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A. They are in a Catch-22 position when they say they won't talk until the unrest has been quelled. The unrest is not going to be quelled because apartheid is there. Botha has everything to gain from talking to blacks, because he could be saying to the world...
But the program was doomed almost from the start. The price of oil peaked at more than $40 per bbl. in 1982 and has fallen steadily since, to about $27 per bbl. today. It has thus become much cheaper to import oil than to manufacture synthetic fuels. And that has...
Oddly, though, his richest memory is of a losing game, the sixth of the seven with the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series. "That game was 3-0, 3-3, 6-3, 6-6 and finally 7-6 for the Red Sox. I turned to their catcher, Carlton...
Most people who lose their job receive a final bonus based on the length of time they have been employed. For some this severance pay permits a more comfortable retirement. In the case of Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac, 53, losing a job was probably the best financial deal he ever...
For five years Nancy Friday has carried in her wallet a tiny slip of paper that reads: "In jealousy there is more self-love than love." Like so many other examples of pithy wrongheadedness, that fragment of portentousness was discovered inside a Chinese fortune cookie. Friday, the author of My...