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...deepening shortage of skilled labor in the decades just ahead. During the next 10 years, the U.S. population and the labor force will expand more slowly than at any other time since the 1930s. The work force grew by 3 million workers a year during the 1970s, but will swell by only 1.6 million new workers a year in the coming decade. For the first time in their working lives, U.S. managers are no longer able to pick and choose among an embarrassment of labor riches, but must compete harder than ever for well-educated workers...
...Hare Krishna movement. To fit in, you need only a pink rayon robe and a long shock of hair on the back of your head, which is not a problem with my baldness pattern. They shave the rest of your head and everyone's happy. A bonus is the swell performance opportunities in front of the Coop on Saturday nights (I want the tambourine) and the "delicious 10-course vegetarian feasts" advertised on the little leaflets they hand...
...budget talks only nibble at the edges of the real deficit problem, partly because both parties agreed earlier this year to keep the S&L bailout off the books. If it were included, the red ink would swell next year from $165 billion to $230 billion. The negotiators are thus struggling to find spending cuts and tax hikes that would still fall short of covering the rising cost of the bailout. Both sides have agreed to boost taxes on alcohol, gasoline and autos priced at $30,000 and up. But such increases would go only partway toward paying for Bush...
This handsome, volcanically violent road movie is Lynch's first flat-out comedy; he and his ensemble (including Diane Ladd and Crispin Glover) work at high pitch and have a swell time at it. Wild at Heart is also the first Lynch film in which his motives -- to hang a haberdashery of bizarre incidents on the merest hook of plot -- are apparent. You might go, "Ick!" but you won't ask, "Huh?" What's lacking is the old sense of delicious, disturbing mystery. Wild at Heart reveals a master of movie style on his way to becoming a mannerist...
...last week when he had to abandon plans to advance the first all-German elections from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. Opponents charged that Kohl hoped that facing voters sooner rather than later would protect his Christian Democrats from the disillusion of the electorate as the costs of unification swell...