Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...book. The action that sets off the universe-threatening troubles in Alternative is an American embargo on grain sales similar to the one Carter ordered last Friday. If we're in for a two weeks anything like that which President William Matthew's nation edures, better look into buying real estate in a remote area--like Venus...
Forsyth could never create a George Smiley, the hero of John Le Carre's series that began with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. However convoluted his adventures, Smiley provides an anchor for every Le Carre story because he is a real person--a troubled, depressed, aging spy. Forsyth deals in Supermen, plastic men whom we will root for but never really care about as human beings. He came closest in Jackal, with his portrayal of the man who tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle; he failed outright in his two later novels, The Odessa File, in which...
These reactions really say a lot about our western culture--how we look for authorities, how we respect academic learning more than learning from real life, how little respect we have for the knowledge we acquire from living and working...
...true democracy. The real decision-making still rests with the stockholders...
...nuclear bomb would obviously enhance the power of any terrorist group. With the emergence in Iran of terrorism as a foreign policy instrument of the "responsible" nation-state, the danger of nuclear terrorism has become more real...