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America's economy has visited the nether reaches under Carter's guidance; yet his only response to the abject misery of millions is to emphasize the unfairness of life and induce a job-robbing recession. Abroad, despite his avowed commitment to "human rights," Carter has shared the acquisitive and paranoid biases of his predecessors. Be it in Cuba, where he tried to create his own missile crisis over the existence of a 15-year old Soviet combat brigade, be it in Iran, where he embraced the Shah and called him a man beloved by his people...
...nether world of the chronically unemployed minorities, almost every major city has a place where the day laborers gather before sunrise in hope of being tapped by a construction foreman or work boss for a day's worth of heavy lifting. When the economy slumps, so does the need for such men. But often it is the only work available...
...Ramones is a wonderfully zany new-wave band from the nether suburbs of Manhattan. (Now, pencils up.) The moniker shared by Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Marky gives the group its cozy familial name, although-pencils ready-none of the Ramones is related. In fact-start writing! -none of the Ramones is a Ramone. Joey is Jeffrey, scion of the Hyman family of Forest Hills, Queens, but he has no brother named Johnny, whose true surname is Cummings and who is,in no way related to either Dee Dee, who started life as Douglas Colvin, or Marky, born Bell...
...Dark Side of the Moon, one of the largest and longest sellers in rock history. The Dark Side of the Moon has sold 6½ million copies in the U.S. since its release, has been on the charts for 299 weeks and recently rose from the nether regions to occupy a respectable place in the middle ground...
...free some of the guards in return for access to reporters and photographers. Among the first to enter the prison grounds was TIME Photographer Steve Northup, who reported: "There was smoke everywhere. You could see people giving themselves up-ghostlike figures coming out, waving white sheets. It was a nether world...