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...state in southern Lebanon, he rode around Beirut in a Mercedes with as many as eight bodyguards. Well before the Achille Lauro hijacking, he had a penchant for bizarre and ineffective operations. In 1981 he tried to infiltrate raiders across the Lebanese border into Israel by hot-air balloon and hang glider; they were killed or captured...
...balloon-bedecked stage of the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville, Tenn., became a backdrop for Ronald Reagan one night during the 1984 presidential sweepstakes. That evening the image of the President standing next to Minnie Pearl and singing happy birthday to Roy Aikens flashed on television screens...
...interpretation is ravioli with langoustine on melting leaves of cabbage. Although always immaculately cooked, Robuchon's creations are occasionally a bit too bland. ! Examples are his celebrated fillet of lamb in a salt crust and the chicken poached in a pig's bladder that puffs up like a jolly balloon. Because he finds the quality of French beef and veal inconsistent, he does not serve them...
...today its rhythm, structure and content are unlike any that went before. The nation is growing middle-aged and more solitary. Men and women are delaying marriage, delaying childbirth, having few or no children at all. Real income, once expected to rise as naturally as a hot-air balloon, has leveled off. For many, home ownership, once thought of as practically a constitutional right, has become a dream denied. Demography is destiny, and Americans of today, in ways both obvious and subtle, are inventing the America of tomorrow...
...provision would tax businesses on sums they had deducted under current depreciation rules. It was added just days before the package was announced largely because an extra $20 billion was needed to make the plan revenue neutral in 1988. Finally, during the six months between the Treasury's trial balloon last November and the formal presentation to Congress last week, the Administration listened to dozens of lobbyists contending, in the sardonic words of Treasury Secretary James Baker, that "if we go forward with a particular provision or another, it is the end of the Western world as we know...