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...fringe appeal is hardly surprising. Israel's so-called government of national unity is widely ridiculed as a mismatch that has locked Israel into a debilitating status quo. Both Labor's Shimon Peres and Likud's Yitzhak Shamir have defined the election in terms of peace and the Palestinians, but neither candidate offers any plausible solutions. Says Abed Darawshe, who defected from Labor to protest the government's handling of the uprising: "The intifadeh ((uprising)) has divided Israel more than ever. The two big parties simply have not convinced the public that they have the answer...
...along the lines of a Work Projects Administration, targeted exclusively at the inner-city unemployed. One cause of the widespread unemployment in inner cities is deindustrialization: the dying out of smokestack industries and their replacement by service industries often located in the suburbs. In the cities, there is a mismatch between skills and opportunities. A jobs program would not mean useless make-work, for there is much that needs to be done, including repairing the urban infrastructure. On other issues, Dukakis has led the way in forging private- public partnerships, and Bush has advocated tax breaks to industries locating...
...outsailing New Zealand in a pair of yawners off San Diego. Nearly the only exciting development was the fact that Stars & Stripes flew sponsors' logos, a Cup first. One of them, Diet Pepsi, was an apt choice for a low-calorie affair that was an embarrassing mismatch...
...comfortable 21 min. Back on land after the first contest, the Kiwis complained that Conner had not beaten them by a large enough margin. They argued that Conner slowed down to make Stars & Stripes seem more equal to their big boat, thereby defusing Fay's claim of a mismatch. Asked by a reporter if he were "dogging it," Conner snapped, "I'm sailing a cat. Someone else is sailing...
...five stories reveal a highly developed sense of time, place and filial bonds. An apparent mismatch between an English-speaking woman and a French- speaking man in Montreal suggests the dissociations of Quebec life. The Business Venture is set in Mississippi and strikes a similar note through the unlikely partnership of a white woman and a black man in a dry-cleaning service...