but as mrs . gibson experiments with more upscale and expensive merchandise , and as the stores ' target population ages , analysts say she will have to keep a careful eye on the identity of both stores and merchandise . certainly not all of her moves score ; according to one analyst , the album by kenzo -- a line of recent years -- has been vastly scaled back because it " didn 't fit . "

  to communicate the " break-the-rules " ad series , burger king hired 10 musical acts -- including paul shaffer and the world 's most dangerous band , crooner mel torme and blues singer john lee hooker -- and let them write their own songs for radio spots . while abandoning the standardized jingle , that part of the campaign will be tied together with the line , " sometimes you just gotta break the rules . "

  strong gusts of wind were churning up the ocean . the rafts were bobbing up and down , jerking against the lines that held us together .

  he trusts his cops , and he likes them tough . another of his famous lines : " . . . the way to treat criminals is " 'spacco il capo . ' "

  or did mr . chestman only hear a market rumor ( which one may lawfully trade upon ) ? the line seems awfully thin for criminal-law purposes .

  so far 450 , 000 subscribers have signed up for the 976 blocking service . new york telephone , a part of nynex corp . , plans to offer -- for a one-time charge of $ 5 -- call blocking to dial-a-porn and chat lines .

  today , two west german publishers want to re-create baedeker 's past glories . volkmar mair , owner of a stuttgart publishing house , and florian langenscheidt , scion of a munich publishing empire , recently agreed to merge their various rights to the baedeker name in hopes of engineering a major comeback for the venerable guidebook line .

  but he doesn 't apologize for the idea , because zapmail was an effort to address a real and continuing problem . facsimile machines , which transmit documents over telephone lines , are eating into federal 's overnight business .

  " just a second . " sellers came on the line .

  proponents of this view were abetted by nhl administrations , including the current one , that held that fighting is " part of the game . " if you had a dollar for every time a league or team official mouthed that silly line , you could restore all of the money lost in the recent stock-market decline .

  the job of vice president , he says , " is inside work with no heavy lifting . " his biggest line these days goes this way : " when ronald reagan wants his program passed -- when he wants action on his legislation -- he doesn 't call george , he calls bob . "

  however , let it be understood that no one should dive without some type of personal float , such as an inflatable vest , in addition to a surface float . a good automobile inner tube with attached line makes a very effective and practical surface float for resting .

  i was sound asleep . i certainly haven 't been getting any calls and just now when i grabbed the phone to call you , the line was dead .

  the new line merges the ibm system 36 and system 38 machines . doing so removes the incompatibilities between two of the three major minicomputer lines that ibm sells .

  the acquisitions of six other companies are pending , with completion scheduled before year end . rochester telephone expects to serve more than 600 , 000 access lines in six states when the acquisitions are completed .

  but robert fersh bristles at the notion that soup kitchens are thriving because of spongers . " if it was all freeloaders , then why didn 't we see these lines at soup kitchens seven years ago ? " asks mr . fersh , food research 's executive director .

  the words " democratic " and " liberal " have become synonymous -- the health of liberalism is now measured by the success of the democratic party in the latest presidential election . the line between policy analyst and political tactician has become similarly blurred .

  some of the major data banks , like the ones held by defense , may have five hundred or a thousand access lines . a year ago , wilkens 's congressional committee started to worry about unauthorized tapping into those access lines .

  nor does it benefit northwest employees when they 're members of the traveling public . like everyone but the gm crowd , the northwest spokesman says , northwest employees have to stand in the usual lines .

  " profit margins are still under pressure and prices are still under pressure in the computer industry and aren 't likely to let up . " ibm 's profit margins declined almost three percentage points in the quarter , reflecting price cutting in the personal computer line " and some other products , " the ibm spokesman said .

  but the old 1000 machine was discontinued last month , he said , and regina is in the process of introducing a new version . mr . dorn added that other regina lines haven 't had such high rates of return .

  a seagram spokesman said , " we don 't comment on rumors . " the company is said to be interested in selling certain of its domestic brands , which include taylor california cellars , taylor wine co . of new york , paul masson , gold seal vineyards , the monterey vineyard line and sterling vineyards .

  mr . gore 's remark about mr . castro and mr . arafat refers to mr . jackson 's celebrated meetings with the two men . mr . gore 's showing in connecticut was another in a line of dismal performances since his impressive showing in the south three weeks ago .

  harry has avoided all that by living in a long island suburb with his wife , who 's so addicted to soap operas and mystery novels she barely seems to notice when her husband disappears for drug-seeking forays into manhattan . but it doesn 't take too many lines to figure harry out .

  last year , hutton took a $ 130 million charge against fourth-quarter earnings for liabilitiies related to municipal bonds it had improperly sold to customers a few years ago , and merrill feared there could be more of such problems , these sources said . hutton , founded in 1904 , thus becomes the latest in a long line of major securities firms to seek a larger parent .

  i became rather fond of m , a casually self-deprecating fellow played by patrick o 'connell . he keeps humor and horror nicely in balance for 90 minutes and lets the terror palpitate through his lines .

  the ruling involves the area that , although technical , is important in determining where lawsuits may be brought , and where companies and other defendants may be forced to defend themselves . in a long line of decisions , the supreme court has said there must be " minimum contacts " between a company and a state before the company can be sued in that state .

  family dissolution , moreover , is often the consequence rather than the cause of the economic reshuffling we are seeing in america . while it is true that complex cultural changes have created a steady rise in divorce and illegitimacy during most of the 20th century ( the u . s . has had the highest divorce rate in the world since 1899 ) , people with the lowest educational attainment and greatest vulnerability to poverty have historically had the highest rates of divorce , illegitimacy and child neglect . ( sexual abuse is much more evenly distributed across class lines . ) these are the people who have been the big losers since the late 1960s .

  bausch & lomb inc . said it will build a sunglass assembly and distribution facility in san antonio , texas , to keep up with strong demand for its ray-ban line of sunglasses .

  benihana national corp . , miami , plans to close its unprofitable big splash-seafood emporium restaurant line as part of its drive to " get back to basics " and focus on japanese cooking , joel schwartz , president , said in an interview .

