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...clearest example of the industry's chaos is the growing string of financial failures. Warns Economics Professor Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "A threat to the soundness of our private banking system is an economic nightmare." So far this year, 71 banks have collapsed, compared with 48 in all of 1983 and only ten in 1981. The latest failure was the First American Banking Co. (assets: $22.7 million) of Pendleton, Ore., whose office reopened last week as a branch of a competitor from a neighboring town. Government regulators have put more than...
...turn off his television set. Let those who like to know the news as soon as possible tune in. One possible compromise has been mentioned: close polls across the country at the same time, regardless of time zone differences. If this happens, the country will be presented with the clearest example yet of TV's power in society...
...confront the record of his own blindness and powerlessness when he wrote the articles on which this movie is based. It must be nerve-racking for the producers to offer a tale so lacking in standard melodramatic satisfactions. But the result is worth it, for this is the clearest film statement yet on how the nature of heroism has changed in this totalitarian century. In The Killing Fields, as in reality, swashbuckling begins to look not merely improbable but impractical. It is the survivor, silently, indefatigably worming his way through monolithic adversity toward the light, who rightly commands...
...SUCH even-handed and realistic treatment dies an early death in his first segment, which deals with the INF talks. He first goes through perhaps the clearest description yet published of the original rationale for Euromissile deployment back in the late...
This is not to say that there aren't very important reasons for supporting one side. As Mr. Bush commented in the following debate, we are presented with the clearest choice in over 50 years. (That, by the way, was the Hoover-Roosevelt contest. It would be interesting to know what side Mr. Bush was suggesting we should have supported...) The real issues are Ronald Reagan's War on the Poverty Stricken, his stance on civil rights, his politicization of religion, his destruction of the environment, and certainly not least, his lack of a foreign policy...