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...reiterated earlier declarations of intent or endorsed vague goals that have already provoked dispute. The "principle" of a 50% reduction in nuclear arms begs such extremely tricky questions as whether gravity bombs aboard bombers (in which the U.S. has an advantage) should be lumped together with more threatening warheads atop large missiles (in which the Soviets have the lead). The statement also promoted the "idea" of an interim compromise on medium-range weapons, which Washington first floated in 1983 and Moscow proposed this fall. But there again, both sides are still a long way from agreement about what kinds...
Lawrence Taylor, the New York Giants' most wanton pass rusher, almost swooned on national TV at the sight of a new hinge atop Theismann's right sock. Joe looked up and told a ring of Giants, "You guys broke my leg." Human nature being what it is, they mumbled apologies. Theismann being Theismann, he proclaimed, "I'll be back." Football players being football players, Linebacker Harry Carson said, "Not tonight...
...exactly when Pennzoil's shares started on their unearthly ascent. Said N.Y.S.E. Vice President Richard Torrenzano: "We noticed greater activity both in terms of price and volume by late morning on Tuesday." In Houston, Liedtke first learned of the stock spurt when he received a call in his office atop Pennzoil Place. Said he: "I could only guess that there had been some kind of leak by Texaco about the offer they were going to make." Liedtke later sent a cable to the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington asking the agency to investigate whether Texaco was responsible...
Kevin Kline's Hamlet, mordantly funny and a persuasive whirlpool of contradictions, establishes him atop his generation of actors...
...Atop the dismal failure rate, an additional 20% of those originally offered the test refused to take it, most for fear of revealing their illiteracy. From these results, Barnes projects that 17 million to 21 million adults in the U.S. cannot read. And this is only some of the bad news. The figures refute the impression, based on a 1979 Census Bureau study, that only one-half of 1% of Americans over 14 are illiterate. This survey assumed that anyone who had finished the fifth grade could read, and fostered the notion that most illiterates are elderly rural people...