Word: royals
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...restore them, and to create a self- sustaining environment that could serve as a model for space stations or colonies on other planets like Mars. Colossal and romantic, the project has attracted the participation of scores of researchers from august institutions, including M.I.T., Yale, the Smithsonian, Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens and the University of Arizona's Environmental Research Laboratory...
...sheikh also said that he couldn't predict the nationality of the next hostage freed. Speculation has focused on Jack Mann, a 77-year-old former Royal Air Force pilot who has been missing for two years...
...winners have their dreams come true at company expense. Last year's winner was Ryuzo Yamaguchi, a training manager, who wanted to enter an international ballroom-dance contest in Britain. With a $3,500 subsidy from Mazda, Yamaguchi and his wife waltzed and tangoed at London's Royal Albert Hall. A year later, he proudly displays his name emblazoned on a copy of the contest's program, but is still not fully reconciled to the idea of extended vacations. "Two weeks off was a long time," he says...
...revolution, and the chaos that has followed it, has also raised a new argument for delay. Says Neil Malcolm, a Sovietologist at the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs: "We do have to wait with massive financial aid till things are sorted out in the Soviet Union. We don't even know at this point whom the money should be sent to." Should it be distributed through a central government that is losing power every day but is still the legally constituted authority in the country? Or should it be channeled directly to the republics, regardless of their...
...another's throats instantly. In NBC's Flesh 'n' Blood, a yuppie lawyer (Lisa Darr) is visited by her long-lost brother (David Keith), a hillbilly layabout, and his two unwashed kids. Much to her dismay (and ours), they promptly move in. In CBS's < The Royal Family, Redd Foxx plays a sour Atlanta mailman whose sunset years with his wife (Della Reese) are interrupted by yet another band of unwanted relatives: their daughter and grandchildren from Philadelphia. It's hard to know which is more annoying -- these paper-thin pretexts for put-down jokes or the cavalier way they...