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...weekend sales convention in Dallas when she got word to hurry home to Cherokee, Iowa. Last Tuesday she and her husband Donald, 39, called their five-year-old son Joe in Omaha to tell him that he and his year-old brother Phillip would have to prolong a visit with their grandmother. The next day Christie and Donald flew to Wilmington, N.C., with an Army reserve unit called to active port-security duty, leaving family and friends to harvest the corn and soybeans from their 200-acre farm in October...
...flat or falling. In the five-month period ending last May, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost 15,000 private-industry jobs, their first drop in such employment since 1982. Economists believe a lasting increase in oil prices would hit the area hard. "It would deepen and prolong the downturn here," says Wayne Ayers, chief economist for the Bank of Boston...
Student leaders charge that Roh is planning to use his parliamentary control to postpone elections, scheduled for 1992, and prolong his rule. There is no evidence to support this so far, and among professional politicians Roh is more often accused of weak leadership. His nickname, "Water," reflects the view that he is a bit slippery and hard to pin down...
...than by friends and family. At the clinic, patients learn in groups how to achieve Dr. Herbert Benson's relaxation response, a physical state of deep rest. Nearly 80% of hypertension patients lower their blood pressure and require less medication; cancer patients report less nausea during chemotherapy. "Does it prolong life?" asks Dr. Benson. "We don't know. Some people promise that, but I think they are jumping...
Even though the U.S. Senate last week upheld President Bush's veto of a bill allowing Chinese students to prolong their stays in this country, many of the students here say they are not overly concerned that they will be deported...