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...much more. Fat plaster cherubs, blue and gold velvet divans, pop-up televisions, living-room Jacuzzis surrounded by Corinthian columns and topped by mirrors, gold-painted toothbrushes, even bidets and brass DO NOT DISTURB signs. Boasts Trump: "You can go to London. You can go to Paris. You can go anywhere in the world. There are no suites comparable to the quality of these suites...
Such rumblings indicate that the days of clubby back-room politics are threatened. A maturing electorate has already shown itself willing to risk its habitual reliance on single-party rule. The emergence of a strong Socialist opposition is certain to disturb the Japanese political debate, complicating management of the country's economy and its relations with foreign nations. It is also likely to plunge Japan into a long period of uncertainty as the country wrestles with political instability for the first time in decades. At the very least, the Liberal Democrats cannot hope to regain their majority in the upper...
...maintained his business for decades in the same neighborhood, proud to have seen the local kids grow up on his food. But, despite his generosity and warmth for Blacks in the neighborhood, he is also capable of racism and violence when local Black youths disturb his romantic and idealized version of his life...
...conditions of Follini's underground life were extreme, but people's biological clocks can also be disrupted by the demands of everyday life. Jetting across time zones, working twelve-hour days or irregular shifts and even sleeping late can disturb biological rhythms and impair efficiency and judgment. Government officials and business leaders are routinely advised to recover from jet lag before starting negotiations...
...trees into lumber at the rate of more than 55,000 acres of old growth a year. But for the owl to prevail, its status as a threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat, and multitudes of buzz saws that have been felling the trees would have to stop. Loggers warn that unemployment would follow. Sad, but not as ineffably sad or final as extinction...