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...Three-quarters of the customers, says the center's co-director, Janis Tirapelli Jamail, 34, are "professional people making money and taking care of themselves and their life-style." It requires some dedication, since more time is needed to prepare grains and beans than to throw a chop on the broiler. Jamail's husband Randall, a lawyer, has been converting yuppie friends by boasting that his energy level increased dramatically after he gave up meat. "These are power brokers who don't need that 2 p.m. sinking spell," he says. "They want that edge, the extra stamina that gets them...
Less than 24 hours after Dick Gephardt arrived in New Hampshire, Paul Simon's negative ads were on the air. They were designed to act as a video karate chop to the Iowa victor's momentum. Again, there were simple side-by- side head shots of the candidates followed by a slanted comparison of voting records. Gephardt's tracking polls showed his lead over Simon diminishing to almost zero...
...deficit. Huge chunks of the budget -- Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, which total more than $325 billion -- are granted automatically and do not require annual % reauthorization. Other spending measures, such as agricultural support programs ($26 billion), are politically sacrosanct. And while some Democrats might be ready to chop away at the $298 billion in defense spending, substantial Pentagon cuts would be unlikely under any Republican Administration. Thus, spending that is truly discretionary (read politically negotiable) amounts to less than 15% of the $1 trillion federal budget. Even if the President could manage to veto $150 billion of spending...
Russian is a language spoken with the hands, the eyebrows, an occasional shake of the head from side to side or a shrug of the shoulders. Gorbachev has mastered those gestures, and more. He may slice the air with a modified karate chop or spin his hands one over the other like a pinwheel, then extend them palms up in a gesture of vulnerability, only to clench them into fists a moment later. All the time his intense eyes lock onto a listener's. The eyes, he once told an audience in Prague, never lie. Much of his animation comes...
...given a new sense of urgency to congressional efforts to trim the federal budget. The fiscal 1988 budget calls for farm subsidies of $21 billion, down 6% from this year's, and the tentative deficit-cutting agreement reached two weeks ago by congressional and Administration leaders aims to chop out another $900 million. For many farmers, those federal payments can mean the difference between survival and failure. Montana farmers, for example, last year earned $303 million in net income but received $336 million in subsidies...