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...Anchorage, but there is a major bust still going on in Cordova," says Torie Baker, a board member of the Cordova District Fishermen United. This year, for the second spring in a row, the town's 900 fishermen set out for herring and came / up empty; normally they would haul a catch worth somewhere around $10 million. Yes, a smattering of herring did manage to make it to the sound, up from their winter home in the Gulf of Alaska, but they were covered with sores and swam erratically. Worse, the area's pink salmon are also vanishing, leaving many...
...thinks a "productivity-led recovery" could bring back the days when a rising tide really did lift all the boats. But he adds a strong caveat: "My darkest fear is of macho corporate managers who will slash and burn, and will not make a true commitment for the longer haul to expand their market share through judicious rebuilding. Then we will have hollow industries that will undermine our competitive advantage over the long haul, and that will be an unmitigated disaster for growth and jobs." Downsizing was and is a painful necessity, but bosses need to remember that employees...
...friends oranges from Florida, where he worked each year as a fruit picker. To some, he could sound like a preacher in full sermon. "I found Frank Potts to be the kind of person you could trust," says James Robert Henshaw, who once hired Potts to cut trees and haul wood. "I found Frank Potts to be just like...
...resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended in February to placate the North. Washington weighed whether to supplement its 34,830 troops in South Korea and beef up their equipment. All the military talk sparked fears that the yearlong diplomatic campaign to haul Pyongyang back inside the safeguards of the nonproliferation treaty had collapsed. Given the touchy unpredictability of the Kim Il Sung regime, Seoul and Washington were worried that even small military signals could escalate toward a catastrophic...
...newfound fatalism. "If we pull our artillery out," said Goran Bogic, "the Muslims will overrun us in 10 minutes." In Sarajevo, Serb forces not only held to a cease-fire but also started placing some heavy weapons under U.N. control -- though U.N. troops were not even certain the meager haul of cannon had ever been emplaced around Sarajevo...