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...shooting spree before Pakistani commandos storm the craft...
...boom in exports. The Soviet Union began introducing more meat into its citizens' diets and imported grain on a huge scale for animals to eat. Oil- price increases piled money into international banks; the bankers lent the cash to Third World nations, which then went on a food-buying spree. Farmers everywhere pushed production still higher to cash in on the new prosperity. Western Europe, for example, went from being a net importer to a net exporter of some important food products. Still there seemed to be more than enough business to go around. In the U.S., agricultural exports...
...ironic that terrorists brought Ahmad to his death because "he was a supporter of all kinds of people," said the friend, Gazala Sabiq. "Like if someone went on a shooting spree, he would have said, 'Well, maybe society failed them,''' according to Sabiq, who said she knew Ahmad for 11 years...
...brief for a true understanding of minds gone wrong, but she makes even the most absurd act -- and its subsequent explanation -- seem plausible. A carefully polished alibi is undone by an overlooked credit-card receipt. A medical researcher disappears, and the explanation lies in her $650 shopping spree at an A. & P. As Wolfe indicates, chance and coincidence were once the favorite devices of Victorian novelists; today they are the unseen weapons of policemen...
Times Mirror, which had 1985 profits of $237 million on revenues of $2.96 billion, has been on a buying spree. Two days before the Sun deal, the company said that it was buying the National Journal (circ. 5,100), a prestigious Washington weekly. Once known mainly for its flagship paper, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror now draws about 40% of its revenues from its East Coast operations. One star performer: Newsday (circ. 582,388), a fast-growing Long Island daily that is ambitiously expanding its distribution in New York City...