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...Japan with 318. But it no longer wins the most awards. The recent explosion of commercial TV in Europe, Asia and Latin America has fostered a burst of freewheeling talent. This year's grand prize went to a stylish French commercial (also aired in the U.S.) in which a lion and a tawny woman climb up opposite sides of a mountain, and at the peak the woman outroars the lion for a bottle of Perrier. Another winner was a spectacular English spot for Reebok sneakers in which a Mohawk steelworker sprints and leaps atop an Atlanta skyscraper...
...were immigrants, who put huge strains on welfare, health-care and education programs. The crunch was made worse by plummeting tax collections caused by the current recession and by the limits on new levies imposed by Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measure that cut property taxes and shifted the lion's share of fiscal responsibility from local governments to the state. Wilson has suggested reversing that trend by returning $2.3 billion worth of social and health programs from the state to county governments. Local administrations have welcomed the idea, because the shifted programs are to be accompanied by corresponding...
...government has succeeded in disrupting one center of drug trafficking only to have an even more powerful and insidious gang emerge in Cali. While security forces concentrated on shutting down operations in Medellin, the confederacy of crime families in the Cauca Valley expanded cocaine production and grabbed the lion's share of the market...
...there was one outstanding Crimson performance in the Columbia game, it was the play of senior linebacker Joe Gordian. Gordian picked off Lion quarter-back Bruce Mayhew twice on the afternoon, including an interception with one minute remaining to seal the Harvard...
...inheriting vast fortunes and the special duties of media owners. But the core story is the mid-1980s sale of all Bingham companies for $448 million by Barry Bingham Sr., then 79. His son and namesake unsurprisingly felt that an adult lifetime of corporate devotion entitled him to the lion's share of control. Two wayward sisters, whom Barry Jr. had disenfranchised, equally unsurprisingly felt entitled to more than a dividend of one-half of 1% a year on the value of their holdings. The tragedy was that both sides rejected rational compromise because their concern was being judged right...