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Alexander couldn't even look forward to a fat paycheck to allay the boredom--six days a week, 18 hours a day. "I was paid atrociously--about $1.70 an hour," he says. To make matters worse, he adds, "All the lighting cable I worked with was asbestos...
...speech to the freshman class has done its damage. Only time can heal the trauma of parents told that their huge yearly payments cannot buy meal tickets for their children. Only time will allay the confusion of new undergraduates who were told they should start hanging out with people who didn't go to Exeter. And, ultimately, only time can redeem the reputation of Derek Bok, a man who, for all appearances, seems to have forgotten over which university he presides...
...Honasan's complaints, if not his actions. That will make it hard for Aquino to get tough without demoralizing the soldiers who remain the shield of her democratic government. The key may lie in taking dramatic steps -- improving conditions for the military, stepping up assaults on the guerrillas -- to allay her troops' concern, even as she disciplines the rebels. Indeed, some officers may have toed the Aquino line because of a threat to their goals. At the height of the coup attempt, Washington passed word to coup leaders that if they were successful, the U.S. would halt military...
...wife Evelyn had come to his rescue when the devil visited his bedroom and tried to strangle him. Then, in May, Roberts mailed 1 million packets of "healing" water to followers, advising them to use it to "anoint your billfold" to solve money problems and "anoint your body" to allay physical ills...
...imposition of sanctions suggested, Washington is skeptical about whether Tokyo has the will to correct its $58.6 billion trade imbalance with the U.S. Last week U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker tried to allay Japanese concern about the yen by calling a further decline of the dollar "counterproductive." Nonetheless Baker complained that Tokyo's proposed economic reforms "are not yet government policy" and warned that "Japan still must do more...