Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...these proceedings. I'm happy that the doors are open. I'm ready to come out swinging. I've taken enough abuse. You know, in January I was so overwhelmed. It just exploded into a public nightmare for me. So I reacted, frankly, by not taking as much care of myself. I worried about it. I read all the newspaper stories. I worried about what the next leak was going to be. I worried about the impact on Dad and my role in this thing. I gained a little weight. I didn't eat well. But you have two choices...
...bright spots for U.S. corporations has been a surge of exports. With the growing appetite for American goods, foreign sales of products as varied as minivans, jetliners and health-care products in the first four months of 1990 climbed 8.9% above the figure for the same period last year. The strong performance offset a 4.8% rise in imports and helped cut the U.S. trade deficit from its peak of $152 billion in 1987 to a current annual rate of $92.2 billion...
...that says to 1 out of every 4 of its young people, We are going to let you drop out of sight; we are not going to give you the tools to be productive. No wonder they drop out, because the market signal says to them, We don't care about you, so leave school. If you haven't got anything, $4 an hour sounds like a lot of money. The trouble is that they are still making $4 an hour when they are 30, and then they cannot feed and clothe their own children...
Word of lang's message is causing indigestion in the beef belt. Some radio stations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska have struck her songs from their playlists. "This is agriculture country," says Ken Kujawa, program director at KRES-FM in Moberly, Mo. "We don't care if k.d. lang is a vegetarian, but when she says 'Meat stinks,' that hurts everyone who lives in this area." Other singing vegetarians, notably Paul McCartney, have spoken out in lang's defense...
Ghostdad uses the old formula of the man who, having died, makes a deal with the powers that be to return to Earth in order to take care of some unfinished business...