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...executions tend to be ready but hardly eager for the new era. "I'm at peace with myself," says Missouri Warden William Armontrout. "But I wouldn't want to sit here and do a whole mess of these things." He recently had the state's gas chamber repainted, and ordered a fresh stock of cyanide pellets. Armontrout stays friendly with his 28 death-row inmates, even though he may personally execute some of them soon. "I want the fellas to know I do care about them." By contrast, in neighboring Kentucky, preparing for its first electrocution since...
...MBTA awarded a grant to Cambridge merchants affected by the digging and blasting to compensate for the resulting decline in their sales, said Cambridge Chamber of Commerce President David Hughes...
Dole's election was also evidence that the Republicans want a leader who can bring a firm hand to the upper chamber, which has grown increasingly unruly in recent years. Within hours of his election, Dole served notice that he intended to get tough on Capitol Hill. "I do believe we spend a lot of time doing very little, and that may be an understatement," he said. "If we really want the discipline, I'm willing to help provide it." The next day, Republican Dan Quayle of Indiana, head of a special bipartisan committee studying Senate procedures...
...taking five years to complete. But the building ban imperils some $2.3 billion in new construction in the city of Boston alone. "If the legislature doesn't act, there will be an awful lot of activity in the courts," says James Sullivan, president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. "The economy of the entire Greater Boston area could be on the line...
...levies on loans made to member banks, from 9% to 8.5%. It was an unmistakable signal for banks to lower the interest rates they charge customers. Even some of Volcker's harshest critics are now optimistic, if not entirely satisfied. Says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The Fed has reacted late and it has probably not gone far enough, but I think we can avoid a recession. The economy should rebound." Administration officials share that view. Says Manuel Johnson, the Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy: "There's time to move things back...