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Clearly, something must be done about these reactors. Last September, Congressman George Brown (D.-Calif.) introduced a bill that would address this problem. The bill would keep us from sending up any nuclear-powered satellites provided that the Soviets do the same. However, Congress, in an end-of-session rush, didn't consider it. Brown will introduce it again this year, but because of expected opposition from SDI advocates, the bill might have a hard time being signed into...
...overemphasis." That was in 1952, after hearings on Kentucky's role in college basketball's point-shaving scandal. Streit found "covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting and the most flagrant abuse of the athletic scholarship." More than 30 years later, the bill of particulars has hardly changed...
While failing to excite customers, home banking has been a costly proposition for the banks. One problem: although many large creditors like utilities have computerized accounts that allow their bills to be settled electronically, most small businesses do not. So when a home-banking user hits a button to pay, say, a doctor's bill, someone at the bank often has to print out a check, stuff it in an envelope and put it in the mail...
...both. In 1964 Arthur Ashe won the U.S. Open, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And on June 19 the U.S. Senate passed its landmark Civil Rights Bill. But two days later, three civil rights workers -- two Northern whites, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, and a Southern black, James Chaney -- were arrested for speeding in Philadelphia, Miss., then jailed and later released into the night. They were never again seen alive...
...days later, Bill Ward over at Port Video had a scare. He was having breakfast next door at Karens Restaurant when Bush arrived to rent a couple of videos, leading a 15-car motorcade of security and media people. "For a moment I thought my place was on fire," Ward recalls. "It reminded me of the Monty Python movie where the kid opens the bedroom window and sees a lawn full . of people. It's ridiculous for the press to follow Bush around to see what he buys. Renting Broadcast News is not a national policy decision...