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...Finney, who last summer won the light-weight pairs national championship and will defend that title this summer, the rapid climb of the Radcliffe squad is a lasting memory she says she'll take with her forever...
From Harvard, Mockler went to Business School, where he later served as a research associate and doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957. And in 1957, he joined Boston-based Gillette as a comptroller staff assistant for insurance matters--beginning a long climb which culminated in a heady nine-year whoosh to the top from the office of treasurer. He took five big steps up the corporate ladder from 1967 to 1971, became president and chief operating officer in 1974, and finally chairman...
...increase, which amounted to an extra $900 a year, forced the strapped couple, who have four children, to visit a credit counselor and to cut back on expenses like hot lunches at work. The Christensens are bracing for another leap in their payments because interest rates are continuing to climb...
Travolta is not the only person entranced by computerized flight. Every day thousands of Americans climb into their armchairs, ease back on their joysticks and head for the electric blue skies of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, which runs on the IBM Personal Computer, or SubLogic's Flight Simulator II, a version for the Apple, Atari and Commodore machines. More than 200,000 copies of the $49.95 discs have been sold to a diverse corps of enthusiasts, from first-graders bored with their video games to professional pilots who cannot seem to get enough of their jobs. Some businessmen...
...without launching their long-threatened "final offensive." Iraq is desperate to end the war it started; Iran is determined to destroy Saddam Hussein at any cost; and Saudi Arabia is terrified of a possible Iranian victory. That adds up to a bad formula for peace. Thus, while insurance rates climb and world oil prices quiver, the tanker war is likely to go on. Summarizing his country's new policy, the leader of Iran's parliament, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told his countrymen last week that they should be prepared for a "long-drawn-out war with...