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...head of a special committee on cost control, Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace, made thousands of recommendations on how to slash the U.S. budget deficit. Since he delivered his report to President Reagan in January 1984, Grace has waged a personal crusade against the Government's spendthrift habits. His company recently hired Movie Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) to create a TV commercial that would alert viewers to the horrors of huge deficits. The result is The Deficit Trials, 2017 A.D., a futuristic fantasy that cost about $300,000 to produce. Set in a mammoth courtroom, it shows...
...Grace hoped that the commercial would premiere on network TV following Reagan's State of the Union address. But CBS, NBC and ABC refused, calling the ad too politically charged. Not easily deterred, Grace took his ad to local and cable channels and got a more enthusiastic reception. The Cable News Network and the Independent News Network, along with individual stations in Chicago, New York and Washington, agreed to air Deficit Trials following Reagan's speech...
This year, in a rare display of tokenism, Sports Illustrated has included photographs of a Black woman. In previous years, only white women with WASPy names (with the recent exception of Paulina Porizkova) were considered beautiful enough to grace the issue's pages...
...from under their trench coats and cut them down. Castellano and Belotti each caught six bullets in the head and torso. As two of the gunmen ran down 46th Street toward a getaway car, the third spoke briefly into a walkie-talkie and then coolly fired a coup de grace into Castellano's skull. It took all of 30 seconds...
...from seizing the property it won in court. The bond would be worth the amount of the decision plus attorney's fees and interest, in this case, about $12 billion. Texaco said that it could not come up with so much money without going bankrupt. Pennzoil agreed to a grace period during which Texaco can prepare an appeal--or, perhaps, a settlement--without having to post bond...