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There are still likely to be sour moments ahead. Like the U.S., Canada faces a continuing challenge to its competitiveness, especially as more highly skilled, high-paying jobs are likely to flee south to lower wage levels after ratification of the free-trade accord with Mexico. By the year 2000, said TIME panelist James McNiven, the dean of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the number of Canadians working in manufacturing jobs will have dropped from today's 20% of the work force to only 8%. Most other jobs will be in the services area, including such sophisticated...
...MIGHT NOT IMAGINE A LOT OF laughs in being held hostage in Lebanon, stripped to your sweat-soaked shorts and sour T shirt, chained to the wall of a cell shared with other victims, not knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James...
Boston Magazine asserts the Harvard president"has to be the Bay State's best-liked man." Butthe magazine may well have gone to press beforethe University's labor relations went sour, orbefore former Weld professor of Law Derrick A.Bell Jr. charged--in the course of protestingminority hiring practices at Harvard LawSchool--that Rudenstine was, in essence, more ofthe Bad Old Harvard...
...particularly hot between the Daily Mirror and the Sun, two working-class tabs. Competition to move the story forward often means making up whatever elements are missing. On the much anticipated royal reunion trip to South Korea two weeks ago, the couple hit the front pages looking sad and sour, under headlines like TORTURED and THE GLUMS. But palace aides deny this, and the conservative Daily Telegraph came to their support by showing some of the tightly cropped pictures beside the full originals. Many grim shots were taken at a war memorial. Others came when the pair were trying...
...with a large economic-stimulus package right away? Do we increase infrastructure expenditures? Do we push all the training schemes he's mentioned at once and right away? Do we delay a middle-class tax cut in order to pay for it all, because the economy's so sour? These questions are crucial, and the list of them is endless. Simply enunciating what we call the Big Three major objectives gets you nowhere in real life...