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Every time the U.S. has fought a major war in this century, its goals have included the defense of a principle larger and nobler than its own self- interest. "What we demand," said Woodrow Wilson in 1918, "is that the world be made fit and safe to live in." Safety meant the protection of all nations, not just the U.S., "against force and selfish aggression...
...reader knows not to raise a skeptical eyebrow when Arnold says something is going to happen. At the time, though, it was as hard to imagine him fitting into mainstream films as it would be to fit his wonderfully preposterous name on a movie marquee. Even after he scored a worldwide hit in his first starring role, as a primeval pillager in Conan the Barbarian, he was still seen as a fluke or a freak. Could this slab of sirloin beefcake act? It hardly mattered. He could fill the film frame superbly. He was also lucky. With the box-office...
...downturn. Bush advisers say the economy will show negative growth for the fourth quarter at an annualized rate of nearly 3%. Says a senior analyst: "Chances are better than fifty-fifty that the first quarter of 1991 will be negative too." If that proves correct, the economic contraction would fit the generally accepted definition of a recession. Despite the bad news, the White House does not plan to change its wait-and-see attitude. "Nobody here or up on Capitol Hill has anything in their bag of tricks to help the economy right now," says another presidential aide...
...Conference of Mayors Survey. Nationwide, anywhere from one-half to two-thirds are either substance abusers, mentally ill or both. Up to a quarter have been in jail. With such a great range of needs, it was all but impossible to cook up a comprehensive national policy that would fit into a 10-second sound bite...
Another problem with the movement flows from its strength: its effort to deal with each individual's very personal and unique woes. While Beattie and the movement's theorists have found a way to express common problems, believers can feel pressure to fit their unique life experiences into the accepted dependency theory. This creates a risk that they simply substitute the movement for the person or problems upon which they are codependent. "To call zealousness toward recovery a dependency trivializes the healing process," responds Beattie. "Some of us need to go overboard to counter years of destructive ways of thinking...