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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play, got lucky. But he measured up to his luck, he gave it a good home. Throughout the play. Aladdin's spirit is large and independent enough to control his own destiny. If he is not particularly sensitive to the sufferings of his mother and father, neither does he depend on them for an identity, as does the appropriately-named Son of the Grand Wazir (who is deposited into the Princess's marriage bed by his father's influence and desire and is similarly plucked from it by forces he cannot control--or even comprehend...
...declining production and plummeting exports, Poland seems to be teetering on the verge of economic collapse. That would be a calamity that the Soviets, for all their vital interest in shoring up a key satellite, might not be able to prevent. Ironically, the economic salvation of Communist Poland may depend on a coterie of Western capitalists with a quantity of bad debts on their hands...
Tanana's arm, Carney Lansford's glasses and the invisible man, Cariton Fisk, will make the news in the next few weeks, but the squad's chances in baseball's toughest division may depend on just who Houk chooses for that last spot...
...residents use the program (the nationwide figure is 10%), which provides an average of $ 138 a month to 24,000 households. Denver is a boom town. Yet because it is an urban area with lots of poverty as well as wealth, as many as 60,000 people there now depend on the stamps. More than half the families have some form of income-Reagan proposes to cut the maximum income for eligibility from $14,000 to $11,000 a year-but at least 10,000 of them claim to be out-and-out welfare cases. Approximately 25% are elderly, disabled...
...institutions will regroup and recoup, diversifying for the short term into other banking services, then re-emerging as mortgage lenders in a decade or so. Says Thomas Maley, chairman of Chicago Federal Savings and Loan: "Banks are impersonal, while we have loyalty, a solid customer base. Our survival will depend on our ability to adapt to change."A drop in interest rates would also help a great deal...