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Bluestone and Harrison point an accusatory finger at Big Business, arguing that corporations have been "disinvesting" in the American economy. Capital, they claim, has essentially gone on strike. In the face of mounting political and economic uncertainty since 1971, companies have decided that they simply won't use their cash to create jobs as long as they see high union wages and local taxes threatening their profits in the American Industrial Heartland. Instead, corporations either try to play one state off another in a game of tax-abatement chicken, or they pack up their factories and move to the Third...
...weeks the area's residents had known that something odd was in the air. But they could not quite put their finger on it. Last week District of Columbia police...
Still of the Night is an intellectual thriller; it excites the mind rather than the trigger finger. As such, this stylish and excellently acted film grabs the audience's attention with an intensity reminiscent of Hitchcock's finest, keeping its suspense at a peak from start to finish. The question asked in the film's newspaper ads--"Did she or didn't she?"--is misleading. Only her psychiatrist knows for sure...
Boston's Mayor Kevin White, the feisty Irish Democrat, was the picture of livid indignation. He jabbed a finger toward the bold headlines in the Boston Globe, which charged that another scandal had been uncovered in the mayor's administration. Fumed White: "I shouldn't be sitting in this chair if that's true, not even for five minutes...
...tragic death of Korean Boxer Kim Duk Koo [Nov. 29]: Let's not point a finger at boxing. Perhaps more than any other sport, boxing is a microcosm of life in which the lessons of victory and defeat are taught in brutal fashion. Casualties are bound to occur, just as in other professions where pressures can lead to ulcers, alcoholism and suicide. Boxing is one more example of humans striving for a dream...