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...foolish enough to predict that peace will obliterate America's severe economic woes -- its mountains of debt, its banking crisis, its depressed real estate market. But a consensus holds that peace and national pride will at least erase the preoccupation with war and TV bulletins that has turned the slush of a winter's recession into a frozen economic tundra. Among the areas showing signs of a peace-prompted thaw...
Standing amid puddles and dirty slush filling the Yard, Bill C. Kessler '91 and Charles E. Ehrlich '91 said they felt the time for protest had passed...
...much, he shoulda stood in China"). Some storekeepers hated it. But who complained most bitterly about the bike lanes? The bicyclers. The true New York bicyclers complained that the bike lane was full of pedestrians and garment-center pushcarts and people who schlepped around on Raleigh three- speeds. And slush. "It's October," I said to the bicycler who made that complaint; "there's no slush in October." "When there's slush," he said, "the bike lane will have slush...
...salary of $96,600 (House) or $98,400 (Senate), but it's enough to relieve anxiety. Pensions are fat and perks numerous. Then there are the unspent campaign kitties: Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the man who shapes the tax laws, has a political slush fund of $1 million, which he can legally keep if he retires. Risky times are dim memories for these...
...favor of a color scheme heavy on violet, turquoise, melon and, of course, bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down into some overeager gambler's decolletage...