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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets also rely heavily on conscription to keep their armed forces bulging at 3.6 million- almost twice the number at the Pentagon's command. All 18-year-old Soviet male must report to their local draft boards. Young men supporting parent or in poor health will probably be exempted; full-time university students may also be excused. The vast majority of Soviet youths, however, are drafted into the army for two years. A Soviet private's pay: $6 a month...
Indecisiveness also characterized two other votes of the Corporation. It faced a proxy calling on Atlantic Richfield Company to halt its expansion in Chile until the Pinochet government loosens its restrictions on civil rights, and another committing Occidental Petroleum--the parent company of the polluter of the Love Canal--to establish a policy for responsible disposal of chemical waste. With the ACSR backing the two resolutions, the Corporation was once again caught between its reluctance to oppose management and its desire not to counter the urgings of the ACSR. Again, it abstained...
Desideria's natural mother was a prostitute who sold her to Viola, who fluctuates between being an overattentive parent and an insatiable bisexual. Left alone, Desideria fills her loneliness with autoeroticism and calories. Viola puts the girl on a diet and discovers a voluptuous beauty beneath the flab. Reborn, Desideria hears a voice that commands her to attack her mother's values and property and save her virginity for a militant radical. At first the rebellion is symbolic, a form of childish Dada ("Practically the whole of our life is a tissue of unreasoned respects, of unfounded taboos...
...last week NBC was more sparrow than peacock. Edgar H. Griffiths, chairman of parent company RCA, told stockholders at then-annual meeting that NBC would not be televising the Games "because the U.S. team is not scheduled to participate and because the President of the United States has so desired this to be the stance we take." The decision was expected, but it was sobering nonetheless. All told, the cancellation could cost NBC up to $70 million in lost profits and out-of-pocket expenses...
...confusing; it's come too quickly," one Tobin School parent said last week, as he listened to Lannon present the plan. "I don't think it's what anyone wanted...