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...best way to describe how the baseball season opened is to coin a phrase about the way the ball bounces. There were some pretty crazy hops...
...years, including a 66,000-sq.-ft. circular supermarket that will be Europe's largest single food store. The largest store now is also owned by Minimax: its Pryca store in Madrid, which sells TV sets as well as T-bone steaks, also provides shoe repair and coin-operated laundry service. So successful is the store that the chain is already building three more stores in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one in Malaga...
...claim is spurious. Though Maxwell Amberley twitches and jumps to plenty of religious alarums, the genuine spiritual conflicts never quite make it onto the stage. Instead, big worldly events distract the reader from his wholly justified suspicion that the business of the soul is being carried on in false coin...
Caveat Emptor. The tax angle has also heightened the appeal of shares in oil wells, which enable the investor to claim the 27½% depletion allowance and write off the expenses of drilling and operating the wells. There is speculation in money itself: the growth of coin collecting in recent years has nudged the value of uncirculated coins up as much as 70% a year. Diamonds, long a solid investment, are attracting more investors than ever; prices of small stones have risen 7% in the last year. Another longtime investment area, commodities futures, is winning new enthusiasts. For as little...
...naked Kalahari bushmen, whose ways have not changed since they learned to paint on rocks 15,000 years ago. At the polling place-in some cases a tidy brick schoolhouse, in others a thatch-roofed hut beneath a twisted mopane tree-each voter received a handful of col ored, coin-size counters representing the candidates of five political parties. Cynics called it "the tiddlywinks poll," but when all the cardboard disks were counted last week, Bechuanaland had wisely and overwhelmingly elected as its first Prime Minister an African leader with just the right qualifications: moderation, modesty and multiracial understanding...