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That kind of well-meant advice illustrates a weakness common to several members of Reagan's "family." Not only do they lack national and international experience, they have been so close to Reagan for so long that they have trouble stepping back to assess him critically. Meese is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Keeping It in the Family | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Questioners in the audience reminded Frost that the British government loses so much money on its major public industries because it took them over in their death throes--an argument known as the "turkey theory" and often used on this side of the Atlantic to account for the weakness of...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Coming Attractions | 10/17/1980 | See Source »

And though Fusco continued to run the option successfully for most of the first half--a weakness future Crimson opponents are sure to attempt to exploit--Harvard hung tough on this muddy day, the third straight week when the defense nailed down a Harvard victory.

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Defense's Day | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

The tempo of fighting between Iran and Iraq picked up sharply yesterday in what some Harvard experts yesterday called an attempt by Iraq to establish itself as the dominant power in the Persian Gulf at a time of Iranian weakness.

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Experts Call Iran-Iraq Clash An Iraqi Drive for Dominance | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

AND THERE LIES her weakness. While she speaks of stirring memories of, for example, a grand entrace hall or a cramped tenement staircase--her work seems instead rather devoid of content. The problem may be one of materials. The staircase of the Fogg piece suggests ancient Aztec monuments; it might...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Trompe L'Oeil | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

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