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Random House, the largest publisher in America, had enough reservations about printing Kamen's book that along with its $300,000 signing offer, the publishing house insisted upon an escape clause that would allow them to cancel the deal if they were dissappointed with the invention. Kamen declined the offer...
...Chief "to challenge the status quo inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld will almost certainly be backed by Dick Cheney, his protege and the new Vice President. Cheney shocked the Pentagon during his tenure there a decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor, the troubled $40 billion project that was saved only by its congressional backers. The Crusader's fate will show just how vigorously Rumsfeld is willing to shake up the Pentagon's cold war mind-set or whether he will yield to the pressure...
...substantially increasing funding to cancel the education debts of graduates who enter public service--including teaching, social work, child care and law enforcement...
...skill, the team has no identity. Harvard's impressive individual players have tended to cancel each other out rather than complement each other. In this case, the whole is much less than the sum of its parts...
...racing to make airport connections stop for a gulp of CNN on the latest court ruling letting the hand count proceed. Look, Gore just got 53 votes in Broward! (Note to TV execs: Please reinstate the running hand-count tally.) Hey, no certification this Saturday! Bush will have to cancel the champagne and the Four Seasons ballroom. Celebrating Saturday night would be premature exuberance...