REACTING TO REAGAN Moscow's Next Nuclear Step BY STEPHEN M. MEYER It is hardly surprising that the Soviet government hurried to voice its categorical rejection of President Reagan's latest...
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NO LONGER FAVORED The Lesson of Romania By Stephen A. Garrett President Reagan's announcement last March 4 that the United States would withdraw most-favored-nation (MFN) tariff status from...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK India Revisited BY GEORGE WOODCOCK I reached India for the first time in 1961, landing at Bombay. That evening an old India hand I had met on the ship took me to parts of...
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The Dismal Science ON POLITICAL ARITHMETIC BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY "I have no great faith," confessed Adam Smith, "in political arithmetic." The great Smith's great modern successor, John Maynard...
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Writers & Writing UPDATING THE DICTIONARY BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN In 1933 when the 13 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, subtitled A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, appeared,...
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Trying to Grow Up The Breaks By Richard Price Simon & Schuster. 446pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Madison Bell Author, "The Washington Square Ensemble" The author of the present work arrived nine...
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Moving Up the American Ladder The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan By Anthony Cave Brown Times Books. 891 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Matthew Stevenson Contributor, "Harper's," the Washington "Post" In...
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On Screen THE SAYLES PHENOMENON BY ROBERT ASAHINA i regard John Sayles mostly with admiration. At 32 he has already written two novels, a collection of short stories, an off-Broadway play, plus...
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On Television TEDIUM TRANSCENDED BY MARVIN KITMAN I envy those who found The Winds of War truly boring. What exciting lives they must lead, tube-wise. Maybe they have special sets that give them...
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Dear Editor Economists In his discussion of "The Psychology of Economists" (NL, February 7) George P. Brockway was right on the money. He cut through the slipshod assumptions dear to neoclassical...
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