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Economically, a nation that once prided itself on a way of life superior to its neighbors' now stands in relation to Asia, particularly Japan, as a colony to a mother country. It imports money and equipment and sends back minerals and farm products. Welfare-state labor costs also stifle competition with hard-driving Asian exporters in manufactured goods...
...motion filed Dec. 17, Boston attorney Lee S. MacPhee argued that news articles about the case have biased potential jurors' minds, making a fair trial here impossible. He asked Suffolk Superior Court Judge Malcolm Graham to shift the case to Franklin, Hampshire or Berkshire County, or to bring a jury from one of those counties to Boston to hear the case...
...main offerings are credible. The corned beef, although a slightly different color than the fare I serve, is authentic enough. The pastrami is far superior to the greasy junk HDS likes to serve on a "bulkie roll...
...unless the Iraqi troops collapsed quickly and began surrendering en ( masse, allied infantry and armor would have to go on the attack. On paper the ratios seem extremely unfavorable. Conventional military wisdom is that attackers should have a 3-to-1 superiority in numbers to blast defenders out of well-entrenched positions; in Kuwait and Iraq the numbers would be only equal. American tanks would actually be outnumbered 3-to-1 by Iraqi armor, though the numbers of heavy tanks would be approximately even, and the American M1 Abrams is thought to be superior in speed, maneuverability and firepower...
...behaviors shape their future relationships and lives. This insight is not foreign to traditional psychotherapy. But unlike traditionalists, believers in codependence -- and the Anonymous philosophy -- enlist a democratic and emotional revivalism to uncover an individual's secrets. This populist alternative rejects the relationship between the weak patient and the superior, distant doctor or therapist. "We're talking about a group of people like myself who bottomed out so badly that we didn't have the time to waste on things like penis envy, Oedipus complexes -- however you pronounce it," laughs Beattie. "We were ready for some real basic stuff...