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...communicates that anger forcing him to abandon his pregnant lover is justified. But as his lover, Karen Ford presents the other side of the same suffocating reality. He may be free to leave; she is trapped, forced to give in, obliged to abandon her dreams of self-respect and upward mobility...
...have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...
...entire floor of the 150-ft. by 150-ft. building. Inside the gleaming, metal-lined boxes lay the charred and mostly still unidentified remains of 576 victims of the worst accident in aviation history. The limbs were fixed in what pathologists term the "pugilistic position"?arms extended upward and bent inward. At Tenerife, this death posture, common in burn cases, looked like a gesture of supplication...
...first assault occurred shortly after 11 a.m., when seven Hanafis, led by Khaalis himself, burst into the headquarters of B'nai B'rith, the world's largest and oldest Jewish service organization. Moving upward floor by floor, they seized dozens of hostages, shooting at some, slapping and cutting others, shouting that they were ready to die for Allah. The hostages were herded into a conference room, the windows of which were then painted over...
...differential"-the margin by which the wages of skilled workers exceed those of the less skilled. Since the social contract held all increases to a flat monetary standard and ruled out raises in Phase 1 above a $14,000-a-year ceiling, the effect was to push low wages upward and restrict higher ones. A machine-tool operator in British Leyland's truck and bus division now makes more a week ($118.84) than his supervisor...