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...tentative zone proposal drafted by Reagan intimate Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-N.Y.), businesses that deserted marginal economic areas for one of the zones would receive massive tax breaks. Meanwhile, thousands of workers in the business's old neighborhood would be thrust onto unemployment rolls. The zone plan guarantees no new jobs or job training--making it all too easy for businesses to nab giant tax breaks by hiring a few residents of the zone as custodial workers. Indeed, housing and other social service budgets that largely support America's inner cities would...
Then things seemed to be changing. The Tigers' farm-grown talent had produced nothing but mediocrity since 1973, but the likes of Alan Trammel, Lou Whitaker, Steve Kemp, Jack Morris and Lance Parrish thrust Detroit's love team near the playoffs. The Lions--guided by the poise of Billy "Silver Streak" Sims, Eric Hipple, Doug English, Al "Bubba" Baker and Freddie Scott--appeared to reach a similar plateau...
...verge of an abyss. The state structure has ceased operating." Solidarity's leaders, he charged, "threaten us with the use of force. They no longer obey the law. Everyone is on strike. They call for confrontation with the Reds. We had to do something before they thrust us into civil war . . . We have to come out of the crisis by ourselves by our hands. History would never forgive us if we failed." And so, he said, "from today, a state of war is declared in Poland...
...paltry $2.5 million in 1968 to its present capitalization of more than $35 million. De Botton is currently investing heavily in sagging stocks of U.S. energy companies, especially those with large domestic reserves of oil and gas. He also plans to strengthen the firm's venture-capital thrust. Says he: "The U.S. is the prime market hi the world for startup, small and medium-size companies...
...Solidarity member who left Poland last spring to teach at Harvard retained hope that the union could effectively counter the government thrust without bloodshed. "I can only hope that the people will react peacefully to this...but in a decisive way," Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said...