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Bane has been hailed by her colleagues as a leader in the field of welfare policy, having performed landmark studies on the effect of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) on family structure and the differences between long-term and short-term welfare dependecies...
...sweet, awkward A student who realizes she is out of her element at the pageant and Jodi Benson as a wanderer who is prematurely wise in the ways of selling herself, including a talent-show "dramatic reading" that turns into a striptease. Smile may not be a landmark, but it is a pleasure. W.A.H...
Since pockets of oil were first discovered on the outskirts of Paris nearly 30 years ago, oil companies have suspected that further deposits might lie under the city itself. If significant amounts of crude are found beneath any of Paris' landmark districts, drilling could be done at a 45% angle, and thus the wellhead might be situated nearly two miles away. Elf Aquitaine spokesmen claim that the drilling equipment could be hidden behind fake building facades...
...Last week Boesky said, "If my mistakes launch a process of re-examination of the rules and practices of our financial marketplace, then perhaps some good will result." It was premature to say what further revelations and reforms might ensue. Nonetheless, asserted former Treasury Secretary Simon, "this is a landmark case. This is going to change the arbitrage business dramatically. People are going to behave with much more prudence." If not, they have a dramatic example of what can follow...
Though the textbooks are part of a reading series used by 15,000 school districts, this first federal ruling to shelter school children from educational materials is a landmark not for the precedent it might set for schools across the land. Rather, it is important precisely because the ruling specifically limits its application to this particular fundamentalist group's complaint. The decision was not so much a ruling as an exception to the rule. The court seems to have abandoned its function of establishing...