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...trick here is to win as much sympathy and be as patronizing as possible to underclass friends who have the gall to believe they actually have a lot to do when their heaviest writing assignment is 10-12 pages with no outside reading required...
...bring Anglo-Saxon-style conciliation to a place ravaged by byzantine blood feuds. It is no surprise that the Geneva talks have collapsed. Mere mediators cannot force an agreement. Which is precisely why Western governments should be providing the muscle behind the mediation. They should be putting the heaviest pressure -- including threats of intervention -- on Serbs and Muslims to accept the Vance plan. (The Croats have already done...
...result is a shake-out among Japan's 11 domestic companies, with the smaller firms suffering the heaviest impact. Their emergency measures include reductions in product lines, severe cost cutting, mergers with other automakers and drastic rethinking of business practices. In mid-December, sixth-ranked Isuzu announced that it was getting out of the passenger-car business to concentrate on its truck business. Second-ranked Nissan is slowly absorbing ninth-ranked Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent of ailing Subaru...
...Clinton recasts his campaign for the fall, his selection of Gore is only one of several significant moves. The easiest, this week's convention, will be over in a flash. In days that some can still recall, national-party conventions witnessed the heaviest lifting; party bosses actually selected the candidates. Today conventions are little more than nationally televised pep rallies, quickly forgotten junkets that can nevertheless doom a candidate's chances if they deteriorate into party-wrecking brawls. The TV exposure routinely provides the ticket a temporary bounce (4 points in the polls, on average), but the lingering memory...
...noted at the time, no one uttered a peep about exactly what Our Boys were doing over there when they got caught. One received the impression that they had been mysteriously kidnapped while distributing gum to small children; almost all of them were professional military pilots engaged in the heaviest aerial bombardment in history...