Word: working
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FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th century Dutch portraitist's bravura brush-work and piercing insight still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through...
...commercial aircraft was crippled. The strike at Boeing by more than 57,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers brought new-plane production to a virtual halt at the company's main manufacturing plants in the Seattle area, where 43,000 of the machinists work, and at other factories in Portland, Ore., and Wichita...
Even sobersided economists accept that there is something odd about the Italian experience. A recent scholarly study, The Italian Miracle, does smack of the supernatural compared with the German miracle, which was 99% hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much of it in government securities. Fully 97% of the national debt is funded domestically, and nearly two-thirds of the negotiable state debt is in the hands of individuals. This mode of saving doubtless owes something to exchange controls and preferential tax treatment, but Italians have been willing buyers...
Mubarak in effect redrafted the plan to take the sharper edges off both sides' objections. The U.S. backed the idea, and the P.L.O. did not torpedo it. While the Palestinian leadership has little faith that the plan will work, it does not want to bear responsibility for a failure. Faced with following through on its own official policy, the Israeli government fell to arguing with itself. Labor embraced Mubarak's proposal, while Shamir's Likud opposed large chunks of the plan. Two days of hot debate in the twelve-member Inner Cabinet last week produced a tie vote: de facto...
...avoid raising suspicions, Olaf, a roofer, returned to work after their midday decision. Marlies headed to the bank, where she withdrew nearly all their savings and converted just enough of it into Czech currency, she explains, "to allow us to pretend to border officials that we were going to Czechoslovakia for a short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat...