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Poland is really on the brink of chaos...
Never, since the outbreak of last summer's labor unrest, had Poland seemed so close to the brink. The union-government dialogue that had repeatedly staved off outright confrontation in recent months was sputtering. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania branded the union challenge "an invitation to suicide." Fears rose that the government might impose martial law, especially if the hard-line faction in the Central Committee took over...
...four years at Harvard, the three time All-American has juggled an average of four hours of workout per day with classes and time logged in the library. This has meant sitting through morning classes after completing a pre dawn workout designed to push his body to the brink of exhaustion. It has also meant readying for midyear examinations when the workouts were getting more rigorous in preparation for the tougher part of the meet schedule...
...President's plans at least mark a sharp break with past spend-and-tax policies that, as he says so correctly, have failed spectacularly. And the need for vigorous, unconventional action can scarcely be denied. If the U.S. economy is not quite on the brink of "calamity," it is at least riddled by inflation and battered by recurrent recessions that to gether are reducing national standards of living. The burden of proof is on those critics who assail the President's program to show that they have a convincing alternative...
...bank heist bigger than the Brink's job, but the bandits used no guns or getaway cars. Rather than being fast on the draw, they had fast fingers on computer keyboards. The Wells Fargo Bank of San Francisco last week filed suit charging that a group of boxing promoters and a key accomplice inside the bank had pulled off a colossal $21 million embezzlement. The alleged sting was by far the largest computer bank fraud in history and raised some troubling questions: How could such an unlikely ring of conspicuous sports personalities so easily rob a multibillion-dollar bank...