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...deputy chief of staff raised eyebrows when he met with Office of Management and Budget Director James Miller III in February to discuss the B-1 bomber, built by Deaver client Rockwell International. Federal rules bar former senior officials from lobbying their old agencies for a year after they quit their posts, and Deaver's quarantine lasts until...
...thought that the cooperative had died when the Peace Corps quit Panama in 1971. Instead, it had blossomed into a cottage industry that brings substantial cash into an economy formerly based on coconuts. Today, 1,365 women on 17 islands turn out thousands of dollars' worth of mola products each year, from pillows and purses to the traditional squares. The co-op runs a store in Panama City that sells wholesale to tourist shops in town and even exports to the U.S. Like everything else in the co-op, the store is run by Kuna women only...
...Forman who directed Cagney in Ragtime, the 1981 film that brought him back into the public eye after two decades of retirement. After completing Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy One, Two, Three, Cagney vowed to quit filmmaking. Content in the company of his wife and a small circle of friends, he divided his time between two farms in the East and a home in Beverly Hills. He dabbled in painting, bred horses and collected antique carriages. But with the help of Cagney's associates, Forman lured the actor out of retirement to play Ragtime's canny police commissioner...
Shrugging off the allegations at another press conference yesterday afternoon, Hyatt denied that he had been fired from ABC, and said he had quit the job following disputes over strategy, according to Grover. "We're treating this with a great deal of levity," said Grover, comparing the reports to tabloid sensationalism sensationalism...
...walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party at which she was forced to sneak a puff in, yes, the bathroom...