Word: loss
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...case of Vietnam, it took more than a decade and the loss of 58,000 American lives before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
Kerkorian, 73, collected $1.3 billion from the sale last month of his majority stake in MGM/UA Communications. Chrysler, which suffered a $214 million loss in the third quarter, must have looked like a bargain. Its stock price has fallen 40% in the past year, to 12 1/4. Even so, Kerkorian's strategy remains a mystery, since Chrysler's share of the auto market is weakening and the automaker's assets might be difficult to sell piecemeal...
More difficult than the task of physically rebuilding Kuwait are the problems of equity that will arise when Kuwaitis return. "For example," wonders Khalifa, "what is fair compensation for loss? Assume that one person's house was worth $1 million before it was destroyed by the Iraqis and that another's was worth $100,000. Does the government assist both to the same degree in dollar amount or in percentage or what? What's fair? What will wash...
...Eastern Europe. For decades, the communist-bloc countries stoked their industrial production without regard for the environmental consequences. Only this year was the scope of the resulting ecocatastrophe revealed to the world. Zoltan Illes, Hungary's Deputy State Secretary for Environment and Nature Protection, estimates that health problems and loss of production because of air and water pollution reduce his nation's gross domestic product more than...
...gangster picture, after all, and Michael is the antihero with whom the series lives and dies. The true perplexer is whether filmgoers will care to see, or care about, an aging entrepreneur haunted by specters from films nearly two decades old. Because this is a movie about loss, Pacino must relinquish the steely calm of his youthful Michael; now he is Lear without the grandeur. Nor can G3 find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers so handsomely that he makes one wish for another sequel...