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...DEFINE AN "ANTIQUE OF THE FUTURE"? It's a mass-produced but highly defined object that is being made today that I believe?once it is no longer in production???will go up in value because it represents the best of design in its time...
...Christmas Day. Next Simon wrote 1985's Biloxi Blues, an astringent look at World War II Army recruits (including himself) whose macho bravado often obscured a lack of true moral courage. It won what he considered an "overdue" Tony for best play?it was his 21st Broadway production???and it too may become a movie...
...quite that simple for him, although he began by winning an extraordinary concession from the government on a strictly labor matter: a five-day work week, granted on Jan. 31 after decades of six-day work weeks in Poland. But that only aggravated the economic crisis by further reducing production???especially in the coal-mining industry, whose output fell by nearly 10% in 1981. In addition, the country was soon swept by a spate of wildcat strikes over local issues. In some cases, Solidarity chapters were taking on the Communist Party bureaucracy by demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials...
Since the Depression, the U.S. Government has protected farmers from disastrous drops in grain prices. Until the early 1970s the Agriculture Department bought farmers' surpluses and stored them temporarily in huge and expensive granaries. The department also paid farmers millions to take some of their land out of production???perhaps the biggest and most expensive support program the U.S. ever had. This all changed when Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz took advantage of the worldwide grain shortage to sell the Government's storage facilities and urged farmers to plant from "fence post to fence post." At the same time, Congress rewrote...
...debating more sweeping measures, which were vetoed by the U.S. and its Western allies, the U.N. Security Council voted to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa. For the immediate future, that embargo will have only a limited effect, since South Africa is virtually self-sufficient in arms production???but it was a clear signal that the U.N., and particularly the West, is determined to take a firmer line with South Africa from...