  " he misdialled in his haste , and swore , and started over again . the sergeant 's voice , only slightly furred with sleep , came over the line .

  but their opinion is clearly not shared by large numbers of the soviet public . since mr . glazunov 's latest exhibition opened in moscow this summer , thousands have been flocking to the palace of youth , waiting in line for hours to get in .

  in fact , one of the quickest post-crash reforms was to install special phone links between new york , chicago and washington market overseers . this arrangement , which the big board calls the " hoot and holler " line , is meant to make sure that in a crisis , markets can be in instant contact without the risk of busy signals or switchboard snafus .

  if you 're not abusing me , you 're embarrassing me . " i didn 't fully appreciate this line of dialog until the movie was over .

  at & t later developed a form of picture phone for business meetings , but it was too cumbersome and costly for consumers . now mitsubishi electric corp . of japan has begun selling visitel , a telephone accessory that uses a built-in camera to send still pictures over ordinary lines . the user sits in front of the camera , frames a picture on a small video screen , and presses a button to send it , about five or six seconds later , to the visitel on the other end of the line .

  at a height of 6 feet , 4 inches and weight of 220 pounds , greg cook is cut from the mold that roman gabriel has made fashionable for quarterback stars . much more handsome than namath , with blond hair swirling mod-style about his face , greg says , " there 's a hairline difference between confidence and overconfidence and i 'm sitting right on that line . "

  if he 's looking for other ideas , there are republicans who might have some . sen . ted kennedy of all people actually stole a gop line , in atlanta , when he said democrats " are committed to the ideal that all of us can advance together -- and none shall be left behind . " the man who has said that for years , who calls it his " good shepherd line , " is jack kemp .

  it 's coming a little premonitory shiver in that aspen on the hill lets me get out half a cast , and swish it gently back and forth , ready for the main puff to hit the pool . no more than half a line , mind you !

  magazines are in for more rivalry from mail-order catalogs as the line between them blurs .

  he frequents the flea markets . he lines up daily outside state parts shops , fingering a list of scarce bits and pieces .

  so there 's a new emphasis on trying to make such transactions just a bit more pleasant . in new york and some other cities , for example , the service is experimenting with computers that can tell customers how long they 'll wait in line before being helped .

  the u . s . groups feared a return to the violence of the early 1980s by death squads that have been linked to some arena party leaders . " we believe the line has to be drawn very clearly on el salvador , " says mr . byrne of cispes .

  basically , this is because the noise is eliminated in the process of converting the signal into light pulses . the result is that noise generated at the sending end isn 't transmitted , and there is no " line noise " as such .

  at & t has been dissatisfied , moreover , with olivetti sales of its 3b2 minicomputers and system 75 phone switchboard lines in europe . olivetti also ruffled some at & t feathers last november when it came out with a line of minicomputers that some analysts say compete with the at & t machines olivetti is supposed to sell .

  we think you can be serving the public good at the moody 's or the goldman sachses too . " a blurry line doesn 't help the schools , which from the beginning have struggled to separate themselves from the more established law schools and business schools .

  but uglification is rampant , water shortages loom and suburban traffic is gridlocked , as a crazy quilt of 42 municipal governments does little to control growth . in the south 's smaller boom cities , like nashville and charlotte , the standard line is , " we don 't want to be another atlanta . "

  instead of hiring tellers and account officers to take deposits in the office , they advertise deposit rates in regional newspapers . customers call on toll-free telephone lines and conduct transactions by mail , by wire or through an automated-teller network shared with other banks .

  he says that some of his best tips have come from the least likely sources ( " people with their offices in their hats , " he calls them ) and he never refuses to talk to strangers who visit his office or telephone him . " you never know when santa claus might be on the other end of the line , " fuqua remarks .

  " i don 't look for any real dramatic change , " said paul g . sherer , an analyst with robertson , colman & stephens , a san francisco investment concern . mr . sherer said that while equatorial 's marketing niche is potentially lucrative -- it is the sole supplier of low-speed satellite data communications systems for companies which now must depend upon dedicated telephone lines -- its satellite systems still are considered experimental technology by many corporate telecommunications managers .

  but while alysheba 's win made him big stuff with the turf cognoscenti , it was , as usual , only a rumor to a large part of the throng of 130 , 000 that annually turns the old twin-spired track into the nation 's biggest picnic grounds . behind me in the serpentine taxi line outside the track after the races was a sunburned young couple lugging a huge cooler .

  donnkenny inc . was betting lightning would strike again when it put the name of diane von furstenberg , the jet-set socialite who had a hot designer label in the 1970s , on a line of dresses earlier this year .

