Word: dozen
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...enviable economic record and attracting little international criticism or even attention. Perhaps insolvency resides in the eye of the beholder, for there can be no doubt about the numbers. Italian governments have been abusing their credit cards for 20 years, piling debt onto debt. Only once in the past dozen years has the annual budget deficit been less than 10% of GDP. By contrast, the worst U.S. ratio was 3.8% in 1983; last year it was only 1.8%. Moreover, most of Italy's debt is short to medium term, subject to volatile interest rates. A 1% rise in short-term...
Much of the debate has been sidetracked by the old question of who will represent the Palestinians. At a meeting with President George Bush in Washington last week, Mubarak proposed a dozen Palestinians who could take part in a conference in Cairo, including a few who had been expelled from the West Bank. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat reportedly indicated that he would go along with Mubarak's suggestion...
...warm, sunny day in Southern California, and at the Vic Braden Tennis College in Coto de Caza, 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles, a few dozen students are watching a most peculiar exhibition. At one end of a tennis court, a ball machine flings one ball after another across the net. Seated on a chair on the opposite side, a short, chubby man, racquet in hand, rises to meet each one, hitting it squarely with a looping forehand. Thwack. Thwack. The balls whiz back over the net, landing just inside the base line...
Fallen dictators age badly, even in Hawaii. Toward the end, Ferdinand Marcos, once overlord of the Philippines, had become a joke. He mumbled that he was living on charity, but visitors to his rented $2.5 million residence $ outside Honolulu saw the dozen servants, the 30 bodyguards and the chauffeured limousine. His wife Imelda was a regular at posh local shops and every now and then gave in to the temptation to show off her finery -- except for new shoes...
...same haunted, haunting look is hers in the role that has brought her back to Broadway after an absence of a dozen years: the thickly accented daughter of an Italian immigrant in the steamy Southland of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending, which opened last week. The production, by Sir Peter Hall, former artistic director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and Britain's National Theater, was a hit in London in December. Yet it took a risky struggle to transfer the show. Redgrave is a fervid member of a radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much...