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...celebration was held at Revolution Books, a place with a curious history. The JFK Street store has had a dubious arson and a bomb scare in the last few years, and it recently did a very rare thing for businesses--publicly displaying posters which, rather than encouraging purchases of their merchandise, actually asked for donations...
...Harry E. Figgie Jr. believes. Figgie is the author, along with University of Arizona economics professor Gerald J. Swanson, of a slim best seller titled Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It (Little, Brown; $19.95). If you want a really good holiday-season scare, be sure to pick up this half-baked Figgie pudding of doomsday scenarios and vague nostrums. The tone is set in the first two startling sentences of the introduction: "In 1995," Figgie writes, "the United States of America, as we know it today, will cease to exist. That year, the country...
While the guidelines are the strictest ever, they will apply to just 1,100 of the 3,000 appointments Clinton expects to make. Members of his transition team were said to be concerned that making the rules too strict would scare away the best job candidates. And you thought government service -- at a good salary -- was sufficient reward in itself...
Scrooge's one friend is his ex-partner Marley. Now residing in some realm of hell, Marley arrives on the scene to save Scrooge's soul. That is, after all, what friends are for. Marley resorts to scare tactics and sends three ghosts to "urge" Scrooge towards a righteous Christmas spirit...
Harvard evidently threw a scare into the Fairfield team, however...