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Other companies that turned lean under the pressure of foreign competition are now poised to profit from a cheap peso that lowers the price of their exports. Min-Cer, a maker of wheel and drum components for tractor-trailers, plans to export 90% of its output this year. ``We are expecting a very steep drop in domestic demand, but we're working three shifts a day for exports,'' general director Carlos de la Garza says...
...only when he dresses up as a mysteriously masked motorcyclist, a sort of Lone Ranger on a hawg. He does not reveal his true identity to her until the concluding production number, although the audience is in on the secret all along. Pfeiffer is pretty and has a cer tain spirit about her, but the vacant Caulfield is surely the least promising newcomer since Pia Zadora. The director is Patricia Birch, who choreographed both the Broadway show and the first film. She cuts too much too fast, works too nervously in the musical staging, and veers from the peculiar...
...roughly the size of Massachusetts, has the highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of the lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year) in all of Latin America, and Washington is committed to support the Duarte government at a time when its survival is by no means cer tain. But the Administration fears that any slackening of U.S. support might lead to a major opportunity in Central America for Soviet-sponsored Cuba, abetted by the neighboring, Marxist-dominated Sandinista government of Nicaragua. U.S. policy is therefore to aid and encourage the Salvadoran government in its anti-guerrilla efforts...
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...there really enough culture-hungry people in the U.S. to support these operations? A number of industry observers doubt it and expect some, or all, of the new networks to suffer a cer tain amount of disappointment. "I don't think the cultural market is that big," frets David Crippens, manager of Los Angeles' PBS station KCET. "Our prime-time ratings have doubled in the last two years, but I still view the entry of the cultural cables as a challenge. We will have to provide programs that, the audiences can't get elsewhere." Viewers, whose careers...