Word: workmanship
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Lambasting Washington, Wall Street and special-interest groups everywhere, Iacocca, 63, complains that too many Americans are unwilling to make the compromises necessary to attack such problems as federal deficits, trade imbalances, ineffective high schools and shoddy workmanship. Unlike many industrialists, he calls for a more activist Federal Government. "The next President must find a way to ease the polarization, because we don't seem much like a 'United' States anymore -- just a bunch of fifty states, each doing its own thing...
...years after Reactor No. 4 spewed fatal clouds of radiation from the Chernobyl power station, the Soviet public was jolted last week by another blast. The Communist Party daily Pravda charged that sloppy workmanship, mismanagement and lax safety standards -- the very conditions blamed for causing the accident that claimed 31 lives -- continue to plague the Chernobyl complex. Fumed the newspaper: "It is as though there hasn't been an accident...
...down villages are sprouting postmodern chapels, delicate Oriental bell towers and high-tech confections of steel girders and stained glass. Not all are distinctive, but Krzysztof Chwalibog, deputy chairman of the Association of Polish Architects in Warsaw, contends, "This is bringing back good design to Poland." Good workmanship too. Unlike secular Polish buildings, which seem to sag and crack even before completion, most churches are being built to last. The same workmen who rarely worry about right angles for the state are lavishing care on ecclesiastical projects. They are inspired by faith and the commitment of most congregations...
...another conflagration. The latest tensions surround North Korea's ongoing construction of a huge dam just north of the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone. South Koreans are convinced that, once completed, the dam will pose a major danger to Seoul. They fear that it will either collapse because of poor workmanship or, in a darker view, be deliberately burst by the Communists, perhaps as a prelude to invasion or in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming Olympics. In response, the South Koreans have begun construction of a countervailing "peace dam" that would trap any released waters and send them back north...
...trademark of current Latin American fiction, but also of the author's own brand of passion and sexual intrigue. It is a virtuosic work that takes on a variety of ideas and stories, remaining engaging throughout its many facets. And still it attempts to go beyond its technical workmanship. It has a sympathetic message to deliver, revealed in the closing words: "More than to hug them, I want ... to talk to them ... and it could even be ... that we would understand each other...