Word: brings
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...Congressmen from oil and gas states are seeking an oil import fee to raise the price of foreign crude and protect the U.S. energy industry. Says Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma, who last week wrote Reagan urging him to support the plan: "If prices fall further, it will bring our exploration to a screeching halt." At Boren's request, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, agreed last week to hold hearings on the proposal...
...election day, bring two pieces of bread and a bottle of water. Bring a candle too. You should stay until the voting and the counting are over. If you think these will not do, bring a 2-by-2 piece of wood and protect your ballot with...
...space-- actors rise through the floor and almost to the ceiling, musicians are suspended in a metal-mesh box above the stage--and the strength of its newly expanded ensemble. Stanley Anderson is by turns uproarious, winsome and infuriating as the despicable Lord Are. Casey Biggs and Kim Staunton bring dignity and slow- dawning horror to the doomed servant Bob and his wife. And Tom Hewitt excels as the lord's other footman, as defiant as Bob is trusting. In a sardonic twist by Bond, this challenge to authority gets nowhere. Caught as a runaway thief, the self-assertive servant...
AMERICAN NOTES FUND RAISERS SUPER SUNDAY'S SPECIAL SPOT HALF-TIME SHOW DURING SUNDAY'S SUPER BOWL. KEN KRAGEN FIGURED THAT IF HE ENLISTED AT LEAST 6% OF THEM, HE MIGHT BRING OFF WHAT MAY BE THE MOST UNUSUAL CHARITY PROMOTION IN U.S. HISTORY. THE SHOW-BUSINESS MANAGER, WHO IS ALSO PRESIDENT OF USA FOR AFRICA, DREAMS OF A CHAIN OF PEOPLE WHO WILL PAY $10 EACH TO LINK HANDS...
...Jersey newspaper asks, IS YOUR CHILD CAUGHT IN A FAILURE CHAIN? Another in California urges, GIVE YOUR KIDS AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. Both pitches are aimed at the same customers: parents with the cash and the desire to bring a lagging schoolchild up to speed or to put a bright youngster ahead of his classmates. In the past few years such appeals have been pulling thousands of pupils (including a smattering of adults) into private, for- profit learning chains, which are spreading across the country...