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While the Reagan Administration continues to support "open skies" for satellites, it plans to cut off funding for Landsat in 1985. Its argument: if Landsat is as valuable as its proponents say, the program should pay its own way, with private entrepreneurs picking up the tab. Meanwhile, other countries, including India and Japan, are moving in the opposite direction by subsidizing such efforts. France plans to lift Spot, a Landsat-type remote-sensing satellite, in the next few years...
...construction firm called Oger, which has headquarters in Paris, Hariri has donated the services of hundreds of workers and a small army of equipment, including 40 bulldozers, 60 trucks, ten garbage trucks, five excavators and a pair of cranes, each able to hoist up to 40 tons. The estimated tab so far: $7.5 million, all of it paid by Hariri...
...film in its all-important opening days in order to forecast its ultimate success. But the price of that insider knowledge can be excessive coziness. Entertainment Reporter Dale Pollock of the Los Angeles Times says he was sternly reprimanded in a former job at Variety for picking up the tab for lunch with industry executives. He explains: "The paper said that being taken to lunch was part of my salary...
...space cadets assume that Val Gals are simply updated versions of the 1940s bobbysoxer. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria...
...this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling the bell on the call box and generating enough current to cause a tab with the caller's number to click down on the switchboard in the pine-paneled back room of Elden Hathaway's house, also known as the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. One of the two operators, comfortably seated a few feet from an abandoned exercise cycle and at right...