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Gilbert (Johnny Depp) might be the patron saint of all such caretakers. A grocery-store clerk in forlorn Endora, Iowa, he looks after his retarded brother (Leonardo DiCaprio), who likes to climb things, and his mountainous mom (Darlene Cates), who, at an immobile 500 lbs., is something of a local tourist attraction. Nor does the need stop at his front door. Gilbert must satisfy the sexual desires of a tartly cheerful matron (Mary Steenburgen), even as he is drawn to newcomer Becky (Juliette Lewis), a teenager whose ease and freedom seem like fresh oxygen in the coal mine of Gilbert...
Panel members expected the quickening recovery to create jobs at an average rate of 170,000 a month in 1994, up from 160,000 last year. But Freedman, a consultant to employers, predicted that the job-growth rate would climb to a more robust 200,000 a month. As in 1993, much of the hiring will probably involve part-time positions and relatively low-wage, service-sector jobs like restaurant work. That should be enough to cut the unemployment rate, which stood at 6.4% in November, to 5.9% by the end of the year...
...short-term rates, which affect consumer loans and business borrowings, could rise more sharply as the Federal Reserve tightens the money supply to keep the recovery from overheating. David Jones, chief economist for Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., predicted that the prime rate, which banks charge large corporate customers, could climb a percentage point, to 7%. He added that a surge in short-term rates could jolt the stock and bond markets and send small investors scurrying back to dull but safer certificates of deposit...
From their room upstairs, Escobar and his single bodyguard, Alvaro de Jesus Agudelo, returned fire. Having desperately thrust himself through a second- story window, Escobar, clad only in jeans and a T shirt, tried to climb through a narrow metal grating leading to the roof next door. From there, he might have been able to leap to the ground and dash into a nearby wooded area. But a fusillade of machine-gun fire stopped him on the grating; hit by seven bullets in the head and neck, he crumpled to the ground...
...textile mill. Poulios, a city mailman for 34 years, has served six years on the city council. Today he is Lowell's mayor. "The Acre is the bottom of the social ladder," he says. "The last group that comes in is always on the bottom rung. But you can climb that ladder. You just have to prove your worth to the group ahead of you to be accepted...