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...gathering in Vienna last week. Suddenly oil-country diplomats who only a few years ago would have been mortified to be seen cooperating with OPEC were showing up and making conciliatory gestures. A Chinese official was there, chatting with his counterpart from Mexico during a photo session. An oil-patch emissary from Texas mingled on the sidelines with ministers from Malaysia and other countries. Even an observer from the petrol-pumping province of Alberta, Canada, joined the unique assemblage...
Many savings and loan executives and analysts believe the thrift industry needs an even more aggressive cleanup. But Wall contends that the problems are contained mostly in one region. Says he: "Aside from Texas and the other oil- patch states, there is no question that we are well past the trough." In fact, more than 100 of the 280 or so thrifts in Texas are technically insolvent but still lurching along in business. FSLIC will have to clean up that gulch of insolvency as soon as possible if it hopes to maintain confidence in the thrift industry as a whole...
...Some of this is thematic: Dukakis, for instance, has begun to match Jackson's emphasis on combatting the drug menace. Last week, with a large publicity flourish, Dukakis signed a bill establishing the first statewide health insurance plan. The fact that Jackson also emphasizes health care gives them another patch of common ground, although they have differing views...
...remarkable journey from being a Newark secretary to one of the capital's pre-eminent political poets, she has acquired a dashing husband with an eye patch, Richard Rahn, an economist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a ten-month-old son with eyes as blue as the evening sky. And something else -- a facsimile machine that rests on her kitchen cabinet just above little Will's playpen. He is fascinated with its rustling paper, the paper of poetry. Noonan pecks the words out in the next room and feeds them into this electronic umbilical, and they emerge...
...whose improvement over the past couple of summers suggests sorcery. Calcavecchia caddied at the Honda Classic one year (1986) and won the tournament the next. On the crucial shot, he used a grooved 8-iron instead of a machete to gouge his way out of a particularly savage patch of vegetation. By reaching the green and, what's more, checking up to within ten feet of the hole, that simple golf ball became something of a superbullet. It nicked everybody else in the business...