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...city may adopt the recommendations as part of a $920 million five-year plan to revamp Boston's municipal facilities and services. The city has allocated $90 million of this money to improving city parks and recreation facilities...
...Stocker, the couple who run the increasingly busy hospital out of their garden in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, have launched a $1.8 million expansion drive, funded in part by a popular adopt-a-hedgehog program. A portion of the money will be used for rooms to keep the patients separated. In a triumph of instinct over infirmity, recuperating male hedgehogs tend to treat the wards like honeymoon suites...
Shultz's senior arms-control adviser, Paul Nitze, had been pushing a similar plan. He was vigorously opposed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, an ardent SDI supporter who believes the U.S. should adopt an almost universally disputed "broad interpretation" of the 1972 antiballistic missile pact that permits all forms of Star Wars testing. Aware of Reagan's passionate attachment to SDI, Shultz and National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci were not eager to support Nitze too forcefully...
...less encumbered by debt. Losing Seabrook, however, is anathema to the utility, which still hopes to reap the hefty return that an operating nuclear plant can deliver. Public Service's Harrison proposes to restructure the debt, slash the utility's costs and raise electric rates by 15%. Rather than adopt the dissident plan as it stands now, Harrison claims, he would accept bankruptcy. Under court protection, he says, the utility might be able to carry out its own rescue strategy and keep its stake in Seabrook...
...only thing that mars these otherwise solid performances is the actors' tendency to adopt a certain gesture or mannerism and repeat it over and over, as if Director Fred Pletcher had told his cast that nervous tics make characters more human. As a result, Raphael slicks his hair back, Hurewitz stammers like James Stewart, Paulus taps her foot, Bader walks around with her hands folded in her lap, and Tolins picks the wax out of his ear with his pinky and bellows, "Hehhehhehheh," like Jackie Gleason snapping at Audrey Meadows. All this becomes annoying quickly...