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Western Europe's most substantial challenges, however, are economic readjustment and realignment. As in the U.S., old industries like steel, coal mining and shipbuilding are going out of business. Unlike the U.S., Western Europe has been slow to find high-technology replacements. Businessmen must cope with extensive bureaucratic controls and high social welfare costs, the legacy of postwar obsession with creating economic security for all citizens. Says Henry Ergas, an economic analyst at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an association of 24 industrialized countries: "Americans are finding some of the answers in some body's garage...
...Murabitun radio station and party headquarters also took a pounding: floors collapsed, pillars buckled, and steel reinforcing rods bent into bizarre shapes. Later, Amal militiamen could be seen standing guard outside the gutted building. Emblazoned on a concrete slab at the entrance was a Murabitun slogan: WHAT IS TAKEN BY FORCE IS REGAINED ONLY BY FORCE...
...report did not suggest ways to fix the two highly defective panels of the tunnel, and it said that the steel beams of the tunnel’s roof may have long-term problems with corrosion...
...develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, New Jersey. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance the failing company-which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) His stainless steel two-seater with doors that open upwards like a gull's wings did not sell, but won lasting fame as the time-travelling vehicle in the 1985 film Back to the Future...
...collector's item; in Summit, N.J. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance his failing company, which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) Although he did not sell many of his stainless-steel two-seaters, whose doors open upward like gulls' wings, the DeLorean won lasting fame as the time-traveling vehicle in the 1985 film Back to the Future...