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Baseball faces the same problems that have tormented most professional team sports in recent years: surging players' salaries, contract hassles, shaky finances, sudden ownership changes and heightened economic competition between clubs and leagues. Only about seven of the 21 teams in the National Hockey League are making money. The National Basketball Association has bounced back from its huge losses of the early 1980s, but eight of the league's 23 teams are still in the red. Even the mighty National Football League has been under a bit of pressure from its pesky new competitor, the United States Football League. Concludes...
...world financiers ever wanted to stay awake nights worrying in the past two years, they could always lie abed wondering about a sudden crash of the dollar that might lead to international economic chaos. That grim scenario came a bit closer to reality last week as the U.S. currency skidded to its lowest level in a year. From a peak reached in late February, the value of the dollar has declined an average of 14% against major currencies and 24% against the British pound...
...front of the TV and dream about becoming Miss Universe," recalls the 5-ft. 8-in., 118-lb. hazel-eyed brunet. "Last year I wanted to give it a try, but my mother told me, 'Wait, just wait, you need more poise.' This year, all of a sudden she told me, 'You have to do it now.' " The victory was worth $175,000 in cash and prizes. Next morning, with just two hours of sleep, Carthy told reporters, "It's heaven. I dreamed all night...
Physicians welcome the sudden willingness of patients to undergo tests for cancer. Colorectal cancer, which affects primarily men and women over 50, strikes some 138,000 Americans every year and kills 60,000. But regular examinations and early detection could save up to 40,000 more lives annually, according to the American Cancer Society. As a result of the attention the President's illness has attracted, the Massachusetts branch of the society has scrapped a 1981 poster that asked, "What is the cancer no one talks about?" The new one reads, "What is the cancer everyone talks about?" JUSTICE...
...film's gaudily stylized performances (notably Hurt's, which has grandeur about it), all its tonalities, both visual and verbal, are pitched one notch above the naturalistic. Thus Babenco may subtly explore issues, both political and psychological, that are usually dulled by moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted by its own originality, its own shrewdly controlled outrageousness. If Busby Berkeley had ever made a movie about politics and illusion, it might have come out something like this infectious, sobering film. --By Richard Schickel DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART...