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Several Maracaibo crew members who boarded the 2,383-ton, Cyprus-registered Cloud concluded that it had been abandoned in haste, as if the difference between life and death lay in a few seconds. Shoes, apparently thrown off as the crew jumped into lifeboats, littered the deck. In the mess, food that had been left during an evening meal lay rotting on the tables. The ship's radio was still tuned to the emergency band. Moving deeper into the engine room, the explorers from the Maracaibo got their first clue as to why the Cloud had been abandoned...
...series of dazzling games-word games, mind games, games the mind plays on itself, games of war and politics, the exasperatingly intricate game of life-The Real Thing announces itself as just that: a real, straightforward play about matters of the heart, one that bathes in the mess of human emotions instead of applying the dramatist's laws of geometry and physics. "I'm sorry," says Henry in one of the play's most telling domestic exchanges. "What for?" asks his actress wife Annie (Felicity Kendal). "I don't know," he replies. Stoppard knows...
...overriding cause of the economic mess in America today is that our workers do not produce an equivalent or better product for the same amount of money as our foreign competition. When U.S. business can achieve this, prosperity and recovery will occur...
...were counted, it might top 44%. The U.S. has promised Honduras $98.6 million in economic aid this fiscal year. Even so, the amount is not enough to bail out the country and finance its ever increasing military expenditures. Says Honduran Industrialist Miguel Facussé: "Our economy is a complete mess...
...recovery. Yet, as the Williamsburg summit showed, that cooperation is simply not forthcoming, and therein lies the greatest danger to the industrialized world. The Europeans believe that high American interest rates and the unstable monetary system that these rates have supposedly engendered are at the root of the economic mess. The Reagan Administration, though, is convinced recovery in this country will suffice to allow the United States to "pull" its European partners out of the recession...