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...promotional gimmick, which was designed to call attention to the company's new $59 fares on many routes, was overwhelming. About 20,000 tickets were sold. "A bus ride is sure worth the cost of a cup of coffee," said Blondeane Jones, 35, of Dallas, who stood in line overnight for a chance to visit her brother in Columbus...
...that anyone expects the creaky 50-year-old system of providing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and other welfare services to be + transformed overnight. The problems of training and finding jobs for welfare recipients -- teenage girls who drop out of school to have illegitimate children, to take the most stark example -- are immense. In the long run, money could be saved if a significant number of long-term welfare recipients could be placed in unsubsidized jobs and more absent fathers could be required to contribute to the support of children they have abandoned. But there is a problem...
...tanks roll past a couple of months ago," says one, referring to the popular uprising against Marcos, "but that was only once." Outside the American embassy, however, enormous concrete flower pots have appeared overnight, apparently as protection against truck bombers. Something, the Aussies admit, could be afoot...
Legend will someday have it that Author Elmore Leonard became an overnight success with his 23rd novel. Such is not quite the case. True, Glitz (1985) rocketed toward the top of hardback best-seller lists, a feat that earlier Leonard books had not accomplished. Credit for this commercial breakthrough has been given to the huge promotional campaign waged on behalf of Glitz by its publisher. All those ads certainly did not hurt. But Leonard's triumph may have a somewhat less expensive explanation: the devoted readers who enjoyed and passed along the writer's early westerns (Hombre) and those...
...secret of Therese's overnight success was simple: she had a genius for loving Jesus. "Passing by me," she wrote, "Jesus saw that I was ripe for love. He plighted His troth to me and I became His." No self-denial attended this betrothal, only the deepest and most radiant devotion. Therese was a vibrant teenager, bursting with the juice of sanctity, and in Christ she found the ideal outlet for her holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous...