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Still, ya gotta give credit to a joint that, in a part of the country where they think you're supposed to slice hot dog rolls through the top, slices them the right way, through the side. Eating at Chicago Frank's is like being transported to what poet Carl Sandwich called "the City of the Big Buns." Or something like that...
...wondering what will happen now that he's on his own. "On network television, you're strongly identified with a role," he says. "Week in, week out, you come into people's houses. And since they don't pay, it seems less like a performance and more like a slice of life...
...doleful eyes give him the appearance of a bloodhound, is far from a leftist rabble-rouser. His speeches are often as dour as his looks. But his message -- declaring the need for a change of both government and policies -- is popular at a time when Mexico's economic problems slice deep into the purchasing power of its poor. By some estimates, real wages have fallen to the levels of the early 1970s. Particularly well received is his call for renegotiation of Mexico's $103 billion foreign debt...
...addition, the legislation would help women entrepreneurs win a bigger slice of the Government procurement pie. Of the $177 billion in prime federal contracts awarded to companies last year, firms owned by women won 1% of the business. The LaFalce bill would require federal agencies to set numerical goals for awarding contracts to women. Prime contractors would have to set similar goals in awarding work to subcontractors. But LaFalce's bill would have no effect on state government procurement, where conditions are also rough. Mildred Green, 55, founder of Accounting Data Systems of Caro, Mich. (1987 revenues: $2.5 million), recalls...
According to Patterson, "When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends." The Tyson camp's slice of this fight is $22 million, bringing his bundle so far to more than $40 million. "I originally picked him, and I still do," Patterson allows, "but now I give Spinks a chance." Torres looks at it the other way: "Who knows? It could be good. After all, doesn't he come from turmoil?" A little overwhelmed, Tyson says, "When I'm out of boxing, I'm going to tell everyone I'm bankrupt." In a sepia mood again, he adds...