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...enough to prompt the Soviet civil aviation ministry to complain three years ago of inadequate training and negligent checking of equipment. Since then there has been some improvement. Aeroflot pilots used to be notorious for wandering off the flight path at London's Heathrow Airport. Today they seldom do, perhaps because of Moscow's regular post-international-flight review of cockpit tapes recording pilot procedures...
There are shades of Thomas Hardy in the book's cinematic evocation of background and its psychological portrait painting. But, although Alonzo's mysticism may stupefy one at times, his overall tone is seldom as professorial as Hardy's can be. Alonzo's writing approaches a Dadaesque neo-anarchism of spirit while using the vocabulary of surrealism. And these diverse elements, surprisingly, complement each other...
...reasons for continuing the boycott are clear. In the boycott's four years, the Faculty has seldom addressed and never remedied the student objections to the CRR. Ending the boycott now would signal an end to student reservations about the CRR, and would lend a false sense of legitimization to the CRR's inherently biased proceedings...
...must act boldly and quickly." The most critical challenge is restoring Mexicans' confidence in their own economy. To do so, he may have to conciliate industrialists and foreign lenders by trimming Echeverria's spending projects and undertaking a deflationary program of austerity. Although he has seldom revealed his plans, López Portillo will undoubtedly try to prune Mexico's huge, corruption-riddled civil service. Over the objections of union leaders, he may try to impose new ceilings on wages. He is also in a position to achieve vitally needed tax reforms stymied in the confrontation atmosphere...
...Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, which documented Lysenko's falsification of data and character assassination. Finally, when Khrushchev fell -in part because of his disastrous farm policies-so did Lysenko. The onetime czar of Soviet agriculture spent his declining years at a research station near Moscow, seldom doing anything more important than preaching to farmers the value of animal fertilizer...