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...ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until he gets a chance to do it right, from scratch...
Under the best of circumstances, building a free-market democracy from - scratch, as the Soviets must, will take time. One State Department official guesses 25 to 30 years will be needed to finish the job. Grushin thinks it may take at least 70 years, "so that three generations will have passed and those who were spoiled by the old system will have died out." The big fear of both Western and Soviet experts is that reformers will not get the time. The wrenching transition to a free market, which will end artificially subsidized prices and close inefficient state businesses...
George Bush's first brush with death left barely a scratch on him. As a young pilot in 1944, he bailed out of a burning plane and spent several hours bobbing aimlessly in the Pacific before being picked up by a submarine. If, as Bush later claimed, he took time "to talk to God" after his rescue, crew members of the U.S.S. Finback didn't notice: what they most remember about the young man they nicknamed "Elephant" was his thunderous imitation of a pachyderm on a mad stampede...
...market. The latest deal will raise the company's beauty revenues to $1.3 billion a year, including $650 million from foreign sales. Said Artzt: "The transaction puts us in major hub markets of the world -- Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom -- which are very tough to enter from scratch." Acquisition of Betrix will also reinforce a push into East European markets that P&G began last year...
...Scratch one of these split-city operatives, and you find a compendium of social customs and byways of manners, as well as menus. Take the matter of health and fitness consciousness. New Yorkers are increasingly aware of sound nutrition, but Angelenos are far more enlightened -- and insistent. Not only must the food be healthy, the plate must look healthy too. "Here it does not matter what you order; what you get is a salad with something in it," says Jivan Tabibian, a partner in the L.A. Remi. "New Yorkers like substance. In Santa Monica, they like fluff -- and the fluff...