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Tempers flared during last week's NSC meeting, which lasted more than two hours. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills argued vehemently that Bush should scrap the agreement in favor of persuading the Japanese to buy standard F-16s, minus the instructions for putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide...
What that money will buy is the most pertinent fact about the OED2, at least to prospective customers. In essence, the new edition collates into alphabetical order three distinct elements: 1) the first OED, largely unchanged, although some errors and lapses have been corrected; 2) the contents of the four supplements to the first edition, which appeared between 1972 and 1986; and 3) roughly 5,000 words or expressions that have gained currency since the early...
Such spin-offs from the parent dictionary are, for the moment, purely speculative. Similarly, it will be at least 18 months before anyone can buy the OED2 in computer form. A laser-disc version of the first OED, however, with software less powerful than the newest Waterloo innovations, has been commercially available for the past year...
...Saturday afternoon, Henderson joins another Atlanta image consultant, Susan Bixler, in a corporate presentation. It is an afternoon of admonitions: "Don't buy a shirt that's whiter than your teeth . . . Do not purchase 100% linen for business because you will look like an unmade bed by 10 a.m. . . . Accept baldness . . . Don't try to wrap your hair around your head and spray it in place like a helmet...
...January, during three days of meetings that rang with a fervor akin to that of an old-time tent revival, almost 200 residents anted up more than $250,000 to buy a small equity stake in a new Kansas City-based company that plans to produce light aircraft. Townspeople hope their investment will help persuade the company to put its assembly plant in Clay Center, where it would provide 300 jobs. Says Deanna Fuller, a former farmwife who heads the local economic development group: "These people just want to make it possible for the young folks to come back...