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...triggers $1.60 of spending in the local economy. Reductions have a roughly equal and opposite effect. On Long Island, for example, defense contractors have cut their work force of 60,000 by more than one-fifth since 1987. As a result, an estimated 26,000 other local workers, from pizza-parlor employees to department-store clerks, have lost their jobs...
...manufacturers will have to learn to cope with keener foreign competition, just as consumer-products companies have done. Otherwise, according to a report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, "in place of the arsenal of democracy, the U.S. may find it has only the best pizza parlors in the world." Robert Costello, until recently the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition in the Pentagon, has urged American companies to enter into joint ventures with foreign manufacturers to capture more offshore business...
...apartment she occupied while single, "she preferred no decor," says a close friend. "Basically, what she had was an awful little table in the living room with a couple of small couches and some dying plants." Admits Sawyer: "I'm hopeless. I'd just as soon send out for pizza and sit on pillows in front of the fire...
Particularly outstanding performances--in an excellent cast--are given by Lee and Danny Aiello, who plays Sal, the owner of the pizza shop. Both succeed in their very human and confused portrayals of characters torn in many directions...
Mookie is a self-absorbed pizza deliverer, able to control himself admirably in the face of offensive racism from the boss' son, but drawn to incite violence against his employer when the police kill one of his friends...