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Stewart wants to effect changes in areas that the council can realistically have influence--such as installing emergency phones and cable television in the houses, extending the MAC and QRAC hours and lengthening library times. Stewart knows both the council's limitations and its potential. We endorse her wholeheartedly...
...secret to the top Soviet army brass and political bosses," Baranets told TIME, "that the U.S.S.R. assisted Iraq in developing its chemical and bacteriological weapons. According to some data, several extremely well-paid Russian chemical-warfare experts still work in Iraq under assumed names." When sanctions first went into effect, says Baranets, the Russian government shut off shipments to countries on the U.N. embargo list. Later, "controls weakened and slackened, while economic considerations took over the political ones. As of the second half of 1993, Russia resumed sending major military supplies to the Middle East. They used...
Another big imponderable is the likely effect on European and world economies of the scheduled 1999 replacement of 10 to 12 European national currencies by a common unit of money, the euro. On the more parochial subject of the effect on U.S. business, Hormats thinks the switch to a common currency will reduce costs enough for European companies to make them more competitive with American firms. But Zimmerman believes the effects on balance will be favorable. Companies exporting to Europe from the U.S. or from plants in, say, Germany or Italy need not worry about how many lire a mark...
Lack of fast-track authority will have little effect immediately. But it might prevent Clinton from negotiating agreements that would keep U.S. exports increasing in later years. And exports are a far bigger part of the U.S. economy, and a much more potent factor powering recent growth, than the public--or Congress--generally realizes...
...takes people whom the modern world would normally take seriously--John's co-workers at the radio station, for example--and outlines them in 3-word descriptions. John's beer-drinking buddies from back home, however, are punctuated with long and often hysterically funny anecdotes. "Bug lotion has no effect whatsoever on those Florida flies," one old man mentions over beers at the local bar. "A crucifix helps, but you have to hit them really hard with it." The locals become the real people, the characters that readers remember most vividly and care most about...