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Carefully bending a taster spoon between my teeth, I snap and catapult it at Nancy. It smacks into the back of her neck and she jerks forward into the spray hose hanging next to the smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I chant, dancing triumphantly out of her reach. The waist high smoosh-hose is a chronic problem for scoopers, whose rushes to the board often leave them looking incontinent. Nancy sends a confetti cloud of powdered Reeses at my head...
...amount of cash that Drexel has raised through junk bonds has zoomed from $839 million in 1981 to $13 billion so far this year. Fees from those securities helped catapult Drexel from a second-tier investment house, ranked eleventh in 1978, to one of the three or four most powerful firms on Wall Street. Drexel's 1986 revenues will reach an estimated $6 billion, up from $4 billion last year. Milken has prospered even more stunningly. By far the most highly compensated Drexel employee, Milken, now 40, has amassed a fortune, estimated at more than $500 million. Yet Drexel...
...course. Chevy Chase in his tux intends to perform his Ford-the-Klutz routine of stumbling and bumping, the old Saturday Night Live act that helped catapult him to national notice. "But I've got to be careful," warns Chase. "I've got a couple of squashed disks in my back now, and I can't take falls like I used to." When Ford first called to ask him to join in the presidential hilarity, Chase thought there had been a mistake. "After all, I'd been pretty mean...
Eric Davis and Dave Parker rocked Steve Carlton with home runs yesterday to catapult the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League's traditional season opener...
That disagreement took the bloom off the Camp David accords, made it far more difficult for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to convince other Arabs that he had not sold out the Palestinian cause, and helped catapult the peace process into the limbo in which it remains today. How did the confusion arise? In a new book, Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics, published last week by the Brookings Institution, Middle East Expert William Quandt, a staff member of the National Security Council during the Carter Administration and a participant in the Camp David talks, provides an insider's account...