Word: cons
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BRIAN MCCARTHY, spokesman for the National Football League, on plans to ensure that a pregame concert by the Rolling Stones steers clear of the band's controversial new song, Sweet Neo Con, whose lyrics include the lines "It's liberty for all/ Democracy's our style/ Unless you are against us/ Then it's prison without trial...
...mobile missile. The Soviets argue that the radar station will be used for tracking satellites, not enemy missiles, and that the SS-25 is merely a modernized version of the old SS-12. Pentagon hardliners insist that the scope of Soviet cheating is greater than most other experts con tend; on-site inspection may be the only way finally to resolve the debate...
...Italian tenor Emilio de Marchi, the first Cavaradossi, ringing the rafters with a triumphant Vittoria! in a 1903 Tosca. Here too is the white-hot French soprano Emma Calvé, a peerless Carmen; the Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (née Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brünnhildes in history. And here, in his only extant recording, is the Polish tenor De Reszke; the legendary voice is frustratingly obscured, but his Wagner...
...institutions. Most of the trading was thus probably not done by big investors. Shareholders who sold before early Wednesday afternoon stood to make huge profits, but those who held on too long watched their earnings evaporate. Said Bruce Lazier, an analyst at Prescott Ball & Turben: "Somebody did a giant con job on a lot of investors...
...Gaullist urge to preserve their military independence. "No blank checks," a French official said of Paris' refusal to go along with the U.S. action. Concurred a French army colonel: "We will not be the Americans' valet d'armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there today. West German leaders appear to have chosen to indulge the strong, barely dormant pacifist streak in the country...