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Soft in the Middle. Like an aging athlete whose stomach muscles have turned to flab, U.S. trade shows a soft middle. Exports consist heavily of raw materials (coal, grains and soybeans, for example) and the high-technology output of the world's most research-minded corporations (computers, aircraft, electronics). Between those extremes, chronic trade-balance weakness is suffered by at least 122 manufacturing industries. Among them: steel, paper, food-and-drink, glass, textiles, apparel, lumber, leather, shipbuilding, autos, watches and sporting goods. In 1-966, those 122 provided 35% of the nation's industrial jobs, but they...
...alternative--bringing in police to rout the demonstrators--is simply too much for university administrators to stomach. Columbia proved that point perfectly. Unless administrations move quickly now to give students the representation they want--to put them in decision-making positions--the sit-ins and the take-overs will continue. And with good reason--they work...
...They took a great deal of pleasure in kicking me in the stomach," he said, "I looked up at one of them. He was scarred and had a kind of demonic expression on his face...
...medical history be fear-less-they can tell faking. Relax and have fun. Tell them how the war has affected your health and don't be bashful about all the diseases that might be induced by the war. Be creative. (Pleading homosexuality is messy but possible if you can stomach...
Sand, sea and sky are an essay in greys, the water blackest. Syllables flow from our throats, ours and mine, but I am shamed by the distant hot dog man whose trousers reach almost to the armpits. He has no chest or stomach, in fact, no body...