Word: reliefs
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...ANOTHER relief is that Mamet does a much better job mimicking the cadences of the criminals' speech. He even begins to write in some jokes. (One of the con men talks about being a member of "the United States of Kiss My Ass.") As in some of his plays, such as American Buffalo and especially Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet is fascinated with the underworld businessman. Mamet's crooks have most of the same qualities of normal nine to fivers. Their business is riskier but it has its own rules and its own drudgery...
Maybe he did. True, as an infant Pu Yi was chosen to bestride the history books, yet his destiny was to be that of a man endlessly free-falling through most of this century's horror. But it must have been a relief for him to come to rest as a footnote, a curiosity, at the bottom of a rarely opened page. Perhaps having accepted this fate, he would have savored another irony: that he would earn posthumous eminence as the focus of a big-budget movie -- one conceived and financed by Westerners. Once again Pu Yi is the shadow...
Texaco has sought relief in the courts ever since a Texas jury ordered the company to pay the fine to Pennzoil in 1985. The jury held that Texaco had illegally enticed Getty Oil to break a merger agreement with Pennzoil. Last April, facing a deadline to post bond for the judgment, Texaco became the largest firm in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy protection. Texaco had offered Pennzoil some $2 billion as a settlement; Pennzoil demanded more than $4 billion. Pennzoil's price reportedly has now risen to $6 billion...
There is good reason to believe that the bulk of U.S. relief is not reaching those who need it most. Nowhere is the disparity in wealth more apparent than in the San Francisco neighborhood of the capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts...
...strategy was purely a matter of debate and speculation. It was the question of the decade. What would the Government do to prevent Black Monday from turning into Bleak '88? Now, less than a month after the stock- market crash, the Reagan Administration's plan has emerged in sharp relief. The main objective: avoid a 1988 recession at almost any cost. That means encouraging the Federal Reserve to pour money into the economy and reduce interest rates. But in doing so, the Administration has had to make a sacrifice, the U.S. dollar. Treasury Secretary James Baker, the chief architect...