Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ENGAGED. Elizabeth Taylor, 52, violet-eyed veteran of stage, screen and marital campaigns, including two spectacularly publicized ones with the late Richard Burton; and Dennis Stein, 52, entrepreneur, man-about-New York City and her steady companion since they met a month ago, reportedly on a blind date; she for the eighth time (she is once widowed and six times divorced, most recently from Virginia Senator John Warner in 1982), he for the second; in Los Angeles...
...black ink is concentrated in just five states: California, New Jersey, Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin. Moreover, financial experts consider a healthy surplus to be 5% of total state spending; this year's surpluses average between 3% and 4%. The reserves are highly sensitive to economic fluctuations. Explains James Burton, executive secretary of California's commission on state finances: "A small dip in the national economy can wipe us out fast...
...congressional aides, 700 Executive Branch staffers and 3,000 journalists are stored in Heritage's computer, so that reports and press releases can be targeted to opinion leaders in various fields. So far this year, Heritage has churned out 219 publications in its basement printing plant. Says Burton Yale Pines, director of research: "We want to ensure, in this war of ideas going on, that conservatives are represented...
Allred, 43, has not limited her "sexploitation" cases to women. When Actor LeVar Burton wanted custody of an illegitimate child that he admitted siring, Allred got him joint custody. She has also countersued the producers of the movie Hardrock for $1 million on behalf of another actor, Neal Sheldon, who walked off the film because he was asked to appear in the nude...
...Secretary of Education, T.H. Bell, and his Attorney General, William French Smith, have planned to leave for some time, but the bulk of his Cabinet will carry on. Reagan's physician, Daniel Ruge, has been training a replacement, Los Angeles Physician Burton Smith, for more than a year. There will be other changes, some expected and some not. But they will be ripples on a tranquil surface. When a man is over a certain age, Harry Truman noted, change is not that welcome. At 73, forget it. Reagan may have produced a landslide, but he is really a glacier...