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...siege, its streets reportedly littered with corpses. Fighting around the southern town of Mostar, the chief objective of a recent Croat offensive, also intensified. Sarajevo went without power or water for 48 hours after Serbs blew up power lines. Though service was restored, the shutoff illustrated how tight a vise the besiegers have clamped on the city...
...prevailing profit drought "holds down capital spending and is behind a lot of layoffs," says Lawrence Chimerine, senior adviser to the forecasting firm DRI-McGraw Hill. Concurs Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers: "Pressure on profits means cost cutting will remain part of the vise that is squeezing consumers...
There is no shortage of alarmist language to describe the fiscal vise that is crunching New York City. Disastrous, drastic, cataclysmic, catastrophic are some of the terms that Mayor David Dinkins, Governor Mario Cuomo and legions of curbstone commentators have used in recent weeks. The town that likes to think of itself as the capital of the universe is, in a word, broke. Within days there may be no money to pay its 243,000 employees, and on the horizon there is only more red ink and pain. In 1975 the city pulled itself up from a similar fate...
...beginning a challenging period in the Commonwealth. Our state, like many across the nation, is in an economic vise. We must work hard to "down-size" state government, while continuing to protect programs that help those in need. It's not going to be easy...
...rally earlier this month, Nader urged fellow revolutionaries to "break that vise of authoritarian control over the University." And while chastising the University's seven-member governing Corporation, rabble-rouser Tony McLean wondered, "How the hell can a so-called democratic institution like Harvard University consider the voices of 18,000 less important than that of seven...