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Before the IRS can effectively crack down, however, it must strengthen its whole system for checking returns, a process that has belatedly begun. The IRS began automating 20 years ago, and civil libertarians originally expressed considerable concern that the tax authorities planned to establish a vast data bank that would sacrifice everyone's privacy to the demand of Big Brother. In fact, the IRS has had increasing difficulty in keeping up with its paperwork on the six aging IBM computers installed back then at the national processing center in Martinsburg, W. Va. It is replacing them this spring with...
...seepage was traced to a ¾-in.-long crack in the engine's manifold, where hydrogen and oxygen come together under extremely high temperatures and pressures. That crack was the result of an inadequately hardened weld ordered up to repair some damage sustained during manufacture. But when the No. 1 engine was removed, its replacement also showed signs of leakage. This time oxygen was pouring out of a heat exchanger, a situation that might have triggered an explosion and fire...
...more imaginative approach needed to crack the problem is a new strategy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, aimed at dealing with the dearth of science and math teachers in Massachusetts. The Ed School intends to set up a 15-month program for middle aged workers from the technological industries, retraining them to teach science and math. These people would retire early from their current jobs and bring infusion of skill and knowledge to the hurting high school curriculums. The plan is not meant as a panacea but as a model, since it will enroll only 25 "students...
...announcement was stunning, not only for the historic implications of the crack in OPEC but also because the cut is even larger than it seems. A barrel of Nigeria's Bonny Light crude, once refined, yields a higher-priced product mix than does the Arabian Light oil on which the OPEC bench-mark price is based. The Saudis used to insist that the "differential" should be $3, but more recently have reportedly been willing to accept $1.50. Even at that, the official OPEC price would have to fall to $28.50 to make it competitive with $30 Nigerian...
...charge. They are not so naive any more. In Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (Simon & Schuster; 248 pages; $13.95), the two examine competition in American business. The rise and fall of the Real Paper is but one of the case histories that they crack open to extract the techniques of corporate survival...