbook-true to history, pageantry, royalty and, most important, the man who "took his leave, with sails unfurled,/ to circumnavigate the world...