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...hours late because the Corps workers each had to get tetanus and hepatitis shots before re-entering the suppurating city. Once under way, we had to stop twice: once to wait for a flatbed with a fan boat to join the convoy and again because a 55-gal. vat of Industrial Blue All-Purpose Cleaner was slipping and threatening to slide onto the highway...
...people. She's not much of an orator, but her listeners are attentive as they munch sausages and drink beer in the sunshine. Even a group dressed up as cows - holding signs that say don't milk us! to protest her proposed increase to value-added tax ( vat) - are as docile as, well, cattle. Merkel has defended the unpopular policy, meant to fund a reduction in social-security contributions from wages, by arguing that "people don't earn too much in Germany, but because of the nonwage costs the cost of labor is too high." "We're not making...
...party they can vote for," says Norbert Röttgen, a senior member of Merkel's campaign team. "Being honest about value-added tax is a strategy to regain the trust of the people." And Merkel is backing up the persona with policies. In addition to the vat increase, she has suggested weakening job-protection laws and reforming union wage-bargaining practices. Trouble is, the spd owes much of its unpopularity to an attempt to introduce just such measures. Germans seem to want reform, but are determined to punish reformers. "As voters, we may believe we can handle uncomfortable truths...
...hundred elves as his assistants. Stars shine in the north; a UNESCO chorale ladles Bosco over Henry Mancini's syrupy score; Dudley Moore, the chief elf, actually says, "If you give extra kisses, you get bigger hugs." The movie plays like a W.C. Fields nightmare: to drown in a vat of whimsy...
...carefully, first outside of the vat, then in larger proportions