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Longtime chief of staff Sheila Burke, who shared Dole's skepticism, recalls informing her boss on New Year's Day that another government shutdown was imminent. Dole turned to her, furious, "Did it ever occur to anybody that there are people out there who live paycheck to paycheck?" Dole spun away, saying to no one in particular, "This is the last time." And it was. On Jan. 2 he walked onto the Senate floor in the morning and just ended it. He didn't tell anyone. Didn't call anyone in the leadership. Didn't use any of the mechanisms...
...Pizza Hut. In diverse places, they are meeting different people and shaping the eclectic attitudes they will bring back to school in the fall. But almost anywhere they may have ended up, they can count on the uniting strand of a popular culture that is so target-marketed and spun that you could predict its essential substance without ever picking up a specific record lable or movie poster...
...just develop good children's programs. She showed the cable industry during its formative years that a channel with a strong mission and a well-targeted audience could be a financial success. Nickelodeon, now seen in 66 million homes, is the highest-rated basic-cable network, and it has spun off lines of imaginative toys as well as another cable channel, TV Land (ne Nick at Nite), aimed at baby-boomer parents. Nickelodeon has also provided a role model for reformers seeking to upgrade network fare for children. Says Kathryn Montgomery, president of the Washington-based Center for Media Education...
...ground up. They are triggered, Wakimoto says, by low-lying eddies of air that are perturbed by a fast-moving front or some other local disturbance. When a supercell storm passes over such an area, swirling air near the ground could easily be sucked into the updraft and spun up into a tornado. "Why," he asks, "should a supercell tornado be different from all the rest...
After finishing a disastrous eighth in the 1995 nationals, Galindo again took stock. He stopped training for a while, mostly to earn more money, and decided that henceforth he would skate for himself only. He is known for his musicality and clean, balletic line, and he and Brancato spun out a simple, elegant short program to Johann Pachelbel's Canon. In a way it was a declaration of independence. Says Galindo: "Everyone else had fast short programs, so I wanted a slow one." The long showpiece was fashioned with jazz dancer-choreographer Sharlene Franke, who called the staccato moves...