Word: though
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...natural order. Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez's homage to the far North, is an exemplar of the search to resolve the tensions between human aspirations and natural harmony. In the cold half-light of the Arctic, the author finds an altar to bow before, a place where life, though a mere brushstroke on the frozen plains, still manages to give meaning and beauty to an otherwise bleak world...
...same time, though, merchants are protecting their perilously thin profit margins by cutting expenses, especially inventory costs. Macy's, which was swept up in the price-cutting panic among big stores last Christmas when it found itself more than 10% overstocked, is carrying about $640 million less inventory this year. Orders of U.S.-made apparel are down 8% industry-wide this season, while in Hong Kong clothing manufacturers report a flurry of canceled and curtailed orders from big U.S. stores...
PROFITEERING. While state-run stores are empty, the country's free farmers' markets offer an abundance of everything from mandarin oranges and pickled garlic to sunflower oil. Prices, though, are staggering. The average annual income of Soviets is only 250 rubles, and so few can afford the luxury of tomatoes at 10 rubles for about two pounds, or beef at 30 rubles a cut. Peasants gripe that free markets in Moscow are under the control of black- marketeering middlemen from the Caucasian republics who are deliberately limiting supplies to keep prices high. Managers of state-run shops also hold back...
...state-controlled media continue to attack the U.S. bitterly for its support of Israel. In addition, Damascus officials have asserted that the 3,000 Syrian troops in Saudi Arabia will defend the desert kingdom but will not participate in an attack against the army of another Arab nation, even though Saddam and Assad, who head rival wings of the socialist Baath party, bitterly resent each other...
...that counts," says a Western diplomat. That point was emphasized earlier this month, when the first of 300 Syrian tanks and other armored vehicles arrived at the Saudi port of Yanbu. Assad had agreed to the shipment in September but claimed that transportation problems had delayed the deployment. Though Western diplomats initially dismissed that excuse, they now believe Assad and are confident that Damascus will honor its original commitment to send its entire 9th Armored Division, totaling...