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...measure up in comparison? We are beset by a whole range of discontents and confusions. For a great many, the dunghill has become a natural habitat. Derain and other observers of depravity would, in fact, be stunned by the chaos of manners and speech, by the hellish ubiquity of crime and the easy -- one might almost say the democratic -- availability of drugs; by the new varieties of decadence -- rock songs about rape and suicide, pornography at the corner newsstand, commercials for S&M clubs on your friendly cable channel, not to mention telephone...
Receptionists at "Sesame Street" say they often receive calls from parents and teachers, who complain that their neighborhoods are beset with grief over the impending death of the short, orange...
...growth for several years. Among them: record federal deficits (the past fiscal year: $285 billion) and an orgy of overbuilding that has sent the commercial real estate industry into an out-and-out depression. The glut of empty office towers could take a decade or more to pare down. Beset by the | speculative hangover, the economy has expanded just 2.6% from 1989 through mid-1991. Economists predict that the economy will bump along at a sluggish pace of less than 3% a year through...
...Beset by the '80s debt binge, the U.S. economy can't get rolling...
...Christian Science is further beset -- by doctrinal tumult. Last month many members of the faith were shocked when sedate reading rooms around the world began displaying a book that had been deemed unsound by church officialdom more than four decades ago. The Destiny of the Mother Church, by Bliss Knapp, claims that the faith's 19th century originator, Mary Baker Eddy, was virtually a second Christ. This flies in the face of Eddy's own claims to be no more than the inspired founder and leader of the movement. Official publication of the volume has led to a rare outburst...