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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these attacks, Brown's office revised the Guidance so that it now reads: "We do not advocate abandoning the flanks of NATO." On most other points, however, the Navy's critics continue to reject the service's arguments, stressing that the carriers have become extraordinarily vulnerable when they push close to the Soviet Union. Just as the introduction of sea-based aircraft eventually ended the battleship's reign, so the cruise missile, with its potential for pinpoint accuracy at long range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy...
...rise in the value of the options. But that $1 rise is a far larger percentage gain for the options, since they cost much less than shares of stock. Thus profits made on options in recent weeks have been spectacular. Between Friday, April 7, and last Friday's close, IBM options jumped from $2 to $10.50, a 425% increase; General Electric's rose 475%, from 50? to $2.87; Kodak's jumped 470%, from...
...Harvard and Penn should be pretty close," coach Harry Parker said last night, adding. "It's just a question of which team comes up with the better race...
Figaro doesn't fall on its face, by any means; but it comes close enough to make one wonder at the disparity between the production and the book. It's hard to figure out quite what the problem is, but as the play moves into its third hour, it begins to dawn on you. Basically, this is two plays, with two not-quite-linked plots put on either side of the intermission...
...Hampshire, the mass arrests came close to bankrupting the state, costing it $50,000 a day, while the local community turned strongly against the Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSC) and reactionary state government. So much so, in fact, that the residents of Seabrook recently voted this time in a binding referendum, to cut off the Public Service Company's water supply. PSC responded by getting a court injunction against the town's action, and has since been hounded by threats of violence from Seabrook housewives, who are already being forced to ration water...