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...judge from present-day China, this is not an impossible, but certainly an extremely fragile hope...
...earth in one day. It can land much more slowly than other jet fighters, which will permit it to operate from small, poorly surfaced fields. Its Navy version, the F-111 B, which is being built by Grumman, should encounter no trouble in landing and taking-off from present-day carriers...
...real reform," says the council's executive director, George H. Baird, 41. His goal is overhauling the curriculum from kindergarten through high school. When that task is done, the council expects to be able to send its high-school graduates to college knowing as much as the average present-day college sophomore or junior...
...cost government loan. The price is high: as much as 75%, including all sorts of hidden costs. And in New York City, shady money dealers have been known to charge as much as 25% a week, or, theoretically, 1,300% a year. That is something of a present-day record, but it comes nowhere near history's highest interest rate: the 10,000% charged in Berlin after World...
...Antonio Saura, 34, is a slender Castilian who abandoned surrealism for the most tortured expressionism seen in present-day Spanish art. He sprays cynicism as he sprays his oils: "A renaissance of the arts in Spain today?" says he. "Oh come now. It is an art of protest against officialdom. The present cultural level is pretty grim. The artist must sell abroad if he is to survive...