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...Saudi Arabia is also threatening to its production and send oil prices $50 per bbl. Oil Minister Yamani is demanding that world energy companies carrying heavy stocks start them down faster and that West nations stop squirreling more oil away strategic reserves. Indeed, the Saudis prod Western countries to remind them that OPEC price restraint or petroleum production could end at any time...
While Reagan made two forays out of his Pacific redoubt to remind the world of his smile and desire to work with Congress and other powerful people, he has talked very little. The flow of commentary on appointees, world events and national issues that Presidents-elect in other times have been lured into has been avoided. His image is compressed and contained, drawn deliberately and somewhat vaguely as the power that is felt behind the stage, emerging only for the big bows. That protected position also helps reduce wear and tear on a President who truly intends to change directions...
...threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with Iran. As one U.S. analyst put it last week, "Assad wanted to remind everybody that Syria was still there...
...calendar has shortchanged retailers this year. There are only 26 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as compared with 32 days a year ago. To offset the fewer business days, merchants in many areas of the country are hoping for cooler weather. Cold and especially snow remind shoppers that Christmas is near and help business. Traditionally, nothing hurts December sales more than soft, balmy weather...
Indian style, with a back panel woven of nearly 40,000 beads. The labor and time entailed in all this are meant to remind us of the vast anonymous efforts expended by women through the centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...