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...other main characters (Reggie Mental, brother of Ella and Natalie) suffer from too few good lines and not enough personality, as do most of the bit parts, but most of this is redeemed by the big drag number, "Immoral Code...
Walker says dedication and extreme powers of concentration are reasons for Stone's emergence as a blue-chip diver. Similarly, Pam's roommates marvel at her ability to drag herself out of bed after a late evening for morning practice and her ability to work through practically any distraction when necessary...
...young black woman named Sapphire needs three friends to drag aboard a heavy wooden crate, a cross between a coffin and footlocker. Just in from Sonoma, Linden Brolin, a skinny, blond woman in jeans and a black T shirt, with her three-year-old son Bjorn in tow, keeps asking around for a place to park her camper till she gets back from Tucson. "You won't believe this," she confides, "but I'm 37." You were about to guess 35. Laid-back Dennis Watkins says he's "going to Baja to see the whales...
...after inflation is taken into account, hourly wages since 1970 have jumped 61% in Belgium and 70% in Italy; in the U.S., they have increased by only 12%. With the U.S. now growing faster than Europe, multinational managers have to shave expenses or else risk having their European operations drag down the performance of the parent companies as well. As a result, businessmen are cutting their European costs in several ways...
...workers mature and acquire job savvy in the '80s, they should cease to be a drag on productivity. It is also faintly reassuring that the productivity slowdown has not been uniformly severe throughout the economy but at its worst in a few industries: mining and utilities, which have been most deeply affected by new antipollution and safety rules; construction, where outmoded building codes have held back the use of new technology; and retail sales. Stores have been staying open nights and Sundays to satisfy shoppers' demands for more convenience; the longer hours force them to hire more workers...