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...year since Mikhail Gorbachev announced a sweetening of incentives for foreign investment in Soviet industry, many U.S. corporations have nibbled but none have bitten until now. Last week a Connecticut petroleum-engineering firm signed up for a $16 million U.S.-Soviet joint venture to develop control systems for oil refineries and petrochemical plants. Combustion Engineering of Stamford will supply the technological know-how, while the Soviet oil ministry provides equipment and labor. Although control over the venture is tipped 51% to 49% in favor of the Soviets, the pact offers something for both sides: Moscow gets access to badly needed...
...fact, is unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest. Nebraska, it turns out, has 376 one-room school houses. Half of first-time brides in Kentucky are teenagers. Turning its sights on the nation as a whole, the Index informs that every year 6312 postmen are bitten by dogs and that American's favorite meal is steak and potatoes...
Director Phil Alden Robinson, whose previous credits include the screenplay for All Of Me, weaves the story of Carver in a relentlessly sentimental sweetness fest that made me long for the hard-bitten realism of Bambi, or at least Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
...medical bills before his problem was correctly diagnosed: he had Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks. Says Dabney, chief ranger for the National Park Service: "I'm convinced that a lot of people are being treated for arthritis when they've been bitten by a tick...
...stock-picking bug has even bitten people who would ordinarily take no pleasure in studying price-earnings ratios and balance sheets. "It's so simple, it's insane. If you do this carefully, it's like picking money off trees," declares Michael Petryni, a Los Angeles screenwriter, sounding more like a TV pitchman. But behind the scenes, Petryni spends at least two hours a day studying financial papers like Investor's Daily and following stock quotes using the same computer terminal on which he writes his scripts...