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...B.J.P. has been waiting a long time for that turn of the wheel. The party traces its lineage to the 1920s, when a young doctor named Keshav Baliram Hedgewar founded the R.S.S., or National Volunteer Corps; its members today form the core of the B.J.P.. Hedgewar believed that divisions of caste, sect and language made Hindu society weak and an easy victim of foreign, especially Muslim, domination...
...Louisiana's legislature is considering a bill that would authorize up to 15 paddle-wheel gambling boats. Governor Buddy Roemer supports the idea...
...protective gear available, a majority of bladers prefer to breeze along unpadded. The most feared injuries are to the head, yet few bladers will deign to don helmets. "They're hot inside and mess up your hair," says Neil Feineman, author of a how-to book for skaters entitled Wheel Excitement. Although he always wears a helmet in street traffic, Feineman adds, "They're hard on the Walkmans...
...clock trading at the N.Y.S.E. -- an experimental two-year extension of trading hours beyond the 4 o'clock close. Starting June 13, individual investors will be able to buy and sell stocks up to 5 p.m. at 4 p.m. prices, while holders of multiple-stock portfolios -- typically institutions -- will wheel and deal until 5:15. "The proposal before us may seem incremental," said Breeden, "but its effect will be felt around the world as a sign that U.S. markets are changing their habits to meet the needs of an increasingly globalized marketplace...
...title clearly announces the film's most significant innovation. Thelma & Louise is the first important movie to plop two women in a car and send them careering down open Western roads with the cops in wheel-spinning pursuit. And it is the first movie to use sexism as the motivating force for their misdeeds...