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Strauss favors -- as does, sotto voce, the Administration -- early admission of Russia to the International Monetary Fund, creation of a ruble- stabilization fund and additional food and medical supplies in time for next winter's depredations, which he predicts will be much worse than this winter's. "The West must do the right thing," Strauss says. "So must Russia. But right now we're wasting too much time. The Russians aren't interested in charity. They're interested in support, and I think they're entitled...
...word in financial circles, albeit sotto voce in recent months, has been to watch out for the insurance industry as the next to be sucked into the vortex of the nation's sagging real estate values. Though the number of outright collapses so far this year remains relatively small, the industry failure rate has picked up ominously in recent weeks and now involves one of the nation's largest insurers. Two weeks ago, in what was the biggest failure to date, New Jersey state authorities took over Mutual Benefit Life, the country's 18th largest life insurer, with assets...
...group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys" and a sotto voce variation of "She asked...
Americans are not comfortable lurking in drugstores, waiting for a chance to ask sotto voce for a pack of pomegranate pith, so we disguise our pursuit of Aphrodite in more acceptable forms: the pulse-racing perfume, the sexy dress, the dirty dancing, even the lofty status. No less a personage than Henry Kissinger asserted that view in the '70s. "Power," he said, perhaps with sparrow's tongue in cheek, "is the great aphrodisiac...
Endit -- 30 -- put it on the spike. A journalistic tradition probably played its last Thursday night, the world allowing. The East Room presidential phantasmagoric press performance, sometimes called a press conference, went out soft-shoe and sotto voce with Ronald Reagan's retreat up the red carpet in the White House foyer. The U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas thanked him for No. 48, a miserly indulgence over eight years. Then she wished him a Merry Christmas and he was gone, muttering, "I heard Sarah ((McClendon)) over there, and I should have called on her." It is safe to say that Reagan...