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...shadow cabinet, was installed as her personal chief of staff. Sir Derek Rayner, 53, joint managing director of Marks & Spencer, one of Thatcher's own favorite shopping haunts, was named chief waste cutter, as it were. His assignment is to cut fat and improve efficiency in the overgrown bureaucracy of Whitehall...
Above the church, on the hill above Moras En Valloire, is the Madonna, a huge statue erected in 1854 to watch over and protect the village. She was once the pride of the town, but today the short path to her base is overgrown, and she rarely receives visitors these days. At one time she was lit up at night, but the lights were smashed a decade ago and nobody has taken the time to replace them...
...England is unique: more than three-fourths of its forest land is owned by individuals, often in plots of less than ten acres. That has made it difficult for lumber and paper companies to come in and negotiate logging contracts, and much of the wilderness has become overgrown with low-grade timber of little commercial value. The New England Regional Commission, an economic development group, puts the total energy content of the area's forests at the equivalent of some 3 billion bbl. of oil, roughly the proven reserves of the Middle East sultanate of Oman. Unlike...
Nevertheless, the Crimson linksters played commendable golf through most of the 36-hole best ball event when the cold weather, soggy fairways and overgrown greens are taken into account. On Saturday they carded a 77, which is seven over par on the April Sound layout. On Sunday they went around...
...Housing and Urban Development and had become breeding grounds for crime. When HUD's lethargic officials threatened to prosecute Levin and Mayor Coleman Young, the two city officials ordered the housing razed anyway?and HUD did nothing. Challenging Republican Senator Robert Griffin this year, Democrat Levin again campaigned against overgrown government. Yet he never recanted his basically liberal philosophy, bridging the gap by claiming: "People aren't against every government program; they just want their money's worth." A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School Levin is a member of a highly active political family. His older brother...