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Worse yet, the U.S. military again looks like a gawky Goliath, beset by poor planning, faulty conception and just plain bad luck. Last week the Bridgeton, a Kuwaiti tanker now flying the Stars and Stripes, prepared to limp out of the Persian Gulf with a 30-ft. by 10-ft. hole in its hull caused by a mine that caught its American protectors unprepared. Jumbo military transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region...
Ronald Reagan is getting on. Air Force One is ready for retirement. Economic summits in Venice are old hat -- Jimmy Carter was there for one seven years ago. The dollar is tired and limp, and Paul Volcker about to become a memory. Congress is slower, windier and crankier. Even the 17-year locusts sound unhappy to have emerged again along Washington's troubled streets...
Less pleasant sensations may come when the leaders contemplate the wilting international economy. Growth in the industrial world this year is expected to be a limp 2%, down from 2.5% last year. The rate of expansion of world trade is also expected to slow to 2.5% this year, down from about...
...City. The new gang appear onstage as determined misfits -- sometimes menacing, sometimes pathetic, always glaringly out of place. One of the quirkiest is Emo Philips, 31, a waiflike creature with a Prince Valiant haircut who floats onto the stage like some fugitive from Mother Goose and talks in a limp, languorous singsong. The star of a recent HBO concert, he shows a fondness for whimsical absurdities ("I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be -- thanks to evolution"), but his material is not quite strong enough to overcome the monotony of his presentation...
Howard Stringer now must keep the network from losing in a limp. "This is a tough and tragic time for us," says the CBS News president. His tough job is to reverse the trend in soaring budgets, sparked a decade ago at all three networks by the lure of high-tech equipment and ABC News President Roone Arledge's U.S.F.L.-style raids on the competition. Sending the A team to sites of big stories is another hefty item; a weekend in Reykjavik cost each network around $1 million. And in the days of affluence, says a former CBS executive...