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...Governors' Association, falsely believe the region would have sufficient water if only profligate cities like Newport Beach, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., made do with fewer swimming pools and car washes. Rather than match supply to demand by steeply raising water rates, most political leaders merely exhort residents to take shorter showers and flush toilets less often. Los Angeles will soon spend $600,000 broadcasting such bromides...
...close, however, the two could not be more different. Willowy, auburn- haired Wintour, 38, is cool and withdrawn; Brown, 34, a shorter, shapely blond, is brassy and outgoing. Their editing styles are as distinct as their looks. Brown is verbal, literary, with a knack for matching writer to subject, while Wintour is a visual creature, renowned for her eye for style...
...Better than ever" was how Housing Officer Lisa M. Colvin described this year's lottery, which was 10 days shorter than last year's 27-day process. Fewer freshmen called in with problems or complaints than in years past, Colvin said...
Bailey calls herself "the keeper of The List" for the studies, now 20 names long. The turnover on the studies is extremely slow because once a professor moves from The List to a study, it's his for life. The next step is a shorter, separate list, one with the names of 10 professors waiting for the chance to move into a larger, more lavish study...
Soviet women are largely unconcerned about what shorter working hours will mean for their careers. While officials contend that females have equal opportunities, women live with no such illusions. True, fields that are still male preserves in the West have long been open to equal employment in the Soviet Union. Women are train conductors and engineers, garbage collectors and construction workers, but often they receive less pay than their male colleagues. "It's not written in any law that women's salaries for the same work will be lower, but that's what happens," says Elena Weinstein, 35, who worked...