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...what I felt for them then nourishes me to the end of my days and will do so. If you only knew what we tried to do with them then. We who were so weak that we couldn't carry our own lives--we tried to carry them in triumph...
...year. That was well below the sluggish 2.1 % estimate that the Government issued last month and the smallest GNP gain since the .5% increase in the final quarter of 1982. Noted Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The economy is pretty weak at the moment. We have had a lot of conflicting signals from the economy lately, and some have been concealing the fact that it has been performing poorly...
...look: vast, charred ranges spotted with orange flames and black smoke. But an end may be in sight, at least for parts of California. At week's end, the high-pressure system seemed to be easing, a fog moved in, and temperatures dropped into the 60s. As the first weak drops drizzled down, joyful fire fighters shouted, "It's raining! It's raining!" --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Stephen Koepp/Los Gatos and Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...second day on Taibi, we had an air-raid alert, a false alarm. Those who could, walked to a shelter. Most people were too weak to stand. They urinated and defecated where they were lying. Soldiers, their eyes red with fatigue, passed around canned oranges. But I could not eat; I could not bear the smell in the tent. My face was burning with fever, and my eyes and lips grew swollen. By now my arm was in terrible pain, and finally a soldier took me to a doctor. The doctor wanted to amputate, but the soldier said, 'This...
...upswing, however, has its darker side, Giersch notes. West Germany currently depends on exports for almost all its growth. Agriculture, construction and even domestic car sales are still weak. Above all, the 9% unemployment rate shows no signs of declining, despite government measures to encourage temporary foreign workers to return home, early-retirement schemes and vocational-training programs. For Giersch, the root cause of the problem is an excessively rigid labor system that discourages workers from accepting job or salary changes. Proposals to alter this situation, he adds, meet resistance from both unions and government. Said Giersch: "Flexibility is polemically...