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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Firestone and others are in effect arguing moral equivalence. You think South Africa is evil, well get a load of Soviet atrocities, where, as Firestone quotes George Will, more poeple have died in two average days of Soviet history than did in the past year in South Africa...
...tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. "There's a load of unguided missiles in the night sky," he says. "We've been lucky thus far that none of these pilotless planes has crashed into a residential area." Garland's pilots have flown 200 interdiction missions during the past year in what he calls "the best flying outside of combat...
Sophomore David Huang is into the higher numbers of higher education. After racking up a first-year average of 3.7 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, he has a course load this semester of 16 hours of organic chemistry, biology, calculus and microcomputer graphics. The only small number Huang is concerned with is his age. He is nine years old. "I want to be a doctor, a surgeon," he says, "but I'll probably have to wait until I'm 21 before they'll let me practice." The only child of Thai immigrants, he was reading...
...good reasons of its own for wanting to ease the debt load. The potential for a massive default still hangs over the nation's banking system. In addition, the Third World's severe belt tightening has dried up a possible market for U.S.-manufactured goods. The United Auto Workers Union estimates that cutbacks by debtor nations cost 1.1 million U.S. jobs between...
...saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches on their lunchbreak, a monstrous dumptruck heaving its load in barren industrialized zones...