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...never done, Mackintosh tried Miss Saigon in the West End, where theatergoing is a steadier habit and Vietnam guilt is not a local concern. He then relied on word of mouth among U.S. tourists to build up a buzz. By now it is a crescendo, enough to let him catapult Broadway's top single-show price to $100, a level previously limited to scalpers, for each of 250 front mezzanine seats, and to $60 for nearly all the rest...
...rebuild L.A. Gear's momentum, chairman Robert Greenberg signed singer Paula Abdul to endorse her own line. The company also hopes youngsters will go for Sun Blossoms tennis shoes, which sport white vinyl flowers that change color in sunlight. To top it off, the company will launch Catapult, a $100 shoe designed to compete with Nike's Air Jordan and Reebok's the Pump...
During the Crimson's five league wins in its previous six games, the superline's scoring total was enough to catapult the squad to victory. But seemingly constant man-down situations following Harvard penalties gave the Saints and Knights a few too many scoring opportunities...
...budget, Bush requested a $100 million increase in the education programs of the National Science Foundation and $230 million to help states improve math and science teaching. But such paltry amounts will not catapult U.S. students from last to first place worldwide in math and science by the year 2000, another goal. Unless Bush does much more -- starting with choosing an inspiring Education Secretary -- he deserves no better than an Incomplete on his report card...
Indeed, this "protest" helped catapult both Silber and Weld over their primary opponents...