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...LoPresti has consistently opposed changes to the existing system, which allows Bulger to kill any bill he opposes, to appoint all committee chairmen, to hold all-night meetings in which dubious laws are passed, and to punish senators who are not loyal...
...bureaucratic tone, the announcement triggered a week of political drama that led within days to the collapse of France's fragile and often acrimonious "union of the left." After a series of all-night marathon discussions, the Communist Party announced that it was quitting Mitterrand's three-year-old Socialist administration. "We do not have the moral right to allow millions of women, men and disappointed youths to believe that we can meet their expectations within the present government," declared Communist Spokesman Pierre Juquin. "We refuse to deceive them, as we refuse to deceive ourselves...
...All-night drugstores and supermarkets are becoming more commonplace in the U.S. these days. Another kind of commerce may also have a nocturnal glimmer: stock trading. Last week officials of both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange said they were taking the first look at the possibility of expanding trading hours beyond the current 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., which have prevailed for a decade...
Executive changes have also roiled the company. Two months ago Chairman Donald Lloyd-Jones quit over differences with directors. He was replaced by Ven ture Capitalist J.R.K. Tinkle, who last week presided over the all-night executive session that grounded the carrier...
What started as a pleasant diversion when he was a young Chicago comedian turned into a hundreds-of-dollars-a-day habit when he was a big star in the late 1970s. Belushi did "blow" (cocaine) practically daily, and, as Woodward tells it, would go on all-night binges during which he would bounce from party to party be it West or Last Coast on a perpetual high. The high extended to the set of whatever movie he was filming--Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and Continental Divide, to name three--where he was combative, uncooperative, and finally wildly talented...