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...only are divorced women left with unequal responsibility for raising their children, but they also face a marginal social life and a small chance for remarriage. The prevalence of divorce (the rate is 50 percent) does not reduce the "tainted" image of Hungarian divorcees. Both unmarried and divorced men crave young, virginal wives and think themselves failures if they don't succeed in acquiring...
...average chocolate candy bar melts at 78 degrees F. The average day in the Saudi Arabian desert can peak at a toasty 120 degrees. Result: a sticky problem for G.I.s who crave a little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing...
...term for this kind of arrangement is lemon socialism: the private sector gets the profitable share of the market, and the public sector gets what's left. The problem with this particular lemon is that it tends to sour us on the possibility of real reform. Even those who crave a national program covering everyone are wont to throw up their hands in despair: Nothing works! It's so complex! Maybe in 100 years...
America is immensely popular in Eastern Europe. Newly liberated, East Europeans crave for America, for them a mixture of freedom and modernity, of the Statue of Liberty, of Coca-Cola and of blue jeans -- a symbiosis between liberating principle and pop culture. West Europeans, celebrating the regained unity of the Continent and the prospect of a renaissance there, also yearn to keep close to America. Still not autonomous in terms of security, they want Americans to stay on European soil, not only to provide a balance vis-a-vis the remaining military power of the Soviet Union but also...
...market plunge has forced many institutional investors in Japan to dump foreign holdings to bolster their dwindling supplies of cash. While Japanese industrial giants still crave strategic mergers with glamorous U.S. firms, as in the case of Matsushita Electric's expected bid for Hollywood's MCA, they are less apt to invest in American real estate. Several Japanese investment firms that bought U.S. buildings during the 1980s are now quietly putting the edifices back on the market...