Word: soaped
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Canada's long-running confederation soap opera headed for a cliff-hanger finale last week. In the hardscrabble Atlantic province of Newfoundland, 52 provincial legislators hurriedly canvassed their constituents on whether to accept a constitutional agreement hashed out by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the country's ten provincial premiers a week earlier. In the prairie province of Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place...
...months ago charged $160 to install an overseas line, now asks foreign companies to pay $20,800. The Bolshoi and Kirov ballet troupes have licensed their names in Europe, and the British promoter who put that deal together has signed an agreement to slap the prestigious titles on soap, shoes, perfume and panty hose in the U.S. Says Peter Brightman, head of the company that okayed the contract: "Everyone in the Soviet Union is desperate for hard currency...
...related opportunity involves the female lead, who is obsessed with personal hygiene. An entire scene is devoted to her washing her hands. Bill wants $20,000 for each soap product displayed on her vanity. For $40,000, after moaning "Out, damned spot," she will turn to the audience, smile brightly, and say, "And out it came, thanks to pure Ivory soap!" For $60,000, an attendant will comment that her hands are "not only clean, but soft as well, your Majesty...
...have in mind. They fear not only the worst from Germany's past but also something just as bad that may lurk in their own future. These twin dreads interact powerfully, if not quite logically. As Gorbachev at least tacitly acknowledges, in his country rationality is as scarce as soap these days. The outside world is a mirror into which Soviets look and wince...
LATVIA. After parliament announced that a transition period leading to independence had begun, Soviet tanks and armored vehicles rolled through Riga. Ivars Godmanis of the Popular Front was elected Prime Minister, and panic buying emptied stores of sausages and soap...