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Nicholas (reading a newspaper clip): The Crummies troupe is about to cross the Atlantic on a histrionic expedition, and Crummies is quite certain to succeed...
...million shortfall, Illinois is requiring welfare recipients to chip in a dollar for every doctor visit or pharmacy order. Explains Budget Director Robert Mandeville: "This will cause folks to think twice." 1982, this program will be cut by $1.1 billion. Nearly all states will be forced to either clip or eliminate completely the benefits for 7% of all recipients. Some states are seeking ways to make up the shortfall by cutting overhead; officials of the Pennsylvania department of public welfare, for instance, discovered that the new, simplified regulations will allow them to get rid of a computer-run management system...
...helped make Alter a millionaire several times over. Though the twin hulls of Hobie Cats make the vessels a bit tougher to maneuver than single-hulled sailboats, the real thrill of skippering a Cat is in its exhilarating speed. The lightweight vessels can reach a motorboat clip of nearly 25 m.p.h. in a fresh wind. Exclaimed the America's Cup champion Ted Turner after sailing a Hobie Cat: "That's the most fun I ever had in my whole life on any sailboat, and I've been on a lot of sailboats...
...says, "we drew fire. The shooting got started good. Then we got into the village and started going through it, house by house. I was searching one of the houses, when I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye. I just turned and fired a full clip. Then I looked ... It was a woman, maybe eight months pregnant. The burst had taken her right across the midline. The fetus was hanging out ..." His voice is halting and husky in the telling. "I was so cold about it. When we were adding up the dead, I counted...
...advertiser wants to trade 20 refund forms. While couponing and refunding are hardly new-one of the first cents-off offers was devised in the 1890s by C.W. Post to perk up sales of Postum-they have accelerated in recent years at what might be called a rapid clip. With inflation grabbing from household budgets, those cents-off coupons and money-back refund offers have become more than an appealing way of stretching the food dollar: to many they are a way of life...