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Texas Instruments, Mostek's Dallas neighbor, has also been suffering. TI said last month that it was closing plants in Houston and College Station, Texas, as well as El Salvador, and would lay off 2,200 workers and defer wage increases planned for the first half of 1986. The job cutbacks brought the company's layoffs to 7,000 this year...
...fills a 36-page booklet and spills over onto both sides of the five record sleeves. He also talked to TIME (see following story), and with Dylan, interviews can be as deft as his musical performances. Biograph contains 53 songs, some of them standards like Mr. Tambourine Man and Lay Lady Lay, others more recent material like Every Grain of Sand and a relatively obscure scorcher, Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar. The songs are arranged by contrast and casual association, not chronologically, and the ordering, even when playful (as in following Tangled Up in Blue with...
...really write anything. I just jot down little phrases and things I overhear, people talking to me, stuff like that. Usually when I have some kind of deadline pressure, I'll get prolific. When I do work, I work for long periods of time, then I lay back for a minute. I'll work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five days later. Sometimes I'll be able to hear the melody and everything right in my head, sometimes I'll play...
Some 30 miles from Nevado del Ruiz, in the Lagunilla River canyon, lay Armero. A thriving agricultural center of whitewashed, tile-roofed homes and pastel colonial churches, the town had taken little part in the more turbulent eras of modern Colombian history. The region's wealth is based on cotton and rice farming. The surrounding Lagunilla River canyon contains some of the country's finest agricultural land...
...good life disappeared in a few minutes on Wednesday night. Later, survivors described the wall of destruction that fell on their town in almost the same words used by Historian Gómez. "First there were earth tremors," remembered Rosa Maria Henao, 39, the mother of two, as she lay in the 30-bed hospital of Mariquita, a small town about 15 miles north of Armero. "The air suddenly seemed heavy. It smelled of sulfur. Then there was a horrible rumbling that seemed to come from deep inside the earth...