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Among the most memorable short-lived "classics" to hit box offices in recent memory are The East American Virgin (lots of bodies, lots of sap), class (lots of Jacqueline Bisset, more sap), and Private Lessons (more of the same, minus Jacqueline Bisset). As long as teenagers continue demand a peek at what lies beyond the locker room producers will continue to churn out such films en masse, with more regard for profits than artistic quality...
...studied to stabilize currency markets. The Japanese escaped direct criticism of their own trade policies while joining in a general condemnation of protectionism. And all of America's trading partners extracted an admission from Washington that uncontrolled budget deficits contribute to rising interest rates and threaten to sap the strength of the budding global recovery. The conferees made no concrete pledges about how these problems would be specifically solved, but they at least came away with a greater sensitivity to one another's concerns...
What Happens To inspiration when the author is seemingly flapped by a well-established rigid family and a love hate relationship with the city of his birth Destonomy love affairs sap or sustain his creativity? Can poets make their contemporaries sound obsolete by pioneering new styles or force each other to adopt new techniques. What happens to a poet when he sees hits mentors and friends dying, their deaths so close together as to seem more than a coincidence. Most important, what is the relationship between genius and insanity does one cause the other...
...trade deficit increases the jobless rate by .7%, or more than 500,000 people. C. Fred Bergsten, director of Washington's Institute for International Economics, believes that "the trade deficit is the biggest single factor pushing the economy down." Building new trade barriers, however, would only sap the economy further by propping up sickly industries, raising prices for consumers and inviting reprisals from other countries...
...activists appear to have chosen a strategy of total confrontation with the government, Poland's military rulers are equally determined to meet any protests with an overwhelming show of might. The appeal from the underground was clearly a major gamble for Solidarity, since a poor response would seriously sap its influence among Polish workers...