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...Global Family Album" [NATION, Nov. 4]. He refused, you say, because "his Sandinistas prefer their own red-and-black banner." Nothing could be further from the truth. President Ortega felt awkward holding a small flag in his hands and preferred to have it in his pocket. Visit our embassy and see how the blue-and-white national flag is prominently displayed. Carlos Tunnermann, Ambassador Embassy of Nicaragua Washington Blacks Criticizing Blacks...
...clubs and upscale restaurants, and a corresponding, disturbing decline in the national savings rate. The single life is more expensive, notes Economist George Sternlieb of Rutgers University: "There's nobody to share the telephone bill with. With no one to cook at home, singles eat out more." Restaurants now pocket 40% of U.S. food expenditures...
...earned a healthy slice of several multimillion-dollar awards for clients who suffered personal injuries. But if Spence should be sued for malpractice or negligence, as is happening to lawyers more and more, he would have to pay any court-ordered damages out of his own pocket. "There is no market that will sell me liability insurance," says Spence. "I am going bare, and it is a frightening prospect...
...doctor is summoned from his dinner by a hospital nurse who tells him that one of his patients, a 72-year-old woman suffering from respiratory failure, has exhausted her allotment of Medicare funding. The further cost of her care must come out of the hospital's own pocket, says the nurse. Could he discharge the woman that evening...
...when the video-game industry crashed. The following year his second big start-up, Pizza Time Theater, a chain of restaurants featuring singing robots with names like Chuck E. Cheese, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Despite these debacles, Bushnell sold off the ventures early enough to pocket about $70 million...