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...three months straight, the statistics had been reassuring the U.S. that its troublesome trade deficit was finally on the mend. Last week came a setback. The Government said the trade gap widened to $12.5 billion in June, from $9.8 billion the previous month. Both sides of the balance sheet showed that overseas producers were once again grabbing a larger share of the market. U.S. exports, which had been rising robustly thanks to the downsized dollar, slumped 2.4%, to $26.8 billion. Imports arrived in a fresh wave, rising 5.7%, to $39.4 billion...
...shrewd politician and ebullient leader, Stringer says that, among other things, he hopes to mend fences with Hollywood's TV producers, many of whom have become disenchanted with CBS. "I want to make this a place where we can talk about ideas, new ways of doing things," he says. Given the network's unprecedented third-place finish in last season's prime-time ratings race, he is going to need all the good ideas he can muster...
...managed the 1982 campaign victory and became Dukakis' chief aide at the Statehouse, where he was credited with helping Dukakis mend fences with legislators and interest groups alienated in his first term...
...World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney, '84 Gold Medalist Armstrong, Downhillers Eva Twardokens, Tori Pillinger, Adel Allender and Diann Roffe. (McKinney and Armstrong, on the mend, are at Calgary and ready to race.) Then only an hour before she was to race in the downhill, Team Veteran Pam Fletcher, the last realistic hope for a top-15 showing, collided with a course worker on a practice run and broke...
This sense of Ethiopia as a bottomless sinkhole for Western aid inspires some skeptical experts to wonder whether such assistance is really wise. Regular international rescue efforts do little to encourage recipients to learn to feed themselves, the skeptics argue, and a tougher approach just might force Ethiopia to mend its ways. "What will aid do?" asked Britain's Economist last month. "It will strengthen the dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce...