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...five-minute buzzer sounded summoning Senators to cast their votes, Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, wrung her hands nervously and awaited her fate in an anteroom near the Senate floor. "This is the longest five minutes of my life," she said with an anxious smile. Yet her fate was never in doubt. By a vote of 99 to 0,* the Senate made Judge O'Connor Justice O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female member in its 191 years. Even Republican Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, the only member of the Judiciary Committee who refused to recommend...
...turnaround that was supposed to follow from Thatcher's austerity measures. Unemployment is now close to the 3 million mark, or 12.2% of the work force, the highest since the worst Depression years of the 1930s. Yet inflation, which last week jumped to 11.5%, has not yet been "wrung out" of the economy, and that was the chief aim of Thatcher's monetarism. North Sea oil revenues have suffered from the international oil glut, and much of the treasury's eroded bonanza has had to pay for unemployment benefits. The fiercest riots in Britain in a century...
...simple and effective plot would have worked better. The appeal of his fantastically successful Halloween lay in the unadorned menace of the villain; New York could have served a similar function. It is a city of extremes, both good and bad, and Carpenter, might have seized its evil and wrung from it a portrait of malignancy out of control. But he didn't. He didn't even try. It wouldn't have been that difficult--all he had to do was ride the subways...
...Americans because it has subverted that sense of the mythic; the strike has kicked the mystique of baseball in the pants and coarsely brought into unavoidable view things Americans try to ignore about corporate baseball: its pinky-ring crassness, its carnivorous commercialism, its obsession with the megabucks to be wrung from the lovely game...
...whose growth is still exceeding Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's targets. Says Investment Analyst Julian Snyder: "For Volcker, the next three months provide a great opportunity to clamp on the monetary brakes with minimum political interference. He can try to wring out in December what could not be wrung...