Word: paule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inexorably throughout the oil patch. Louisiana's 13.2% jobless rate is the highest in the U.S. Last week 600 workers turned up at a Marathon Petroleum plant in Garyville, La., responding to the company's advertisement to fill five jobs. In Texas, where the unemployment rate has reached 8.4%, Paul Rogers six weeks ago lost his job as an oil pipe fitter. Says he: "I'm 21 years old and have 44 years of this left. What will...
...least not yet. One reason for the delay, says Joseph Bereswill, a spokesman for Celanese Corp., the Manhattan-based petrochemical firm, is that "it takes time for lower oil prices to be reflected in the thousands of products derived from oil." Agrees Paul Christopherson, an analyst for Bear, Stearns, a Wall Street investment firm: "The price of the paraxylene that Celanese uses to make polyester has just begun to weaken. It takes a while for the market to figure out how far down derivative prices must go." For Detroit, the big question is how the oil-price decline will affect...
...Author Paul Johnson...
This show fails to suggest that Katz was ever interested in anything beyond the most generalized form of his human subjects. He may draw figures better than Milton Avery, but that is not saying much. The late-'50s portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Taylor and Norman Bluhm are, as portraiture, thin and perfunctory; for a quick check on what a first-rate American draftsman could do with the human face as a focus of inquisitorial attention, one could have done worse than visit West 57th Street after leaving the Whitney to catch the show of Ellsworth Kelly's portrait drawings...
...pushed into the old state house of representatives chamber. Fighting tears, Wallace spoke in a thin, pained voice. He talked about the Wallace era, about the long transit that Alabama made from the Depression to the Sunbelt. Wallace glancingly compared himself to Peter the Great and the apostle Paul. He announced that, at age 66, he will not run again for Governor. The long drama of his career will end. And so, symbolically, will...