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Careful, there. This is no ordinary statue you're adjusting, but one representing the father of the state, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the man who renamed himself Lenin and reshaped Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution. One crucial slip by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate...
...heavy workload. The agency admits that 1 out of every 3 callers to the tax-information hot line is given a wrong answer, and some employees have doubled up on their responsibilities. The IRS says the processing of returns will probably not be affected, although some cheats could slip by undetected...
...Crimson nailed the goalpost three times in the first three minutes, but recovered to slip five other shots into...
...finest scheme, I outlined three plans of action in case Kinko's was unable to xerox my thesis in time to meet the 5 p.m. deadline. First, I would cry. Second, I would slip the clerk $10. Third, I would call my friend Joe, cry and ask him to drive me to a Kinko's out in the suburbs...
...goaltender came up big on a round-the-back-of-the-net attempt by Murray and stuffed three consecutive Dave Witherell shots on the power play, but the Saints still managed to slip two goals past...