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...Berlin courtroom, Tisch, who once reveled in the limelight alongside East German head of state Erich Honecker, spoke in a barely audible voice and stared straight ahead with rheumy, vacant eyes. Defense attorneys said he had suffered a stroke, but the judge ruled that the trial should...
Many of the biggest high rollers were New York City banks that lavished loans on everyone from Latin American dictators to Donald Trump. At the same time, they helped finance the 1980s real estate boom that has filled U.S. cities with vacant office towers and dotted suburbia with empty condominiums. "Citicorp was hurt the most," says Thomas Brown, a Paine Webber banking analyst. "Then come Chemical, Chase and Bank of New York...
Just outside Tokyo 300,000 people troop through Japan's Disneyland each week, while 20 miles outside Paris a new city is rising on 8 sq. mi. of formerly vacant land. Once Euro Disney Resort opens for business in 1992, forget the Eiffel Tower, the Swiss Alps and the Sistine Chapel: it is expected to be the biggest tourist attraction in all of Europe. In Brazil as many as 70% of the songs played on the radio each night are in English. In Bombay's thriving theater district, Neil Simon's plays are among the most popular. Last spring...
...lend an empty, dissatisfied feel to the book. We are in the middle of a decayed, small world in which a housewife dances alone in an empty living room, and an aging, cancer-ridden football coach stands on a bench in the rain and pleads for support to a vacant, deaf street...
...small businesses threatening to relocate. I don't know what kind of message we are sending to the business community," Independent councillor Timothy J. Toomey said in an interview. "I'd like to be reassured that the parking freeze is not going to affect businesses. We've got enough vacant buildings. We don't need more...