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Bruegger's will have "a brand-new look," according to Akmakjian Akmakjian, construction supervisor of the renovation by Straight Up Builders Inc. "We're starting from scratch," Akmakjian said...
...Next, in separate legislation, they will turn to future years, but will have to balance the tax-cut goal with another of the contract's promises: beefing up the Pentagon budget. The job is particularly difficult for the House's relatively inexperienced Republican staff, which finds itself in a brand-new world of reality. As a former G.O.P. Budget Committee staff member put it, "When you are in the minority, you have the luxury of knowing that nothing you do will ever really happen. You can cobble the numbers together for maximum political effect...
Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton; $14.99), presents a rousing rarity: a brand-new backwoods legend, written mostly for girls, that has the feel of real frontier storytelling. Angelica Longrider, born in Tennessee in 1815 and known far and wide as Swamp Angel, was "scarcely taller than her mother" at birth, and -- though her father gave her a shiny new ax to play with in her cradle -- "was a full two years old before she built her first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide...
...nations that can't afford brand-new weaponry, the Pentagon is literally giving away older but still lethal pieces of its cold war arsenal. Pentagon officials say such gifts help nurture closer ties between U.S. and foreign militaries and save millions of dollars that the Defense Department would otherwise have to pay to scrap arms. Among recent donations: Egypt received 700 M-60 tanks and nearly 1,500 machine guns; Israel was handed 15 F-15 fighters and 16 CH-53 helicopters; Mexico took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already...
...Moses himself had come thundering into Washington, his shiny brand-new Cadillac easily parting a group of curious onlookers. He spoke of the tantalizing lure of the "counterculture" versus the redemption of school prayer. He grimly warned of the perilous state of civilization--unless, of course, the country embraced his Ten Commandments, otherwise known as "Contract with America...