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But the Nazis didn't occupy Hungary, and kill half a million Jews, until 1944

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" I' m quite sure there was someone within the IBM structure that could have just reached in and fixed it.'

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Mr. Icahn is already pouring money into his effort to fight Texaco's plan

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In the third " mansion, " the lascivious emperor, Diocletian -LRB- Patrick Dupond -RRB-, dances a pas de deux with the youth and then repeats it, almost step for step, with the queen

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Among those who drink alcoholic beverages world- wide, 8% consume daily amounts that are damaging to their health and to society

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This little romp doesn't miss a cliche

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He said banks soon may lower their prime, or base, lending rates, now 8 3 4%

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As the two paddled along, a fast- moving motorized water scooter driven by a six- year- old boy plowed into them, killing Mrs. Simpson

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You have to build up the equipment to a certain power level, test it, cool it down, then possibly repair it, and it may take months to bring it up again.'

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The Soviet leader gave vent to his criticism of Washington's policies in general toward Moscow, which he described as filled with contradictions

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In hearings before Mr. Needelman last August, the lawyers attacked the seeming contradictions between the papers' earlier upbeat statements and ambitious spending, and their more recent statements that the Free Press is failing

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The protein, called CD4, mimics the virus's natural targets in the body, thus flooding the system with false targets and diverting the virus from its normal course of attack

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" This issue touches all Californians -- it's the biggest economic prop around -- and he's got to deal with it, " says Mervin Field, the non- partisan California pollster

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" We believe the person who is working on the line, making our ice cream, filling the pints, is a very important person, " Mr. Cohen says

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Jonathan Kaye, a Boston real estate developer, sometimes takes a portable to his health club to avoid missing important calls

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Next it flew them -- in its corporate jet and accompanied by the company's chairman, Joseph Williams -- to Anaheim, Calif., where they spoke to a big cardiologists' meeting

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There weren't any American casualties reported, but a U.S. attack helicopter carrying two crew members was missing

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I leave her there, pouring out her words into the darkness.'

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Early last year, the Navy lent two of the planes to the Coast Guard, and two to Customs

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Throughout training, Mr. Hynes and his classmates feared above all that they would wash out, or that the war would end, and that they'd miss their chance at fighting the good fight

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But Mr. Mulroney is arguing that Canada has escaped the most virulent forms of U.S. protectionism

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Mr. Harris says the free- trade agreement gives Canadian steel producers more secure access to the huge U.S. market and reduces the threat of U.S. quotas, which he said almost struck his company four years ago

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" The Saudis always have been careful about fixing something that isn't broken.'

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Charles Jude, Mr. Nureyev's partner, danced with a youthful resilience that reflected unfavorably on the latter's growing infirmity

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So, as the team investigating the disaster homed in on two top generals, on May 27 President Zia dissolved the civilian side of the government, alleging the civilians were corrupt and that Pakistan needed more religion

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Gillette Co. stepped up its attack on Coniston Partners, a New York investment group seeking four seats on Gillette's board, saying Coniston acts on behalf of " a web of as yet unidentified and undisclosed investors, " including foreigners

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In his excitement, he has stumbled into hot- dog territory with naivete, which is characteristic of the big, brash and growing metropolis on the banks of Lake Michigan

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When the chairman of Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. flew into town a few months ago in the corporate jet, a small group of trainmen here knew they had struck a raw nerve

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Stories of dog restaurants being shooed from areas tourists frequent filled the foreign press in pre- Olympic days

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Whalers, traders and missionaries planted seedlings at settlements scattered along the chain

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Beazer PLC said it was " prepared immediately to negotiate a merger agreement " with Koppers Co. for$ 60 a share, while stressing that it was formally sticking to its$ 56-a- share tender offer

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Says William Beadle, president of the Better Business Bureau of Utah: " When greed kicks in, common sense many times just flies right out the window.'

