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...before much new borrowing can occur. In the past six years, American manufacturing and other nonfinancial corporations have doubled their total indebtedness to $1.2 trillion, a figure that exceeds the federal debt, and in industry after industry the ratios of assets to borrowing have deteriorated dangerously. The debt load doubtless will crush more companies into bankruptcy even in the early stages of a recovery...
...crushing defeat. As Issam Sartawi, an adviser to P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat, puts it: "We have learned the hard way how to transfer our military battle into a political victory. Regardless of what happens in Beirut, we shall get out of it stronger than we were." There was doubtless a strong measure of wishful thinking in that assessment, but many observers felt that the P.L.O. might realize political and diplomatic gains that the Israelis had hardly intended to promote when they stormed across the Lebanese border on June 6. Said Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann: "The P.L.O. is politically better...
...inflict on us in 1969. For a reminder of how a superb actor can capture 100 facets of Hamlet's nature and meld them into one believable characterization, turn not to the dreadful Olivier film version but to Derek Jacobi's 1980 portrayal for BBC television (which will doubtless be shown here again soon...
...pursuit of employment. Even in a culture that has advanced from camels to Cadillacs since the discovery of oil, Jubail may remain an uncomfortable place for the mass of the Saudi population. And since the government has no plans for enforced migration of workers, an effort that would doubtless enrage every fiercely independent Saudi in the country, residents will have to move voluntarily. Otherwise, the infant city could wind up becoming an enormously expensive ghost town...
Microphones probably are necessary in some of the new barns that pass for theaters, and doubtless are needed in some rock musicals. But many producers and actors have enough love for the theater to resist their use in straight plays. "Vocal training is part of the craft, and it is up to the actor, not the soundman, to reach those people in the back row," adds James Earl Jones, who is doing just that as the jealous Moor in the current Broadway production of Othello. "You can project not just with volume, but with clarity and unexpected variations in rhythm...