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Business and personal bankruptcies tripled in the past two years. There are also smaller signs of decay. Humane societies note an increase in reports of stray pets, as owners abandon animals they can no longer afford. Last Friday Jimmy Johnson showed up at a downtown Detroit center with two German shepherd pups. Said Johnson, out of work for two years since he was laid off by Chrysler: "It's either feed the dogs or feed the kids." Public amenities are disappearing: next summer all but the most popular state parks will have to close for lack of funds...
...within the low-income category. a Memphis department-store chain, closed three of its stores last month. Says Kurt Flexner, a professor in Memphis State's economics department: "Many people are being affected by the new federalism and high unemployment, and they are simply going to have to abandon their plans for Christmas...
...using race or sex as elements in the selection process. In fact, the day after the review supported a race-conscious policy, the chairman of a faculty committee scrutinizing the journal told editors that if they opted to use race as a criterion, the law faculty would probably abandon its traditional practice of sending the grades of top first-year law students to help with the selection of editors...
...Although we are entirely opposed to weapons of mass destruc- tion, I suppose many of my colleagues would support conven tional weapons of one kind or another. No one at C.N.D. is suggesting that any country abandon all military defense." The C.N.D. wants Britain emptied of nuclear weapons because, says Kent, "we are not prepared to be the first casualties in a war between the superpowers...
...sweet voice that made its owner the most affecting Rodolfo of his generation in Puccini's La Bohemel What has befallen the technique that allowed Pavarotti to toss off the famous nine high Cs in an aria from Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with the effortless abandon that marks only the greatest tenors? What has happened to the suave phrasing and sure sense of style, which made his recording of Nessun dorma from Turandot an example to musicians everywhere? Have Pavarotti's duties as operatic emissary to the world begun to interfere with what...