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...decision to run for the Philippine presidency, the choice was the culmination of a reporting assignment that began in 1983, when Burton was present at the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Corazon's husband. Since that dramatic moment, no Western journalist has been more privy to Corazon Aquino's rise to power than Burton...
...from 1979 to 1985 as primary factors in keeping more than 33 million Americans below the poverty line, which for a family of four stands at $10,989 a year. It linked jobless statistics from the same period to show that two-parent households accounted for 45% of the rise in the number of poor. Single-parent families made up only 32% of the increase. Conservatives quickly defended the Administration from the implied criticism of its social agenda. However, according to Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a committee member, "When you have policies that provide less for dealing with poverty...
When Chekhov, then 21, finished the play, he brought it to an actress. After the play was rejected, perhaps because its diffuse narrative would take six to seven hours to stage, he destroyed his manuscript. Another copy, found after his death, has given rise to several adaptations. Frayn's, which lasts 2 1/2 hours, shifts the focus from the leading lady to a man, the schoolteacher Platonov, and provides a wondrous star turn for Ian McKellen, who won a 1981 Tony Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus...
...situation has raised pertinent questions about the role and performance of giant corporations. Why had once strong U.S. companies become so vulnerable to raiders and foreign competition? The atmosphere of soul-searching gave rise in 1986 to several of the hottest business buzzwords of the 1980s. One was "corpocracy," meaning the Big Business equivalent of government bureaucracy. The Reagan Administration used the term in contending that many of corporate America's problems were of its own making. Richard Darman, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, stirred the debate in November, when he blasted big < companies' tendency to be "bloated, risk averse, inefficient...
...Aquino's stunning rise allowed the world a rare chance to suspend its disbelief and exult, 1986 also gave it many more familiar opportunities to distrust its leaders and to weep. Late in the year, the Reagan Administration was suddenly shaken by the disclosure that it had been covertly selling arms to Iran in an attempt to win freedom for American hostages in Lebanon. That dubious policy flared into scandal with the revelation that some of the money received for the arms had been diverted, apparently in violation of congressional laws, to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. As questions multiplied...