Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bennett guffaws. He revels in this back-room camaraderie, the rough-and- tumble of what he is doing. It seems a grownup version of the heavy-contact touch football that Bennett loves to play on fall weekends -- and may symbolize the life he would choose had he been born faster afoot and eternally young. Bennett plays the theme of frugal independence to these flinty lawmakers. "The key to excellence is local control; you cannot spend your way to excellence," he says to approving nods...
...business. The LaFalce bill would require federal agencies to set numerical goals for awarding contracts to women. Prime contractors would have to set similar goals in awarding work to subcontractors. But LaFalce's bill would have no effect on state government procurement, where conditions are also rough. Mildred Green, 55, founder of Accounting Data Systems of Caro, Mich. (1987 revenues: $2.5 million), recalls one of her bids being spurned by a state contracting officer with the remark, "We don't do women...
...laughs, it turns an honorable tradition upside down. Princes and princesses from innocently backward realms used to turn up regularly in movies, looking for romantic and material bedazzlement in the more highly developed lands. This young potentate experiments with the notion that fun may be found in letting royalty rough it for a while below the poverty line. Besides, Eddie Murphy, the nation's top box-office star, is Akeem. And Arsenio Hall, who made waves and friends as host of Fox Broadcasting's The Late Show last year, is Semmi, a royal aide far more reluctant than His Highness...
...placed in such tony magazines as Vogue, Town & Country and Vanity Fair. The ad is coated with millions of tiny drops of fragrant oils, sealed inside specially designed capsules. The capsules are mixed with a binding agent and affixed to the paper to prevent the scents from bursting during rough handling in the mail. Once the ad is ripped open, the scent behaves just as if it were wafting in the air above the perfume counter...
...four 200-man compounds in Ansar's Camp B, which constitutes one-third of a canvas village that sprang up on the desert plain three miles from the border with Egypt. By day the men loll on wooden pallets that are cushioned by a layer of foam and a rough gray blanket. At night prisoners are required to retire to their tents, close down the side flaps of their dwellings by 9 p.m. and not come out until reveille at 5:30 the next morning...