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...Brooklyn, N.Y., it was populated mainly by ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews. But by the 1970s, Williamsburg had experienced a large influx of blacks and Hispanics. Abraham now lives in a subsidized housing project where 49% of the tenants are white and 51% black or Hispanic, and race relations are often strained...
...elections. She planned to act on demands by voters to strengthen the lax laws on political ethics and campaign contributions that allowed the Liberal Democrats to peddle influence with near impunity. As for relations with its chief ally, she said Japan has given in to U.S. demands too often. Washington, she said, "can't just bring requests to Japan in order to resolve its own deficits. We should agree to disagree and debate vigorously...
Plaintiffs' lawyers have a strong financial incentive to keep people from settling without representation, since it is virtually certain in crash cases that damages will be paid. But a study last year by the Rand Corp. found that litigation often does not yield the jackpots that the public imagines. Rand found that airlines and other defendants paid victims' families less than half their average "economic loss," the value of what the deceased would have earned in a normal lifetime. Jury verdicts averaged $599,000 per victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that...
...often does in tense times, Gorbachev last week portrayed himself as both head of the government and leader of the opposition. When he saw the striking miners "taking matters completely into their own hands," he said on national television, he concluded that there was a lesson for Moscow in the situation: "We have to carry out perestroika more decisively." He amended a decision to delay local government elections and said the country's republics could hold them whenever they wish...
...handle the cleanup, Exxon has deployed an army of 10,500 workers and a flotilla of vessels. Some 3,000 beach cleaners wield high-pressure hoses in twelve-hour shifts to scour the crude from rocky shorelines. The task must be repeated often because tides wash the oil back onto beaches that have just been cleaned...