Word: central
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...mood, the White House has already prepared a package of measures intended to improve American business competitiveness. The broad thrust of the Administration's approach will be unveiled in the President's Jan. 27 State of the Union address. Few of the measures, however, will bear directly on the central problems of the trade issue. They largely embrace such themes as stricter enforcement of antidumping laws and new definitions of monopoly that will take into account shares of international as well as domestic markets...
...real advantage of Mount Snow lies in its central base area, which allows skiers of all different abilities to meet easily for lunch and at the end of the day. This is also the case at Stratton and Okemo. Sugarbush and Killington, on the other hand, have more spread-out arrangements which make meeting up with friends of different skiing abilities slightly more difficult. Of course, for those who get tired of Mount Snow's offerings, Stratton is only a half-hour drive to the north...
Five years ago an article on Vermont's top resorts would not have included Okemo, a central Vermont mountain that has since undergone extensive reconstructive surgery...
...CENTRAL CHARACTER who ties several of these vignettes together is an aspiring actress named Sally White, played with characteristic grace and believability by--surprise, surprise--Mia Farrow. Even if Allen hadn't been shacking up with her, he would have been wise to cast her. Since he no longer sleeps with Diane Keaton, though, he has no excuse for giving her an entire scene in which she does nothing but sing...
...anyone but the central figures, and perhaps for them as well, mixed emotions are the only kind that seem fitting to bring to the New Jersey courtroom where a landmark case involving custody of a 9 1/2-month-old infant is being heard. Mary Beth Whitehead thought she knew herself in 1985, when she contracted, as a surrogate mother, to bear a child for William and Elizabeth Stern. But her certainties crumbled when she gave birth last March to the girl she calls Sara, the Sterns call Melissa and court papers call Baby M. In hours of emotional testimony last week, Whitehead...