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...Committee, see a disturbing connection among high interest rates, sluggish growth and the merger explosion. In the bidding battle for Conoco alone, they note, the contestants lave lined up some $20 billion in standby bank credit. Though much of the financing comes from European banks, many economists and executives contend that heavy loan demands from the merger candidates help keep the U.S. money supply tight and make it more difficult for a small business to finance new machinery or for a family to borrow money for a new house or automobile. Says W. Martin Dillon, chairman of Northwestern Steel...
That is only one of the innovations that military reformers are demanding. Some others: smaller, lighter fighter planes that, they contend, would be easier to maintain and keep in the air than supersophisticated craft; light tanks for the Rapid Deployment Force that could fit snugly into most cargo planes; greater use by all services of V-STOL (very short takeoff and landing) planes, like the Marine Corps' highly successful Harrier...
Less understood than menstrual cramps is the premenstrual syndrome. Days or even two weeks before menstrual bleeding begins, many women experience tenderness and swelling of the breasts, migraine headaches, abdominal bloating and acne. They become lethargic, irritable and depressed. Researchers contend that severely distressed women are apt to have accidents, abuse their children or commit suicide or violent crime...
These "methods," her critics contend, might be interpreted to include abortion...
Administration supporters contend that this measure will primarily affect "double dippers"-civil service or military employees who retire early, collect generous federal pensions and then work just long enough in other jobs to qualify for the minimum Social Security benefit. Democrats claim that the change will reduce benefits for some 3 million deserving elderly people, many of whom have incomes barely above the poverty line (now set at just over $4,275 for an individual). A $1.4 billion reduction in federal spending for school lunches next year will, in the Republican interpretation, force families who can afford...