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...Europe to 1.35 million for each side, with the Soviets and U.S. limited to 350,000 each. The U.S. says it has just 305,000 troops in Europe now. Bush has proposed that U.S. and Soviet forces be capped at 275,000 apiece. According to NATO, that would mean a reduction of 30,000 U.S. troops and 325,000 Soviet soldiers. At Malta, Bush called for resolving the differences by next year...
Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share...
Defecting from law doesn't necessarily mean a depleted bank account. Howard Tullman, 44, left the Chicago firm Levy & Ehrens in 1981 because his busy travel schedule kept him constantly away from his family. The company he then founded, CCC Information Services, which provides data to the insurance industry, today has 1,000 employees and $105 million in revenues. "You can't become wealthy selling your time," says Tullman, now a multimillionaire. "There just aren't enough hours...
...were signers of the Helsinki Final Act and the Vienna declaration yet we did not abide by certain parts of those agreements. We intend by this action to emphasize the unity between word and deed. Last but not least, let me stress that to open the border does not mean that its existence should be questioned...
...mean to say there are other classes that should now be included in the formation of political consensus...