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...Black female pop-folk soloist, Woods inevitably invites comparisons with such singers as Joan Armatrading and Tracy Chapman. But she says, "That comparison doesn't bother me. I think my music is so different from what they do that those comparisons last maybe one or two songs...
...Kabaidze, 64, general director of a machine-tool plant in the city of Ivanovo. Earthy and outspoken, Kabaidze took pleasure in skewering the ministerial bureaucracy that oversees Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a minister can catch mice, feed him. If he can't, don't bother." He also denounced the bloated cadre of "scientific workers" who are designated to carry out state-supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference. "There are supposed to be 900,000 scientific workers in Moscow. What...
...involved says that Lackner supplied Hazeltine, through Parkin, with invaluable "market intelligence" on the Navy's needs for IFF gear, much of the information either internal or leaked before it was supposed to be made public. (Hazeltine denies receiving any inside dope.) Parkin, says TIME's source, did not bother to ask Lackner where he was getting his stuff; perhaps he did not want to know. Lackner acknowledges getting information about IFF from Berlin, but contends that he broke no laws...
Alternatively there are the grasses that do not need to be mowed, another favorite choice of those too busy to bother. New York City Art Dealers Carole and Alex Rosenberg cultivated a tangle of weeds at their house in Water Mill, Long Island. "I read about English gardens," Carole explains. "They are too fussy for me." Someone suggested ornamental grasses from the Washington-based landscape-architect firm of Oehme, van Sweden, as a solution. The Rosenbergs' sloping lawn is now intersected and ringed with free-form gardens of 3-ft. grasses, Scotch Broom covered with saffron blossoms, blue allium balls...
...lowest voter turnouts in the West. Everyone has his reasons: difficult voter-registration procedures, a large and apolitical underclass, a general contentment that makes people not even bother to vote. But there is another explanation: boredom. People are so disappointed with the nominees for President that they see no point in expending great effort to choose among them...