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...pocket and soon had a job as a guard at an Alcoa Aluminum plant. Saving carefully, he managed to amass $400 to purchase a small plot of land in south-central Los Angeles, then a poor but peaceful community. With his own hands, he built a three-room wooden shack and soon sent home to Gould, Ark., for wife Elsie, four daughters and his father, a minister in the Holiness Church...
...demanded that the audience surrender to the prejudices of gender: that women were delicate, noble creatures, emotional yearlings, easy prey for the stronger, predatory male. Cross Creek is an inspirational weepie, asking the viewer to nod off with it into a dream of American rural purity. There, a backwoods shack just has to house a community of decent souls, and poverty is God's way of saying "Trust to your own resources," and folks' closeness to the land makes them more sensitive to the changing seasons of the heart. These propositions may be true, but they need...
...most striking feature of this system of bargaining is the huge amount of time it consumes. "They can carry on negotiations until you're just plain tired of it," says Bernard Appel, an executive vice president of the Radio Shack division of Tandy Corp., which annually does more than $200 million worth of business with Japan. In Australia, Attorney Paul Davis offers clients a simple rule of thumb: allow five times as long as usual when doing business in Japan...
...letter on nuclear armaments, budget cuts for the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, the new president of the National Education Association-somehow ended up dragging Reagan into view. Even a tiny item about Ronald Bricker, the unemployed steelworker for whom Reagan got a job at Radio Shack back in April, turned out to be less about Bricker than Reagan. Bricker quit Radio Shack because he was recalled to his better-paying steel job. A double Reagan cheer...
...parched countries face the same sad pattern. Along the "Street of Sickness" in northern Brazil's sweltering market town of Irauçuba, a family of twelve huddles in a two-room shack, hoping to survive on the $22 a month it receives from the government. The reason: with no vegetation to eat, cattle have collapsed on their feet, or simply died. Some villagers in India are reduced to chewing grass, sucking the roots of herbs and scrambling alongside animals to lap up water that spills out of pumps. In drought-plagued areas of the Philippines that have seen...