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...increasingly reclusive, avoiding interviews and using his family's palatial home in Encino, Calif, as a hideaway. When Worrell started working on the story, even Jackson's friends and family declined to speak with her. But just when it seemed that the entourage had erected an impenetrable shield, several people close to Jackson relented. Joseph and Katherine Jackson, Michael's parents, granted Worrell their first interviews in five years. And even though Michael himself continued to be elusive, Worrell remained an admirer. Says she: "At the worst times, when I was the most frustrated, I would hear...
...chores taken on by Deborah Kaplan, who also reported on the story from Los Angeles, was a canvass of Jackson's neighbors. Again that shield. Says Kaplan: "I braved iron gates, intercom mumblings and dogs, and met glares Boris Karloff would have envied. None of those neighbors would talk...
...does not need a philosopher, conservative or otherwise, to tell him why he wants to run pornography out of his neighborhood. It cheapens and demeans. Even though he may occasionally be tempted by it, that temptation is almost invariably accompanied by a feeling of shame and a desire to shield his children from the fleshy come-ons of the magazine rack...
...firms filed for bankruptcy. By 1983 that figure had ballooned to 17,608. The causes: the recession and its aftermath, and a 1978 overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code that permits troubled, but not insolvent, firms to declare bankruptcy. The 1978 change has made bankruptcy both a shield and a sword. Robert Miller, executive vice president of Congress Financial Corp., a commercial lending institution, supports the Bildisco decision but finds the growth of bankruptcies disturbing. Says he: "Any time a company makes a bad business deal, whether it's a union contract or a lease, it can resort to Chapter...
...military as a fighting force. On paper, for example, Soviet air-defense forces command a string of 7,000 radar installations and 2,300 interceptor jets. Yet the fact that two Korean civilian aircraft were able to stray into Soviet airspace without being rapidly intercepted suggests that the defense shield is sievelike in spots...