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...decision, the board upheld the Coop's temporary occupancy certificate for the Palmer Street building. Dietz had charged that a wooden platform next to the annex, which the Coop says is its temporary truck loading dock, had never been intended as a loading dock and had never been used...
...water, drank one another's urine to survive. While the ship was still off the Philippines, U.S. bombers blasted it, killing some 300 of the American prisoners. Survivors who swam ashore were hauled by boxcars to Lingayen Gulf and loaded aboard another freighter, which was forced to dock at Formosa with engine trouble. Six days later, U.S. planes bombed the island, killing outright 100 more Americans. In the next three days hundreds of wounded men died for lack of medical attention...
...Maitland's tormented hallucination, and the play's device, that he is in a spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge-that his life has become an obscenity. The inner motion of this drama is the ritual of exorcism; Maitland wants to banish the voracious demons of his mind and conscience. But his witnesses are all mirror images of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, long-suffering clerks are walking legal briefs drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife is Maitland's petition...
...maritime unions, which have been trying for years to get Congress to apply tight laws to foreign cruise ships that cater to Americans, claimed that if the Yarmouth Castle had flown the U.S. flag, she would never have left dock in Miami. A former skipper of the ship, Andrea Amatruda, 43, was even more blunt. Anyone booking passage on the Yarmouth Castle, he declared, was taking a "calculated risk." Unconcerned, passengers in Miami last week continued to troop aboard other equally ancient cruise ships for Nassau...
...import spurt would be easier to tolerate if exports were keeping pace. Export growth has been stunted by several factors: dock strikes in the U.S., the slowing of business expansion in Europe and Japan, Britain's 10% sur charge on imports, and the worldwide plunge in commodities prices, which the underdeveloped nations depend on to earn foreign exchange. And, despite denials from U.S. officials, many businessmen suspect that the "voluntary" cutback of U.S. loans abroad has also hurt the nation's exports by drying up dollars in Europe...