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...patients lie in the emergency room, beset by mysterious pains. When the ) doctor arrives, one patient asks, "What's wrong with me?" The other patient, who is an addict, pleads only, "Can you give me something for the pain?" The two questions come from different universes...
Pursuing her own career was the last thing on Maureen Zack's mind. She and her husband of 30 years, a Michigan surgeon, had their hands full raising seven children in an affluent Detroit suburb. But eight years ago, their marriage fell apart just as Dr. Zack was beset with financial problems. Suddenly, Mrs. Zack, who had not worked full time outside the home for 18 years, was taking baby-sitting jobs and cleaning offices at night to provide for her family. Four of her children dropped out of college for a while to help pay the bills. "I felt...
...quite, at least not yet. Gorbachev, it turned out, is still beset by doubts over how to dismantle the centralized economy, and how quickly. Two weeks ago, he seemed determined to present a single economic program to the nation, combining elements from both the Ryzhkov and Shatalin programs. Gorbachev asked Abel Aganbegyan, one of the early architects of his perestroika policy, to draft the joint package. Last week the economist delivered his report to the Supreme Soviet. According to Aganbegyan, it had proved impossible "to make a single program out of the two." The compromise plan that he presented...
...Beset by bad loans and outmuscled by behemoths in Europe and Asia, U.S. lenders lose power in world finance. Japan is now Master of the Banking Universe...
...given high marks overall for having developed an envied transit system, a strong police force that reduced certain categories of crime and, later on, an elaborate anti-AIDs program. Again and again, she showed a talent for bringing warring factions together. At the time, however, she was almost constantly beset by controversy. Liberals assailed her for allowing an overblown "Manhattanization" of the downtown business district and for overemphasizing tough law enforcement. Conservatives criticized her for leaving the current administration of Art Agnos with a "shortfall" of $140 million in the 1988-89 budget and for catering to minorities, especially...