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...United States, at its most basic level, works on the principle of More Stuff. Our economy runs because people buy stuff; if they don't buy stuff, everything grinds to a halt. While this is a great way to get a lot of neat things, the principle fails as a way of giving much philosophic meaning to our society...
...shaky new Soviet government aims to halt the fragmentation...
...could halt a dizzying skid on Wall Street that began with the 1987 stock-market crash. Buoyed in part by mergers and new issues, investment bankers earned $900 million in the first half of 1991, compared with $540 million in the same period a year earlier. And after dismissing nearly 70,000 employees since 1987, or more than 20% of Wall Street's total work force, some firms have gingerly begun to hire again. Goldman, Sachs has added 44 new associates to work on mergers and other deals. The firm also opened a Frankfurt office for international deals. Declares Alain...
...international scene. His latest mistake: publicly concluding that Gennadi Yanayev and his co- conspirators were "the men in charge" and calling sanctions "premature." This follows Mitterrand's efforts to broker a peace plan just hours before the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, and his vain / attempt to halt German unification...
...terror -- astonishingly unafraid. They defied the junta's curfew, built barricades around the Russian Parliament Building, where Boris Yeltsin had organized his resistance. They had absorbed something about people power from Prague, Berlin, even Vilnius. A crowd of Muscovites brought a column of armored personnel carriers (APCs) to a halt, stuffing rosebuds and wildflowers into gun barrels. A line of women stood ready to face down troops with a single banner: SOLDIERS: DON'T SHOOT MOTHERS AND SISTERS. Clearly the soldiers had orders not to use force. One of a dozen soldiers who marched to the central telegraph office...