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...testimony of one informant stood out. Offering extensive detail that seemed to parallel other reports, he said that Gaddafi had ordered the assassination of several top American officials if no hit team could reach the President. With that, security was greatly increased not only for the President but for Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as well. Next, Secret Service protection was extended for the first time to Reagan's top aides: James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Hit Teams:Libya | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Union Pacific is currently involved with two mergers, and Meyer's basic theory is that railroad service can best be improved by "end-to-end" mergers as opposed to "parallel" mergers...

Author: By Nancy J. Fischbein, | Title: Meyer Leaving B-School | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...Revolution it is obvious he has begun to unfold internally. Bonaparte, played by Albert Dieudonne, exudes power as he slowly hitches up his shoulders. When he stares into the camera he peers out of dark eyes set so deeply they look like smouldering fires at the ends of two parallel tunnels. Though runty and still obscure, as Gance reiterates over and over, this is the Napoleon of the Eroica...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: A Triumphant 'Napoleon' | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

...Vaillants acknowledge in their article that "social variables are also important," but they say a parallel study of upper-middle-class Harvard sophomores in the 1940s, also by the Gluecks, showed the importance of emotional strength rather than social rank...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Study Indicates 'Ego Strength' Brings Success, Mental Stability in Adulthood | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

Likewise, the finest moment in Rosencrantz occurse when Hamlet, having rushed onstage (to R and G's usual befud-dlement), begins delivering a soliloquy to the theater's rear wall, and the parallel strikes home: When the Prince delivered that soliloquy in his own play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were upstage of him, seeing only his back. The audience has been placed entirely within the spies perspectives as minor characters within a larger show, summoned mysteriously from a place they cannot remember on a mission they cannot understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Messing With the Bard | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

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