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...fraudulent bankruptcy that Parretti has been fighting for nearly a year. The entrepreneur has also been shamed in Hollywood's most public court, the box office. All the films MGM has released since the acquisition (including Rocky V, Not Without My Daughter and Desperate Hours) have been disappointments or outright flops...
...territories; he will not even promote his own 1989 plan to hold elections in the territories and then negotiate limited autonomy with the people's choices. If Shamir should falter, he may be brought down by the rightists in the governing Likud coalition who want to annex the territories outright and even transfer most of the 1.7 million Palestinians living there to present-day Jordan...
While many changes have occurred since 1970, some say that a regulation written by Sullivan in 1979 saved the system, which at the time was losing many units to outright sale. Sullivan says that his amendment, which restricted the conversion of apartments to condominiums, is "working extremely well to this...
...Mitterrand never called, as did Bush, for Saddam's "overthrow," but described the Iraqi's "political, moral and military authority" as "seriously weakened"; privately, Mitterrand is known to believe Saddam has little chance to survive as head of state. Nor did Mitterrand reject Mikhail Gorbachev's belated peace plan outright: Foreign Minister Roland Dumas called it a step in the right direction -- and then sliced it to shreds with diplomatic "corrections" and an insistence on deadlines that helped Bush fashion the ultimatum...
...Cambridge smoking law of 1987 and University policies resulting from that law attempt to create rules whereby the rights of the "passive smoker" may be respected. If University policy had been followed, there would most likely have been no need for an outright ban on smoking in the Adams dining hall. Harvard rules pertaining to dining hall smoking clearly state that if a house decides to allow smoking, smoking and no-smoking zones "should be clearly designated by signs...