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...folks in Lincoln (pop. 180,000) have been spotting the lovebirds ever since. Lately everyone's been getting a smile, or a scowl, out of the fact that the Ohio-born actress was stopped for speeding in the Governor's state-leased car. The fuss prompted Kerrey to cancel her car privileges, and a collection was started to buy Winger a Swinger (a 1971 Dart, for $500). She used the cash instead to buy a station wagon for a home for troubled girls. "I've never been in love with a Governor before, so I don't know...
...years on grazing land. Under a 1985 law the leases can be inherited. Peasants own their draft animals, and those who prosper can buy machinery; ownership of tractors has burgeoned from 90,000 to 290,000 in the past two years. Though the state retains the power to cancel a peasant family's lease and award it to someone else, that power is rarely exercised. Farm families are increasingly regarding the good earth as theirs and using it about the way they would if they owned it outright...
...depressingly familiar set of attitudes, objectives and one-sided demands. The U.S.S.R. might withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, but only if that country remained under Soviet control; the U.S. must ultimately remove all its intermediate-range missiles from Western Europe, even though the Soviets dominate that category; Washington must cancel Star Wars despite a huge Soviet buildup in both offense and defense...
...price--for their own mismanagement and bad judgment. Liability insurance has always been a notoriously cyclical industry. Says Robert Hunter, head of the National Insurance Consumer Organization: "At the top of the cycle you write [policies for] everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle...
...Brendan Moore ’07 saw the effect of these often obscure regulations this April, when he was forced to cancel a long-planned shindig after finding out at the last minute that parties were prohibited that day because of MCATs...