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...Since Genzyme was wooed across the river and since the new leadership in the City Council, the attitude of the elected city officials [toward business] has markedly improved," says Robert D. Lewis, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce...
...Chamber of Commerce created a Clean AirCommittee to work with the city in formulating theplan. Although its officials support the city'sdraft proposal, they also says that the solutionto air pollution must be regional...
Corzo notes that the artisans who labored in the tomb three millenniums ago left unexpected evidence of their fallibility. The rows of stars in the funerary ceiling were kept straight by strings stretched from wall to wall. In the sarcophagus chamber, conservators discovered a row of fingerprints left along a string line by a careless craftsman. In one corner, a contractor had scratched in hieroglyphics his accounting of work completed. And on one pillar, Nefertari's flesh-toned cheek is splotched with blue ceiling paint. Could it be that she died before the tomb was completed and the artisans...
...election goes to the House, the Democrats would have a nominal advantage. Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship would also steer each chamber of Congress. But that might not hold. In the present House, Democratic-controlled delegations outnumber Republican ones by a ratio...
...national election, its vice-presidential candidate would not be considered by the Senate, which must pick between the top two. The wildest scenario kicking around the Capitol envisions the Bush and Perot slates coming in first and second, the House deadlocking and Senate Democrats preventing action in their chamber. They could avoid an unpalatable choice between the G.O.P. and Perot's forces by refusing to provide the necessary quorum. In that most improbable event, the Speaker of the House (currently Tom Foley) would take over as President. Occupying the White House under such dubious circumstances would be nothing less than...