Word: failed
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...lesson of these times is that free markets succeed where governments fail, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is a very voguish thinker. Though his effort to revive his country's punch-drunk economy gets much less attention than the shake-ups transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York...
...filmmakers also fail to cure the central defect of the novel's plotting. Carolyn's murderer has an excellent motive both for killing her and for making sure Sabich, Carolyn's sometime lover, is accused of the crime. Sabich is like the traditional Hitchcock hero: not guilty of the crime he is accused of but guilty of other moral malfeasance. But it is hard to accept the possibility that the real perpetrator would leave his escape from the trap entirely to chance...
...police detective with a seedy apartment, a 5 o'clock shadow and, against his better judgment, a yen for the blond. It's the old story: boy meets girl. Boy suspects girl. Boy borrows girl's car and is almost killed when the brakes mysteriously fail...
...attracting criticism for allowing yet another set of dealmakers to get rich. Last week Senate judiciary subcommittee chairman Howard Metzenbaum called on the government to tear up a deal made by M. Danny Wall, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, with Arizona insurance executive James Fail. In 1988 Wall allowed Fail to acquire 15 insolvent Texas S&Ls in exchange for $1,000 in cash and $70 million in borrowed money, and threw in $1.85 billion to cover the liabilities of the bankrupt thrifts. Fail in 1976 had been indicted for securities fraud in Alabama. Though...
Once again, Bill Cosby takes a familiar story and puts his own creative spin on it. And once again, Cosby's fresh style does not fail to entertain and impress...