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...Ames upset prepared the stage for Robertson's Tuesday press conference announcing the success of his yearlong petition drive. Standing before a pile of what he said was 3.3 million signatures, Robertson declared, "The people are urging me to run." He will, he said. The formal announcement is scheduled for Oct. 1 in New York City...
...loop in a number of ways. Japan, the world's largest creditor country, where consumers save 17% of their earnings (vs. 4% in the U.S.), has the mightiest bankroll of all to engage in buying America. Bereft of enough investment opportunities at home to absorb their astonishing pile of savings, the Japanese are hungrily looking abroad for places to park the excess cash. Japan's direct investments in U.S. real estate and corporations reached $23.4 billion at the end of 1986, a jump of about 18% from the previous year. Predicts Amir Mahini, director of international business research...
...material follows Thriller's golden trail. There is a Billie Jean equivalent (Dirty Diana) about a trashy romance. There are the ballads, deep as wall-to-wall pile, and there is the violent showpiece Smooth Criminal. The title track is Beat It redux, a spectacularly snazzy hang-tough tune that warns against macho excess. What the Thriller cut played for laughs, however, Smooth Criminal takes straight: an evocation of bloody assault, possible rape and likely murder. At any time, it would sound like a creepy song. At the end of the album, it has the effect of casting...
...cleared a road for his truck through brush that he stacked neatly in a pile -- a future home for rabbits. He once found two baby squirrels while cutting, tiny blind creatures, and took them home to bottle feed. "Gentled 'em so that when they grew up they'd come when I called...
...wrong," asks Jonas Walker, 33, at the end of another long summer's day of hanging out on a street corner in Liberty City, a ghetto north of downtown Miami. "We got civil rights, we got welfare," he says. "But look around here." For emphasis, he kicks at a pile of empty beer cans littering the sidewalk. A high school dropout, Walker gave up his last job, bagging groceries, two years ago. "When I was growing up in Mississippi, we were poor all right, but we didn't have the madness," Walker recalls. "Now we're just stuck here...