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...night in early September Caroline and a girlfriend went to the Picadilly Filly. When the bouncer asked the two women for positive I.D. they were aghast, Caroline recalls. "In New York no one ever asks for I.D.," she says, "No one cares...
While high-tech executives are jubilant and oilmen sigh with relief, builders and real estate operators are aghast. The tax changes specifically targeted at their industry, such as the extension of the "at-risk" rule for shelters and new guidelines on what profits qualify for capital-gains treatment, are just the start of their troubles. Like other businesses, they will get less generous deductions for depreciation, and that is an especially important item for them, since their business consists so heavily of dealings in those highly depreciable properties, buildings. Adding up all the ways in which realty taxes will...
...Move's headquarters, authorities found eleven bodies, four of them children. The fire had destroyed 53 houses and severely damaged eight others. It left some 240 people homeless. The financial cost: at least $8 million. The historic City of Brotherly Love was numb, the onlooking world aghast. In newspapers and on television, the story created a first-glance impression that Philadelphia police had launched a cruel military operation against an entire neighborhood...
...guns would ever work adequately; even a relatively small "leakage" through the defensive umbrella would rain down horrendous destruction. Military specialists have pointed out that there is a variety of ways the Soviets could slip weapons through even the most sophisticated, multilayered space-based defenses. Economists and politicians are aghast at the eventual total cost (some estimates range from $500 billion to a cool trillion...
...seemed more at ease, almost liberated. When she went on a good-will tour to Liberia in 1972, her personality changed almost as soon as her plane crossed the continental shelf. She glowed, laughed and lofted tiny barbs of irreverence. When native dancers appeared barebreasted, White House aides were aghast. But she watched admiringly and applauded. TIME's Bonnie Angelo, who accompanied Mrs. Nixon, recalled last week, "I saw Pat Ryan, the pretty schoolteacher from Whittier, Calif., emerge from another era and flower for a few precious days...