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...company's warehouse, the drivers asking what was needed and offering plastic bags and boxes full of everything from infant formula to flashlight batteries, food and paper goods. A sporting- goods store in Stillwater shipped every single one of its kneepads to the rescuers scouring the wreckage. Nearby Tinker Air Force Base sent a truckload of helmet lights...
...federal budgets in the next seven years, Republicans are pressed to go where the money is. And there's big money in Medicare. Last year it weighed in at $162.5 billion and is expected to grow to $286 billion by the year 2000. However, previous attempts to tinker with the health insurance enjoyed by 36.3 million aging voters have earned Medicare the title of ``the third rail of American politics.'' Touch it and you're dead...
Situations that might stretch your patience can arise in the classroom or the dormitory. You have a week to shop classes, still longer to tinker with your schedule until it's just right. This trial period, like a product warranty, should be taken seriously. No one will think less of you for making a change that you find necessary. If you still end up with a professor or teaching fellow with whom you have a deep personal conflict, try to stick...
...director -- a roly-poly guy who resembled the cop (far right) in Who Killed Who? -- could make movies that were cute and fun. Avery created sweet, but crazy, Disney-style elves in the charmfest The Peachy Cobbler. The perennially rejected skunk star of the delightful Little 'Tinker is wondrously resilient, pouting for a millisecond before leaping for joy in anticipation of his next true love. An Avery hero had to have a heart, if only so it could be broken. Also spindled, mutilated, detonated -- or bursting bomblike out of his chest, for all the world...
...time when Charles' judgment is being questioned, why announce a willingness to tinker with the constitution, the unwritten "document" that is the foundation of his country's culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will...