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Having forged both a musical and a lyrical direction for themselves, the B-52's appear to have potential for further development. The boppers of the eighties will find it refreshing to realize that one of the best party bands around may distinguish themselves as more than just a quick...
Jacob also knows what's in a name. He proposed calling his operation the J. Rothschild Investment Trust in order to distinguish it from the N.M. Rothschild bank, but Evelyn turned down that suggestion. Finally Jacob capitulated. Saying that he was sad that the "difference of opinion within the family" had become public, he resigned as a director of N.M. Rothschild and agreed to change his firm's name to RIT Ltd. However, he has put management of its assets into another organization called J. Rothschild and Co., meaning he will continue to display the family label...
Addressing a problem such as the staffing of the enormous executive branch, the IOP study group does not distinguish very much between the Anderson or Reagan camps. Because of the general nature of their analysis, "the presentations really do not need to be that different," research fellow Al Alm, another committee member, says. Moore, carefully avoiding an answer which would classify Reagan as the current statistical frontrunner or Anderson as a third party long shot, says the studies will be "similar, though not identical in all aspects." "We do not have to worry so much about ideology or the latest...
...essayist has been torn by the happy agony of deciding whether to leave the city for the country, and upon leaving, when to return. Nowadays the tension of two homes is stock-in-trade for the essayist, though few display the pertinacious ease and delight with acquired folkways that distinguish both Hoagland and his counterpart, John McPhee...
Messed up little boys and girls are not at all uncommon in the grass-green and asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...