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That prospect helped jolt the Europeans into moving on the CFC issue. And at a London conference on the ozone issue this week, E.C. ministers will try to persuade other nations to adopt the CFC ban. High on the lobbying list: developing countries, such as India and China, that are just starting to mass- produce refrigerators and other CFC-using products...
...Skin Deep, Ritter has been given a chance to show off both his talent for physical humor and his capacity for dramatic acting. There is a very funny scene in the film in which Ritter has just been given a rather excessive electroshock therapy treatment, and he proceeds to jolt about like a combination of Frankenstein's monster and a subway car on the green line of the MBTA. But it is the scenes in Skin Deep in which he is given the chance to act as the straight man that demonstrate how far Ritter has evolved from Jack Tripper...
...calamity began on Jan. 28, when the captain of the Bahia Paraiso, a naval resupply ship that doubles as a tourist boat, sailed through waters identified on charts as having "dangerous ledges and pinnacles." The ship was shaken by a "terrible jolt," says passenger Nadia Le Bon. "I thought we hit an iceberg." Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room. With the ship listing and the smell of gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists...
...Reading Bonfire, one felt you were writing about the things going on around us now. Did it give you a jolt to see those things and say, "Hey, that's Chapter...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the more open method of selecting candidates will provide a jolt for his lagging reforms. As he explained during the Supreme Soviet that convened in November to approve the procedures, "If we do not carry out a political reform to back up the processes that are now under way in the economy, the restructuring drive will inevitably begin to falter...