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...transit system. In mid-December the commission voted 7 to 4 to award $122 million to Sumitomo for the job. But that was before President Bush made his ill-starred trip to Tokyo to wrest trade concessions from the Japanese and a shrill chorus shouting "Buy America" began to drown out all others on the L.A. commission. "No loyal American would hand over that contract to the Japanese," said Nate Holden, an L.A. city councilor. Last week the commission yanked the contract back from Sumitomo in a bald effort to save American jobs, and in a move almost certain...
...THOUGHT YOU were safe. Education is supposed to be one of those recession-proof industries like McDonald's and Hallmark Cards. You could never imagine one of them closing their doors. When things get really bad, that's when you need to drown your sorrows in a 49 cent burger and read a Shoebox Greeting from somebody who loves you--like your Mom, perhaps, who won't bug you about not being able to find a job or a summer internship...
...least then we'll be able to drown our sorrows in some nicely mixed drinks...
Saying that he hopes Thomas has not abandoned the civil rights movement, Higginbotham said, "Some people are willing to let the whole ship sink, to let all the passengers drown, to get safely to shore. I trust that you are not one of them...
...destroyed it. It took me 20 years before I could admit to myself that my mother did not love me. To deny what had been done to me, I became a superachiever. To block out the pain, I used alcohol and overeating. When those didn't work, I would drown myself in overworking. None of these prescriptions worked any better than my mother giving me enemas. What worked was giving up my pain-killers and finally giving up my mother. I had to face squarely the abuse that was done to me in the name of kindness and give back...