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...completely bare. None of the cliched paraphernalia of a prolific writer can be found in this immaculate room. Not a single crumpled wad of paper, not one disjointed scribbled phrase nor even a teetering pile of books. The white walls are blank, the metal bookshelves are empty, neither a scrap of paper nor a mote of dust disturbs the woodgrain desk...
...soon to consign AMC to the corporate scrap heap. Its rugged if hardly racy Jeep Cherokee line continues to grow in popularity. Moreover, the company has built a modern $340 million plant near Toronto that will turn out spiffy new models designed to change AMC's reputation as a producer of small, unexciting cars. Says AMC President Joseph Cappy: "We are finally poised for that turnaround we've been talking about for so long...
Once again, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is sounding the alarm. While other politicians talk moderately of reform, the Democratic Senator from New York wants to scrap the basic federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). That system, established 50 years ago to provide temporary relief for widows, was never meant to address the long-term problem of poor children in broken homes, he argues, and it certainly has proved incapable of coping with the "changed reality" of a country with 3.8 million poor, single-parent families...
...tackle the nation's trade imbalance. The Speaker insisted that the goal was reciprocity, doing unto other countries what they are doing to the U.S. The Administration's policies, he said, are ballooning the trade deficit, putting Americans out of work and making "junk metal and scrap paper" the leading exports from the Port of New York...
...steering committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) yesterday released its plan to revamp the disciplinary system, and the dean of the FAS said that if the proposal is not approved, he will scrap the idea of reform...