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Three weeks after suffering one heart attack last November, 46-year- old Bill Peterson was resting at a St. Louis hospital when he was suddenly gripped by the chest- crushing pain of a second

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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police said the bomb was probably planted by Sinhalese extremists in retaliation for the restaurant owner's defiance of a call for a general strike

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At least Mr. Gay is honest enough, in this instance, to acknowledge that Freud's entire " psychoanalysis " of Leonardo rested on the mistranslation of an Italian word into the German text that served as Freud's source -- and that " this gaffe, " though first pointed out in 1923, was " never acknowledged by Freud...'

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Standard Chartered sought the investigation last February following press speculation that the bank illegally lent money to buyers of its shares to ward off Lloyds's# 1.27 billion -LRB-$ 2.25 billion -RRB- bid

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Among the problems that can be addressed, and perhaps resolved, at the joint session is the output currently escaping OPEC's quotas

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For the first seven months of 1988, the small regional carrier flew 3.94 billion revenue passenger miles, up 30% from 3.03 billion a year earlier

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He did, however, get McGwire to pop out with two out and the bases loaded in the eighth, and he struck out the mighty Jose Canseco on a 3- 2 count with a man on in the ninth

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But, he said, armed troops loyal to the Panamanian dictator " kind of cooled that down.'

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At 9 p.m., a doctor examines her and orders tests

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One of the most striking examples of the trend is Gilead Sciences Inc. in Foster City, Calif., a company devoted exclusively to genetic targeting

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It targets a very different crowd from the white- collar clientele of Federal's " front- door " document- delivery business, and the company has had to fine- tune its marketing

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Clark, in another deft portrait -RRB- up and down their odd homestead -- a huge, moss- covered boiler, Snopishly decorated with old car seats and broken machines -- and seemed worn and winded by the time he stumbles upon Brunnhilde on the airstrip

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But striking a compromise will be tough because lawmakers fiercely disagree about what should be done

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Cale Yarborough's car spun out of control on the first turn, " knocking out nine other vehicles

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London share prices settled just below their best levels as a stronger start on Wall Street lent a helping hand

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Clergymen, philosophers, sociologists and political scientists have filled the pages of scholarly journals about the subject

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Since spring, foreign sales had withered as the drought pushed U.S. grain prices even further above world rates

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They said the amounts were small and the action was interpreted as more an attempt to smooth volatility and slow the dollar's ascent than to stop it

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The Department of Labor has stirred up a storm of controversy with proposed regulations that would govern how qualified pension plans, including 401 -LRB- k -RRB- savings arrangements, could lend money to participating employees

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Spring potatoes have been planted on 81, 900 acres, down 1% from last year but up 6% from two years ago

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We are all afraid to die and all we can do is count the days till we go home...

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Mr. Lawson touched only briefly on what he called " the current- account scare, " saying the government would " overcome that just as we have overcome every other problem we have faced " since taking office

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They point out that three members of Abu Nidal's organization are in jail in Greece on separate charges of attacking a synagogue in Rome, weapons smuggling, plotting to assassinate the Jordanian charge d'affairs in Greece, and possessing weapons in prison

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Out- of- home entertainment -- such as films, sporting events, eating out, dancing, theater, shopping and amusement parks -- was a leisure- time activity for 43% of respondents. -LRB- The survey included multiple responses. -RRB-/-R

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" They could probably buy the whole Tenneco refinery for what they'd spend fixing up the other, " said Thomas Manning, vice president of the consulting firm Purvin& Gertz Inc., Houston

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It was one of the congressional spending programs President Reagan attacked in his State of the Union address

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Even giants are being kicked in the shins, however

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After being widowed at the age of 50, this heretofore conventional woman began making sculptures, systematically filling her house and yard with her weird creations

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He crawled out the bowsprit, kicked in a stern gallery window and led his sailors to capture the ship, then use it as a bridge to board and capture the Spanish flagship lying alongside

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It said it expects to absorb " the vast majority " of those jobs in its private health- care business

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Mr. Bluey's job is difficult because accounting investigations, unlike insider- trading cases, can drag on and draw little fanfare

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-- Last September, 22-year- old Kimberly Isaac of Baton Rouge, La., was badly scraped over a large part of her body when a 1977 LTD she had just parked in a grocery- store lot backed up, knocking her over and dragging her in circles

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The impact of her crash coup is melting away as her fund has trailed the market consistently

