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...certainly true that romance will occasionally flower when college-age people meet at dinner, in a biology section or as participants in a prefect program. That shouldn't concern or surprise anyone too much...
...only 300 towns. Local and state public-interest groups have had enormous success organizing and fundraising in working-class neighborhoods on the hazardous-waste issue, but on the national level Democrats seem either ignorant of the potential of this issue, or afraid to be seen as No-Nukes flower children. Democrats have become accustomed to expressing support for environmental cleanup with the endorsement of Greenpeace, instead of talking about how dumping affects everyone...
DIED. Laura Ashley, 60, Welsh-born designer who with her husband Bernard turned her Victorian-inspired, flower-sprigged fabrics into ruffled, romantic fashions and a multimillion-dollar international clothing and housewares empire; of head injuries sustained in an accidental fall; in Coventry, England. What began in 1953 with tea towels silk-screened on the kitchen table of their London flat and sold to local shops became in 1967 the first Laura Ashley shop in London and is today a family-run business encompassing more than 200 shops from Milan to Melbourne, 70 of them...
What the collectives still have not been able to rectify is the inequity * between country and city. Free enterprise may flower on the farm, but, with some exceptions, it sputters in urban, heavily industrialized environments. As soon as the government declared last May that the cost of some subsidized goods in 22 cities and provinces should be determined by market forces rather than by state decree, prices surged by as much as 50%. The rise triggered panic buying and brought back memories among older citizens of the hyperinflation that ravaged China in 1949 during the final months of the Nationalist...
...move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather who had high hopes for a motorcycle that could pull a plow and a hybrid flower that closed in the presence of tears. "Florists will be mobbing me," said the old man. "Think of the dramatic effect at funerals!" Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes her kitchen so that the allspice would be stored next to the ant poison...