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...confidence has been so shattered by its recent political turbulence that many citizens seem quite content to postpone elections indefinitely. Their fears have been fanned by the ominous reappearance of the island's most distinguished and distrusted politician, Sir Eric Gairy, 61. Grenada's first post-independence Prune Minister, Gairy ruled the island from 1974 until the bloodless coup staged by Maurice Bishop and his Marxist-oriented New Jewel Movement five years later. During that time, Sir Eric won dubious international fame by claiming that he had been divinely chosen and compounded it by urging the United Nations...
...Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alta., for $309 million. Way back in 1980, the Lake Placid Winter Games cost the network only $15.5 million. A phenomenal escalation but, so far, not an insane one. For the Sarajevo Games, ABC is charging advertisers an average $225,000 for 30 seconds of prune time, down to a bargain-basement $75,000 for late night, and every spot is already sold. ABC'S total expenditure for the Winter and Summer Games, including production costs, is $500 million, and the network expects to take in about $615 million in advertising revenues. A nice...
Even the would-be "evil prune" left the sale satisfied, said Johnson. "He couldn't find a piece of material large enough. so he found some sparkling silver material and decided to be a giant chocolate kiss with legs," she explained...
Piru's plaint is one heard increasingly often as large banks prune their sprawling networks of branches in order to reduce expenses. This year San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank may close up to 29 of its 387 offices. New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank, which once had 220 branches...
Most Polish workers would be happy to have two weeks off in the prune holiday month of August, but not Electrician Lech Walesa. When officials at the Gdansk shipyard turned down a request from the former Solidarity trade-union leader for vacation in July or September and offered him August instead, Walesa decided to play hooky. Accompanied by his wife Danuta and three of their seven children, he climbed into the family's white Volkswagen minibus and set off for Sokolow Podlaski, a small town 55 miles from Warsaw, to go fishing. He claimed that his holiday request...