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...induced to make the move by Jerry Krause, a friend in the options business. Krause staked Keller to $50,000 and guaranteed to cover all his losses in return for half his winnings. After two months on the job, says Krause, Keller is "up 100% on the original investment...
...called general obligation bonds. The second radically restricts the ability of governments to increase their revenues by reinvesting funds raised from bonds. Previously, in a process known as arbitrage, state or city governments could issue bonds at a given interest rate, reinvest the proceeds at a higher rate of return and pocket the difference. Under the new law, state and local governments would have to turn most of those profits over to the federal treasury...
Matewan (rhymes with great one) proves, as Return of the Secaucus 7 and The Brother from Another Planet did earlier, that John Sayles knows how to anchor a strong story -- here, the real-life massacre that led to the West Virginia mine wars -- in a fresh setting. He also knows how to make good-looking movies on the cheap. This period film, with a huge cast, cost only about $4 million, a budget that was met under the supposed financial restrictions of a full union crew. And in the rich umbers of Haskell Wexler's cinematography, Matewan does look great...
...lengthy talks with Russia's Pimen strengthened Orthodox unity, as well as Dimitrios' influence as "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy. In coming months the Patriarch will visit the churches of five other nations, then meet the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Expected in 1988: a return to Moscow for the millennium of Eastern Slavic Christianity...
There you have it from Election Central: the Republicans treading water, and the Democrats still searching for marketable themes. We now return to our regularly scheduled article...