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...chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly the hardships we either endure or ignore. The gloom afflicting Springsteen on this one song with a glimmer of hope shows there are no readily apparent solutions to much that troubles...
...months, the staff of the New York Daily News had gamely chased scoops while under sentence of death. Forever facing some new and seemingly more inescapable deadline for the paper's folding, employees searched determinedly for a glimmer of hope. Said an editor: "There is supposed to be a series of psychological stages in confronting death-anger, denial, depression and so on, until acceptance. Here there was never acceptance." A writer characterized the mood as "Apocalypse: Never Mind." But last week, when the paper's deliverers became the last of eleven unions to accept a cost-cutting plan...
TIME'S story "A Glimmer of Hope in Detroit" [June 14] says that U.S. auto-workers average about $20 an hour in wages and benefits, which is nearly $8 more than their Japanese counterparts. In addition, faulty management techniques, including poor systems of inventory control, give Japanese manufacturers a cost advantage of around...
...concern about high interest rates and unemployment would not be turned aside. Perhaps the most provocative proposal of the ten days on the road was made by French President Francois Mitterrand, who urged the industrial nations to better foresee and harness new technology. Within that idea is a glimmer of the immense reality that the free world can defeat Communism only with economic vitality, not arms...
...sources of glimmer of hope when they [the Administration] look at the Soviet Union and when I look at the Soviet Union are, one, that perhaps there is quite serious concern in the Soviet leadership about what the Reagan program might really look like in the late 1980s and perhaps this is a good reason to negotiate agreements now....The other is, and I know that very few people in the West and in the Soviet Union have a good handle on this, but there is some sense that perhaps the Soviet Union is entering a period of such extraordinary...