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Last week a special session of the legislature replaced the service tax with a 1% increase in the sales tax. "It's a victory for the people of Florida and a heck of a Christmas present," said Martinez. But the Governor's flip-flops may be costly. Said Democrat Sam Bell, chairman of the powerful house appropriations committee: "His credibility with the legislature is zero...
...owned by the quakingly vulnerable Lane (Mia Farrow). They include her mother (Elaine Stritch), a bruising emotional bully; her stepfather (Jack Warden), who is a noisy irrelevancy; a neighbor (Denholm Elliott) who expresses love by being socially obliging; a best friend (Dianne Wiest) who is obscurely tense; and Peter (Sam Waterston), the ad man who rented the guest cottage on the property and then failed in two obvious duties: he didn't finish the novel he intended to write there, and he didn't fall in love with his landlady...
...along next year with no recession, no significant rise in unemployment or inflation and only a modest increase in interest rates. Their median forecast is for growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, to slow only slightly, from 3.4% this year to 2.7% in 1988. Asserts Sam Nakagama of the Manhattan-based consulting firm Nakagama & Wallace: "Views are changing radically right now. It appears we are going to have a vigorous economy next year." Agrees Edward Yardeni, chief economist of Prudential-Bache Securities: "Much to everyone's surprise, the economy didn't even flinch from the crash...
...Monroe song herself.) She is happy to keep her private life -- which she shares with Photographer John Raffo -- private. And Hunter, whose goal was always "to be one of the really respected stage actresses," doesn't mind juggling her newfound fame with rehearsals for a Los Angeles production of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind. She still loves the stage: "It's so enticing and dangerous. It's human. It might be a bad night, or it might be magic, electrifying, unforgettable." The lure of movie stardom goes both ways too. When Holly Hunter's around...
Conventional force levels. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn will hold hearings in the Armed Services Committee on steps the West should take to reduce the Warsaw Pact's superiority in non-nuclear weapons. Nunn and others believe that imbalance may be more threatening with the elimination of Euromissiles. He is said to be considering a unilateral declaration of objectives that NATO should achieve after passage of the treaty. INF opponents may push for a more lethal amendment that would bar the President from carrying out the treaty's provisions unless the conventional-arms imbalance in Europe is redressed. Senate Majority Leader...