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...Babushkinsky District People's Court in northern Moscow. The judge, a petite brunet in a striped blouse and skirt, enters the room. Two citizen-jurists called "people's assessors," an elderly man and a young woman, follow her to the high-backed chairs behind the bench. On the docket: Borisova vs. Borisov, a divorce case...
Boris Borisov, a researcher at a Moscow institute, and his wife Nadezhda, who have been married for 15 years, sit apart in the front row of seats facing the bench. They might have been able to dissolve their marriage after a three-month waiting period simply by applying at the civil registry office, but because a child is involved, a boy of four, a court proceeding is required...
...Flak" and "Cuss and Discuss") carry wide-ranging opinions on men and munitions. Larry Loper, of Sugar Land, Texas, contributed the following to one discussion of the relative merits of 45s vs 9 mm ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take a baseball bat and slam it into your gut with all the force he can. Your skin remains unbroken and there is no wound. Yet you are rolling on the floor, puking, due to energy transmitted via hydrostasis and body reaction...
With dramatic suddenness, America's interest-rate fever broke last week. The bench-mark prime rate, the interest that banks charge their best corporate customers, dropped from 20% only four weeks ago to 17%. The popular $10,000 six-month money-market certificates, which carried Golcondan interest payoffs of 15.7% only six weeks ago, were offering a mere 9.5%. Even mortgage rates took a tumble. California's Home Savings & Loan, the nation's largest thrift institution, dropped its home lending rate from 17.5% to 12.75%. Said Irwin Kellner, chief economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover...
Clearing the bench for the next game against James Madison University, coach Carole Kleinfelder started two women from the J.V. squad, Sue Mentor and Marget Long, both of whom played the entire 50 minutes...