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...some areas, however, nothing seems to work. In Pittsburgh, the steel industry and its suppliers have been badly hit by the recession. Unemployment in some neighboring communities like Butler is up as high as 18%, leaving the area almost bereft of buyers. Paul Murphy, an agent for Century 21 in suburban Pittsburgh, reports that many people would like to leave the region to look for new jobs elsewhere, but can find no buyers for their houses...
...Bereft of any long-range political strategy, U.S. foreign policy has increasingly focused on arms sales abroad, which is one idea that Haig and Weinberger agree on-sort of. Typically, Weinberger would go further and faster than Haig; he pushed hard for the sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia, while the Secretary of State was lukewarm. Nonetheless, both Secretaries and the White House staff agree that the U.S. must arm friendly nations, both to win their cooperation and to keep them from turning to the Soviets for weapons. Indeed, Haig in Morocco and Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were...
...maternal woman who has followed along--a beautiful woman who weeps and cradles her man like a precious flower that has withered in the heat. This image, and the tender portrait of reconciliation on the posters, is the mushy and affecting core of Warren Beatty's Reds, a movie bereft of political ideology and ultimately uninterested in the Russian Revolution. It's about a rich Harvard boy with big dreams--an armchair socialist--who gets in over his head in a strange land, an artist who tried desperately to be a politician and got himself crucified. And it's about...
True fans tend to be both disgusted and bereft at their sudden cultural deprivation. Sportswriter Maury Allen of the New York Post says sadly: "There's a tremendous emptiness without baseball. Its absence creates a big void, and nothing, I mean nothing, can replace it." Americans are trying, of course. Former Texas Congressman Bob Casey, an Astros fan, is using his baseball time to burrow into a novel the size of a steamer trunk, Shogun. What are the stats on a samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found...
...nation's constitution calls for elections within six months, but with Zia's majority Bangladesh Nationalist Party now bereft of a strong leader and the 29 opposition parties fragmented and fractious, the fate of civilian rule seemed to depend on who flexes the biggest muscles. For the moment at least, the military's guns were supporting the government...