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...plans. When a few carriers tried last year to increase the number of miles needed to qualify for free trips, many consumers were outraged. Attorneys general in several states concluded that the airlines' action was illegal, and the carriers backed off. But travelers remain wary. Tom Nolan, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney who has banked 150,000 miles on United, is contemplating a trip to Malaysia, Singapore and China later this year. It is earlier than he would like to travel, but, he says, "I'm very concerned that they're going to eliminate the good awards...
...sets down nearly 300 pages of testimonials supporting the hypothesis that women are attacking women in the workplace with carefully veiled venom and viciousness. "If women are going to sabotage someone, it's more likely to be another woman than a man," declares Briles, 42, a former Palo Alto, Calif., stockbroker...
...several occasions, betraying a testiness that belied his appeals to sweet reason. The Soviet leader's performance at his farewell press conference, in fact, may have undone some of the political gains of the previous three days. After arriving 15 minutes late at the Soviet Union's new Mt. Alto embassy complex, he launched into a detailed 70-minute monologue summing up his talks with Reagan. Near the end of his statement, however, he suddenly delivered a diatribe against the press -- the very group he most needed to win over to get his message across...
...really getting to be scary," complains Defense Attorney Tom Nolan of Palo Alto, Calif. "We're going back to 16th and 17th century Britain, where if you committed a crime you forfeited your property." Possessions used in committing certain federal crimes, a car for example, have long been subject to seizure. Since 1970, however, Congress has also allowed confiscation of the proceeds of some crimes under half a dozen major federal crimebusting statutes. Business began booming after a 1984 law provided for seizure of crime-related assets even if they have been sold or transferred. Moreover, money from the sale...
...suspect there is a larger community [of gay students], but I don't really see it that much," says Douglas G. Chang, a senior from Palo Alto, Ca. He says one of his freshman roommates came out in the spring of their first year...