Word: sheet
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Simplicity is a virtue shared by few government regulations. Yet the concept of crash standards for car bumpers has seemed like sweet reason itself. If sheet metal crumples on impact, why not require automakers to build tougher bumpers? That was the thinking behind Congress's directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 1972 to order stronger bumpers on U.S. cars. Now the NHTSA wonders whether its standards are too costly to manufacturers and car owners and is mulling whether to roll them back. This has set consumer and insurance groups to howling while Detroit is cheering...
...best solution seems to be to phase out the bureau's old and cumbersome presses, which can print 8,000 32-bill sheets per hr. but on only one side of a sheet at a time. After the ink dries, the sheets have to be flipped over and run through the presses all over again. Instead, the bureau would prefer a press that can print on both sides at once, thereby effectively doubling output...
...real punishment," says Steve Martin of the nine-month regimen of instruction he endured for the film Pennies from Heaven. The musical drama, scheduled for Christmas release, is based on a 1978 BBC series and not the breezy 1936 Bing Crosby picture. Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression-era recordings backing them on the soundtrack, the dapper duo lip-sync their way through 15 songs and six lavish...
...song, like the horn-sectioned ditty-turned-anthem "I Need Your Love" or the off-beat, off-key "Lisa Likes Rock and Roll". Other times, it causes weak songs to show up even worse, like the ostentatious "Leave Me Alone," which sounds like Donna Summer having lost her lyric sheet, or the let's-play-with-synthesizers "Noises", which musically proves its lyrical intent--"Noises: the sound of mediocrity." The obligatory Hunter ballads sound tired--"Old Records Never Die" is certainly the result of a bottom-of-the-barrel search for a hero--and "Rain" is a sedative that goes...
...other hand, it earned $2.5 billion on oil sales last year, much of it from fields in the Sinai returned by Israel; Egyptian workers in other Arab countries bring home about $2.7 billion a year; and foreign investments since 1979 have totaled $550 million. On the balance sheet alone, the Egyptian Establishment is likely to support Mubarak in his continuation of Sadat's economic policies...