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Some Christian Democrats would not mind if Italy's political crisis continued to drag on for a while. They fear that a gain for the Italian Communists might help the French Reds at the polls, which in turn would strengthen Italian Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer's hand. As one Christian Democratic Deputy put it: "An agreement with the Communists here would be a joli cadeau (pretty gift) for Georges Marchais, just as victory for the left in France would be a merveilleux cadeau for the Communists here...
...contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
...What is this? Carnival?" marveled an American tourist in Costa Rica's flag-bedecked capital, San José. It sure sounded that way. All day long, happy motorists jammed the main drag, Central Avenue, while tapping out beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep on their horns...
...mile wedge along the southwestern shore of San Francisco Bay are hundreds of the nation's high-technology firms, many of them involved in manufacturing silicon chips, related semiconductor devices and microcomputer-controlled products. At rush hour, cars inch along Highway 101, the valley's main drag, and peel off into the parking lots of well-manicured, one-and two-story buildings with names like Siliconix Inc., Synertek, Advanced Micro Devices, Signetica, and Intel Corp. Enveloped in their mystifying jargon of RAMS and ROMS and bits and bytes, the technicians who work in these factories would seem...
...moviegoing audience. He borrows conceits from Bergman and Bunuel to show off his superficial knowledge of art-house movies. He strives for incoherence in the belief that pointless ambiguity can pass for an avant-garde aesthetic. He tries to arrive at dramatic truth by letting fuzzy conversations drag on interminably...