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None of them were Jack Palance--the aged, learned cowboy in Billy Crystal's popular film "City Slickers"--but these six rough riders cleaned up after horses, shot doves and, oh, played polo in the sun for eight hours...
...particular, Wheaton was pleased with his team's ever-apparent aggressiveness, which, along with Brown's traditional rough and tumble style, made for a game which at times compared favorably in diving, tackling, injuries and overall physical contact with the Harvard football team's battle with William and Mary later...
...Computer Corp., a premium-priced clonemaker, came out with yet another inexpensive model. Now IBM is fighting back with its own set of budget machines, priced from about $1,100 to $2,800. They aren't the cheapest, but the company hopes their features will lure customers. Analysts predict rough times for the cloners...
After all that duress, Californians might have expected a polished gem of a budget. What they got instead was a very rough stone that cuts local governments by $1.3 billion, welfare payments by an average of 6% and, most brutally of all, education funding by nearly $2 billion, or 2.2%. Even though Wilson agreed to an intricate 11th-hour compromise that spread some school cuts over two years -- despite the objection of major education groups -- the Governor was judged to have won most everything else in his battle for an all- cuts, no-new-taxes budget in line with what...
...military help to save the remaining Muslim areas from Serbian conquest. In the British view, the formation of cantons would avoid a total Serbian victory and avert another looming nightmare: mass deaths -- perhaps 200,000 to 300,000 -- among refugees inside the former Yugoslavia who might not survive the rough Balkan winter. An end to the fighting would enable international relief organizations to supply food, shelter and clothing that would keep the refugees alive...