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...council approved the name change last October, but delayed the sign switch for six months because local businessmen said they needed time to adjust...
...with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both the trend toward family crisis dramas and space adventures with the ungainly title Divorce Wars. The books on pop self-analysis which have bloated the "psychology" section of bookstores are the attempt of this generation to try and adjust rock-and-roll ethics to "parenting" and the rest of adulthood. It doesn't work. The two forty-bound protagonists of this latest addition to the tiresome genre keep talking about "learning to grow up." We seem to have no choice but to watch the maturing of our elders...
...cease within two to four years. Reason: inflation would boost Americans into higher tax brackets and thus increase revenues faster than spending. The Reagan tax-cut bill passed by Congress last summer changed that pattern. It not only slashed current rates, but also called for indexing, which will automatically adjust brackets to keep taxpayers from paying a higher percentage of their income simply because of inflation. As a result, unless Congress comes up with more budget cuts or new revenues, the annual deficit will top $200 billion...
Murrer came to Harvard with the intention of playing only football. But once the season ended and he found himself with time on his hands, he decided to return to running. At first he found it hard to adjust to the length of the combined winter and spring track seasons, and he didn't even make varsity spring of his freshman year...
...some, the genre means smooth pop, to others L.A. noise, ask, regae, whatever. Burma hates the New Wave label, but that's what sells in a lot of places today. Burma aspires to solvency, and the band members can adjust equally well to Jasper's and White Russians or to the Paradise and crazy kid punks, though it seems they might prefer a melding of the two: enthusiastic dancing-types who can afford to pay real cover charges. Capitalism doesn't pose problems for Burma, as it does for some hands they play with. At Jasper's the opening group...