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...port city of Tripoli, and last week he tried to enhance his weakened position within the PL.O. by announcing that Palestinians had joined the fighting in the mountains as part of their struggle against Israel. In actuality, the Syrian-dominated Palestinian units engaged in the combat were trying to entrench themselves throughout as much of Lebanon as possible, and perhaps hoping then to achieve an emotion-charged return to West Beirut, the city from which the P.L.O. was evicted little more than a year...
...until the money is invested. And, of course, the budget cuts will be felt as they take place in 1982." That year will mark the first electoral test his Republicans face. Should Reagan's revolution work out the way he hopes it will, those congressional elections may well entrench the Republicans as the party of the '80s. If not, and if inflation is inflamed by federal budgets wallowing in red ink, the President will have to shoulder most of the blame. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/Washington...
...That we reject outright any and all special interest groups and leaderships that serve only to deepen our divisions and entrench us, angered, into separate camps...
...everything goes according to plan, that will never happen again. In the "new" Chinese ago of pragmatism, the era when the onetime "capitalist roaders" and the "stinking ninth category" of the intellectual elite will entrench themselves in power and Deng Xiaoping will not bat a hairy eyebrow when he labels Mao Zedong an "ultraleftist," people will lose their jobs for mistakes like that. For the signals emanating from the Great Hall of the People in the last two weeks tell us that in the ongoing struggle between economic growth and ideology, profits have become more important than politics...
...everything goes according to plan, that will never happen again. In the "new" Chinese ago of pragmatism, the era when the onetime "capitalist roaders" and the "stinking ninth category" of the intellectual elite will entrench themselves in power and Deng Xiaoping will not bat a hairy eyebrow when he labels Mao Zedong an "ultraleftist," people will lose their jobs for mistakes like that. For the signals emanating from the Great Hall of the People in the last two weeks tell us that in the ongoing struggle between economic growth and ideology, profits have become more important than politics...