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...comes to capitalizing on fears of inadequacy. So for the poor souls who aren't endowed like Sophia Loren (i.e., most women who aren't lingerie models) but still have to put on a swimsuit once in a while, Cole of California offers an inflatable bikini featuring a plastic pump that air-tanks the top. Cost? An eye-catching...
...pump up at the spa, bake their chests on the beach, use Rogaine as a hair spray. Yuppie vanity knows no gender. Yet Death Becomes Her says the yearning for youth is solely a female problem. This is a movie that hates women every bit as much as Enchanted April adores them...
...this month. Even cautious bureaucrats are falling in love with this ungainly bird. The Texas department of agriculture, which recently hired a full-time ostrich expert, has already made more than $1.2 million in low-interest loans to farmers in the booming industry, and projects that ostrich farming will pump nearly 5,000 jobs and $170 million into the state's economy by the year 2000. Georgia's legislature plans to consider a $150,000 grant to the University of Georgia to find ways to increase the hatching rate (now 30%) and reduce chick mortality. "It's beyond...
Both elms, one near the pump in the Yard's center and the other in front of Holworthy Hall, were about 80 years old, according to Bernard K. Keohan, manager of grounds in the Facilities Maintenance Department...
...Americans that the deficit doesn't matter all that much and may even be useful. Some of them think that a mere $200 billion in federal red ink has only a negligible negative effect on an expanding $4.9 trillion economy. Others argue that much of the deficit has positive, pump-priming effects and promotes growth and higher levels of employment. As Robert Eisner, an economist at Northwestern University, wrote in 1986, "The federal debt, however frequently viewed as a burden to the government or to future taxpayers, is wealth to those who own it . . . The holders of those deficit-financing...