  agreement even on relatively trivial matters , such as common safety standards for forklifts or children 's toys , takes years . so many tedious council of ministers meetings end without real progress on major issues that reporters joke that there is one opening line that serves for 90 % of their stories .

  so far , his energy and aggressive stance have surprised critics and earned favorable reviews at home . virginia 's voters are much on sen . trible 's mind ; up for reelection next year , he is walking a line between loyalty to the president and the new independence he needs to survive .

  for instance , the technology isn 't sophisticated enough to recognize unusual accents . moreover , some people still don 't like talking to a machine , forcing them to stay on the line until a human operator eventually picks up the call .

  antigone is played as a feminist , inveighing against " the laws of the male sex . " every line about creon 's cruelty is rendered in the language of the police state , every reference to antigone 's sex cloaked in feminist rhetoric .

  " i 'd hit balls nights , mornings , when it rained , when it snowed -- i could never get enough golf , " remembered zembriski . " on friday nights after work , i used to sleep in the car at public courses so i could be the first in line , as soon as they opened the doors .

  they came sputtering to the surface , abelseth hopelessly snarled in some rope from somewhere . he had to free his hands to untangle the line , and his cousin and brother-in-law were washed away .

  in your may 21 story about the phone industry billing customers for unconnected calls , i was surprised that you did not discuss whether such billing is appropriate . a caller who keeps a line open waiting for a connection uses communications switching and transmission equipment just as if a conversation were taking place .

  that 's the conventional theory anyway . in practice , however , the line between interpretation and redefinition of the criminal law long ago began to blur .

  information systems posted a loss of $ 8 million , compared with a loss of $ 9 million a year earlier . customer-access lines increased at an annualized rate of about 4 % and minutes of long-distance use rose about 12 % .

  dinner-table conversation was recorded by the kgb , which made soviet citizens fearful of ideological misstatements , which made their dinner-table conversation boring . but not as boring as shopping in soviet grocery stores , waiting in long lines , being abused by surly state employees , and finding almost nothing for sale .

  in the aftermath of his victories in the south dakota primary and the minnesota caucuses , mr . dole says the campaign might now be able to put the " p " back . " we have a whole new case of bailing wire , " he explains , in the kind of humorous line he simply can 't resist .

  she asked him , " was i very bad , darling ? " without answering her , he picked up the telephone and told the operator to try him on that line if he could not be found elsewhere .

  even better from the marketer 's point of view : the calls cost money , so marketers can break even or even turn a profit , in effect charging people to be subjected to advertising . typical of the new services is the indiana jones line , which costs $ 2 . 50 for a two-minute story .

  " welcome to the only x-rated party line in town ! " blares a tape that callers hear on one line before the gabbing begins . " for a steamy sexual encounter you 'll never forget , call . . . ! " another gab line calls itself " the hot centerfold line " and refers callers to another number where they can " teach an inexperienced lady about the birds and the bees ! "

  terms of the two transactions weren 't disclosed . in addition , mallinckrodt has put its forma scientific laboratory-equipment business and its barium gastrointestinal imaging-products line on the block , international minerals said .

  " sheridan tossed the telephone to vincent and turned to his aide . " is that line open to the pentagon ?

  the speech largely was written not by the usual team of white house speechwriters , but by an outsider to the administration , landon parvin . mr . parvin has written some of first lady nancy reagan 's anti-drug speeches as well as gag lines for a number of well-known washington officials , including former chief of staff regan .

  for tedious seconds nothing happened . then there was a series of sharp bangs as some of the tow lines parted .

  mr . virnich said it was his understanding that his predecessor intended to make an offer to purchase eac , which for more than a month has been seeking a buyer . while he reiterated today that eac is proceeding with that effort , mr . virnich said , " we 've got a lot of interested parties , adding that mr . fritzsche is " going to be in the same line with everyone else . "

  it is the world 's leading corporate raider talking , addressing the crowd on finance . one almost expects , at some point , to hear that unnerving line , greed is good .

  the races mingle in department stores and at downtown restaurants , where city employees all eat between noon and one . but beneath the cordiality is a schism , largely along racial lines .

  we have only four teeth . bayles : alf , you used that line in a recent episode !

  for cbs evening news , juan vasquez reported that " the residents of st . croix are overjoyed to see the soldiers ( 1 , 100 military police dispatched by president bush ) from the mainland . " the word " residents " is loaded and mr . vasquez 's wrap-up lines were also unintentionally revealing : " for . . . tourists the nightmare is ending .

  at the hearing yesterday , judge kennedy said , " it seems to me that most americans , most lawyers , most judges believe liberty includes protection of a value we know as privacy . " " there is a zone of liberty , " he added , " . . . where a line is drawn where the individual can tell the government , 'beyond this line , you may not go . ' the great question is where to draw that line . "

  for a monthly fee of about $ 12 ( plus the price of each call ) , the answering service -- actually a " dialing service " -- will dial your desired number , call you back and patch you into the call . a red light on the phone indicates when one of the service 's 20 other customers is using the line .

  in the past that strategy has made businesses nervous about buying apple 's maverick machines . but now apple can point to the scuffling going on in the ibm world as a reason to opt for the more stable macintosh line .

  the option is especially appealing , they said , because demand for organs is up but donations are down . " there are a lot of people that can be helped that you would otherwise have waiting in line , " said dr . dixon kaufman , a transplant fellow at the university of minneosta .

  us sprint communications co . , a long-distance telephone company owned jointly by gte corp . , stamford , conn . , and united telecommunications inc . , kansas city , mo . , is also expected to enter the competition . the new service would replace the federally managed network of owned and leased equipment and leased long-distance telephone lines that link 1 . 3 million government workers nationwide and handle 300 million calls a year .

  and many expressed the hope for continued clear , mild weather . sunshine eased the pain of standing in long lines to enter some crowded stores along new york 's fifth avenue .

  the king had no success and was just about to abandon his efforts when nell with a sprightly laugh urged him : " but see , sire , you have got a bite at last . " sure enough , when the king pulled in his rod , he found half a dozen fried smelts at the end of the line , tied to his hook with a silken thread .

