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Huey Long made the governorship of Louisiana the most powerful state executive office in the U.S., which explains why half a dozen major candidates have spent a record $20 million this year trying to occupy the grandiose state capitol that the Kingfish built in Baton Rouge 48 years ago. What is surprising is that for the first time since Reconstruction, a Republican, Congressman David Treen, 51, is favored to win the runoff on Dec. 8. That is not what the archpopulist Huey Long had in mind...
...baling wire, and rows of women bent over sewing machines have all been destroyed or closed. Until 1975 the Ruseokeo textile plant on the outskirts of the city employed 600 workers making cotton cloth. With help from OXFAM, the Oxford-based relief agency, it has since reopened, but only half of its looms are being used. Reason: a lack of spare parts for the steam boiler that drives them. Complains Manager Tiv Chhivky, 45, "I don't know what parts to ask for. We want to reconstruct, but we don't have the money...
...term 'banking relationship' into the conversation like a nicely greased thermometer and mention the imposing size of your checking and savings account balances. If that doesn't get you at least a centigrade or so more cordiality - to say nothing of a quarter to a half point lower rate - maybe it's time to consider taking your business to a more receptive environment." Be yond that, he skips lightly over financing a house, buying life insurance, investing in the stock market and dealing with...
Welcome to booming Alberta, the Texas-size province that contains roughly 85% of Canada's proven oil and gas reserves, half of its coal, some major untapped hydropower sites, and vast, oil-bearing tar sands...
...himself impotent, unable to achieve or sustain an erection. For most men such disappointments are fleeting episodes in otherwise successful sex lives. But for perhaps as many as 10 million American males impotence is a devastating chronic condition. When the cause is psychological, which may be true in about half of all cases, counseling and sex therapy can often help. But for most impotence resulting from physical problems, only one remedy is available: the penile implant. Though the public is generally unaware of these mechanical devices, which can mimic a natural erection, they have been implanted in tens of thousands...