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...tow-truck owners and operators say they are also having a tough time making it in an increasingly competitive industry, even in a city where legal parking spots are scarce...

Author: By Kelly M. Bowdren, | Title: City Towing Competition Is Tough | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...works heard Sunday, however, would seem to represent a retreat for Rzewski into purely personal and aesthetic realms, though not a mellowing of his characteristically passionate musical language. None of the three pieces on the program had a discernable social purpose in tow, but Rzewski did make a point of eschewing the traditional tuxedo in favor of a casual shirt and pants...

Author: By Carl J. Voss, | Title: Composer Rzewski Performs Three Personal, Searching Pieces | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

...MOST FEARSOME WEAPONS CONFRONTING U.S. MARINES in Somalia are the 480 TOW ANTITANK MISSILES and the 75 81-mm mortars that Washington delivered to the Somali military in the 1980s. To prevent local warlords and brigands from turning the arms against the Americans, the Pentagon has quietly dispatched Special Operations forces to Somalia to track down the weapons and seize them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble From Home | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

Another way to get up Mt. Brokenleg is the rope tow. About this ancient contraption, I have very little to say. Rope burn. Back pain the next...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Uphill Isn't as Fun as Skiing Down | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

Weinberger's note, discovered last spring, explicitly describes the Oval Office discussion of the plan to sell 4,000 TOW missiles to Iran in exchange for five American hostages, as well as his and Secretary of State Shultz's declared opposition. Bush has repeatedly denied that he, then Vice President, was aware that Shultz and Weinberger were opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awkward Timing | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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