  " the allegations are not true and we intend to defend ourselves vigorously . " the suits , filed in u . s . district court for the southern district of ohio , stem from claims by two fired cincinnati bell employees , who told local newspapers that they had been ordered to illegally tap the telephone lines of more than 1 , 000 cincinnati area residents .

  mr . levenson has boosted his to about 2 . 5 % , producing tv commercials based on the 1960s lovin ' spoonful song , " did you ever have to make up your mind . " he is remodeling stores to speed up the serving lines by splitting off the slow-moving dessert and beverage sections from the entree and vegetable line .

  russians inching toward the checkout counter marvel at the genius of one-stop shopping . " you just pick things out yourself , " says a woman in the express line with a block of goat cheese .

  to a lot of parents , what megaquest does is turn their telephones into raunchy , high-priced jukeboxes . cincinnati bell started running gab lines last year and was stunned to see customer complaints double .

  a tall , blond woman pushing a baby girl in a kanga-roll stroller conceded that her timing was unusual . " but we really know what commitment is about and we 're ready to make it , " she said , waiting her turn in line .

  the red bra they 'd all seen , and several others that the men hoped to see again filled . at first the men tried to avoid being caught looking at the line .

  i got the lifting capacity figures for helium and hydrogen . it turns out that if our friend used a specific type of chute , which is common with skydivers , you could inflate a balloon within the shroud lines and the canopy .

  judge anthony kennedy concluded his testimony for his supreme court nomination , walking a fine line between liberal and conservative senators concerned about where his legal views fit on the political spectrum .

  surely , for soviet audiences , jim is even more of an exotic character than amanda , since young men of 24 here tend to be frighteningly cynical about their prospects . moreover , jim 's line about power and money being the point of democracy got a huge appreciative laugh here , as it is the very stuff of mikhail gorbachev 's " perestroika . "

  octel communications corp . , milpitas , calif . , said fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose 57 % , and announced plans to sell 1 . 5 million common shares . octel , citing " good results selling our voice-processing line to large corporate customers , " said profit for the quarter , ended june 30 , was $ 3 . 3 million , or 21 cents a share , compared with $ 2 . 1 million , or 15 cents a share , a year earlier .

  so far , os F 2 hasn 't sold well , mainly because there were no programs that tap the operating system 's snazzy graphics and ability to juggle several computing tasks at once . sidekick provides a planner calendar , an automated phonebook , a calculator , a bare-bones word processor , and makes it easy for a personal computer to connect with other computers through telephone lines .

  the bills are actually quite similar . both would require airlines to report far more performance data than they do now and to set up toll-free complaint lines .

  " i 'd be destroying myself , " replies mr . korotich , who then asks , " what would that accomplish ? " his answer reveals his vulnerability -- it also draws the line that soviet society must cross to enter the normal dialogue of western culture . it is the line beyond which the press can report not only on the bankruptcy of factories but on the failures of even admirable leaders .

  the allegations against mr . zaccaro hadn 't yet been made when his wife , herself a former queens prosecutor , was making her vice presidential bid . mr . zaccaro 's attorney , robert g . morvillo , borrowed her former running mate 's line " where 's the beef ? " -- itself borrowed from a wendy 's hamburger ad -- in criticizing the state 's case .

  nynex said telephone operations remain strong . the company said it added more than 479 , 000 telephone lines in the quarter , boosting the total to 14 . 6 million .

  the result is congestion , harried air-traffic controllers and frequently irate travelers . passengers endure long lines for tickets , toilets , taxis and their baggage .

  although the average citizen is probably not harmed too much from washington 's rhetorical war against wall street regarding excessive financial leveraging , actual legislation would probably impose considerable harm . any such attempt to distinguish " good debt " from " bad debt , " or to draw the line at a particular industry , such as the airlines , is likely to blunt the spur that the proper amount of leverage provides both to equity markets and economic efficiency in general .

  bellsouth at bellsouth , based in atlanta , customer access lines grew by 162 , 000 , or 3 . 5 % , during the 12-month period ended sept . 30 .

  impoundments weren 't subject to possible override by congress , so they were a far greater presidential power than a line - item veto . presidents didn 't need to veto budget bills , line by line or otherwise , so long as they could impound .

  everyone jumped on larry speakes for his confession that he put words into the mouth of president reagan without even bothering to tell him . one can certainly jump on mr . speakes for his apparent unawareness of the enormity of his transgression , at least to judge by the throwaway lines in which he described the dirty deed .

