Word: haven
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...towering federal deficits, much of the future initiative will have to come from the private sector. By the year 2000, women will make up half the work force. Says Labor Secretary Bill Brock: "We still act as though workers have no families. Labor and management haven't faced that adequately...
...treasuries. Confiscation is difficult to prove, and even where it is established, many judges remain reluctant to award significant damages. "As long as we leave the property owner with a reasonable use for the property," says Gary Netzer of the Los Angeles city attorney's office, "the courts still haven't ruled that it is a taking...
...buttons that cropped up at last week's commencement ceremony seemed to sum it up best. yes, i went to princeton, they read, no, i haven't met her. But Brooke Shields, 22, does not see anything funny about her college stint. "I did it in four years, and I worked hard," said the model-actress proudly. Growing a bit teary-eyed, she added, "I didn't set out to prove anything to anyone except myself." Looking smart in her black mortarboard and gown, Shields received a B.A. in French literature with honors. But just as she once vowed...
...popular demand, it would seem, Jane Seymour has already won the part of Scarlett O'Hara in an upcoming sequel to the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind. The only trouble, reports the actress, "is that I haven't been approached by the people making the movie." This unflattering state of affairs came about when newspapers in Britain and the U.S. simultaneously asked readers who would be their favorite choice to refill the role made famous by Vivien Leigh. Seymour won both polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months...
India's decision to intervene so visibly in the civil war apparently slowed the Sri Lankan government's military campaign. Though Tamils make up only 18% of the island's 16 million people, the separatist guerrillas have found support and safe haven among the 50 million Tamils living across the strait in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Last week's airlift seemed to indicate that Gandhi was giving in to pressure from Indian Tamils to intervene more actively in Sri Lanka. Said an official in Colombo: "Whatever India may say about humanitarian aid, what they actually wanted...