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...Koreans to win out. Labor recruitment is the big headache in most contract negotiations throughout the area. But manpower is an abundant and exportable Korean resource. In Iran, where South Korean contracts have zoomed from zero in 1974 to $72.6 million in 1976, a thousand Koreans work as long-haul truck drivers. The 1,200 Koreans building a 100-mile stretch of highway in Saudi Arabia work ten hours a day, 28 days a month for $1,100 (five times their pay back home) and fly to Cairo every two months for three riotous days of rest and relaxation...
...tightly furled sails. 'Loose the foreroyal!' cries Shannon. 'Loose the main royal! Man the fore t'gallants'l sheets and halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play's end. Now the men on deck haul furiously on the sheets to trim sails to the wind. A dozen men grab the hemp lines, thick as a man's wrist, brace their feet on the deck, and haul hand over hand, faces purple with the frantic effort. 'Heave! Heave! Heave!' they shout...
...less than 6%. That would be a creditable performance -and a somewhat better one than was called for by the consensus forecast at the start of the year. The economy may be losing a bit of momentum, but it is going at about the right pace for the long haul back to full prosperity...
...drive to Beirut is normally a pleasant three-hour trip, but there was a lonely feeling the morning I left Damascus, cabled Brelis. Once beyond the city limits, I began running into military convoys, also headed for Beirut. First glance suggested rear-echelon troops; then several big trucks appeared hauling empty trailers-the type that haul out crippled tanks. I began studying the faces of the mechanics in the back of the trucks. There was no singing, but some of the solemn young draftees looked as if they were enjoying their work; others seemed locked in thoughts about other places...
...first time in American jurisprudence that we can bring matters of this nature out into the open and deal with them publicly." The jury was impressed, ordering Duke to pay $1.3 million. The decision might open an entire new field of litigation: a VD victim of either sex could haul the responsible partner into court...