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...WEST. The region is an economic patchwork quilt. Wyoming has an unemployment rate below 5%, California copes with 8.6%, and Oregon and Washington are suffering badly. Because the lumber trade has been crippled by construction woes, Oregon has an unemployment rate of 11.4%; Washington has 11.1%. By the middle of last month, 19,000 of the region's 102,000 sawmill employees had been laid off, while another 41,000 were working curtailed shifts. "It's like Chinese water torture," says John Hampton, chairman of Hampton Affiliates, a Portland-based logging company. "There's been no relief...
...hearty was Linda Landry, 21, a student at Boston's Northeastern University. Said she of life in an unheated apartment: "Before I went to bed I put on sweat pants, long Johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel...
...heroine of William Mayne's The Patchwork Cat (Knopf; $8.95) is Tabby by name: stubborn by nature and depicted by Nicola Bayley. One morning, she is suddenly robbed of her favorite quilt by well-meaning owners. The snatchwork of the patchwork takes the disgruntled feline from garbage can to city dump, where she rescues the beloved bedding from rats and begins the long journey home. For several books, Bayley has been competing with other illustrators for the most lifelike cat postures and psychology. This year Tabby wins by a whisker...
...nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. But then, after a week of frantic negotiations behind closed doors in Geneva's luxurious Intercontinental Hotel, the oil ministers broke up in deadlock. Instead of agreeing to a compromise formula that would have reunified OPEC's crazy quilt of prices, which range from a low of $32 per bbl. to a high of $40 per bbl., they left the world's oil game still bedeviled and in disarray...
...later, the chapter was still in the typewriter. Dawn was breaking by the time she finished writing and revising, and Stuart was curled up on her couch. Heather nudged him, but he was in a deep sleep and only groaned and turned his head. She covered him with a quilt and walked to Littauer by herself. In the Yard an old woman was feeding bread crusts to the pigeons and a long jogger was blowing steam into the air. Heather picked up the Sunday Times on the way back but never found time to read it. It was the evening...