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JADINE has feelings, though, and a deep sense of womanhood which is Morrison's gift. She hardly looks or acts the way Black people expect her to, but she feels the force of their folklore and their spirit. An African woman she sees in a Paris supermarket, with "eyes so beautiful they burned the lashes around them," haunts Jadine for months when she spits at her with disdain. The spirits of the past strike hardest with the discovery of an untamed, uneducated filthy young man named Son who has been hiding in the Street's house for days. At first...
Similarly, the combat against inflationary expectations is the most significant challenge facing Reagan and Stockman. Today's inflation rates seem almost ethereal to most people who see prices rising on their supermarket shelves and in housing and education, but the pace of inflation is buoyed by a core-rate stimulated by unchanging anticipation of these increasing prices. Companies and labor unions decide expenditures, wage policies and investment strategies with a stream of future price increases in mind. The need to alter this conception for the future has played a large role in the administration's strong ideological tack against budget...
...International Studies and a former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, to Saudi Arabia; Robert Nesen, 63, a California Cadillac dealer who owns a ranch next to Reagan's, to Australia; Paul Nitze, 74, former disarmament negotiator in the Nixon Administration, to West Germany; Theodore E. Cummings, 72, former supermarket-chain owner, to Austria; John L. Loeb Jr., 51, New York investment banker and major Republican contributor, to Denmark; Maxwell Rabb, 70, a presidential assistant to Dwight Eisenhower, to Italy...
...drove away from a supermarket, a man jumped into her car and tried to rob her. She sprayed Mace at him, whereupon he shot her twice and fled. No arrest...
...Kremlin's patience seemed to be running out faster than sugar in a Warsaw supermarket. After a surprise meeting with Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski in Moscow last week, Soviet leaders issued their toughest statement on Polish affairs since the outbreak of labor unrest eight months ago. The communique said that the Soviets expected their Polish comrades "to reverse the course of events and liquidate the perils looming over the socialist gains of the nation." The participants in the minisummit, which was presided over by Leonid Brezhnev and attended by five Soviet Politburo members, also...