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...Marcos aside, however, the U.S. has yet to deliver as much aid as a disappointed Aquino government had initially hoped would be forthcoming. ( The money is sorely needed. In the four months since the new President came to office, the economy has not revived as expected, and some economists predict the country will be lucky to register a 1% growth this year. When Aquino announced her first official trip to the U.S. this September, she specifically said she was coming "to appeal to the private sector...
...declining petroleum costs. In addition, the airlines are curbing payroll expenses through staff attrition and employee wage concessions. The cost of carrying a passenger for a mile on traditional airlines averaged only 7.7 cents during the first quarter of 1986, an 11% decrease from 1985. Wall Street analysts predict that as traffic picks up during the peak summer travel season, the industry will enjoy a turnaround and make a profit for 1986 as a whole...
...follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers, who manage to complicate one another's lives in ways impossible to predict. Wolff does not always seem certain whether he is offering a straight thriller or an anatomy of the creeping dry rot of urban corruption. But the atmosphere is entertainingly breezy and sleazy, with a wisecracking, side-of-the-mouth narrator and some of the tightest, meanest dialogue this side of Elmore Leonard...
...school contemporaries predict that Scalia's intelligence and sense of humor will endear him to the other Justices. "His brethren on the Supreme Court will absolutely love him," states John D. French, the Law Review president when Scalia worked on it. "Agree with him or not, he is an absolute joy to be with...
...There is a serious question whether human beings make any sort of protective response at all. Nobody can predict whether it will be easy or hard to make a vaccine," Haseltine says...