Word: lanes
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...unneeded workers laid off. The country's infrastructure is virtually nonexistent. To reach Ho Chi Minh City from Can Tho, the heart of the Mekong Delta's rice and seafood region, requires two ferry crossings and more than five hours of driving on what is considered a good two-lane road. The distance is only 80 miles...
...down, cutting the fat, getting back to basics and restructuring is paying off. Companies that make it into the Dow have reached middle age and can no longer grow as fast as they once did, so instead of wasting money in a futile attempt to live in the fast lane, they've figured out how to hunker down and accept their limitations. "They're squeezing out the profits," says Shelby Davis, manager of the New York Venture Fund...
DIED. PRISCILLA LANE, 77, swing-era singer and screen star; in Andover, Massachusetts. The upbeat blond was the most successful of the three performing Lane sisters. After crooning with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Lane appeared in movies such as Four Daughters (1938), opposite a brooding John Garfield, and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), with a frenetic Cary Grant...
...Leftover Salmon on Sat., April 8. Gage on Sun., April 9. Our lady Peace on Tues., April 11. Last Poets on Wed., April 12. Upstairs: Curtain Society, Curious Ritual, St. Cimera and Partners in Flight on Thurs., April 6. Peter Wolf on Fri., April 7. Lyres, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Johnny Black Trio and Drysdale on Sat., April 8. Lois on Sun., April 9. Technical Jed on Tues., April 11. The Last Poets on Wed., April...
...Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke stressed that the concept has not gone beyond the proposal stage since it was first talked about in the White House six months ago. "It is a good idea whose time hasn't come yet," Holbrooke said. The idea originated from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland and was discussed between Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major during their Washington summit yesterday . European nations have complained thatNAFTAand U.S. attempts to establish a similar agreement with countries across the Pacific could put them at a disadvantage...