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HIGH SCHOOL used to mean Archie and Betty and Veronica and Jughead. Remember tenth grade: hanging out in the boys' room, wondering which girls wore bras and which guys shaved? Discovering which novels were literature and which smut? Trying to keep a diary and discovering that nothing about your life was really worth writing about, even after all those steamy Friday nights in the gym? Working your way past crushes and puppy love and on to the real thing? Remember how you used to love asking rhetorical questions and speaking in cliches? Didn'tcha...
...pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust in her heart. Not that sex should be everything. But in tenth grade, sex is everything...
...persuade his Libyan friends to make the oil available. "Wishing you much success on your trip to Libya," was the way Nasife pointedly concluded the letter of agreement. Billy flew to Tripoli again at the end of August for a visit that coincided with the tenth anniversary of Libya's revolution. He returned without any commitment from Libya to make more oil available to Charter. Instead, Libya was cutting back its oil production and later reduced Charter's allotment...
Officials predicted that the bad weather would add no more than one-tenth of 1% to the cost of food this year. The important 1.85 billion bu. winter-wheat crop had already matured before the weather turned bad. In addition, the U.S. holds such huge agricultural reserves, like the 1.7 billion bu. of corn and 901 million bu. of wheat from past good harvests, that there is at present no danger of shortages. The recent years of harvest feasts will permit U.S. agriculture as a whole to survive a relatively short period of drought and heat...
...nearly $3 billion and is competing with the big U.S. financial institutions in loan underwriting. The newly founded Arab Banking Corp., a tripartite venture of Libya, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, has a $1 billion capital base, equal to that of Manhattan's Bankers Trust, the tenth largest...