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...soon thereafter, a Yale giveaway coughed the puck up to junior Doug Sproule, who spun around and hit linemate Craig Adams with a nice pass. The latter's shot was even better: a topshelf wrister which beat Yale sophomore goalie Alex Westlund...
...cellulose product that shows up in everything from rayon to ice cream. Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices. In 1990 Congress tried to redress this giveaway by passing the Tongass Timber Reform Act, which forced KPC to pay market prices. KPC later sued for breach of contract and threatened to close the Tongass pulp operation if Congress did not extend the contract for 15 years beyond its 2004 expiration date and restore bargain-basement timber prices...
...less disarmingly, a city where even the central Underground Atlanta mall posts "Rules of Etiquette" also unabashedly proclaims itself "a nude dancing mecca," where a single escort service lists more than 100 different options in the Yellow Pages, and the giveaway tourist guide, This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city...
...place drastically. The Times Square outlet boasts 250 listening posts and four Sony cinemas, inlaid-marble floors and an artist's replica of Michelangelo's Creation on the ceiling of the performance space in the classical section. In another testament to the company's shrewdness, Virgin paid a giveaway $18 per sq. ft. for the space that some 35 million people will walk by each year...
Beginning next year, Clinton (or Bob Dole) will no longer be able to say, "Gee, I didn't want to fund this or that ridiculous giveaway, but it was part of an important larger bill I just couldn't reject." A tough President will be able to nix $1.4 million for a National Swine Research Center, or $1 million to study the brown tree snake, which is found only on Pacific islands, or other millions of dollars for, well, the list is endless. This is how it will work...