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Yale Law School, however, edged out Harvard for its second year in the number one spot for law schools. And the graduate school of engineering was ranked twenty-second, far behind its first-place counterpart...
...than it fails. Jones turns in an engaging performance as Vladimir, the more flighty of the two derelicts. Striking comic postures that require yogic flexibility, he attacks his lines with the right degree of mania and pathos. His lanky frame and expressive face effectively contrast the countenance of his counterpart, Estragon...
...study executive compensation say it's about time somebody asked those questions. CEO pay has been growing faster than sales and profits for years. The chiefs of the 200 largest U.S. companies received an average of $2.8 million in 1989, before those 1990 raises were handed out. Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace. Studies indicate that most American CEOs seem able to demand raises at will, regardless of how good or bad a job they do. In many cases they get raises just...
...other issues, their interests -- and thus their policies -- diverge. For one thing, Bush and Gorbachev are operating in entirely different domestic political environments. The man in the White House has strong backing from his citizens, while his counterpart in the Kremlin has received delegations of Muslims from Transcaucasia and Central Asia who are angry at the spectacle of infidels bombing an Islamic nation...
...dispute exists because bomb-damage assessment is more an art than a science. Each of the agencies involved -- Central Command in Riyadh, the Air Force command, the Central Intelligence Agency and its military counterpart, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency -- has its own way of deciding whether a target has been destroyed. Not surprisingly, the different techniques have yielded divergent results...