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Then I saw that Time had declared Mikhail Gorbachev "Man of the Decade." Not that I ever take Time's self-important year-end blusterings very seriously. For example, last year they produced a thoughtful, well-written issue on one of the most important problems of our time, the environment, and then decided to market the issue by naming the Earth "PLANET OF THE YEAR...
Economy Minister Antonio Erman Gonzalez called it "a week of economic terror." That was no exaggeration, even in a country where economic scare stories are all too common. Among the latest horrors: a sudden year-end collapse of the value of the austral, which plunged from 1,200 to the U.S. dollar to 2,000 before markets closed for the New Year, and price rises of as much as 100% as rumors circulated that the value of Argentina's national currency might be halved again. Shell-shocked citizens waited for Erman, the third Economy Minister since President Carlos Saul Menem...
Thanksgiving starts the glut of year-end films: an all-star Steel Magnolias, a ponderous Valmont, a shaggy-dog story and one certified stunner, Disney's fairy-tale cartoon The Little Mermaid...
...regulator, M. Danny Wall, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, defended his agency's year-end spate of savings and loan bailouts as cheaper than shutting down the failed institutions and paying off depositors...
...talks have been scheduled on ending the walkout. The machinists can fall back on their $90 million strike fund, but Boeing is under pressure to deliver 94 more jet airliners before year-end. In the interim, Boeing intends to use supervisors and nonunion personnel to put the final touches on dozens of jets that stand virtually completed at its assembly plants in Renton and Everett, Wash. The company pledges to observe strict safety standards. But the Federal Aviation Administration, taking no chances, announced last week that it would "significantly expand" its inspections of the company's assembly lines to ensure...