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...arranged marriages, concubinage, child betrothal and interference in the remarriage of widows. It reluctantly permitted divorce, but only when "mediation and counseling" had failed and the marriage clearly could not go on. China needed stability and unity, it was reasoned, so couples were called upon to "put politics in command of everything" and stay together. In practice, divorce was usually denied when only one party, wife or husband, wanted it. The new law, which took effect a year ago, is closer to Western statutes: "Complete alienation of mutual affection" is sufficient grounds for divorce, and one party can apply even...
...Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command of face and voice and body are spellbinding enough to focus the silliness. When he is on stage you can forget to wonder what was so interesting about Dan Rice or why all those people are doing these odd things with so little logical excuse all around...
...balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayers." Ironically, most prominent among the "doubters" were Reagan's top aides, who strongly and unanimously urged new revenue measures. Chief of Staff James Baker and Budget Director David Stockman, and eventually the rest of the Reagan high command, were convinced that increased taxes were needed to save the Administration from increasing the nation's trillion-dollar debt by a whopping one-third during their first term. They tried to get Reagan to accept excise taxes as part of the trust fund for the transition of programs...
Providing those operators has become a business in itself. About 25 answering services have sprung up to handle the calls, many of them based in Omaha, in part because that area houses headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, and telephone service is particularly good there. Avis Rent a Car and National Data Corp., a credit-authorization service, now answer the phone for other companies as a sideline business...
...prose style that was capable of catching a famous writer's attention. It is interesting that, as psychologists have noted, some hopelessly inarticulate teenagers have committed murder because they simply lacked the verbal skill to communicate their anger in any other way; Abbott has at his command both the sophisticated and the more primitive forms of communication...