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...softened his tune last Friday, however, after getting together with Andrus, New Mexico Governor Garrey Carruthers and top DOE brass in Salt Lake City. All parties agreed on a shaky compromise. They will press Congress to pass quickly a land-swap bill essential to opening WIPP, DOE will not only search for an interim storage site, but will also provide financial assistance to the states. Andrus might let some waste back into Idaho. Even so, Andrus estimated that chances for solving the waste disposal problem had improved only from 1 in 10 to fifty-fifty...
While the Soviet schedulers drew up the standard list of New York City tourist attractions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center, Broadway -- Gorbachev also accepted an earlier invitation: to visit the brass- and-glass high-rise office-and-apartment complex and atrial shopping mecca on Fifth Avenue, and enjoy a private dinner with megabuilder Donald Trump and his wife Ivana. Does private mean just the Trumps and the Gorbachevs? Trump, who was called directly by a Soviet official, says, "It seems that...
...piece for the orchestra is for April, and it's called `101,'" he says. "It's going to use 101 players--strings, brass, woodwind, harp, piano and percussion...
Some 10 percent of Harvard males still feel the need to withdraw into expensive versions of the Little Rascals' clubhouse, where brass plaques replace the "No Gurlz Allowed" sign...
...keeper's house we signed the guest book, and the caretaker showed us an antique kerosene lamp, whose brass glowed with loving polish. There are two couples that live there, and they alternate from winter to summer. "It's a wonderful place to live, but you are ready to get off at the end of winter," she told us. They'd just arrived for the season, and she said the island had already welcomed them back with a good storm. She was optimistic about rebuilding the tower. "We'll just keep going 'til the money runs out," she said...