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...that no one but children and Hells Angels take seriously. "I mean there was guys rolling up to the line with unvented 50 gallon drums of gas rolling around loose in the back of vans. That's 200 gallons of explosion ready to go off as these ninny jackrabbits pile through towns. And through stoplights. I could just see it--piling into a school bus, killing fiteen chillun," said the Bolus and Snopes man. This year Brock decided he wouldn't have any of those guys." Yates has set up an elaborate screening system. Potential entrants must send...
...crossed the Song Ba River but soon ran into a Viet Cong blockade that stopped its advance. Perhaps as many as 50,000 people and 500 trucks found themselves jammed between the river and the Communists. On the other side of the Song Ba, meanwhile, the caravan began to pile up on itself. A jumble of people, motor scooters, trucks, buses and cars congealed until 5,000 vehicles turned the riverbank into a gigantic parking lot. Then Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the riverside, setting vehicles alight in a fire that 24 hours later was still raging...
...result must be among the most imposing "homemade" sculpture produced by a young American since the early '60s, when Di Suvero was making his big constructions of railway ties, dock piles, chains and tires. Instead of effacing their weight, Buchman's sculptures proclaim it: heaviness, the state of being dug from and bound to the earth, is part of their meaning. The stone is not carved. The lumps stand as they came from the rock pile, craggy and rhino-gray: one thinks of them as things, not as material, and each sculpture becomes a kind of frozen juggling...
Through various accounting means, the authors contend, companies slide huge amounts of capital across national boundaries to escape high tax rates and pile up profits. By shifting production from one market to another, global firms leave unemployed workers behind. Powerful producers like auto, appliance and computer manufacturers have banded together in restrictive combinations to protect their revenues, the authors claim, and deprive consumers of a truly competitive market system...
...underneath all the talk about the Yale plan's magic ability to make differences between Houses disappear within a few years is the large pile of money the University could save by not fixing up the Quad Houses. After all it is a lot easier to make students live at the Quad than to dress it up and then try to peddle...