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...immediate future, the paramount concern for both Washington and Moscow will be monitoring compliance with arms-control agreements. By the end of the year the U.S. and the Soviets will most likely sign five arms agreements, including a new START treaty. All will probably require permanent on-site monitoring of U.S. and Soviet defense facilities, providing many potential listening posts from which to observe and steal classified data from either Soviet military researchers or American defense contractors. With perhaps two dozen START sites involved, in contrast to the one site each called for in the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
...Hecht was lounging between careers -- he had written seven novels and two Broadway plays and was now dead broke -- when in 1926 he received a telegram from his pal Herman J. Mankiewicz, then a Hollywood scriptwriter. "Will you accept three hundred per week to work for Paramount Pictures?" the wire read. "The three hundred is peanuts. Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots." Then a mock-wily P.S.: "Don't let this get around...
Specifically, I do not feel that undergraduate or graduate students have given sufficient thought to such paramount questions as what the national policy towards foreign investment should be and how far open should the door of the American market be held. If our markets are open to others, but theirs are not equally open to us, what should our government or citizens acting collectively...
...commercial upbraids consumers: "We're tired of taking your crap! If we fold, you'll have no damn phones!" A Porsche ad promises male owners instant sex. And a United Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!" In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah...
...Paramount added zing to the tale by using the names of real companies, but ABC and CBS have declined to run some commercials for the film because they include fake ads that might upset major network advertisers. Paramount pleads that the movie is a comedy. Starting this week, moviegoers can make that judgment for themselves...