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There were times, during the eighteen years of our collaboration, when I could not understand [Nasser] or accept his actions; but the love I bore him never diminished. He, on the other hand, had been in the grip of "complexes" since childhood and was often motivated by them; and he, as well as many of his entourage, suffered as a result...
Still, much of the congress bore Teng's stamp. In his 3½-hr. address, Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...
...Clayburgh is one of the best at being bad, she is also one of the best at being good. She was fine as the prostitute in ABC's Hustling; her presence made bearable even a bore like Silver Streak; and as the rich Texas tomboy she more than held her own with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson in Semi-Tough. But in An Unmarried Woman she has found the role all those disasters may have prepared her for. As Erica, the wronged wife, she is vulnerable and tough, innocent and cynical, cool and sexy. Erica comes alive...
Experiments with isolated melanoma cells and with melanoma cells inside mice bore out these predictions...
...bungling, the Russians have shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses in droves...