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Other rental emporiums attract customers with monstrous selections. California-based Tower Records has opened a series of video superstores that stock 10,000 movies, compared with the 2,000 titles in a typical neighborhood shop. With so many alternatives, few consumers feel any loyalty to one store. If the movie they want is out of stock, they simply drive a few blocks to a competitor's shop...
...Howe went much further. After calling the act a "monstrous and inhumane" crime, he said, "It is totally unacceptable that the Syrian Ambassador, members of his staff and the Syrian authorities in Damascus should be involved with a criminal like Hindawi." Then, to a roar of approval from Members of Parliament, Howe gave his extraordinary news: "We have therefore decided to break diplomatic relations with Syria...
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told Parliament there was conclusive evidence of official Syrian involvement in the "monstrous and inhumane" attempt to sabotage the El Al flight to Tel Aviv and kill the 375 people aboard...
...Rusher Ted Hendricks. But the highlight of the '70s, a bowl-less interlude for the Hurricanes, was the time that the University of Florida literally lay down to let them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde. On the day after New Year's in 1984, Kosar passed a storied Nebraska team silly...
Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velucci, the city councilor who led the protesters to the river, said he thought the 350th birthday party was "just a big monstrous campaign to raise money for Harvard." He added, "Papa Reagan has dried up the well, so they've got to get the dough from somewhere...