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Carbone said the Inn limits the number of guests using the MAC's facilities, which include an Olympic size pool, a weight room and volley- ball and basketball courts, to two at any giventime...
Like Hamlet as he strolled the ramparts of Elsinore castle, Danish voters last week confronted a dramatic dilemma: to be, or not to be fully a part of the new Europe. Their answer, which provoked an instant volley of slings and arrows from the nation's outraged Community partners, was an astounding no. By a 50.7% majority, meaning roughly 48,000 votes out of nearly 4 million cast, Danes voted in a referendum not to ratify the treaty of Maastricht, a landmark agreement that pledges the Community to monetary as well as political union by the end of the century...
Down 0-3 in the third set to Princeton's Hilary Pushkin and serving at 15-40, Parker switched to a serve-and-volley attack and won the game...
...latest volley, the chiefs of McDonnell Douglas and five other defense-industry giants urged President Bush last week to seek congressional approval quickly for Saudi Arabia's order for 72 of the combat jets and 100 spare engines. "There are those who advocate a wait-and-see posture," the CEOs wrote the President, "but time is something we simply don't have." Unless the sale (long-term value: $13 billion) goes through, the McDonnell Douglas subsidiary that builds the planes in St. Louis and Tulsa will begin a shutdown of its F-15 assembly lines this summer. McDonnell Douglas spokesman...
...volley of stories detailing the palace's behind-the-scenes fury ended up backfiring. The public sympathized with the 32-year-old mother of two who had strayed into the sights of such heavy artillery. The next day Charles Anson, the Queen's press secretary and the source of some of the vitriol, issued an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, public apology to the monarch and Fergie. Anson was not the only insider to spill venom, but he accepted "full responsibility" for what some people had begun to call the "Mean Queen Machine." The next step in damage control was to negotiate...