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...crackdown may stem, at least for a while, some disclosures that the Administration finds embarrassing or ill timed. But it is unlikely to plug the major leaks. Officials in the Reagan Administration, like those in power before them, use leaks to serve their own political and personal purposes. Many disclosures spring from upper-level officials who feel they can advance the Administration's interest by discreetly floating ideas as trial balloons or by publicizing policy plans. As the old Washington saying goes, the ship of state is unique-it leaks from...
...view here, meticulously opinionated and scrupulously unscientific, is that the home game systems and the cartridges that plug into them range from fairly good to fairly disappointing. None is within a light-year of the best arcade games in color, sound or action. Manufacturers seem to be aware of these shortcomings; add-on voice simulators and cartridges to work them are on the way, and Atari promises a $349 unit that will give its console powerful additional circuitry...
...economic and a political basket case." Yet at the same time, the banks would lose billions of dollars if Poland is forced to renounce its debts. The main victims of a default caused by the banks would be the banks. Said one European financier: "If you pull the plug on Poland, you pull it on yourself...
...told me he could come up from New York that weekend so I bought two tickets. We sat with the rest of the freshmen, including almost all of my entry. Wigglesworth B, in the temporary bleachers erected to plug the gap at the north end of the Stadium, packed in tight, high above the goal posts--the worst seats in the house...
...backs of their cars and lug them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky. Warmup musicians, two men and a woman of a group called Bluebird, plug in their guitars. Here in Rutland, the Grand Old-Time Fiddlin' Contest is gathering momentum...