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...kept fighting. Won the title from George Foreman, then invincible, in Africa. Only the second man to regain the crown. Seven years it took, but right triumphed. Now Ali held two titles, the heavyweight championship and the People's Championship. Ali risked his second heavyweight crown ten times, but he never had to defend the People's title. That was his. Ali lost to Leon Spinks--lost the heavyweight championship, that is. Then won it back, for the third time. Never before had that been done. Retired, heavyweight and People's crowns intact...
...Muhammad Ali has lost the People's Championship. He has abdicated. And that is one title he will never regain...
...past 15 years have pounded a sense of urgent uniqueness into Americans. In fact, anyone who buys from OPEC and fails to feel some chill of reckoning down the line is a bon vivant worth spending an evening with. But Americans need to regain a longer perspective. The period from the end of World War II to the mid-'60s was not only historically abnormal; it was unprecedented and probably unrepeatable. The nation's gross national product went from $212.3 billion in 1945 to $688.1 billion in 1965. That single 20-year period has skewed the American sense...
...change in Americans' attitudes about their automobiles, Judelson foresees a vast potential market for EVs, especially as second, essentially commuting, cars. By the turn of the century, Judelson projects electric-car production of 6.6 million vehicles a year, about 40% of the total. If so, then EVs would regain the prominence they had at the turn of the century, when nearly 40% of all cars were electric. Detroit's experienced carmakers, on the other hand, obviously do not think the market is that big, but Detroit has been wrong before. If the EV renaissance that...
...refused to put a price tag on the buildup he favors. But it would be very high, for Reagan believes that the U.S. is on the losing end of a "widening gap" in its military competition with the Soviet Union. He vows that his Administration will seek to regain "a superior defensive capability...