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...urgent negotiations between Administration officials and congressional leaders were carried out in uncommon secrecy. Twice the group met at 7 a.m. at George Bush's house; each time the Vice President had already left for work, to throw sniffing journalists off the scent. There were dawn breakfasts at the homes of top White House Aide James Baker and House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones. The impressive result: tentative agreement on a sweeping plan to reduce the projected 1983 deficit by billions through spending cuts, adjustments to the Social Security program and new taxes. If approved, the compromise would bring...
...Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Prange...
...Falklands and Britain and despite the defensive position the Argentinians now hold on the islands. The British used their advantage well when they declared a 200 mile war zone around the Falklands and threatened to sink any Argentine ship to cross the invisible line in the sea after dawn on Monday. Given the circumstances, and Britain's aggressive response, the Argentines will have...
...Como and Danny Kaye from the 1940s to the 1960s; in New York City. He wrote, directed and acted in Easy Aces, a popular radio comedy from 1928 to 1945, which featured his wife Jane as a dippy mangier of language ("a ragged individualist," "up at the crank of dawn"). Ace, who always greeted his friends with a joke, asked that his tombstone be inscribed: "No flowers, please. I'm allergic...
Many of Armani's things for women are too unusual and finely detailed-and thus too expensive-to knock off, but his jackets have been endlessly copied. "You can copy the look," cautions Dawn Mello, executive vice president of Bergdorf Goodman, "but you can never copy the fit." Indeed, Mello's description of wearing an Armani suit goes past simple enthusiasm or even shrewd salesmanship; it sounds like a recollection of a heavy first date. "Armani really put women in suits," she says. "He emancipated them, in a way. A man expects his suits to be very well...