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With the articulate and popular Netanyahu at the head of the opposition, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will probably face a tougher time selling its policies. Trickiest will be Rabin's proposal to return at least part of the Golan Heights to Syria, a move opposed by Netanyahu and about half the population. Concessions for peace will have an eloquent advocate in Weizman, a former Defense Minister and chief of the air force and one of Israel's most flamboyant politicians. Once an avid hawk, Weizman now supports withdrawal from the Golan, direct negotiations with the P.L.O...
...Europe kids grow up different -- earlier and tougher. Parents still wield authority; Papa could be Yahweh with a toothache, and Mama could sell her daughter into child prostitution. And because Death hangs around the house like a spinster aunt, the kids must ever be packed off to relatives for whom child care is just the latest of life's dirty tricks. Sometimes the kids run away and never come back. No wonder children in European films often look like stunted adults. Since birth they've been in a dress rehearsal for distress...
...This year we have really good freshmen recruits with good experience," Meader said. "Many of them have played tougher competition in their summer leagues than what we'll be facing in some of our games...
...thematic restlessness and artistic recklessness. He then applied those qualities to Acadie (1989), his wondrous first solo album as songwriter, singer and guitarist. They are in even more abundant supply here. For the Beauty of Wynona -- named for a Canadian town close to where Lanois grew up -- has a tougher rhythmic core than its predecessor. The title track takes off on a wild excursion from ballad to jams-out jam to a kind of interplanetary raga that is emblematic of the entire album-length adventure. The sound is spooky, seductive and scintillating...
...deeper problem facing some companies was an inability to respond adroitly to changing markets, and decimating their work forces may have made that task even tougher when the recovery finally rolled around. "Just look at what they've done to IBM and Sears," says Celente. "They've cut the heart out of these companies. They are blaming an overstaffed work force for bringing down profits. But that's not the real problem. These companies lost out competitively because they didn't change their products...