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...council sent copies of the resolution it passed last week, which expressed "its hope for rapid Allied success in fulfilling the United Nations' mandate with a minimum of civilian, American and Allied casualties," to state and federal lawmakers...
According to Barbara Ackermann, who served as a city councillor in the late 1960s and as mayor in 1972 and 1973, the city's action at this juncture has been unified and rapid compared with its response to the most recent major U.S. military involvement, the conflict in Vietnam...
Most economists prefer to stress the uncertainty in the economy, but pin them down and their consensus is that growth should resume sometime in the second quarter. Not rapid growth -- perhaps at an annual rate of only 1% or 2%. But when it comes, it will be a welcome change from the 2.1% shrinkage in the last quarter of 1990. Precisely how soon the U.S. recession will end seems to depend most on whether the war is long or short. While the answer to that one is anybody's guess, America's investors have emphatically made a judgment...
Today's Iraqi announcement drew cautious initial reactions from world governments, but sent rapid shock waves through world financial markets, which have ridden a roller coaster throughout the crisis...
...cannot appreciate the works when bombarded with them in rapid succession. More importantly, the slide format diminishes the potency of the individual pieces. Slides communicate no sense of a work's scale, texture or dimensions. The work itself and the effort to display such a wide variety of lesbian artists is commendable but the pieces deserve more consideration than the slide format allows...