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Senior guard Coleen Lahart led Smith with 14 points and Nancy Satchwill added eight, but those outputs barely put a dent in the Crimson's defensive armor...
...first glance, AT&T appeared to be offering consumers a big break. The telephone giant proposed to slash its long-distance rates by an average of 3.6%. As good as it sounds, though, the move will not ultimately make much of a dent in home phone bills. AT&T said it would carry out the rate cut only if it receives reductions in the "access charges" it pays regional phone companies. These fees give AT&T the right to connect its long-distance lines to local phone systems...
...Democrats complained that the Pentagon reductions were not deep enough (they are less than half of what they would be under Gramm-Rudman). Republicans griped that the package relied too much on taxes. Several critics said the $30.2 billion in estimated savings for fiscal 1988 will hardly make a dent in the deficit for that year, which Congress projects will be $179.9 billion. Senator Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, called the budget package a "miserable little pittance." Congressman Newt Gingrich was even more acerbic in his appraisal. "It's a perfect summit deal for Thanksgiving vacation," said the Georgia Republican...
...world of Harvard finance, the endowment could skyrocket to the moon and back, and it still wouldn't make a dent on the budget. The reason is that the endowment pays out a set rate more than it has paid out the previous year, regardless of how much it has grown in the meantime. Excess gains are reinvested, and the pot grows bigger...
Koenig kicked a second penalty kick to cut the lead to 12-6, but the ruggers were unable to dent the Huskie try zone in the final nine minutes. Penalties continually aborted Harvard scoring threats throughout the contest...