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DUKAKIS has managed to wrestle away from the Republicans one of their oldest and proudest themes: fiscal responsibility...
...Starting with a 12-0 opener at home, the Orioles lost the first six games for second-year Manager Cal Ripken, who was abruptly fired. Frank Robinson replaced him, and they lost ten more to shatter an 84-year-old major-league record. Once Baltimore was the proudest team in the game, and the winningest...
That overseas prowess is not dependent solely on sales of such consumer products as BMWs and Bordeaux wine. Other important export categories range from chemicals and pharmaceuticals to industrial machinery and office equipment. Europe's proudest achievement, perhaps, is its new prominence in aerospace. Airbus, the aircraft consortium backed by the governments of France, Britain, West Germany and Spain, has emerged as a major competitor to America's Boeing in the passenger-jet market. Last month Europe confirmed its successful lift-off in the space market by hoisting two communications satellites into orbit atop an Ariane rocket. While...
...Milwaukee. Not bad for a little jerkwater town like this." Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing to another son, David, a trencherman about the size of a post office...
...though, was off the reservation. With an assist from Tribal Assets, the Passamaquoddies paid $16 million for New England's largest cement factory, the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston, Me. Explains Zilkha: "The Indians want to upgrade their position in society as well as make money." One of their proudest moments came when a group of them toured their new factory. Says former Passamaquoddy Council Chairman John Stevens: "We almost couldn't believe the huge buildings. So many people working for us, calling us 'sir.' It was overwhelming...