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...types of contractors have been hammered hard. The construction firm Arthur Rubloff Real Estate and Capital Inc. recently abandoned plans to build a $1 billion commercial and industrial park in suburban Chicago because the company could not obtain a loan. Even developers in Southern California have been feeling the pinch. "Unless you have a couple of lead tenants signed up," says Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, "lenders don't want to talk...
...named Stacey Rene. "We thought we had a perfect baby because she didn't cry," says Dan, an insurance agent in suburban Dallas. Their contentment faded as the months passed and Stacey did not develop properly. She didn't babble and laugh like their friends' babies and couldn't pinch with her individual fingers. The tentative diagnosis: Rett's syndrome, a rare genetic disorder in which the brain stops growing. Devastated, the Stantons took Stacey back to the agency and have not seen her since. "We made a commitment to her, but we were not able to live...
Crimson standout Kristina Carr took to the mound for the first time since spring break, replacing Fromholz in the fifth inning. Carr, who had been limited to pinch-hit performances since sustaining an ankle injury in late April, gave up no runs in the game's three innings...
...comes on the heels of the Reagan era's $2.4 trillion defense buildup, the largest peacetime military expansion in American history. Deficit pressures forced reductions in federal spending as early as 1985, when U.S. defense outlays began to grow more slowly than inflation. Military suppliers started to feel the pinch of tighter budgets, but the reductions of the past few years have been mere potholes in contrast to the yawning craters that lie ahead...
They're cute, they whistle while they work, and Snow White can always depend on them in a pinch. The Seven Dwarfs are among Walt Disney's most lovable characters. So why are they making some residents of a California neighborhood grumpy? When Disney unveiled a new corporate headquarters in Burbank last week, onlookers were startled to see that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some...