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...contract with the players' union -- but, like a randy widow, couldn't help throwing money at those big, handsome athletes. Even the barons of the N.F.L. can no longer look smugly upon the agitation of lesser moguls; last week they acceded to the players' suit for free agency. Serves 'em right: let the bidding frenzy spread like...
...spent a week's worth of boring Economics lectures brainstorming ideas for our party. Having seen 'em all--'80s revivals, masquerades, dance parties, '80s masquerade dances--we wanted to do something different. Something that would, at 1 a.m., leave exultant partygoers' heads swimming in more than just alcohol fumes. Something that would leave them satisfied that Harvard doesn't need finals clubs to anchor a social scene, confident that occasionally they had more fun than their high school friends who went to state universities, and, most of all, glad that they hadn't spent another weekend evening pretending...
...Electronic Data Systems, which GM bought in 1984 for $2.5 billion, is now worth seven times that amount and that Hughes Aircraft ($5 billion in 1985) has doubled in value. "That's not too shabby," Smith said. "I think I gave GM a little bit of money to see 'em through...
...defense budget in half over five years and shift much of that money to domestic priorities; fully fund Head Start; implement universal health care. "Let's send America a message that it's time for a change," Watt tells supporters, "and part of that change is to give 'em...
...unrestrained egotism, Princeexpects useless sexual bravado to suffice astracks. In the verse "Close your eyes and count 2ten and when u open 'em/ I'll be standing nakedwith nothing but a smile on..." from "Blue Light,"the disk's sixth song, Prince fails to tantalizeus, instead conjuring a horrific image of himselffor anyone who has seen the cover ofLovesexy...