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...billion U.S. foreign trade deficit. Japan was said to be ready to make a similar move, but before that, Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa suddenly flew to Washington for a private 2 1/2-hour chat with Baker. The only visible result of their efforts was a four-paragraph communique that affirmed the two countries' "willingness to cooperate on exchange-rate issues." Translation: the U.S. would not explicitly commit itself to propping up the drooping dollar. One reason: the currency's decline makes imports more expensive and thus can help reduce the trade deficit...
...Tuesday more than a hundred staff members gathered in a lobby of The New Yorker's offices to protest the move. After several splenetic speeches against Newhouse, they decided to draft a letter to Gottlieb asking him to step aside in favor of an in-house candidate. The three-paragraph message was signed by 154 people, including Roger Angell, Ann Beattie, Calvin Trillin and even the hermitic J.D. Salinger, who has not published a short story in The New Yorker since 1965. "It is our strange and powerfully held conviction," read the letter, "that only an editor who has been...
...write about what could have happened," he says, "not what did happen. Why that's so hard to grasp I don't understand. I have once in a while started off just setting down some incident I'd actually gone through and I can hardly get past the first paragraph without veering off into something that didn't happen, which is always more interesting. I'm highly sensitive to boredom. I think it's an occupational requirement...
...study is grossly flawed and inaccurate. The republication charge is absurd. The relationship between my two studies is indicated in the opening paragraph of the second article," he said yesterday. "Many of the errors they cite are not errors at all and others were trivial or typographical mistakes...
...improve a program's useability through ResEdit is to completely change around the command key options. In Word, for example, the Happy Hacker has given command key options to all of the selections on the Character menu (such as Bold mentioned earlier) and also to the choices on the Paragraph menu (Left-Justify, Center...