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The jump in rates in the bond market last week means many lenders will increase fixed mortgage rates further this week

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But the overwhelming mass of Soviet people eat dinner at home, after wasting millions of hours in line buying dreadful food, barely seeing a green vegetable in a state grocery all winter -LRB- although the citrus situation is vastly improved from what it once was -RRB-

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Last year, its news writers division struck for six weeks

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He has been wrong on interest rates recently, again because he missed the full impact of the declining dollar, and he concedes that bond prices could fall temporarily

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It cuts the workweek to 44 hours from 48, guarantees a 50% bonus for all overtime, grants unlimited right to strike, introduces maternity leave of 120 days, suggests paternity leave of five days, and provides new legal protection against arbitrary dismissal

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But, according to the EC Commission, the GATT panel agreed with the EC's contention that Japan's monitoring has the effect of improperly fixing prices paid by third- country users

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The assailants escaped on a waiting speedboat

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James Gatward, Television South's chief executive, said his friendship with MTM chief executive officer, Arthur Price, helped smooth the way for a linkup with the small British company rather than a larger European partner

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That agreement was dissolved after a regulatory challenge, but Seagram ultimately won Martell with an offer valuing the company at 5.25 billion French francs -LRB-$ 820.6 million -RRB-

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Now, the pock- marked nightspot is crowded with men drinking arak liquor and slapping dominoes and backgammon pieces on rickety tables

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At one point, the shark disappears, then roars up from the deep to snatch a big chunk of horsemeat on the surface, the way it might grab an unsuspecting sea lion

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If the charges stick, it could suggest that some concepts of freedom are a bit too broad

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The picture spans the quarter- century between the mid-'50s and the early' 80s, which gives Ms. Lange the chance to frequently change her hair style, to wear a variety of clothes and to dance the Twist

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For finishes, there's his best shot, a roundhouse forehand that is better described as being launched than struck

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" Look at all the suffering Unita has caused, " says Espirito, resting his one leg on a bar stool

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But the OTC market was withering badly near the close and traders said if there was more time prices would have fallen further

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In this nervous, jumpy world economic reality matters less than the rumors and out- of- context scraps of information that pour into the trading rooms

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By grabbing captive outlets in consuming countries, OPEC members win guaranteed customers

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Among the possibilities considered by investigators: The suspect claimants might have posed as heirs, or even as missing shareholders in their own right, though they weren't on the original list provided by the company

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He thinks equity investors are bothered that short- term interest rates haven't eased despite the evidence of a cooling economy

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Traditions die hard, and the Fed hasn't shaken its habit of targeting the real economy -- under the notion that inflation, too much money chasing too few goods, is prevented by curtailing the production of goods

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In 1347, Mongols besieging the Black Sea port of Caffa began to sicken and die from the plague

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They have had to learn through the press about the sweet terms he had struck for himself and his small management group

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In early 1984, some officers at New York's Bankers Trust Co. devised a way for Mexico to shed some of its huge U.S. bank debt -- a plan remarkably similar to one embraced last week by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and Mexico -- but it didn't fly

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New Pig Corp., Tipton, Pa., offers a hot- dog- shaped sponge that absorbs polluting liquids around factory machines

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The deal was finally killed by MCA management, Mr. Olson says

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A countywide sewage- treatment plant recently began operations here; the smell in a nearby neighborhood is so awful that one teen- age girl says she can't eat at home

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Much of this argument rests on definitions of control and influence

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Moreover, savings and loan associations, the main housing lenders, have been flooded with deposits since the stock- market crash

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If she had not been struck, as a woman, by the grotesque exudations streaming from the temporal glands and four- foot, S- shaped penises of certain adult male elephants, would she have been led to identify this " disease " as musth, the sexual frenzy of male estrus never before documented in African elephants

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Credited with pumping new life into tired food brands, he is a lure for any potential acquirer, and is a likely candidate of Philip Morris to lead its lackluster General Foods businesses

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With exchange rates credibly fixed, only slight British gold losses were necessary to increase British short- term interest rates sufficiently -- say, less than 50 basis points -- to keep the funds on deposit in London until gradually disbursed to finance the evolving U.S. trade deficit

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Banks probably will raise their prime, or base, lending rates this spring or early this summer, according to Mellon Bank's Mr. Robertson

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New England Telephone says the campaign makes it the first local phone company to break with the " reach out and touch someone " style of advertising popularized by Ma Bell

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At home, Arena could use its new majority status to block, or even roll back, land- reform programs, says Enrique Baloyra, associate dean of the University of Miami's Graduate School of International Studies

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At the beginning of the book, Mr. Haraszti asks, " Is freedom really necessary for art to flourish?'

