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...walked out to meet me, and R.M. immediately popped out of the adjacent room, silently pointing at the lamps, ceiling and furniture, where she presumed the bugs were concealed. We stood there for a while leaning on the railing ((of the balcony)). I told R.M., "Look at this cliff with a watchtower on top. Tesseli is right behind it. I vacationed several times in Tesseli and used to swim here from that cliff. I sunbathed here, and then swam back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Four Desperate Days | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...example I'd use for [fiscal year 1992] is we didn't fall over the edge of the cliff, but we're on the edge of the cliff. We are balanced, but it is a very tentative balance," House Ways and Means Committee Chair Thomas Finneran (D-Boston) said in an interview...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Increases in State Spending Unlikely | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...things to ban -- all in the interest, naturally, of slimming health-care costs. One company in Pennsylvania, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, has barred its managers from riding motorcycles: too risky. A Georgia firm has warned its employees to stay away from such life-threatening activities as cliff climbing and surfing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accusations Busybodies: New Puritans Repent! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...price of the new rights climbed from 5 1/2 each on Monday to 8 3/8 at the end of the week. "Investors seem to be breathing a huge sigh of relief," said Christopher Dixon, an analyst for PaineWebber. "This is a significant improvement over the blind rights offering," concurred Cliff Hinkle, executive director of the Florida State Board of Administration, a pension-fund manager that holds 188,000 Time Warner shares and had joined a stockholder suit against the previous plan. "Before, you couldn't tell how much you were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Finance: Time Warner | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...chance. The women eye him, eye the drop ahead of them, imagine a prison stretch, contemplate the last free choice available to them -- life or death -- and floor the accelerator, sailing off the cliff into the movie's concluding whiteout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

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