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...zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their Italian leather sofa to watch a videocassette of, say, last week's L.A. Law or Cheers on their high-definition, large-screen stereo television...
...efforts by central bankers to stabilize the currency. Global money traders sent the dollar reeling because they expected that the currency might have to fall further if the U.S. is to slash its trade deficit. But sentiment is rising in Washington that protectionism is preferable to watching the dollar sink ever lower. Though the U.S. and Japan may not yet be engaged in a full-scale trade war, what used to be a heated rivalry between friends has now moved on to a new and potentially perilous phase...
...seekers herald their arrival with windshield graffiti reading PADRE NAKED, TEQUILA TRUCK and SINK THE ISLAND. Youths have carted off street signs, & spray painted condo windows and littered the pristine beach with cans and bottles. Says Fire Department Aide Bobbye Dowda: "Ceilings are torn out. Kids dare you to run into them on the street...
Still, the circus of sleaze didn't unfurl its tend until Meg made her fatal mistake--she died. When her children, Bessie and John, found out that they didn't even get the placque that used to hang over the kitchen sink with the Lord's Prayer on it, all hell broke loose. Special crack teams of Rockefeller lawyers, trained in jungle survival techniques by G. Gordon Liddy and in rhetoric by Jesse Jackson, sprang out of camouflaged foxholes to launch a frontal attack on the U.S. judiciary system. The objective: $50 million in diamonds, stock, and Third World countries...
...broom closet? That was the asking price for a 5 1/2-ft. by 11-ft. room on Princes Court opposite Harrods department store in the affluent Knightsbridge section of the city. Though the cubicle had indeed been a broom closet, it was gussied up with a concealed kitchen sink, Laura Ashley wallpaper and a tiny window...