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White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett, attending his fifth summit, and Barrett Seaman, whose experience goes back to the 1978 meeting in Bonn, had to contend with what Seaman calls "the bane of all reporters covering presidential trips": pools, the often tedious arrangements in which publications rotate coverage where access is limited. "They are necessary, but they add enormously to already grueling schedules," Seaman says. "Oppressive security arrangements in Bonn also made coverage of the ceremonies quite difficult...
That outlook may work for CBS and The Washington Post, but how about the smaller news organizations who have to contend with high insurance premiums and the threat of utter bankruptcy? Do you think that the specter of multi-mill, a dollar law suits will, in practice, chill them...
...clubs are disputing the higher tax rates because they contend they are fraternities, Bloom said, adding that the matter of permanent residence is not the cruse of the issue. In a case now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Appelate Tax Board ruled that a nursing home is a commercial property despite the fact that people live there, he said...
...continues to sweep through corporate America, a heated and growing debate has begun to rage along with it. On one side are those who declare that giant mergers and fights for the control of companies have been a boon to the U.S. economy. On the other are critics who contend that the takeover wars have enriched a handful of speculators while crippling target firms and wounding entire industries...
Critics of the laser fusion program contend that it is five to ten years behind magnetic containment fusion, a technique that uses powerful magnetic fields to contain the reaction. But magnetic fusion, too, still has a long way to go. It has not yet even reached the stage at which the energy produced by the machines equals the energy required to run them. Says Livermore's Emmett: "Fusion is one of the most difficult technological undertakings that man has ever engaged in, and probably one of the most important...