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Several of Reagan's aides, however, have felt a hankering to move on. Last week it was announced that two of the President's closest California confidants would soon take their leave: Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver wants to bolster his bank account, and Interior Secretary William Clark plans to ride back to his 880-acre ranch near San Luis Obispo. Two others in the California contingent are also poised to shift. After a bruising inquiry into his finances, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese was renominated last week to succeed Attorney General William French Smith, thus bringing Smith closer...
...school in also seeking to bolster its $30 million endowment by raising $18.8 million through a decade-long fundraising drive...
...start of the all important Christmas shopping season. Several other retail chains, including Dayton-Hudson and K mart, are also reporting brisk holiday business. Concludes Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The odds still favor a very good Christmas." He thinks the drop in interest rates will bolster consumer confidence...
Should the United States offer unconditional relief and help bolster Ethiopia's military to win them over from the Soviets, and their dicate how Mengistu should run the country? Or perhaps we should make additional aid contingent upon Mengistu getting his act together and running the country right. Irrespective of the fact that both of these proposals ride roughshod over the principle of state sovereignty and self determination, both would lead Ethiopia further into the depth of dependency...
...action is part of a campaign by regulators to bolster big U.S. banks. They intend to ward off any possibility of a near catastrophe like last July's $4.5 billion federal bailout of Continental Illinois...