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...might be anticompetitive. "We will take a close look at any acquisition of this size," said a Justice Department official last week, "and we will want to see if it hurts competition." The Reagan Administration, though, has been generally favorable to mergers. The odds are that it will not scrub United's new flight plan...
With their studded leather jackets, their taste for swastikas and grisly death's-heads, their pulsing choppers, their scraggly beards and their penchant for violence, the Hell's Angels in the 1960s became the nightmarish flip side of the American dream. During the 1970s, however, they attempted to scrub their outlaw image, depicting themselves as a peaceable, nationwide "family" united by a love of the open road. Last week, as some 1,000 heavily armed law-enforcement agents in 50 locations around the country swooped down and arrested more than 100 Angels, the once chaotic band of bikers was depicted...
...more than inspired by the women's: in some cases the product is exactly the same. Crisp packaging and manly monikers have been critical, however, in attracting most male customers. Entrepreneur Jan Stuart's mail-order mixtures like Obsessive Nectar and Treasure were renamed Honey-Almond Scrub ($12.50) and Jojoba/ Elastin Under-Eye Creme ($15) and put up in clinically white jars for department-store counters. A new blush on the market is makeup for men, but it is not expected to make the same splash as skin care. Marketing strategists for the industry are concerned about avoiding...
...vast expanse of rolling scrub and farmland is still and dark. Dawn, when it comes, tinges the land red before a hot, white sun climbs in the sky, turning the dew to vapor that rises from the surface of the plain. This heartland, thousands of square miles, is central Texas. Bonnie and Clyde rampaged through the territory. Sam Bass, the outlaw, was gunned down in Round Rock, not far from the Santa Fe railroad. Today, Interstate 35 passes small and medium-size towns, ranches and farms. Huge trucks rumble into dusty, chalk-white depots to load crushed rock from local...
...would live and work for the rest of his life arm in a state of almost complete Isolation: connected to the city across the Hay only by the glow its lights made over the treetops on starle nights and the passage of suburban board-riders past his pertly of scrub, and In the disruptive decade or had broken into by the piles of newspaper recollected each fortnight from the local store, on the paddled thick house paint...