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...case of the ticket (at its 2 1/2% or so on airline fares). The premium you paid for the platinum card, which has an annual fee of $300 a year vs. $75 for the gold card, primarily bought you prestige, the cost of which to Amex is nil. And the baggage insurance -- well, it would be hard to make a case that this is the kind of insurance protection that privileged Americans should not leave home without, but the offer, as always, was compelling. These guys really know how to write a letter...
...past, [Yale] has not had great forwards, and has sat back a little and defended," Harvard Captain Robert Bonnie said. "It's always been a nil-nil, or one-nothing in every Yale game I've seen...
...most misleading of the authors' assertions, however, fall in the chapter titled "Can You Catch AIDS from a Toilet Seat?" They accurately report that the risk of infection from a source other than sex, contaminated needles, blood or the womb is practically nil. But they proceed to describe in vivid detail how it might be "theoretically possible" to contract AIDS from, among other things, contact lenses, a salad in a restaurant or instruments in a doctor's office. The farfetched examples are so memorable that the caveats are quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests...
...Damage was nil. Our being closed has nothing to do with that. We were scheduled to do some remodeling anyway," Martel said...
...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...