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...matter how deceptive the FBI methods may have been, the fact remains: if De Lorean were a man of integrity, he would have said "Halt" the moment he realized the suitcase contained cocaine...
...fight a fire like this. You simply get people out of the way and wait for the winds to die down." Late in the week the winds eased, and an inch of rain fell on the western portion of the state, allowing shallow trenches dug by fire fighters to halt the spread often of the fires...
...relations. But the Administration made no move to abandon its pressure tactics toward Nicaragua, notably covert support for the contras and the scheduling of nearly continuous U.S. military maneuvers in neighboring Honduras and off the Central American coast. Washington still considered those measures essential for forcing the Sandinistas to halt their export of Marxist revolution, particularly to nearby El Salvador...
Like more than a dozen other firms, Eagle Computer of Los Gatos staked its business on machines that are compatible with IBM's and run the same programs. Hit by an IBM lawsuit charging that Eagle copied some of its software, the company was forced to halt shipments during March, and jittery dealers stopped stocking the machine. Says President Ron Mickwee: "We lost a lot of ground and we don't have the capital resources to repurchase it." Eagle has slashed its payroll to 140 employees, compared with 335 last February, and is developing a new marketing plan...
...reveres Tartuffe in or der to assert his moral superiority over a family that has grown fractious. Harris Yulin's Tartuffe is cold and cobra-like, vengeful and vain. He has a genuine element of fervor: he endures ritual flogging, dispenses alms, even appears to heal the halt and lame. But there is nothing inspirational in him and nothing ennobling in his impact. In the opening scenes, the actors appear in clownish whiteface and lurch like robots. The playing reaches its tenderest pitch at an utterly perverse moment: Harriet Harris, as Orgon's wife, fakes lust for Tartuffe...