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...student concerns weren't enough, the College was also left to contend with system sabotage, exemplified last fall by vandals who damaged a card key validator by filling it with glue...
Lipkin would contend that there are some needed changes yet to be addressed by the administration...
Defenders of Houtkin say the burden of proof is on dealers to show that small-order players really are harming the market. After all, these supporters contend, no marketmaker has bailed out of the dealers' association, and many Wall Street firms enjoyed record profits in the first quarter of this year. In response, the association sent the SEC a study last month that purports to show that traders using the system drove down the price of nine stocks, mostly health-care firms, during two weeks in February and March...
...repentance is foremost in my mind in every waking moment and its intensity increases with the passing of every day," writes Leona Helmsley in an uncharacteristically groveling letter to a New York federal judge. The missive goes on to contend that Helmsley, the prominent hotel queen who is serving a four-year sentence for evading $1.2 million in federal income taxes, should be released as soon as possible from the prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she has been studying for a high school-equivalency diploma. An expected favorable ruling by the judge, perhaps this week, would allow Helmsley to rejoin...
...delay: Milosevic's reaction to the Bosnian Serbs' refusal to follow his instructions. After the vote in Pale, Milosevic stalked out, flew back to Belgrade and announced that he was cutting off all Serbia's assistance to them except for food and medicine. But many Western military experts contend that Milosevic cannot really seal the Serbian border and that Bosnian Serbs have stockpiled at least two years' worth of war materiel and food...