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Producers candidly admit, though, that their new tamper-resistant packaging is far from tamperproof. Says Marshall Molloy, a spokesman for Warner-Lambert: "Given sufficient resources, skill and determination, the criminal can beat any safety measure known today...
...makeshift court worked swiftly in Deadwood, presumably so that judge and jury could get back to gambling, drinking and whoring, the town's principal activities. Standing the myth of the American West on its head is % not a new trick. But this time out, Dexter performs it with unusual skill, grace and glee, particularly in his presentation of Calamity Jane. No act of violence or natural appetite passes without a graphic description. This is Blazing Saddles for grownups...
Cuomo's record as Governor and his depth as a thinker should be considerable assets in a race for the presidency. But it is neither his record nor his thinking that makes him so significant to many Democrats; it is his voice, his skill as a communicator, his ability to seize on symbolic issues. He has that most potent of political attributes, a personal magnetism that tugs at the public's attention. "I think at this stage Cuomo is the strongest of the contenders," says Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a conservative Democrat who is a potential rival for the nomination...
...unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told him as he went out the door the next morning for his re-enlistment physical. Kennedy and a select group of other noncommissioned officers with years of skill and leadership were chosen by the Navy to help bring the Missouri and her sister battleships, the Iowa and the New Jersey, back to active service...
Define progressive levels of skill, responsibility and reward, with a salary norm of $35,500, rising to an average of $65,500 for special "lead teachers," who might do anything from setting curriculum standards to actually running a school, perhaps by committee...