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...speak of 'revenue enhancement' and 'tax-base erosion control' when they really mean a tax increase . . . Save it from the partisan deniers of reality -- who now refer to the physically handicapped as 'differently abled' -- and from the official revisionists of reality, who say that the United States did not withdraw our troops from Lebanon, we merely 'backloaded our augmentation personnel...
...life of his own, and on the grand scale. In Anthony Hopkins' brilliant, buoyant realization, he is a comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly unanswerable: If an unfettered press is crucial to a free society, then why have Fleet Street journalists squandered their energies...
...dismayed to read in The New York Times that you have invited President Reagan to speak at the 350th anniversary convocation and that Harvards is considering whether to award him an honorary degree, I write to oppose an honorary degree and to urge you to seek some way to withdraw your invitation to him to speak...
Cardholders will soon be able to use the Discover card to withdraw cash from company-owned automated tellers at store outlets. Sears also plans to give its customers access to their money through bank cash-dispenser machines all over...
...tense. Third World countries are expected to criticize the superpowers for failing to work toward nuclear disarmament, a promise embedded in the treaty. To some of the more militant Third World countries, that failure smacks of hypocrisy. The biggest fear is that one of the restive nations might withdraw from the treaty at the September session; if that happened, it would mean a calamitous setback, the first explicit unraveling of the world's major nonproliferation accord...