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...shoved so hard that it pivoted on to 9 o'clock, completely upside down. A few more degrees of rotation -- 10 or 11 o'clock -- and he would have fallen. Instead, as he pulled hard on the control bar to shift his weight forward and gain airspeed, the glider sank back into a controllable dive. "I've always said that gliding was safe," Lee mused later. "This was as near as I've come to backing my opinion with my life." (A few days later % U.S. team member Brad Koji went over the falls, slammed into his glider and parachuted...
Once again, it was a week of discouraging economic reports. The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in May. In the same month new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low, despite the best mortgage rates in two decades. One possible reason: the index of consumer confidence sank to its gloomiest reading in eight months. Firms remained wary of hiring: only 13,000 net new jobs were added to payrolls in June, as the unemployment rate nosed...
...oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed to deliver promised anticorruption legislation, despite intense popular demands to do so. That provoked a successful no-confidence motion in the Diet -- supported by Hata's group and 11 other L.D.P. legislators -- and hence...
Secretary of Defense Les Aspin warned that the academic quality of new recruits sank slightly in the first half of this year: only 94% had high school diplomas, vs. 97% in 1991. Aspin said he would spend more money on recruiting...
...March, the council sank into factional squabbling again. Harvard-Radcliffe Rock for Shelter members expressed anger that Beys was pressured to allot Phillips Brooks House $3,000 that they say was earmarked for Rock for Shelter...