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...best description of Bellman and True is an oxymoron: it is, of all things, a dour caper. That is, a usually merry cinematic enterprise -- the one in which a group of swagmen laugh all the way to the supposedly impenetrable bank vault from which they intend to extract millions -- is shown with brutal realism...
Under strong domestic pressure to extract a commitment from the U.S. to / decrease acid rain, Mulroney lashed out at the Reagan Administration's wait- and-study attitude. "Friendship has inescapable costs," said he. "One of them is bearing whatever burdens are required to avoid polluting your neighbor's property." Although the two leaders will hold another summit later this month, Mulroney acknowledged that he must wait for Reagan's successor to see any results...
Meat from fresh leg of mutton is needed. You set water. Throw fat in it. Dress the tarru. Coarse salt, as needed. Hulled cake of malt. Onions, samidu, leek, garlic, milk; you squeeze (them together in order to extract the juice which is to be added in the cooking pot). Then, after cutting up the tarrus, you plunge them in the stock (taken out) from the crock (and previously prepared with the above-mentioned ingredients), in order for them to (begin) cooking in the cauldron. (After which) you place them back in the crock (in order to finish cooking...
...investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained by the Washington Post. The book, titled The Predators Ball after the nickname for Drexel's , annual junk-bond convention, is scheduled for publication in June. While Drexel does not deny that Milken made the offer, a spokesman maintains that "we never tried to hinder the book...
...Supreme Court freed a Muslim army officer who had been imprisoned for seven years on the basis of perjured testimony by Shin Bet agents. The three-man panel condemned Shin Bet's habit of lying in court but agreed that "moderate" physical and psychological coercion is necessary to extract information. "The view prevails that there is an unavoidable need to use physical pressure in interrogations," the commission concluded...