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...last straw--what made my blood boil, my hair stand on end, and what spurred me to take a firm, no-nonsense stand--was hearing the Japanese suggest that it is our fault that a trade deficit exists, our fault that the quality of American goods has fallen, and our fault that we're no longer the foremost economic power in the world...
Nonetheless, the crisis continued to underscore the difficult role that the army must play in Gorbachev's Soviet Union. As ethnic conflicts and secessionist movements boil over in at least half a dozen republics, the military is increasingly being called upon to quell violence and to police disputes between citizens and their leaders. Faced with troop withdrawals in Eastern Europe, budget cuts at home and increasing criticism in the press, the 4 million-man armed forces have been plunging rapidly in both public esteem and institutional authority. Meeting with TIME's editors in New York City last week, Vitali Korotich...
...left of the entrance is a caribou-skin cloak decorated with woven porcupine quills. The Native Americans, said Brown, "would take [the quills], boil them, flatten them with their teeth, then dye them and weave them...
...then at the very plant where the water is bottled in Vergeze, France. Yuppies shuddered, bartenders flinched, lime futures tumbled and normally well-hydrated joggers faced desiccation rather than switch to Schweppes. To the true believers, those who used it to spray their camellias or rinse their lingerie or boil fusilli or water their Scotch, there could be no substitute for Perrier...
...sport where 106 Division 1-A colleges play a dozen or fewer games each season -- and in a system without an organized play-off structure -- controversy is bound to boil. If the national champ were determined by popular vote, Notre Dame would have won this year. Twice as many viewers tuned in to the Orange Bowl as to the Sugar Bowl, in which Miami defeated Alabama. An ABC phone-in vote for the top team, taken during the Sugar Bowl, rang up a 52% Notre Dame landslide...