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In the U.S., software has flourished as something of a cottage industry; in Japan, companies have set up software factories with 1, 000 employees or more

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Philip Morris also has$ 1.5 billion in available cash and the ability to acquire more funding if necessary, although people close to the company said some of the funds available are targeted for other corporate purposes and for expenses related to the proposed acquisition

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Many doubt those ties will ever dissolve, and wonder how lasting the Thatcher Revolution will prove

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Mr. Cicerone and his colleagues slogged into flooded rice paddies a few years ago to take methane measurements

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Beginning this week, says Steve Freed, an agricultural analyst for Dean Witter Reynolds in Chicago, the corn yield will drop 5% for every week it rains less than normal

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An Agence France Press dispatch on August 8 reported that an Afghan air force plane was shot down by a Pakistani F-16 while attacking Afghan refugee camps 30 kilometers inside Pakistan territory, near Miram Shah

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When he steps into BG's shoes on Saturday, it will be in a Carnegie Hall vastly different from the one Mr. Goodman first scaled in 1938

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Frightened, I tried to escape this hybrid of Samir and Othman, but the faster I ran, the faster it pursued me

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Switzerland is an example of a country that has pursued a domestic price rule and achieved price stability while allowing fluctuations in the exchange rate to absorb real shocks

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Mr. Brown recently stepped down as president of the University of South Florida

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With gold demand slack and more governments than ever issuing gold bullion coins, he says, " They're grabbing for scraps.'

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If the " draft- dodger " label had stuck, Sen. Quayle might well have taken Mr. Bush down with him

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They won't let her use her own stove or refrigerator, so she cooks and eats meals at a neighbor's

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SEC staffers have just begun examining corporate cleanup disclosures

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It is the growth of the Hidden Economy -- these millions of small, private businesses -- that cushions the shock of a crashing Dow, that absorbs the workers cut loose by big firms when they restructure and that created most of those 17 million jobs

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Fusion charges that shortly after it sold a high- intensity microwave lamp to Mitsubishi in 1977, the Japanese company " reverse- engineered " the product and flooded the Japanese Patent Office with 200 separate claims to this type of technology

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And the$ 300 million sunflower industry is faring far worse than the$ 10.5 billion soybean industry, which is large enough to absorb short- term setbacks

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" A sequester doesn't strike me as something that the administration would want to do right before the election, " he said

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And with the economy so far apparently riding out the crash, U.S. companies seem less worried about the threat of an imminent recession that might have kept them from gambling heavily on takeovers

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As each diver plunges into a cage, Mr. Roessler pours a smelly dipper of chum on top of him: the initiation rite

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Despite these problems, Western officials are optimistic that the superpower relationship has a unique opportunity to flourish because of both nations' economic problems, need for defense cuts and desire to concentrate on domestic affairs

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Rhinos wearing tutus daintily knock workmen aside

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The rate on Federal funds, or reserves banks lend one another overnight, could climb above 8% by tomorrow from just under 7 3 4%, he said

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In a reminder of nature's fickleness, the eye of this year's drought rests just a couple of hundred miles north of here, along the Red River Valley between Minnesota and North Dakota

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Your Sept. 22 editorial " The Liberal Plantation " hangs on a badly flawed premise: that workfare can lead to " steady work " and help poor people " escape welfare and lead independent lives.'

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Another factor that should smooth the process is simply the diminishing importance of the national contract

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Mr. Hauke " is looking for a much more costly repair that is nonstandard and would knock the price beyond the the{$ 500} limit for a buy- back.'

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But this is not to say that old expansions, even ones as sluggish and recession- ridden as this, will roll along indefinitely

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That, analysts say, is largely because most of the banking and financial issues went into the crash at low prices, having withered from their highs in the summer of 1986

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The deity is Col. Lee Kuang- chien, the most senior KMT officer to die in the 1949 battle

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Mr. Redford has assembled a great collection of faces, especially the geezers who look like they' ve spent the past half- century drinking the same cup of coffee with the same old pals

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A revenue passenger mile is one paying customer flown one mile

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He said the legislation shouldn't be so generous as to induce any farmers to plow under their crops, and shouldn't " bust the budget.'

