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...children did not have to wait until Agawam to ride the Thunderbolt. One apparently knocked the driver's hand, causing her to over-steer, overcompensate and end up flipping the van over the median of the highway. Luckily, only one child was seriously injured...
...Clive Davis was ready for Whitney. Earlier, he had helped launch the careers of Janis Joplin, Barry Manilow and Billy Joel. Now he would steer Whitney Houston to middle-of-the-road music. Gerry Griffith, then Arista's A.- and-R. chief, had recommended Whitney to Davis and set up an audition. "Clive sat there poker-faced," recalls Flics. "He said thank you and left. The next day we got an enthusiastic offer." In 1983 Arista signed her, with a "key man" clause: if Davis leaves the company, Whitney can go with...
During his 14 years in the Senate, Biden has dug deep into a few issues that engage him, such as the SALT II treaty and the 1984 omnibus crime bill, which he helped steer to enactment through liberal-conservative cross fire. But he has never become a recognized leader on any single large question. He has a short attention span, say his critics. He is eclectic, reply his supporters. He has ambitions that the Senate hierarchy could not satisfy, chorus...
...four winners said that the award would go towards financing the remainder of their undergraduate education and two years of graduate school, which is supposed to steer them in the direction of public service work...
After a half-century, Reagan sought to steer America on a course away from the New Deal. And yet, in doing so, he more than doubled the national debt. He was unable, or unwilling, in a term and a half tackle middle-class entitlements, such as Social Security, Medicare and wildly excessive farm- support programs. Reagan bequeaths that burden to future Presidents...