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American military personnel in Saudi Arabia have asked for, and received, a number of stationary cross-country ski exercise machines.
From a north-suburban daily’s endorsement for Illinois secretary of state before the November election: “Both candidates are hardly as clean as hounds’ teeth with regard to total conduct of their present offices, but neither is an out-and-out scoundrel.”
According to the Tobacco Institute, employees who complain about cigarette smoke are often actually suffering from the effects of “a dirty or faulty air conditioning and ventilation system.”
Illinois Times, November 1-7.
Tobacco Institute release, June 1990.
