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The urgent thrust of this year's Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice, now at full flood, is to have more private lawyers throw lifelines to the poor, elderly, disabled, unemployed and disadvantaged drowning in the legal surf.
The thrust of the stories--and of a Wall Street Journal op-ed (and of a NYT "Week in Review" takeout a few weeks ago)--is that, in the shadow of the dizzying number there is non-Malthusian news.
The thrust of my argument--and the numbers that I used in the mathematical hyperlink--assumed a plausible growth rate of 2 percent.
The attack on Batista’s forces at the Moncada Barracks in 1953 thrust Fidel Castro into the national limelight, and it was in Santiago’s main square that he first declared victory, on 1 January 1959.
But the general thrust of the WTO reporting is that with the discord outside the trade meeting pretty much subsiding, there was a chance to focus finally on the discord inside.