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...point victory margin was the largest in an NFL playoff game since the merger of the NFL and American Football League in 1970. The most lopsided game before this was Washington's 51-7 victory over the Los Angeles Rams...
...main artery, clam bars and pizza parlors contend for local business, while above the street sea gulls lazily flap their wings. Most of Howard Beach's inhabitants are Italians, and its older section feels more like a slightly run-down seaside resort than a corner of the nation's largest city. To ensure safety and enforce quiet, householders pay $220 a year to maintain a private security force...
...from Kunming to Shanghai to Peking marched through the streets waving banners vaguely demanding "freedom" and % "democracy." And day after day the central government in Peking reacted with total silence, blacking out all news of the protests. Then, last week, the government finally decided how it would handle the largest outbreak of youthful unrest in China in a decade. When Peking finally spoke, its tone was at once threatening and conciliatory...
...concept: restructuring. The mild-sounding new term actually meant the radical shedding of unwanted and unprofitable divisions and the wholesale trimming of excess employees. A highly visible case was CBS, whose board of directors dumped Chairman Thomas Wyman in September and installed as acting chief executive the company's largest stockholder, Laurence Tisch, a conglomerator known for wielding a sharp scalpel. At CBS, Tisch proceeded to sell off publishing divisions, lay off hundreds of employees and chop such perquisites as limousines and company-subsidized birthday parties...
...White House, to take one example, was markedly reluctant during the dying months of the Marcos era to accept the petite grandmother with a little girl's voice as a plausible leader of the country that houses the largest U.S. military installation abroad. Even after the election, a White House aide publicly complained, "How the State Department thinks that Aquino can govern on her own is just beyond...