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...sales of American products for the planned Euro-Soviet gas pipeline, endangering a $260 million AEG-Telefunken contract to deliver to the Soviets 47 gas turbines that are being built under a U.S. license. Durr's ambitious program to restructure the company, called AEG '83, was stillborn when trade unions blocked the elimination of some 20,000 jobs. A British electronics firm early in August backed out of a plan to buy 40% of AEG-Telefunken's operations, and United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., also rejected a last-minute overture for help...
...just because the lilacs aren't blooming and the robin red breasts aren't singing doesn't mean baby spring has arrived stillborn...
...John Fowles who suggested that the film's final line of dialogue be "Sarah!" He deserves to share credit with Pinter and Reisz for assembling this multilayered meditation on the blurring lines that connect actor, character and audience. But the creation might have remained stillborn without the contribution of Meryl Streep. This Sarah, this Anna, this warring family of sirens demands an incandescent star. With this performance, Streep proves she is both. Virgin, whore, woman, actress, she provides the happy ending to The French Lieutenant's Woman and new life to a cinema starved for shining stars...
...soon dispelled when they recognized the group's mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 49, a notorious far-rightist who had already served seven months for a stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium and issued a peremptory statement: the Cortes was to be abolished forthwith, and "a competent military...
...spending will be taken by Congress. During his term, Carter made sporadic attempts to reduce outlays. He offered new legislation to force hospitals to curb Medicare costs, a plan to trim student-loan programs and even a quixotic proposal to pare Social Security payments. But these efforts were all stillborn on Capitol Hill. Laments one Carter lieutenant, looking back on the experience: "Just about every time we went to Congress, we got massacred...