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Recovering from this trough of troubles and deflecting debate over the budget are what the State of the Union message this week is designed to do. The speech will place more emphasis on the states than the union. Its cornerstone is a sweeping proposal for a "New Federalism," which goes far beyond concern over budget and tax levels and aims to transfer important government functions from Washington to state capitals, beginning in fiscal...
...trim counseling . . . and if you just want to come in and talk about haircuts, well, that's cool too." Another ad, inserted by a people's used-furniture collective, condemns alienating queen-size beds, recommending instead "our Warm Valley Bed . .. narrow and soft and shaped like a trough, gently urging its occupants toward the middle: the bed of commitment." There is a hesitant manifesto titled "Shy Rights: Why Not Pretty Soon?" by a militant shy who confesses that "while we don't have a Shy Pride Week, we do have many private moments when we keep...
...captain Paul Fenton wheeled in around the right circle and popped a quick wrist shot through Lau's legs for a 1-0 B.U. lead at 18:21. From that point on, up until the last two minutes, Harvard's wide-open skating game turned sloppy enough for the trough. And the Terriers just ate it up, scoring three goals in the second period to put the game out of reach...
...street was ice and hardly wide enough for/two of them at a time, or for a cart,/They felt showy in their bright nylon. /A woman with a bowl looked at them from her door. /Chickens. A covered water trough. She told me/more about the street and then remembered,/what she wasy saying, she said, was that there were/farmers out working in the snow...
...dollar, forcing the West German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve into an unusual rescue mission of the mark. The two central banks each sold $500 million in dollars at midweek to prop up the weakening West German currency. In Zurich, the Swiss franc dropped into a two-year trough of 1.95 to the dollar, and in Milan the Italian lira plunged to a record low of 1,019 against the dollar. At the same time, the declining value of gold pushed bullion to $500.50 an ounce at week's end, or a little more than half...