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This inflation, he said, is the prime cause of the United Kingdom's relatively poor payments position and the poor payments position, in turn, tends to prevent the complete confidence necessary if sterling is to regain its position as prime mover in world finance...
...away (he was a Jew), she merely tapped him lightly on the shoulder and said briskly: "Off you go." Goudeket returned from Compiegne detention camp and soon again was "absolutely fit": it was the iron-masked Colette who "suffered more than could be imagined" and was not able to "regain her nervous equilibrium...
Jews on Madagascar. The British too began their period of desperate farce. Survivors of an early Commando raid on the French coast on June 25 could not regain foothold on British soil for some hours because the heroes could not establish their identity with the authorities at Folkestone harbor...
...China in Russia's rear-without open U.S. involvement. He also suggests that this could be done without provoking a general war. (Such notions, Chiang concedes with what might almost be taken for irony, are likely to cause "certain misgivings abroad.") Above all, fie wants the West to regain the initiative, to realize and proclaim that, in China as in all the world, the Communists stand for reaction; the true revolution is democracy...
...hero of From the Dark Tower deserts his executive suite in Manhattan and his split-level home in the suburbs to fish for his soul in the shade of a Rocky Mountain peak. The hero of The Durable Fire undergoes the equivalent of a deathbed conversion before he can regain his faith in the corporate way of life. Both men sing the organizational blues, to wit, Big Business is too much like Big Brother...