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...Pentagon brought these questions to the fore last week by disclosing that it would shortly be asking Congress for a pile of new funds -- perhaps $20 billion -- to maintain the American forces confronting Iraq. Word promptly leaked that the total tab might be as high as $30 billion in fiscal 1991, which began on Oct. 1. That would be double the estimate of $15 billion made only two months...
...hardly even be assessed now. For in pursuit of jewel-like effects and deep layering of color, Ryder painted "lean over fat," so that slower-drying strata of paint underneath pulled the quicker-drying surface apart. He would slosh abominable messes of varnish on the surface, and pile up the pigment by incessant retouching until the images became quaking pitch lakes...
...American professional will devote eight entire months to sifting through mail solicitations. Third-class mail is now a nearly 4 million-ton colossus that accounts for 39% of all U.S. postal volume. This year about 41 lbs. of junk mail have been generated for each adult American. Of the pile that reached mailboxes, an estimated 44% landed in trash cans, unopened and unread. Many of the rejects were "prospecting letters," mailings that fish for new clients and often hook only a 2% response -- plenty, by industry standards, to justify the flow...
...face-mask penalty. Given a reprieve, Kehler hit running back Chris Kouri at the Harvard 4. The defense stood tough, keeping the Bulldogs out of the end zone on three plunges. But on fourth down, Yale back Kevin Callahan silenced the roaring crowd by soaring over the pile and nearly out of the open end of The Stadium for a two-TD Yale advantage...
Then, I crawled underneath a pile of blankets and went to sleep...