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Also, the two relatively chilled-out tracks, “Make Love” and “Emotion,” work fairly well as slow ambient pieces. Not because they’re less repetitive than the others, but because the beats aren’t intrusive enough to get on your nerves...
...blacks, who represent 70% of the population, continued to be excluded. The turmoil came to a head in March when police gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape. For a while the violence subsided, only to resume last month as anger grew over the slow pace of racial reforms and a recession in which thousands of blacks have lost their jobs...
FRANCE. Jean-Marie Chevalier sees no safe way to improve much on his country's present, relatively slow 1.1% annual growth rate. Like Giersch, he believes the remedy lies in reforms aimed at bringing about more flexibility in wages, more incentives for entrepreneurs and more worker retraining. Chevalier was encouraged by his government's gradual progress in ending France's trade deficit and reducing its budget deficit. The cost of servicing the nation's foreign debt has stopped an upward climb, although it now stands at $11 billion a year. Proctivity in 1984 rose by a strong 5%. Industrial investment...
...whose weekly mix of dance music, comedy and quiz questions drew as many as 20 million listeners and earned him a remarkable $1 million in 1940; of a heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A popular USO entertainer in World War II, he had several hits, including On a Slow Boat to China and the nonsense ditty Three Little Fishes. He retired from performing in 1950 and worked thereafter for the Christian Science Church...
...some reason." Similarly, Martin reports on natural scenery most confidently when he can compare it to name-brand products. Walking along the beach, he notes that "the Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow motion across the sky." In fact, the real world impresses Martin most when it seems artificial. Seeing Dominica standing at night beside the motel's illuminated swimming pool, he observes, "It was as if we were on the set of some strange movie, caught for a second in the middle...