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...film's failure to strike an original spark is all the more disappointing because it seems at first to have the potential to be a first-rate comedy...
Yeltsin's move was not unexpected, but it still caused a sensation. With his huge popular following, he could spark a wave of defections. More important, he appears to have established himself as the leader most in sync with the public appetite for rapid change. As head of the Russian republic, which covers 76% of the U.S.S.R.'s landmass and is home to 147 million of its 289 million people, he holds a strong power base where he is now free to try his own more radical brand of reform. Even if the party does not split formally, Gorbachev could...
...tradition of smaller, specialized industrial companies before the command economy crushed them. It was only in 1972 that a final wave of nationalization swept the last 12,000 firms into state conglomerates. About half of them have already demanded to be reprivatized. Officials in Bonn and Berlin hope the spark of entrepreneurial talent can be rekindled with loans from European Recovery Program funds. Demand is high. An initial allocation of $3.5 billion has already been handed out, and a replenishment of the pot is planned...
...Joel has lost just a little of the spark that has ignited his constantly sold-out concerts in the past. He doesn't hop into audiences anymore, and he usually leaves his shoes...
...think they will be unable to do. They wonder whether they will be able to continue at their jobs, whether they will be able to perform satisfactorily at sex, whether they can play tennis or golf again. In short, + they contemplate an existence drained of usefulness and joy. The spark goes out of their souls. It may help for these people to know that in addition to the miracles that modern medicine can perform, the heart can make its own bypass around the occluded arteries and that collateral circulation can provide a rich supply of oxygen. A heart attack need...