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DICK GEPHARDT (+1) Could deliver Missouri and add junkyard-dog intensity to Clinton's soft-focus charm. Drawbacks: the eye-brow gap (look closely) and his Japan-bashing protectionism...
...turn toward a prudent frame of mind may have begun with the stock market crash of 1987, which served as an early-warning system for the harsher realities that followed. Tycoons were brought low, and speculative bubbles were burst in everything from real estate to artworks. A junkyard of bad debt and bankruptcies stretched to the horizon. The gulf war heightened the crisis atmosphere and further trivialized the pursuit of the latest fashions in consumer products. There was a faint echo of the '40s: "Don't you know there's a war on, buddy?" While some questioned the battle...
...slump is leaving a junkyard of bankrupt companies in businesses ranging from retailing to innkeeping. Last week Eastern Air Lines, which has struggled in bankruptcy since March 1989, closed down after 62 years of flying. The carrier, which has 18,000 employees, was forced to halt operations because of a cash shortage and lack of any buyers. Since December, Continental and Pan Am have filed for Chapter 11 protection...
This time, Edward Asner (Lou Grant) achieves the seemingly impossible by overplaying the loudmouth junkyard magnate Harry Brock, who is eight parts tyrant to one part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible...
Shortly after his appointment in 1985, Secretary of Energy John Herrington established an internal DOE team, known as the "junkyard dogs," to look into safety problems at federal nuclear facilities. After the Soviet Union's Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Herrington turned to the National Academy of Sciences to assess the situation in South Carolina. An academy panel concluded last year that DOE was torn by the "conflicting responsibilities" of meeting production quotas while maintaining safety. Operation of the facilities, it said, had been left in the hands of "largely self-regulated contractors," while safety oversight was "ingrown and largely outside...