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...wonder the government seldom hands out a pink slip. The federal personnel manual, which spells out the rules for hiring and firing, totals 10,000 pages. There are 900 pages alone on how to fill in Standard Form 50 ("Notification of Personnel Action"). Government personnel director Jim King wants to replace the manual with slimmed-down regulations tailored to specific agencies...
...guys are joining a high-stakes poker game where Rick Dees, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak, Dennis Miller, Ron Reagan and Whoopi Goldberg have played and, expensively, folded. Arsenio's audience -- his rainbow coalition of young viewers, a high proportion of them women -- has ebbed recently, and will slip further when his syndicated show is bumped toward dawn on many CBS and Fox affiliates...
Gloria Aller remained concerned. "More than once I asked them, 'If he starts to slip, you'll put him back on medication?' " She says the staff assured her they would. On June 1, 1989, Greg Aller signed his second consent form. The form blandly said the study's "purpose" was "to take people like me off medication in a way that will give the most information about the medication, its effect on me, on others and on the way the brain works." Further, the clinic promised it would use "active medication again to improve ((Aller's)) condition" if he showed...
Cash-hungry nations like China and the former Eastern bloc countries have found a niche market in guns that can slip in even under the new regulations. "As opposed to cheap, shoddy Saturday-night specials," says Jack Killorin, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "you've got very high-quality firearms coming in at bargain-basement prices." A fine Czech Republic semiautomatic handgun called the CZ, formerly made for infantry use, sells for about $250, in contrast to $700 to $850 for a comparable Austrian or Swiss handgun...
...superstardom is chillingly conveyed in Numb as the Edge's monotonic vocal is underscored by a lacerating guitar lick. Other songs are suffused with a sense of fleeting time. In Some Days Are Better than Others, Bono observes, "Some days take less but most days take more/ Some days slip through your fingers and onto the floor." And in the hymnlike Dirty Day, he seems to glimpse his own mortality as he sings, "These days, days, days run away like horses over the hill...