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...seen since before the First World War. It is the first since 1910 to redistribute wealth "upwards" rather than "downwards." It is the first government this century to launch a determined and vicious attack against organized labor, and it is the first government since the Second World War to abandon completely the unwritten law of consensus in British politics...
...victory of mother, church and romantic love. In the final scene, when Steve rejects the life of sin and sweeps up Mae (Loretta Greene) in his arms, her feet leave the floor and you almost expect her, slowly and sensuously, to kick off high-heeled shoes in Hollywood abandon to the last Cuddle...
...Chairman Peter Rodino introduced the authorizing resolution by aptly quoting what British Statesman Edmund Burke had said in 1771 when the British Parliament was considering an impeachment case. "We stand in a situation very honorable to ourselves and very useful to our country, if we do not abuse or abandon the trust that is placed in us," said Rodino...
Banker Bruce Fine, Businessman Alva T. Bonda, Lawyer Richard Miller and Mogul Corp. President C. Carlisle Tippit seem to abandon all fiscal caution when it comes to Cleveland's basketball, baseball and hockey clubs. In the past five years each man has invested from $200,000 to $1 million in one or more of the teams. And they are not alone. "Anybody who invests in sports for profit is out of his head," says Bonda. He should know, having once lost $400,000 in a now defunct soccer team. "The only reason to do it," he says...
...Christoph Bertram, assistant director of the highly respected Institute for Strategic Studies in London, predicts that if the current Soviet technical development continues and no defense is found, "all U.S. land-based missile forces would be highly vulnerable by the end of the decade." One alternative would be to abandon land-based missile systems altogether?a step that has been suggested by both the Federation of American Scientists and analysts at the Brookings Institution. The idea is also supported by Fred C. Ikle, the chief of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Such a change would save billions...