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...Once again the possibility of logic and necessary solutions are being ruined," Walesa said in the taped statements. "They are sinking our country into ruin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Police Break Up Steel Mill Strike | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

While his amendment is fanciful, his reasoning is not. USX complains about corporate raiders "serving only their self-interest at the expense of...the community." One might ask, then, what exactly motivated USX--if not self-interest at the expense of the community--to ruin hundreds of families in Gary, West Virginia, by suddenly laying off every single worker...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Trading In Opportunities | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...P.P.D. to rejoin forces with the Reunification Democratic Party. That party's leader, Kim Young Sam, 60, stepped down in a similar gesture last month. With elections for the 299-seat National Assembly scheduled for April 26, the P.P.D. chief said he did not want to ruin the "last chance" to unite those opposed to President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Easy Kim, Easy Go | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...fifth year. Then I summoned my sons and the sons of my sons and the wives of all of us and their daughters, and we gathered together and went . . . to see the Lord of Heaven, to the God most high, to the great holy one, who saved us from ruin." The extended use of the first person represents a noteworthy departure from standard biblical texts, which are usually written in the third person with brief quotations sprinkled throughout. The style of the Genesis Apocryphon, Charlesworth insists, "is not a literary device to make the action more direct. It reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: When The Dead Are Revived | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Before they testified, however, Walsh tried to defuse their arguments with what Turk called "McCarthyite smear tactics." Walsh accused them of making illegal political contributions and threatened them with a lawsuit for "trying to ruin...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Tenant Group May Sue Walsh | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

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