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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economic Adjustment reported that barracks and bunkers had been transformed into industrial parks, colleges, vocational schools and airports. Where the 100 bases had once provided 93,000 civilian jobs, there were now 138,000 jobs -- a statistic Congressmen may want to have handy in December, when the base hit list is made public...
...part, Managua has amassed a sizable list of grudges and frustrations. Faced with continued economic decline and resentment at home, the Sandinistas felt compelled to rein in the opposition. At the same time, Managua blames the contras for scuttling the peace talks that broke off in early June and for subsequent cease-fire violations. Ortega was also displeased by Melton's practice of spending more time with opposition leaders than with Sandinista officials...
...asked to perform a final mission, John, 45, has miraculously emerged as the anchor of the Yankee pitching staff. My other two survivors are probably in the final months -- or even days -- of their curtain calls. Don Sutton, 43, his blond curls flecked with gray, languishes on the disabled list as the Dodgers wonder what to do with a pitcher who needs a retinue of relievers to get him beyond the sixth inning. And Graig Nettles, 43, once a majestic third baseman, hangs on a major league roster by a thread as an occasional pinch hitter for the Montreal Expos...
...could hurt the ticket by being perceived as an affront to the blacks and progressives who backed Jesse Jackson and by sullying the PAC-free sheen of the squeaky-clean Dukakis. And though he is greatly respected in the corridors of the Capitol, Bentsen does not top the list when people daydream about the ideal President of the United States...
Although Atlanta is hardly on the cutting edge of innovative cookery, it does have several elegant and creditable outposts of haute Continental cuisine. At the top of the list is 103 West. It is discouraging at first glance, gussied up with enough faux-everything kitsch to make one wish for a machete to clear a path to a table. However, once one is seated, delights appear, marred only occasionally by a lax waiter or an overdone duck. There are sublimely puffy lump-crabmeat cakes and tender veal chops with morels. Not to be missed: profiteroles filled with foie gras...