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...urge to inject details led to some surprising provisions. In their final deliberations, the drafters added an item calling for a constitutional amendment to limit the number of consecutive terms served by members of Congress. Other passages hardly qualify as presidential: the Republicans would evict drug dealers from public-housing projects and encourage recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in all schools...
...visitors will bring plenty of money to spread around. A Government survey done in 1986, when the dollar was 25% stronger, showed that an overseas traveler spent an average of $1,358 ($340 on gifts and souvenirs alone) while in the U.S. This year visitors are expected to inject some $10.7 billion into the U.S. economy. Partly because of this infusion, revenues for the U.S. hotel and motel industry could rise to $54 billion, up 6% from...
...they're going to inject, we have to make sure that they do it safely, with a clean needle," said Christopher M. Farnet, a founding member of the AIDS Action Committee, a 2000-member volunteer network to help patients with the virus...
...save the others. So far, fewer than 100 women have undergone the procedure, called fetal reduction, at a handful of U.S. hospitals. Usually performed before the twelfth week of pregnancy, it requires that the doctor pierce the mother's abdomen with a needle and, guided by an ultrasound image, inject a lethal drug into the fetus. It dies within minutes. The remaining infants, usually two, then have a much improved chance of developing normally...
...Oklahoma parlor was only modestly successful at first. The players seemed bored to Steve. He wondered how to inject a little life into them. He spent six months doing market research on bingo players and discovered, among other things, that most don't play just for prizes. "They play because they're lonely," Steve says. "So I invented a little foolishness to make them happy while they're losing...