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...industries reeling under the one-two punch of recession and war, none have been hit as hard as the travel business. Across the U.S. last week, airports were eerily quiet. Rumors of terrorist plots were rife; some companies took the opportunity to cut back on travel in the midst of the recession, knowing that the competition would be following suit. This week, in an unprecedented move, most U.S. department-store fashion directors, magazine fashion editors and Seventh Avenue buyers will stay home from the annual couture collections in Paris. The shutdown of European travel...
Speculation about when the U.S. and its allies will move against Saddam Hussein is now rife, and hardly idle. Financial markets have been rising and falling on nearly every clue and rumor. The most discussed potential timetables...
...hold off for a while in order to bring the allies along as a sign of weakness. The G.I.s in Saudi Arabia would rather fight now, get it over with and go home than continue to wait in an inhospitable desert. If discontent with Bush's policy ever becomes rife inside the U.S., it could begin with these troops and spread to civilians impatient with the game of feints and threats...
...whole: conservative "stagnators" and "reformers" are struggling for church control. In addition, some conservatives in Orthodoxy are joining forces with unreconstructed Communists and right-wing nationalists. Their goal: revival of old-style Russian chauvinism, both religious and secular, within the boundaries of the Soviet multinational empire. Rumors are rife in Moscow that the right-wing movement inspired the murder a month ago of Father Alexander Menn, an outstanding church progressive assailed by anti-Semites for his Jewish descent...
...battle over CLT is rife on the airwaves. One hotbed of CLT support is Boston radio station WRKO. Every week the triumvirate of talkmaster Jerry Williams, Boston Herald columninst Howie Carr and CLT head Barbara Anderson--informally known as the three governors--gather to promote the passage of the question...