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...similarly gloomy picture. The central dilemma for all of these countries is the same--they depend on exports to the United States and other developed nations for economic solvency. But the industrialized world, in the midst of a recession, cannot continue to gobble up Latin American goods and spit out cash or other products in return. Instead, it is erecting more and more exchange barriers--despite all the free trade rhetoric--in order to protect its own products. So the coffee, sugar, fruit and vegetables from the South have nowhere...
...have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
...face may seem familiar, and so may the military bearing. In four years of film acting, David Keith, 28, has had trouble getting out of boot-camp. He was a G.I. in Friendly Fire, a sailor in Back Roads and a spit-and-polish Navy flyer candidate in An Officer and a Gentleman. In The Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned...
...does not aim to legitimize their actions, it effectively draws the connection between personal tragedies and larger social ills. The answers to these problems are not apparent and perhaps less so than they have been in less threatening times. But the despair which once prompted down trodden characters to "spit in the face of these badlands" and "take a knife and cut this pain from my heart" on previous albums now produces little of this feisty desire to combat debilitating odds. Pleads the jailed autoworker in "Johnny 99": "Then won't you sit back in that chair and think...
...handle deals for up to 150 million shares a day. A phone call later, Chemical Bank officials receive confirmation of the transaction and enter the information in their computer, which is linked to their Pine Street operational headquarters in Manhattan's financial district. The Chemical machine can spit out extensive historical information on the 75 key stocks in which the bank has heavy investments...