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The other two aircraft will seat 150 people and fly 7, 200 miles

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She is a spellbinding, handsome Valkyrie, and if her upper body strength is rather stronger than her upper register, the rich middle range pours out like liquid amber

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MINOR MEMOS: Texas Sen. Gramm, who last year bitterly attacked federal financing of a weed center in North Dakota, pushes to establish a " plant stress " lab in Lubbock...

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Fisher- Price Toys, a division of Quaker Oats Co., rolled out a$ 225 kids' camcorder this Christmas, a pricey departure from its mainstay line of preschool toys

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The " no " vote plan struck pay dirt because it provided an opportunity for a massive, secret protest vote against Gen. Pinochet, especially from Chile's sizable and disaffected middle class

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He was tested for drugs after running a stop signal and plowing his freight train into a passenger train, killing 16 people

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They will change their attitude -- and will lend money to Brazil -- they have too much at stake not to, " says Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co

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IBP was harshly critical of the report, charging that the portions referring to IBP are " filled with innuendo and gross overstatements " and that the hearings were held " to serve the egotistical needs of Congressman Lantos.'

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It knocked out communications on the resort island of Cozumel and leveled slum areas in Cancun on the mainland

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The ventilation system is designed to keep air pressure inside the building's 12 laboratories slightly below normal, so that air from the hallways always flows into the labs to keep microbes from being carried out

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They are tales a salesman overhears as he rides in the third- class car of a train through Russia's Jewish Pale of Settlement

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A surprisingly strong October employment report, implying that the economy isn't cooling off as fast as many investors had hoped, could force a sharp retreat in stock prices today, he said

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The observers in Seoul are convinced North Korea was responsible for the Nov. 29 bombing of a Korean Air Lines flight near Burma, which killed 115

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A spokesman for the Georgia operations of Lockheed, where the last of 50 C-5Bs is scheduled to roll off the line early next year, said Lockheed has continued talking with a number of U.S. and foreign aircraft concerns about work for its huge plant here

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Money that escapes the pockets of bureaucrats disappears into rat holes

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And Mr. Karnes, a political unknown selected by GOP Gov. Kay Orr to fill a Senate vacancy created by the death of Edward Zorinsky 18 months ago, is followed by the shadow of his rival wherever he goes

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And no longer will spouses of nursing- home residents be forced into poverty paying for their loved ones' care before Medicaid will step in

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Mr. Mulheren rescued the child from the bottom of the pool and, according to a friend, stood shaking the child as tears streamed down his face, crying, " Don't die, don't die.'

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He just won't die, the untamable, lubricious monster monk from Siberia who darkened the imperial doorstep of Nicholas and Alexandra

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" Their situation is classic to the computer or technology business -- they missed the next product cycle, and in this business when you miss one, you may not get a chance for another.'

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Takeover speculative ardor cooled in Information Resources

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A late Tokyo rally concentrated in railways and banks helped indexes trim their losses, but electrical stocks, which fell sharply early in the afternoon session and dragged the indexes with them, failed to recover

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It also is likely to lead to an escalation in the clash between the church and the state, which has been raging since last month when several churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, stepped up their criticism of apartheid

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In an extreme close- up, Mr. Gorton's face then fills the screen: " I needed to listen more, and the voters made that point crystal clear

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One of the company's managing directors, Seymour M. Lotsoff, said he is sticking to short- maturity bonds because " I' m not optimistic about interest rates.'

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A fourth anti- apartheid activist escaped detention in South Africa and took refuge in the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg, where three others have been sheltered

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The four anchors " are stepping over one another

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For one, the industry has poured a fortune into advertisements designed to promote plastic bags, trashcan liners and other household products that are, as the television commercial goes, hefty, hefty, hefty

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" Sure there's clutter, but I find it easy to ignore, " says the film maker, his glasses resting, per usual, on his bald pate

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The marauding huns of the takeover game are besieging ever- larger corporate kingdoms

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After sketching a realistic scenario of a prolonged U.S. invasion of Nicaragua, in which hostile media coverage begins to wither initial public support, Mr. Rusher asks whether controls -- even prior restraint -- can't legitimately be invoked by the commander- in- chief in order to maintain " morale " at home

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The downturn quickly steamrolled on conjecture that the big rise in soybean futures prices in the past two weeks might motivate some farmers to plant more soybeans

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