  " mommy , " came a very small voice , " did you say i killed him ? " " johnny . . . " she began when another voice cut into the line .

  as i look back and i think of major cases that have been brought in the past , there 's the whitney case , against the president of the stock exchange for manipulation , a very important case . { in that case , former new york stock exchange president richard whitney pleaded guilty to two counts of grand larceny in 1938 , leading to highly publicized hearings on what william o . douglas , then the sec chief , called " the whole anatomy of wall street chicanery and corruption . " } i think this line of cases will be remembered as equally important for their time .

  ncr unveiled a minicomputer line for linking networks of personal computers or terminals in offices .

  that the trip was a success is due to the georgians themselves , a smiling dark-haired people who even in the darkest brezhnev days impressed the beatles rock group enough to make them write in their song " back in the u . s . s . r . " the words " georgia 's always on my mind . " long before perestroika the healthy georgian black market provided its citizens with a standard of living here far different from leningrad and moscow , the cities of food lines .

  teachers say they can 't recall a single week in the past four years when they didn 't go on strike . in the courtyard , under a corrugated metal roof , a score of mothers wait in line for their children 's report cards .

  the new rules , which were put into effect two weeks ago without any public announcement , are supposed to clarify what that license allows . investment advisers said the regulations will force them to continue treading a fine line between offering advice and actually selling securities .

  it is also an easy political target , and its image of inefficiency and corruption is a drain on the sandinistas ' lagging popular support . micoin is widely blamed for more problems than any 11 , 000-member ministry could ever possibly hope to fix -- from the extra hours consumers must wait in line for rationed food , to falling agricultural production caused by micoin 's stifling price controls , to the proliferation of a politically hostile class of small merchants operating outside the socialist-planned economy .

  that was enough distance in this thick air to walk out of sight of each other , as we soon discovered . these lines , not chain but light , tough rope , too strong to be broken , were all one needed to be sure he would not float off in space when he stepped or jumped .

  since one reason for creating a diffusely held corporation in the first place is to separate governance from investment , this measure would raise transaction costs somewhat . but the line must be drawn somewhere regarding shareholders ' participation in company decisions .

  fiscal 1988 revenue will be about $ 45 million , he predicted . mr . morino , in an interview , attributed the performance to high demand for its integrated line of software products , which allow customers to manage all aspects of their data processing systems .

  able-bodied mules are herded in groups into a chute , where veterinarians give them a once-over and check off their numbers , which are stuck to their foreheads like chiquita stickers . some of the mules jostle in line , some try to bolt for freedom , but most quickly catch the old " hurry up and wait " draftee spirit , gazing about with big brown eyes and then readily boarding a stock trailer .

  i can do a lot of things . you won 't see me at the food stamp line . . . and we 're not going to run a telethon and ask for contributions . "

  we spend the whole day on the water . pascal fishes with a line that has a number of hooks on it .

  according to those familiar with the 6386 machine , it will be able to run application programs that use the unix operating system , developed by at & t , concurrently with software running on ms-dos , the microsoft corp . operating system popularized by international business machines corp . the new system will also run software based on the new os F 2 operating standard for ibm 's new line of personal computers .

  " i 'd be destroying myself , " replies mr . korotich , who then asks , " what would that accomplish ? " his answer reveals his vulnerability -- it also draws the line that soviet society must cross to enter the normal dialogue of western culture . it is the line beyond which the press can report not only on the bankruptcy of factories but on the failures of even admirable leaders .

  ic industries has approximately 113 million shares outstanding . investment sources said other possible bidders for ic may emerge , including e-ii holdings inc . , the fledgling chicago-based company carved out of beatrice cos . ' nonfood lines in july .

  indeed , if mr . wright were a member of the executive branch , even the trivia the ethics committee is willing to investigate might prove politically fatal . we can 't get too concerned about drawing lines between public and private expenditure of an aide 's time , but in 1983 former assistant hud secretary e . s . savas was driven out of washington because one of his assistants without his knowledge had a government secretary spend 20 hours typing corrections in the manuscript for his scholarly book , " privatizing the public sector . "

  such brands as citrus hill orange juice and pringles potato chips , for instance , have struggled . for ralston purina , combining nabisco 's cereal lines with its own lines could raise its market share almost to that of general foods inc . 's post brand , the nation 's no . 3 cereal maker . nabisco makes shredded wheat and cream of wheat , while ralston 's cereal line includes chex cereals .

  " we don 't mind raising fees if there is value added , but i don 't see it in the new audit proposals . " mr . sullivan recognizes that the board " must tread a fine line between the urgings of congress and the concerns of business . "

  again there was a shuddering , then a noise like a small cannon being fired . a tow line thrashed back across the deck , tearing off a bollard and hurling it through the corner of the bridge .

  the committee also backed reynolds research that found " a substantial reduction in the irritant properties " of tobacco smoke in the air . but the rjr nabisco inc . unit continues to walk a narrow line between publishing its research and promoting its product as a safer cigarette .

  foolishness . doc must have taken percussie 's line .

  it 'd been a nasty , cold , rainy day , and the rain was changing to sleet . the cap 'n was staggerin ' around the slippery deck , but i didn 't see the lad who usually tossed the lines .

  when he reached the station the one-and-only taxi was off on a long trip . he tried to phone fenella but the line was out of order , so naturally he put a call through to us and olive took it .

