Word: makeing
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Some European analysts have suggested that West German investors are waiting for the East German industrial base to collapse so that they can make a fresh start, rather than prop up inefficient or outmoded businesses. East German leaders, for their part, have pointed out that however rough the transition may be, their country's economic prospects remain brighter than those of Central European nations like Poland and Czechoslovakia. "If we show courage and behave responsibly, we will be out of the woods soon," Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere said in Halle last week...
LIVING: For the millions of workers who must make do on the minimum wage, life is no American Dream...
Mull is a financial wizard. "I buy this for one year," she says, cradling a half-gallon jug of Palmolive liquid soap. She ducks back into the kitchen and brings out a half-gallon jug of molasses. "This is for six months. You make pancakes with it. I buy everything big." Her monthly budget is tightly knotted around fixed costs: $400 goes for rent, not including gas and electric bills; Lorena's school, Immaculate Conception, is $80 a month; $15 goes to Mervyn's department store for clothes bought earlier; food takes $40 a week; Mull's bus pass...
...face. They spotted it one afternoon at a local fair, and Jeff, a diehard "Dead Head," fell in love. At $15 he resisted the urge, until Jennifer insisted that he buy it. "Sometimes," she told him, "you just got to do something for yourself because it'll make you feel good...
Even the most pessimistic forecasters were cheered when OPEC decided last week to allow its 13 members to increase production to make up the shortfall of roughly 4.6 million bbl. a day lost in the U.N.-mandated embargo on Iraqi and Kuwaiti crude. In the wake of the cartel's action -- Iraq and Libya did not attend the meeting in Vienna -- petroleum prices dropped about $2 in one day, to $26 per bbl. Toward week's end, however, traders began fretting once again about a possible gulf confrontation and a disruption in energy supplies; with that, the price for October...