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...seem to have gloves as big as bushel baskets? Not for long. This season major-league baseball plans to enforce an old rule, previously ignored, that bans any glove larger than 12 in. from heel to tip. The clampdown has sent glovemakers hustling to redesign mitts, some of which exceed...
Museum officials said the cost of such insurance would exceed the museum's $2.8 million operating budget. Also, Mrs. Gardner's will bars the museum from buying or installing replacements for stolen works even if they were insured, they said...
...believe mayhem been such Big Business. The typical child takes in four hours of action-packed TV a day and watches countless commercials from the toy manufacturers that sponsor the shows. No wonder sales of war toys in the U.S. rose more than 200% during the past decade and exceed $1 billion annually. When the kids grow bored with the cartoons and plastic soldiers, they graduate to the electronic battlefields of Nintendo, Sega and the like, where the violence continues...
During the 1987-88 November through March season, 900 tourists came to Oman. This season an estimated 6,000 have visited. (Tourism virtually ceases from April to October, when temperatures routinely exceed 100 degrees F.) Nearly three-fourths of Oman's tourists are Swiss, with the remainder divided among Germans, Belgians, French and other Europeans. For Japanese and American travelers, the sultanate still awaits discovery -- a consequence of lack of promotion, long-distance travel and substantial expense. The preponderance of Swiss largely reflects the promotion of Oman as a holiday mecca by Kuoni Travel, a Zurich-based agency that flies...
...elections, the army's 15,000-strong professional core remains well disciplined and loyal to the Sandinistas. Chamorro has vowed to abolish the draft and reduce the size of the military. Luis Humberto Guzman, a member of U.N.O.'s senior advisory board, has said that military spending should not exceed 15% of the budget. Under Ortega, defense expenditures totaled 50% of the budget. For that reason alone, demobilization of both armies makes sense if Nicaragua is going to rebuild itself...