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...have always operated on a low profit margin in the Square. There were very high rents throughout the 1980s. But the recession has claimed several victims in the last year, and the only shops that can afford to replace them in these tough times are national chains that can absorb a couple bad years and ride out the recession...
...tankers or malicious Iraqi generals. Most of the fouling is caused by thousands of small, unrecorded spills from tankers and ships and by runoff from industrial plants. Oil's assault on the oceans is unceasing. Fortunately, as the Shetlands spill has shown, the seas have a greater ability to absorb punishment than humanity has any right to expect...
...thanks to environmentalists who railed against desecrating the frozen continent. Never mind that the theft left approximately 100 quadrillion tons of the stuff still intact; the ice is now in Valparaiso, soon to head south in an insulated container. Antarctica will be whole -- and the atmosphere will have to absorb an extra load of pollution, the by-product of fuel burned in shipping the berg back home...
Each attempt to find a solution to the exiles' predicament -- or at least to provide them temporary relief -- was going nowhere. France offered to dispatch doctors to check the health of the men, who were deported for allegedly inciting Muslim fundamentalist violence. Both Israel and Lebanon, which refuses to absorb the exiles, said no. Israel said it would let the Red Cross ferry relief supplies to the group through Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon if the Lebanese would permit a simultaneous shipment through their territory. Beirut said no. Visiting U.N. Under Secretary-General James Jonah wasn't even allowed...
...Rabin's Cabinet, now advocate recognizing and speaking directly with the P.L.O. leadership. Beyond that, nationalists like Ghassan Khatib believe that Israel must offer Palestinians concrete proof that negotiations can pay off. "If there is progress in the peace talks, then the P.L.O. will be in a position to absorb Hamas," he says. "Otherwise it will be the other way around...