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...other Republican candidates, U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.) and commentator Alan Keyes '72, no longer have a chance to make a serious bid for the nomination, Ceaser said...
...YORK: They couldn't buy it, so now they're trying to kill it. Microsoft, which abandoned its bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken program amid antitrust allegations, is pursuing a partnership with Visa International instead. The top software and credit card providers, respectively, said Wednesday that they would team up to offer online banking services in an attempt to break Intuit's lock on the personal-finance software market. Quicken gained its 80 percent niche by allowing users to pay their bills electronically, with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people...
BILL CLINTON IS IN A TICKLISH SPOT. He needs the Federal Reserve Board to help ward off the threat of a recession that could gravely wound or even kill his re-election bid. But he dare not put any overt pressure on the fiercely independent Fed, or on its Republican-appointed chairman, Alan Greenspan. And though the President has been pointedly silent about whether he will reappoint Greenspan when his term expires March 1, few people in Washington think he would risk dumping him. There would be too much hell to pay in Congress, on Wall Street...
...death house, they will be loaded onto conveyor belts, stripped by remote-controlled machines, then plunged down a chute into a 2700-degree F inferno. Anything that comes into contact with these untouchables during their final transport--wraps, pallets, gloves--will be incinerated as well. Thus America will bid an unsentimental farewell to 30,600 tons of chemical weapons...
Galluccio said yesterday that he was "stunned" that the Alliance councillors did not support him in his bid to become the city's first conservative mayor since...