  " while canterbury stood silent , a kent state functionary stared at lunine and said , " those students shouldn 't be on that hill . there has to be a line drawn somewhere .

  they were soon becalmed and were waiting for help when a fishing boat appeared . without a word the skipper threw the girls a line and began to tow them to shore .

  but the mystery behind that failure is one reason mr . hatch loves junk mail so : it 's both mathematically precise ( results of a mailing can be measured to the hundredth of a percentage point ) and completely unpredictable . when historical times co . was soliciting customers , in a so-called dry test , for civil war-related products that didn 't yet exist , the company 's lawyers insisted that the package include a microscopic line noting that the offer was contingent on receiving enough orders . that line , the only difference between the new mailing and earlier ones , increased response by 15 % .

  there is nothing like the used clothing bazaar in kabul on a windy november day . etched against the bleak , drab sky are sweaters , suits , and long underwear that dance merrily in the breeze on myriad lines high above your head .

  korean and indian fighting kites are so sensitive to the touch of the handler that they will alight within an inch or two of where he directs them to go . the celebrated indian kite-flyer surendra bahadur could fly a kite six inches off the ground ; also , he could tell a kite 's height by listening to the wind on the line .

  local bills for residences and small businesses will show an fcc-ordered 60-cents-a-month increase in charges by local companies beginning in december . the so-called subscriber line charge , currently $ 2 . 60 a month , reflects part of the cost of connecting long-distance companies with local companies .

  " first of all , i can 't stand movies with titles i can 't pronounce , " says one . he shows us actors trained in shakespeare stumbling over such tryout lines as : " i ain 't be got no weapon . "

  the biggest flurry of investor activity came early in the day . vanguard group inc . saw heavy exchanges from stock funds into money market funds after the telephone lines opened at 8 : 30 a . m .

  " the thing that hit hardest was the energy crisis , " mr . atkins said . if someone " had to wait in line for gas for his car , he couldn 't justify " waiting for gas for a snowmobile .

  " whoa ! " george cried , and pulled on the lines so hard that he sat down almost on top of his father 's head .

  a soaring dollar would wipe out the competitive edge of u . s . manufacturers , and probably spark a recession . eaton may be walking a dangerous line by putting so much faith in the lower dollar .

  one reads far too much about cocaine addiction these days for either reaction . what caught my eye were a couple of lines in which mclain explains why he felt he was above the kind of constraints that might have led him to think twice about using the illegal and harmful drug .

  quaker oats co . said it 's considering bidding on certain of beatrice co . 's food lines . william d . smithburg , chairman and chief executive officer , told reporters after the company 's annual meeting yesterday that he 's interested in such beatrice lines as hunt tomato products , wesson cooking oils and tropicana juices . but he said he hasn 't decided to make a bid for any of the lines .

  " we 'll bring the bristol in , " he called , indicating a motorboat swaying on its moorings . dick waved that he understood , then lowered his water skis to the sand and started to uncoil a tangled line , tossing an end to alan carlisle .

  as she moved gracefully about on the glazed and frozen lawn , i realized that she was wearing ice skates ! i watched as she swooped down upon her clothes basket , extracted a piece of clothing , took several happy turns about the yard , then glided back to her lines to hang a garment .

  picture hundreds of traders sitting or standing at consoles , each with perhaps eight or more flashing computer screens . picture each trader with two telephone handsets , connected by direct line to maybe 500 customers and fellow traders .

  comsat said it is negotiating with " several potential buyers " for the manufacturing units and the satellites . the company already has agreed to sell its comsat international communications subsidiary and remaining comsat technology products lines .

  monday , nov . 7 , 7-7 : 30 p . m . est , on hbo ( repeated nov . 11 , 16 , 20 , 26 and 28 ) : " madeline . " don 't miss this musical version of the famous children 's book that begins : " in an old house in paris that was covered in vines F lived twelve little girls in two straight lines . "

  the jokes russians tell among themselves are more pointed . marshall goldman , co-director of harvard 's russian research center , heard this one : two russians are standing in a long line to buy vodka , grumbling about gorbachev 's restriction on liquor-store hours .

  the jerky camera , the sliding in and out of focus , the jiggles and off-center shots that once were considered mistakes now are the basis for a style . and the scenes aren 't shot and re-shot : even flubbed lines are kept in .

  on some regionals , in fact , specialists have strong ties to the third market because they are free , as big board specialists are not , to shop with third-market firms when trying to buy or sell blocks . the lines between the third market and the other markets are blurring in other ways .

  as the two hindus took in the sail , the old man used the last of the boat 's way to lay alongside the starboard gangway . jackson , boatswain 's mate of the watch , took a line , and shouted for side boys .

  he didn 't need help from that smart aleck . out of the corner of his eye he could see drew steadily drawing in his line .

  your aug . 17 editorial page contained " the poem heard round the world , " with richard f . barrett 's comment on edwin markham 's poem " the man with a hoe , " inspired by millet 's painting . the theme is in these stirring lines :

  that market is in disorder as the computer industry undergoes a long-predicted consolidation . this year several big companies gave up on being independent suppliers of a broad line of computer systems : control data corp . is now concentrating on certain niches ; sperry corp . joined with burroughs corp . to form unisys corp . , and honeywell inc . has decided to merge its computer operations with those of two big overseas computer makers .

  the new technology represents a considerable savings over conventional offshore production technology . the foundation of the project , a " tension-leg well platform , " will be a floating structure that is anchored to the seabed by steel mooring lines , a design that requires far less steel than conventional platforms do .

