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Americans -- go figure. They can't make a better car or car stereo. They can't stanch their national debt. They can't impose a new world order. But they can fix up a foreign-movie drama like doctors slapping an anemic newborn into shape until it is a bionic baby. It looks so smart, so strong, so very . . . Hollywood...
...shift opens the way for a compromise with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, who still feel the SPD has not gone far enough to stanch the flow of refugees from the east, 500,000 of whom are expected this year alone...
...brief tenure atop GM, Stempel presided over two consecutive years of red ink -- including the largest annual loss ever by an American company, $4.5 billion in 1991. Stempel had tried to stanch the bleeding with a plan to close 21 plants and eliminate 74,000 jobs, but a year later the company had trimmed only 35,000 jobs and had still not decided which plants to shut...
When St. Petersburg built the Suncoast Dome in 1987, it aimed to be the first Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion...
...Endara was sworn into office on a U.S. Army base just hours after the American invasion, an act that has come to symbolize the close relationship between the Bush Administration and Noriega's successor. According to dea officials, Endara's willingness to cooperate with international antidrug efforts is helping stanch the flow of cocaine through Panama...