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...persist, the more susceptible we'll be," says Behrmann. "We're not an island. We may be a refuge. We can weather the storm. But we're not immune." For another, the region's scarcity of water poses as much of a challenge as it always has. The northern tier of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with plentiful rivers and low population density, expects no problem satisfying its pockets of growth. The semi-arid southern tier of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, however, has to give water high priority...
...their output (as Castle Rock intends), Turner's entertainment-progr amming maw would barely register the impact. Turner is getting New Line's distribution system, but as Castle Rock's spokesman says dismissively of his corporate sibling-to- be, they put out mainly "B-type product. They're second tier...
...trade sprouts inexorably in new areas. In Ho Chi Minh City, by one report, the number of prostitutes has recently increased from 10,000 to 50,000. Morocco has become a Mecca for Saudi sex tourists. The next tier of prosperous Asian countries is following in Japan's footsteps, with South Korea and Taiwan developing their own sex-tour operations. And last year, attesting to the growth of market economics, more than 240,000 people engaging in prostitution were arrested in China. Sex tourism takes on ever more ingenious guises as well. To Bombay, a center for inexpensive medical treatment...
...message that companies across America were implicitly handing down last week on Take Our Daughters to Work Day as they invited thousands of young girls to crawl down manholes, up telephone poles, into trading pits and office cubicles. But the survey also delivered more pessimistic news: this uppermost tier of American professional women, those who have secretaries to help organize birthday parties, big salaries to afford customized child care and private offices from which to call the pediatrician, discovered that the workplace often turned hostile when they became mothers...
...task force say they will recommend to the President that he allow firms with 1,000 employees or more to "opt out" of the health-insurance pools, known as "alliances," that form the backbone of the Clinton health-care overhaul. Some experts say this move could create a two-tier system: one with generally better-insured members (working for large companies) and the other with generally less well- insured members (working mainly for smaller firms). To mollify labor unions, task-force officials will probably also propose some sort of regulation that discourages such opting...