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...gave harrowing accounts to Plon. Said one Swedish man: "We had our berths furthest down below the car deck. We were three in the cabin and could not sleep. Then we heard a funny, scraping sound along the wall, and then the boat began to tilt. I immediately felt that the list was so severe that it would capsize. I ran as fast as I could. There was panic. Many ran and tried to get out, and many screamed. I saw many elderly people who did not have the strength to cope."Said another: "I was in the water...
Plenty of both, it turns out. On Voodoo Lounge, Jagger and company have recaptured the spontaneous verve of a great working band. You Got Me Rocking, a full-tilt stomp built on Charlie Watts' brick-solid drumming and Richards' saw-toothed guitar lines, has the frayed, unrehearsed ending of a live performance, as does Moon Is Up. Producer Don Was has avoided trying to update the band's sound with trendy hip-hop or techno touches. Instead, he helps serve up a classic collection of rockers and semisweet ballads...
While companies cannot always anticipate their legal exposure, they can take precautions to shield themselves from violent intrusion. As a result, they are investing more than ever in hiring guards and installing high-tech gizmos like tilt-and-zoom closed-circuit cameras or magnetic-card access systems. The current outlay is more than $22 billion each year, up 16% from 1990, according to Leading Edge Reports, a research firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. The figure is well in excess of the amount spent on the nation's police departments. By 1996 the expenditure is expected to soar another...
...House majority leader Richard Gephardt from 1989 to '91, he also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what it will take to get it done." Despite a well-documented left-of- center tilt (during his House years he could be spied reading Salvadoran dissident novels on the subway), Stephanopoulos is untainted in the ideological wars that sometimes split the Administration. "He has an agenda, but with Clinton, he's reached the top and is going to insure that he serves his master," says...
...this sainted team? What men can tilt the balance beam? Like the Broncos of Santa Clara, Who beat strong `Zona, to end their era, And even thoughst they lost to Temple, They made a mark, more than a pimple...