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...nonbinding resolution is the handiwork of GRIP (Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project), a group of black activists who felt that they were losing their neighborhoods to gentrification. Polls indicate that the referendum is headed for defeat, however, partly because several Boston officials have claimed that an independent Mandela would face a first-year tax deficit of $135 million...
...even caught myself passing up The Godfather and "10" at the video rental place for a tape called "Automatic Golf." The tape consists of a barrel-chested pro demonstrating a grip so convoluted that he swears it makes perfect golf swings inevitable...
...tried the grip, put two dents in my living room ceiling while practicing, and couldn't move my left index finger without discomfort for about a week...
...unmake governments; tanks do that, and, more rarely but surely, people do. And, even armed with the truth, the media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. An official threat to your advertisers, a grip on your paper supply or a squad of soldiers at your doorstep, and your last issue becomes your paper's valedictory...
Almost since the London Exchange was founded in 1801, the City's bowler- hatted business culture has flourished in a cozy world of old-line brokerage and investment houses that enjoyed both fixed commissions and an oligopolistic grip on various financial functions. Until Big Bang occurs, for example, only six firms are allowed to act as jobbers in British Treasury bonds, known locally as gilts. This comfortable arrangement, however, did not sit well with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who feared that London was losing ground to low-cost, high-volume centers like Wall Street. In 1983 her aides negotiated...