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...limits to keep people from fighting over the machines. Those tired of the health-club hassle can buy home machines for much less than the $2,000 to $3,400 that professional models cost. The $400 Precor Fitness Climber routinely ranks among the ten top-selling items in the Sharper Image catalog...
...sake of most Hungarians. "This is just a new label on an old bottle," complains Gyorgy Ruttner, an opposition leader who heads the Social Democratic Party. Aware that the bottle's contents might seem familiar and sour, the more radical reformers among the Communists wanted an even sharper break with the past, including expulsion of Old Guard hard-liners. In the end, moderates led by Rezso Nyers, 66, who was elected party president, stitched together a compromise that held the party together but may jeopardize its chances in the next elections...
Mubarak in effect redrafted the plan to take the sharper edges off both sides' objections. The U.S. backed the idea, and the P.L.O. did not torpedo it. While the Palestinian leadership has little faith that the plan will work, it does not want to bear responsibility for a failure. Faced with following through on its own official policy, the Israeli government fell to arguing with itself. Labor embraced Mubarak's proposal, while Shamir's Likud opposed large chunks of the plan. Two days of hot debate in the twelve-member Inner Cabinet last week produced a tie vote: de facto...
...sale will virtually wipe out Zenith's debt and enable the company to invest in new technologies, including high-definition television. While HDTV is probably a decade away, Zenith is developing flatter, sharper TV screens that may keep the company -- and the U.S. -- in the race with Asian manufacturers...
...Because of Tuesday's game [a 2-0 Crimson victory over Boston University, we just lost our legs at the end of this game," Harvard Coach Mike Getman said. "It's disappointing, our guys played very tough today. We certainly had chances. Sometimes when you're a little bit sharper, a bit fresher, you have things go your...