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...Bush administration had hoped to "smarten" international sanctions against Iraq, but right now the U.N. Security Council is more inclined to keep them dumb. The U.S. and Britain were forced Wednesday to hold back a revised sanctions program they had hoped to have in place when the current oil-for-food program expires on June 4. Instead, the Security Council voted Thursday to simply extend the existing sanctions package and the oil-for-food program that allows Iraq to purchase its basic food and medical needs...
...Barlett and Steele's America, the middle-class voter ends up looking like someone who gets mugged and begs for more. After all, it was the middle class that elected all those fellows, on both sides of the aisle, who so loyally serve the rich. Maybe now we'll smarten up and learn how to hold on to our wallets. Or maybe the dread class war is already over, and the suits have run away with the loot...
Well, listen up, rockheads. You're about to become the hippest form of computer nerds. You'd better smarten up too, because there's work to do, and lots of creative play. More than 5 million of you in North America have CD-ROM or Philips CD-i players, and that number is expected to double by year's end and treble by 1996. Get ready to hook up those players to your computers and home entertainment centers, fork over $25 to $100 a disk and jam with your favorite artist. Passivity is passe; tubby time is over. Here comes...
...smarten them up," Flaman said, referring to his players' reaction to the overtime loss...
...three-piece Revere tea set was sold for $70,000 last year, up from about the $30,000 it was traded for only five years earlier. Says Kevin Tierney, 26, the sharp-eyed Irish appraiser that Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries imported a year ago to smarten up its silver department: "You've no idea what that ride has done for Revere's trade...