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These patterns lend an empty, dissatisfied feel to the book. We are in the middle of a decayed, small world in which a housewife dances alone in an empty living room, and an aging, cancer-ridden football coach stands on a bench in the rain and pleads for support to a vacant, deaf street...
Failing such action, President Bush has overstepped his proper role. Congress has only given its support to a defensive role in Saudi Arabia (in a resolution about two months ago). Bush should not be allowed to assume that Congress and the nation will automatically lend their support to his action...
...while dining services employees may not be able to take the place of mom serving up the mincemeat, Hennessey said that those who work on Thanksgiving try to lend at least some sense of holiday revelry to the event. "They like doing it because it's different that the regular fare. They get to do a little flair, and the employees enjoy that," she said...
...economy that Burma began in 1989 are likely to go with it. Sometimes called the world's richest basket case because of its wealth of such natural resources as teak and minerals, Burma needs foreign aid and investment to modernize. In the wake of the elections last May, international lending agencies were lining up to welcome Burma, and foreign businessmen were studying the country's new, liberal economic policies, but many investors are pulling back. "No one will lend money to Burma until it sorts out its political situation," says a visiting World Bank official...
...real estate contraction represents, in effect, the unraveling of the 1980s. For much of the decade, economies were growing, demand was strong, and, best of all, money was easy to come by. Financial institutions, especially American savings and loans, fell over themselves to lend to real estate developers. Says Pamela Rose, president of Chicago-based Rose & Associates, a real estate brokerage firm: "The fatal disease of this business is that developers love to develop. Real estate people simply lost control because there was so much money available." Concurs Richard Kateley, chief executive of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp...