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...dollar's rise, however, also has a darker side. It has made the products of U.S. firms more expensive abroad at the same time that they have to compete with lower prices for foreign goods at home. Complains Edward Jefferson, chairman of Du Pont: "Since 1980 the rise in the value of the dollar has put a 50% surcharge on all U.S. goods sold abroad, and a 50% subsidy on all imports...
...area after the crackdown booked only 27 offenders, mainly for soliciting, keeping a restricted business open after hours or permitting minors on the premises. One barker was unfazed. "Politicians and police think they can stamp out pink," he said, "but it all has to go somewhere --someplace darker and dirtier...
...people dead and perhaps 170,000 more injured, the mood in Danbury has changed dramatically. No one, from Chairman Warren Anderson on down, expects Union Carbide to collapse as a result of the Bhopal disaster, but all acknowledge that the firm is under a cloud that could get darker. Said a company official last week: "I haven't seen too many smiles around here for a while. I don't expect to see any for a long time...
...with bottomless pockets may have indirectly caused Nixon's final political crisis, but he was probably not the main reason. In addition, Drosnin's case is not helped by pop-novel techniques that cheapen his journalistic efforts: "But now aboard Air Force One, the President was gripped by a darker thought. The terrible fear that O'Brien knew --that he had somehow learned from his hidden masters all about the secret Hughes cash in Bebe's little...
Marius's More is a darker, complex man than that of pope in legend, a man haunted, filled with rage and not "altogether admirable." This new More is an actor, writing his lines as he goes along. Arrogant in public, he's a victim of debilitating doubt in private. This More is a workahotled. A failed monk, he chooses marriages and a secular career in London. He is a merciless scourge of heretics and, at the same time, is preoccupied with death and tears for his own soul...