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...deer. The law obliged him to give the drilling company access to his land, even though his compensation for the "surface disturbances" amounts to just $20,000. CMS and other drillers, on the other hand, were making serious money. Wellhead prices for gas were shooting up--from $1.75 per thousand cu. ft. in February 1999 to about $5.84 in February 2001. The boom...
...other saturnine gents of the day, Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn. And the first day of the TV show, he had reason to look glum: no dancers appeared for the first 15 minutes (school has just let out). Then two girls showed up. By Day 3 a thousand teens were trying to get in. Two years later, the show was a smash; it introduced dance crazes like the Bunny Hop, and Horn had received an award from TV Guide. The dancers were taking the spotlight, and Horn showed that, after all, he had a rapport with the kids...
While the vast majority of people who will be grilling the burgers and steaks this summer will do so on cookers that cost less than $500, plenty of nesters, having redone their kitchens with commercial-grade equipment, are spending several thousand dollars on this posh patio or that garden accessory. In the '90s, a $3,000 grill was shocking; now manufacturers are seeing how high consumers will go, and the ceiling hasn't yet been reached. "The backyard has become another room in the house," says Shaun Chinsky, brand manager for Vieluxe, a $6,000 barbecue brought out this year...
...golden opportunity to fix our crumbling infrastructure and stimulate the U.S. economy. The next time you are stuck in traffic on an interstate highway, just say, "$1.35 trillion." Because some of those revenues would have upgraded many interstate freeways, improved air and rail travel and so on. RAYMOND FREEMAN Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...McVeigh execution delay, we encountered FBI deputy director Tom Pickard and terrorism division chief Dale Watson trudging glumly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Justice Department to the Hoover building. These two had had the unhappy task of informing Louis Freeh about the eleventh-hour discovery of a few thousand stray documents in the McVeigh case. We remarked that they didn't look too bloody for a couple of guys who had been at ground zero when the Director went off like a bushel basket of grenades...