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...most people automatically think of companies like Hertz, Avis or Ryder System. In fact, much of the $30 billion-a-year leasing industry involves the back-and-forth renting between companies of everything from printing presses to jet planes. Certain provisions in the Reagan tax package now promise to shake up, and open up, the entire business...
...Thatcher, with propriety, "Please stand down, Margaret, stand down". This summer's Wha'ppen is one of the best releases of the year, discarding some of the cande-party for some somber, intricate, personal Anglo-Jamaican Salsa, all highly listenable, never dull. You can't listen passively--they shake a finger at you and say "Get a job!" or ask you "Dying to become a man? Well, I am your flag!". They mix the deadly earnestness of Elvis Costello with the singalong fun of the Beach Boys. It doesn't matter if you "hate new wave," or you "hate reggae...
Coach Karyn Altman could only shake her head. "They must grow 'em big out west," she sighed...
Rosalynn toured the cabin shaking hands. Nixon was meticulously polite to her. But he seemed defensive as he walked up and down the aisle. Eyes carefully shrouded, looking right and left. Ready to reach for a hand to shake, but only if it was proffered. He would not force himself on others. Yet beneath the reserve he was clearly jubilant. He was back where it counted, at the center of things...
...blue-suited SWAT team rushes sporadically through cell blocks, sometimes after midnight, to shake down prisoners for weapons. More than 100 assorted shivs and shanks (rodlike weapons often shaped from mop-bucket handles), as well as revolvers, have been seized. A sniper in one of the guard towers has shoot-to-kill orders. A trailer van bulging with shotguns, tear gas and riot gear waits outside the prison walls...