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...combination of environmental concerns and escalating oil prices is heating up interest. The biggest problem will be getting the fuel to market. With natural-gas demand up 16% from 1986 to 1989, the 1.2 million-mile network of pipelines that haul gas from the fields to users is inadequate. Much of the current system is geared to serving old Rust Belt users, while the greatest need for increased supply is on the East and West coasts. But construction plans have been stalled by environmental opposition -- ironic considering the good safety record of the transmission companies -- as well as the lumbering...
REAL ESTATE MOGUL ON THE ROPES. UNIONS BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL. The conflict had the makings of a tabloid-headline writer's dream. But the journalistic juices were not flowing as usual at the New York Post last week, as the gossipy newspaper itself became one of the biggest stories in town. The Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, faced the imminent prospect of closing unless unions coughed up some $19 million in wage and benefit concessions to satisfy the deadline demands of its owner, real estate developer Peter Kalikow. After marathon bargaining, a tentative settlement kept the tabloid alive...
...telling their prince outright that the country needed to be shaken up? Preposterous. But these are extraordinary times, as the small group of businessmen pointed out during a meeting two weeks ago with Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh and younger brother and confidant of King Fahd. "This is the biggest challenge we have ever faced," said one entrepreneur, mindful of the menacing forces of Saddam Hussein gathered just 300 miles to the north. Said another, summoning his courage: "We have to confront our internal issues...
...Sorvino) who warns him to stay out of the drug business; Henry jumps right in. His best friend is a wacko hoodlum (Joe Pesci) who gets whacked by his own family; Henry sheds no tears. His mentor is an Irishman (Robert De Niro) who cuts Henry in on the biggest hijacking in American history; Henry's testimony sends him to jail. The lad's only regret is for himself. At the end, he's still alive, but "I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook...
...given a comfortable chair and a fresh cup of tea, and wondered if this was how a returning Soviet dissident would feel on revisiting Lubyanka prison. As I talked with Colonel Nel, it seemed to me that the biggest change in Security Police thinking was the death of the old obsession that international communism was all powerful and that opponents of apartheid were putative communists if not actual paid agents of the Kremlin. The young colonel agreed. The whole approach was more sophisticated these days, he said, and the country faced a different set of perceived challenges embodied...