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...economic stake in the Persian Gulf. He would have been just as correct to say the magic word was oil. Trouble in far-off lands can raise prices and cause long lines at gas stations in the U.S., and high energy costs can force companies to lay off workers and close plants. That is part of what global interdependence is all about...
...drastic shakeout in industries that were overbuilt in the 1970s and '80s. Among the worst hit is retailing, which is undergoing a painful adjustment to the frugal '90s. Just last week Zale, the largest U.S. jewelry-store operator, said it would close 400 of its 2,000 stores and lay off 2,500 workers. "We are looking at the historic restructuring of the American economy," says Dan Lacey, an Ohio- based employment consultant. "It's not just decline; it's turmoil. Even those people who are still working have lost faith in their ability to stay employed. The memory...
...this presidential material? In berating career politicians, Brown kept repeating. "There's a certain unreality here." But the unreality I saw lay in his perception and approach. I was hearing something I had only read about, seen in old Dennis Hopper movies, and heard my parents reminisce about: unapologetic, furious and bitter establishment-bashing. "I don't enjoy taking a crowbar" to the system, Brown said, but it was clear that he enjoyed it very much...
...Harvard women's ice hockey team (5-2) returned to action last weekend after a 23-day Christmas lay-off to defeat the Rochester Institute of Technology, 5-1, and Cornell...
...when he was 43, he had successfully defended the America's Cup, launched the first station distributed nationally to cable systems via satellite and the first 24-hour news network, and made the first edition of the Forbes 400 list -- enough success, he says, to have begun to lay "the ghost" of that paternal judgment "to rest." But he was still an emotional cripple. Turner's role model as a grownup remained an alcoholic father whose behavior was as extreme as it was unpredictable, who boasted about his sexual conquests, fought often with his wife and ultimately divorced her after...