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Ominously, the rising clamor suggests that something fundamental may be wrong in the vaunted U.S. service economy, in which the country has put so much hope for future prosperity. If service industries are beginning to dominate the economy, one might ask, why is there so little good service to be found? Is America in danger of becoming the no-can-do society? The question is becoming increasingly urgent. As manufacturing has declined in relative | importance, the service sector has become the engine of U.S. economic growth. Of 12.6 million new jobs created since the end of the last recession...
...Roman Catholic Church, which on the whole has reacted mildly to the growing clamor for more sex education, has been anything but docile about the clinics' birth-control services. Two weeks ago Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles issued a heated pastoral letter calling for "all those who value the family and have hope for the future of our children" to join him in vigorous protest against a proposal to establish three school-based clinics. In Boston, Bernard Cardinal Law denounced four proposed health clinics that would provide contraceptives in junior and senior high schools. In an 86-page attack...
...could philosophize about the Tasty, the ebb and flow of different types of people all caught up in the constant motion of time. I could wax eloquently about how the clamor of people crowded into this vintage 1950s diner mimicked the musical rhythms of "Classic Hits" WZLX...
...Rumanian town of Sighet. "I was still in the mood of Neilah, the final moments of the Yom - Kippur service," he recalled. "I saw myself as a child in Sighet, behind my father and next to my grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted by the clamor of journalists and international well-wishers. "This honor is not mine alone," Wiesel announced at a press conference later that day. "It belongs to all the survivors who have tried to do something with their pain, with their memory, with their silence, with their life...
There's already a clamor to climb aboard. Waylon Jennings, who can still hang tough and sing true, recorded an Earle tune called The Devil's Right Hand on his new album, Will the Wolf Survive. At a recent date in a tony Chicago club, an upscale crowd got joyously behind the heavy beat and the Duane Eddy- style guitar rumble of Earle's band, even as they paid respectful attention to such back-against-the-wall Earle lyrics as "I hit the beer joints every Friday night/ Spend a little money lookin' for a fight/ It don't matter...