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...they want to know how much it will cost to bring former Warsaw Pact armies up to NATO standards and whether the European members, present and future, can be counted on to pay their share. "What are we getting ourselves into in terms of costs?" asks Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin...
...gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance." The movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good -- up to a point -- on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a sort of New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils...
...kind of bid they wanted, and the Maryland mine came through with a 10-year bid that Consol couldn't match. With coal prices still on a downward trend that began 19 years ago, fuel contracts of that length are all but unprecedented. But Mettiki vice president for operations Tom Wynne insists there was nothing nefarious about this. "We invested every inch of our effort for two years into getting this contract," he says. "We did our homework...
...productive for society, such as a new hospital wing, better roads or books for my kid's school. If I want a roof over my head, I have to come up with the money for it. Why should I have to pay for a murderer's amenities for life? TOM BRADFORD McCall, Idaho...
...Tom Lehrer, the laureate of light-hearted lyrics, has a new record out. Actually, it's an old record. He hasn't written any songs to record since 1965, he says, "because I didn't think of any funny ideas." When Rhino Records asked him if it could re-release his work, "I said, 'Hey, it's your money.'" He found the original tapes in an unopened box marked "1967" in his cellar. And will the part-time mathematics professor tour? "Why?" he asks. "Did hell freeze over...