  kuktoy had lived on the island all of his life and had weathered more trials than i 'd ever heard about . as a young man , kuktoy had three of his fingers ripped out of their sockets by getting them fouled in a rawhide harpoon line and had doctored them himself .

  splitting along partisan lines , the senate judiciary committee yesterday rejected the controversial nomination of bernard siegan to the court of appeals for the ninth circuit in san francisco .

  a trout was rising just upstream . i paid out some line wishing it would always stay thus soft and dry and , measuring the distance with a false cast or two , laid down a spent gnat exactly a foot above his last swirl .

  operating systems are programming that control the inner workings of computers . the new digital products further extend the company 's line of equipment based on the ultrix operating system , which utilizes a standard developed by american telephone & telegraph co . that has been widely adopted in the industry .

  it has rebounded a bit to 13 . 5 % , however , since the company returned to the " aren 't you glad you use dial ? " line a few years ago . sara lee corp . walked away from the line " nobody doesn 't like sara lee " and experimented with other jingles that never quite caught on with consumers .

  but while alysheba 's win made him big stuff with the turf cognoscenti , it was , as usual , only a rumor to a large part of the throng of 130 , 000 that annually turns the old twin-spired track into the nation 's biggest picnic grounds . behind me in the serpentine taxi line outside the track after the races was a sunburned young couple lugging a huge cooler .

  on certain days the waves weren 't big enough to make much difference , but at other times they were mountainous , and he would arrive home soaked to the skin and aching in every muscle . but he loved it , and he never got over the thrill of feeling the sudden tug when a fish hit his line .

  " but currency exchange rates can 't be neglected , and now they have to be given new emphasis . " mr . poehl is walking a fine line .

  communications would be even worse in the old downtown section of the city , where gen . noriega maintained his military headquarters complex . cia officials hadn 't provided maj . giroldi or his allies with any means to communicate with the southern command , nor did they arrange to keep a telephone line open to gen . noriega 's headquarters .

  russians inching toward the checkout counter marvel at the genius of one-stop shopping . " you just pick things out yourself , " says a woman in the express line with a block of goat cheese .

  i had held back the intestines to use for bait . cherry weighted his line with a ring and dropped a hook overboard .

  currently a $ 300 million-a-year business , 900 telephone service is expected to hit $ 500 million next year and near $ 2 billion by 1992 as uses for the service continue to expand , says joel gross of donaldson , lufkin & jenrette inc . the service -- which costs the caller from 30 cents to $ 25 a minute -- currently is dominated by celebrity chatter , horoscopes and romance lines .

  despite the name , mt . pulaski no longer has electric customers , rochester said . rochester telephone , which serves more than 570 , 000 lines , mainly in western-central new york state , has acquired or announced agreements to acquire eight midwestern telephone companies this year -- five in illinois , two in wisconsin and one in indiana .

  " it is our intention to own the company , " said howard bermick , alberto-culver 's executive vice president . mr . bermick said the proposed acquisition , if completed , would expand alberto-culver 's retail and professional toiletries line .

  naturally , when the cubs won the pennant in 1932 , we wanted to see a world series game , " he goes on . " the first one in chicago was on a saturday , and chester and i got to the ballpark friday night to get in line for tickets .

  on the deck of the winslow , ensign worth bagley stood ready to catch it . before the line could be cast , a shell struck the winslow , instantly killing bagley and three torpedo men . despite the enemy fire , which now seemed to be entirely concentrated on the two struggling ships , the line was thrown .

  the weather in russia stinks . there is a perfectly valid reason why we have a " negative image " of the russians as a grim-faced , bulky race huddled in long lines to buy shriveled rutabagas .

  its 10 million people are burdened with an $ 18 billion debt , stuck with a defunct infrastructure and a technologically untrained work force . in budapest offices , secretaries often work in groups to make a single call on one of the country 's huge , pea-green telephone " machines , " which have plenty of levers and flashing lights but a poor record of finding a free line .

  mr . questrom 's resignation followed that announcement in may . founded in 1907 by henry c . marcus and family members , neiman marcus became known for its pricey merchandise , extravagant customers and line of waiting limousines that had ferried some patrons from the airport .

  that 's not to imply that he doesn 't do well with lucky 's long , chaotic meditation on meditation . but even before he utters a single line of dialogue , mr . irwin astonishes with his eloquence .

  to emphasize the surprising speed with which the charioteer is about to be served , the ads ' signature is , " the pizza you won 't believa . " in some ads the line is sung , opera-style . ( burnett used opera singing to memorable advantage in its current ads for cheer detergent . )

  recently joining the list of foreign players were austria 's girozentrale vienna and belgium 's banque bruxelles lambert . richard w . magee , managing director of tullett & tokyo forex inc . , a currency broker , said that in the past year , the company has installed trading lines to about a dozen new branches of foreign banks , mostly from smaller countries .

  this afternoon , we find three falls in close succession . we carry our rations over the rocks , and let our boats shoot over the falls , checking and bringing them to land with lines in the eddies below .

  the dairy operations , based in johnson city , tenn . , produce milk , ice cream and cottage cheese in the carolinas , florida , georgia , tennessee , virginia and parts of west virginia . the company isn 't discontinuing any dairy lines , mr . melsheimer said .

  should it really be the top defense priority of a philippine president to dicker over more dollars from american allies ? or is it perhaps more important to draw a clear line against the soviet union 's increasing military presence in the pacific ?