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As Teresina, the maiden who is drowned in the Bay of Naples and ends up as a Nereid in the Blue Grotto before being restored to life by her faithful fisherman lover, Gennaro, Linda Hindberg was too inflexible in body and too stolid in personality

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Also, designers have worn their cachet thin by lending their names to such diverse products as sheets, luggage and cigarettes

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Immunex said the study examined patients with lymph cancers such as leukemia

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The union crew worked 35; the rest of the time it was forced to wait -- for someone to come back from the restroom or for a journeyman to become available to do work an apprentice could easily have done but was not allowed to touch

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Unlike Charming Shoppes Inc. or U.S. Shoe Corp.'s Casual Corner stores, for example -- which got stuck with stockrooms of casual sportswear just as its popularity was dying -- Limited maintained tight inventory levels, enabling it to control markdowns

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Mr. Smith, 44 years old, succeeds Gary W. Rhodes, 40, who has stepped down to chief financial officer for " purely personal and family reasons, " according to the company

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The best of show in painting, Oleg Stavrowsky's 40-inch by 72-inch oil of a stagecoach being attacked by bandits, went for$ 14, 000

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Mr. Pickens was badly beaten in last fall's battle for Newmont Mining, a raid that baffled takeover experts because 26% of Newmont was already controlled by the ultimate victor, Consolidated Gold Fields PLC. Mesa's$ 100 million stock profit from the deal -- Mr. Pickens's estimate -- also evaporated during October's market crash

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You may withdraw cash temporarily from an individual retirement account and escape a tax or penalty, if you roll it all over into another IRA in 60 days

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Black& Decker Corp. stepped up pressure on American Standard Inc., indicating that it might further sweeten its$ 65-a- share bid if financial information supports a higher figure

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Roger Ailes, the man who will guide George Bush's heavy media campaign, is pumping up his anger like a lineman preparing to crush the opposing quarterback

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While American and Delta airlines have reputations as places " where people really like to work, " employees at Eastern and Continental " roll their eyes " when asked about their jobs, said Southern Illinois University associate professor David A. NewMyer

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For years cable touted itself as the incubator for new kinds of shows the networks wouldn't touch -- like " Shandling, " rejected initially by the networks partly for its quirks: The star plays himself and talks to the audience more than he talks to the cast

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Now, do all of them absorb it and grab it

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The Bush strategists insist they will not attack Mr. Robertson, noting that much of their own support in the South is conservative and evangelical

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So we're scoping the situation, kicking back, and all of a sudden this guy gets this insane barrel, then does a full- on airplane floater, then a full- on wraparound cutback, then a full- on snap reentry

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Saudi Arabia is expected to continue flooding the market with oil for at least two more weeks, until two OPEC committees meet to consider how they might rein in production and prop up prices

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He strongly attacked the Massachusetts governor, asserting that he would lead the nation toward higher taxes, economic stagnation and a weaker defense

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The suit had asserted that Thiokol was wrong in telling the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that the rocket defect could be fixed

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Whether that should be welcome news or cause for alarm depends on one's confidence in the ability of Congress to write rules for markets without destroying them

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Ne Win, however, saw that Burma escaped the Vietnam vortex

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Unfortunately, they won't work in the harbor tunnel where business travelers sometimes get stuck on the way in from the airport...

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Foul weather delayed the regatta, but it finally took place on Jan. 2: " It rained during the first race, rained and hailed during the second, and snowed during the third, " Mr. Taylor wrote

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Pakistani cheating could prompt Moscow to declare the accords void or to attack Afghan- resistance camps in Pakistan

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The treaty requires that the Army's 420 Pershing missiles be destroyed

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But the resolution probably rests more on politics than on flying skill and commercial expertise

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Much is made of Mr. Hoxsey's assertion that his files were open to doubters, but only a few brief seconds are devoted to the fact that when the files were examined they were found to be so incomplete that it was impossible to tell whether the " cured " patients actually had had cancer or whether conventional treatment had been effective

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This cost has been absorbed by me in the hope that the FDA would reward my efforts with its favor

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All eyes are fixed on 18 television sets showing the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace

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Others say Mr. Kasparov does drink, but the champion certainly looks sober when he arrives, decked out in tasseled loafers and a spiffy plaid suit -LRB- only a clashing checked necktie mars the ensemble -RRB-

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And, " These characteristics of Soviet policy, like the postulate from which they flow, are basic to the internal nature of Soviet power, and will be with us, whether in the foreground or the background, until the internal nature of Soviet power is changed.'

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That's because the auto shop decided to eat its words

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The U.N. said the fatalities brought to 48 the number of Palestinians killed since the wave of anti- Israeli unrest began in the occupied areas Dec. 8

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She watched an older couple dancing outside in the restaurant's courtyard

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