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Most consumers were understandably livid over the way gasoline prices leaped after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, peaking at an average $1.30 in October for an unleaded gallon. Actually, however, the U.S. rise was much less than the rise in European nations and Japan, where pump prices more accurately reflected the cost of crude. The Energy Department last week announced it had found no proof of profiteering by the oil industry, while the Hudson Institute concludes that 80% of the benefit of the higher prices went to the foreign nations that control the commodity...
...HUEY Long, the former governor of Louisiana, were alive today, he would be seething. He would be fuming, livid and downright hip-hopping...
...takes more than half an hour to peel off the gauze, dab antiseptic on the livid flesh, and replace the bandages. Tor Kham, who never says a word, grows paler. When the procedure is over, he takes a moment, really no more than a deep breath, then places a hand on the boy's lips to silence him. His hand falls to the boy's chest and lingers there, an offer of consolation. After another nurse arrives and administers morphine, the boy drifts to sleep. His brother pulls the blanket back over his bandages...
...Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...
This scheme gets in the way when, instead of simple, flat images, he tackles scenes with a deeper space. In a painting like Battery May 5, 1986 -- black, smudgy figures on a promenade in lower Manhattan, a plunging perspective of lamps on the seawall, a livid yellow sky -- the recession is brusquely contradicted by the surface grid of vinyl tiles; the image struggles to break back from the picture plane but cannot. It is a self-canceling effect but not an interestingly perverse...