  vitro 's technological bent is a legacy of adrian sada sr . , an eminently practical engineer who remains the group 's chairman . once , at a product presentation for vitro 's refrigerator line , visitors were taken aback when the chairman rolled up his sleeves , opened a toolbox and repaired a faulty unit .

  ashton-tate corp . and digital equipment corp . will announce today plans to co-develop versions of ashton 's popular dbase personal computer database manager software for digital 's line of minicomputers .

  one analyst said he thought increasing competition in the market for 286-based computers was also behind the price cut . " pricing pressure is really heating up in this area , " said jim poyner , an analyst with rauscher pierce refsnes inc . mr . poyner predicted a few weeks ago in an investment report that compaq would have to cut prices because of aggressive price cutting by ibm . official prices of ibm 's lastest line of computers haven 't changed since the machines were introduced april 2 , but mr . poyner believes ibm 's important direct sales force , which sells computers to large corporations , is offering bigger discounts .

  smithkline beckman , based in philadelphia , will own 60 % and sumitomo will own 40 % . the joint venture will be based at smithkline beckman 's tokyo headquarters , and will develop and market the pharmaceutical concerns ' lines of gastrointestinal , cold and analgesic products , including smithkline 's contac and cimetidine , the active ingredient in tagamet .

  family dissolution , moreover , is often the consequence rather than the cause of the economic reshuffling we are seeing in america . while it is true that complex cultural changes have created a steady rise in divorce and illegitimacy during most of the 20th century ( the u . s . has had the highest divorce rate in the world since 1899 ) , people with the lowest educational attainment and greatest vulnerability to poverty have historically had the highest rates of divorce , illegitimacy and child neglect . ( sexual abuse is much more evenly distributed across class lines . ) these are the people who have been the big losers since the late 1960s .

  m . ali issari , a retired university professor , parked his car in front of a new-home sales office near los angeles one recent saturday and stuck this sign behind the windshield : " the line for purchasing deeridge homes starts from here . " one week later , when selling started , the line had grown to 150 cars , and mr . issari bought the first deeridge home to a round of applause from a mob of other house hunters .

  sure one day to enter standard books of quotations was sir robert 's admission that sometimes in his role as chief mandarin he had to be " economical with the truth . " that line , says peter hennessy , a british political commentator , " could have come straight out of sir humphrey 's mouth in 'yes , prime minister . ' " sir humphrey appleby , in the tv show , holds the same job as sir robert holds in real life under prime minister margaret thatcher .

  one solution being considered is a big across-the-board reduction in the services that the health-insurance funds pay for . others divide along political lines .

  last year , hutton took a $ 130 million charge against fourth-quarter earnings for liabilitiies related to municipal bonds it had improperly sold to customers a few years ago , and merrill feared there could be more of such problems , these sources said . hutton , founded in 1904 , thus becomes the latest in a long line of major securities firms to seek a larger parent .

  both full stop . fasten all lines .

  " they 're too smart for you , " he said , and he chuckled . drew started to tell him about some tricks he used , but carlos turned his back and rebaited his line .

  any hungry shark following will come after the fish , not the diver . the length of the line protects a diver by giving him time to see an approaching shark and swim away .

  honda motor co . introduced its legend and integra luxury cars in the u . s . in 1986 through a new dealer network called acura . and just last month , nissan motor corp . announced plans for a new line of upscale cars that , starting in 1989 , it will market under the new infiniti label .

  so far , his energy and aggressive stance have surprised critics and earned favorable reviews at home . virginia 's voters are much on sen . trible 's mind ; up for reelection next year , he is walking a line between loyalty to the president and the new independence he needs to survive .

  they can also choose from a variety of tapes by pushing a number on the phone . ( " press 1 for the sexiest love kittens in new york . . . . for the pain and humiliation you deserve , you gotta push 6 . . . . " ) or callers can choose a one-on-one line like the c-line , which recently ended its run in houston amid growing public pressure .

  taiwan will export three million personal computers this year , up 50 % from 1987 . long lines form outside discos that charge $ 20 a head , and $ 5 a beer , to dance to the beat of imported bands .

  " sometimes . " carlos gave his line a tug and then felt it ooze back into the water .

  sheer chance has led him east . he passes by the trailing lines of fishermen from neah bay and sekiu and pysht .

  what is this ? ( a mother 's voice ) -- it 's a chat line . -- a chat line ?

  mr . duggan , the former lbj aide , once asked the switchboard to find a long-lost girlfriend in new york . " forty-five minutes later , they had her on the line , " he recalls .

  at the same time , saratoga is up to date enough to make wandering new yorkers feel at home . signs in front of several of the manses proclaim them to have been condo-ized , the track offers pick six and trifecta wagering along with other new-fangled betting gimmicks , and lines everywhere are manhattan-long .

  the moment had come when the kedges must do their work , must wind the ship around , so that the port tier of guns could be brought to bear upon the enemy . he shouted commands that sent an anchor plunging from the stern , while men cut the forward cable and others bent to the capstan , winching in the line to the starboard kedge .

  she asked him , " was i very bad , darling ? " without answering her , he picked up the telephone and told the operator to try him on that line if he could not be found elsewhere .

  ibm is expected to spend $ 30 million advertising the new products in the next three months . the barrage began with a full-page newspaper ad yesterday that carried no company name and ended with a single line : " here we go again . "