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...budget that might satisfy lawmakers and the President while meeting the $144 billion deficit ceiling set by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law. It was enough to drive the Senator, a reformed chain smoker, back to bumming cigarettes from the Capitol doorkeepers. Near the end of a week of feverish bargaining, Domenici stepped out of a conference with Majority Leader Bob Dole and was asked, "What do you think?" He replied, "I think this is a crazy place and I've got a terrible...
...bill to be $2.8 billion instead of a previously estimated $4.8 billion. The developing world's largest debtor, Brazil has been able to keep up with its payments lately, thanks to a roaring economy that grew 8% last year. But the country will have to curb that feverish growth to cut inflation, which reached 233% in 1985 and appeared to be headed for 500% this year. Last week President Jose Sarney announced a "life-and-death struggle" to halt the spiral by freezing wages and prices for a year and virtually abolishing the country's cost of living adjustments...
...look or sound like a Jacobean tragedy about love, murder and intrigue. The metallic scaffolding and leather jumpsuits that comprise Michael H. Yeargan's sets and costumes could have been borrowed from an episode of "Battlestar Galactica." Brustein's characters speak their lines at breakneck speed and with near-feverish emotion to give Middleton's rhyming text the language and feel of everyday speech. No stuffy parlor play this...
...corner, to ascribe to us, as so many times in the past, every mortal sin--from unleashing an arms race to "aggression" in the Middle East, from violations of human rights to some scheming or other even in South Africa. This is not a state policy, it is a feverish search for "forces of evil...
...airlines remain caught in a feverish scramble to innovate that can bewilder consumers. They juggle their routes constantly, adding a city where competition is light and dropping ones where an abundance of rivals has slashed profits. While airfares remain low on popular routes, elaborate restrictions apply, including penalties for cancellation. But cost cutting has also produced benefits for consumers in the form of attractively priced fares. Eastern, for example, began earning extra income in April by carrying passengers on some of its formerly all-freight runs. Result: the Moonlight Special, a no-frills flight from coast to coast for just...