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...industrialized nations. William Thorsell, editor in chief of the Toronto-based Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, pointed out that Canada is enjoying record merchandise exports to the U.S., a performance that is likely to improve further with the recent weakness of the Canadian dollar. Canada is becoming lean and productive, he said, predicting that "we could have by mid- decade a strongly reviving economy...
Filmed in Vietnam, Malaysia, Switzerland and France, covering 155 minutes of screen time and 30 years of convulsive history, Indochine sprawls and enthralls. It has the breadth and intelligence of the David Lean epics from whose plots it borrows: the juggling of passion and politics in Doctor Zhivago, the muddle of racial emotions in A Passage to India, the grandiose failure of colonial outsiders in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. But Indochine's vision is essentially feminine; its ample grief is that of a mother mourning her lost children in a land shifting and receding...
...anyway, just for the challenge. On a T-bar, you don't sit on the upside-down wooden T that gives the lift its name. If you just kind of lean, you'll get a gentle ride up the hill. If you sit down, you'll fall, and the people behind you will fall as they try to get out of your way. People have died...
...suits, still looks as if his mother dresses him in the morning and tousles his hair before sending him off. Critics think the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos has insufficient heft to speak for the President; yet this brooding, dark presence has a quiet authority. His power whisper makes people lean into him, like plants reaching toward...
...will prosper? As long as nearly half the world's air traffic originates in the U.S., the American carriers that have built tough, lean systems will hold the trump cards in the new partnerships. U.S. consumers, for their part, will benefit from the arrival of foreign carriers to the domestic market because their arrival will assure a high level of competition. The challenge for the government in all this is to make sure that every time it opens another door to a foreign carrier, some equal opportunity is created overseas for one of America's flag carriers...