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Harvard's top seed Tiina Bougas avenged last year's loss to Kathy Dalton by disposing of her, 6-0, 6-3, Saturday. After coasting through six quick games in the first set. Bougas faltered briefly and trailed 3-2 in the second stanza. Not to worry, she caught fire again to take the next four games and the match...
...fiction. "The sameness of the stories gives women comfort," says Karen Solem, editor in chief of Silhouette Romances. "They buy one line because they know they won't find something they don't want to see." Adds Bill Edwards, vice president of the 530-store B. Dalton Booksellers chain, where romances account for 30% of mass-market paperback sales: "The women know what days their new lines arrive here. They buy four or six novels at a whack, every month." The market is so febrile that Avon has published the first homosexual romance, Gaywick; Dell has done...
...there a serious possibility of such a collapse of the S and Ls? No, says John Dalton, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: the $32.5 billion in total S and L net worth is more than enough to offset any panic. The notion, though, is not as alarmist as it might seem. Already the stresses are being felt...
...with Reagan's proposal as far as they can, signed a letter warning Reagan to keep his bands off subsidies for development of synthetic fuels, which Stockman suggested chopping by $6 billion in the next fiscal year. Nor were Democrats alone in opposing specific cuts. Republican Governor John Dalton of Virginia objected to a proposal to reduce federal aid for construction of the 101-mile Washington, D.C., subway system, which benefits many commuters from his state...
...computer to transfer $10.2 million to his out-of-town account. Only a confederate's tip led to his discovery. To be a computer-age thief, you need nothing more than an inexpensive home computer, a telephone and a few light-fingered skills. As in the Dalton case, computer passwords are often short and simple. Be sides, computer networks like Telenet or Datapac, frequently publicize their numbers to attract customers. Once into the computer system, there are other barriers to crash, and other techniques for purloining information...