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Politically, Thatcher was still basking in the afterglow of the Falklands victory. Last week a Market & Opinion Research International poll in London showed that 81% of the country felt "prouder to be British." But the Falklands hangover now afflicting Argentina could eventually have a British counterpart. Parliamentary scuffling has already begun in London, where Thatcher's government faces inquiries into why Argentina's invasion of the Falklands came as such a surprise. The Prime Minister was embarrassed by the publication of a letter she had written to a Tory loyalist on Feb. 3, claiming that the Royal Marine...
Workers in the U.S. earn more than those doing the same job elsewhere, but there are some exceptions. The U.S. trails several European countries in some fields, especially white-collar ones. A receptionist in the U.S. earns $10,900, but his or her counterpart draws $17,920 in Switzerland, $11,439 in The Netherlands and $13,650 in Belgium. An army general in Australia gets $58,160, in West Germany $51,609, in Britain $64,018, but only...
Selection for Radcliffe's lot a chapter are done similarly, but it has a higher final acceptance rate, 15 percent, than its male counterpart. Sasan Bush '55, chairman of lota's Committee on Undergraduate. Eligibility said yesterday. Bush added that she found a "small trend towards more Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappas moving towards the science...
Democrats, including Edwin Steffe's real-life counterpart, complain that the Republicans and their New York agency (Korey, Kay & Partners) have stretched the bounds of truth too far even for a political advertisement. Harrumphs O'Neill: "Better for whom? It's only better for the wealthy." Congressman Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, correctly points out that the current recession began six months after Reagan took office. The Democrats, who do not have the money for a similar campaign of their own, threatened that they may demand free time...
...good old days: "Remember lingerie?" The refiners are led by Pappagallo (Mike Preston), who carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity, and Feral Kid (Emil Minty), an eight-year-old who growls in anger, purrs with pleasure, performs backflips into burrows and wields the demon boomerang. His counterpart in the marauders is Wez (Vernon Wells), a Feral Kid gone wrong. War-painted and Apache-coiffed, Wez has a mind that performs acrobatics of sadism and a scream that sounds like stripped gears. But Wez is a Muppet compared with his leader, the lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), "warrior...