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...recession has been going on," says George Schueppert, chief financial officer of CBI Industries, an energy- equipment company that has totted up $1.5 billion worth of new orders this year, largely from Asia and Latin America. But merchandise exports amount to just 7% of American GNP and can scarcely drag the economy out of the doldrums single-handedly. Moreover, the manufacturing boom could quickly go bust if nervous domestic consumers don't start opening their wallets soon...
...find it quite absurd of Cloud to drag CLUH into a situation in which it has absolutely no connection, and to mention CLUH in his article even before he brought up my connection to the protest. Yet I would like to state publicly that the other members of the CLUH Executive Board have scheduled a meeting, without me present, to decide how the organization will respond...
...characters consist mainly of Vegas standbys--gamblers, showgirls and lounge lizards. Among the eight males and eight "females," played by men in drag, are casino-inspired Collier Bluff, Delia Cards and Roland Dice...
John Maru, who works in Papua New Guinea's Ministry for Home Affairs and Youth recalls how during his schooling he came to see the endless gift exchanges and other traditions that marked his youth in the Sepik region as a waste of time and money and a drag on individual initiative. Now, however, he sees that such customs serve to seal bonds among families and act as a barrier to poverty and loneliness...
...Georgia with 60% of the vote while Democrat Wyche Fowler won his 1986 Senate race by only 2 points. With Fowler facing re-election this year, a coattail campaign would target an even greater effort in Georgia -- not to raise the President's already ample victory margin but to drag in Fowler's Republican challenger...