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Following the release of its first probe, the Pioneer Venus 2 spacecraft this week was scheduled to toss off three additional instrument-crammed packages. The four probes, as well as the mother ship, will arrive at Venus on Dec. 9. All five are aimed to descend over different areas of the planet, so that they will gather the widest possible range of data, including temperatures, composition, density and distribution of the atmosphere. They will be passing through hostile territory. At higher altitudes the probes will be whipped by winds with velocities that may be as high...
Business is fighting Question 1 not only in anticipation of the $265 millions shift, but also in hopes of a second cut--when homeowners start feeling the pain of 100 per cent valuation with tax hikes in the thousands of dollars, they'll descend on city halls throughout Massachusetts and demand budget cuts and tax rollbacks, and business will get the benefits of that...
...orders descend on the cambists - some working in money-trading firms, many employed by banks, a growing number directly for multinationals. Though they work on order, they have some latitude. If a multinational orders its bank to sell, say, $1 million for German marks on a particular day, in Europe it is up to the bank's trader whether to let them all go at once or sell $500,000 in the morning, the rest in the afternoon. In New York, a trader must execute the order at a time and price that the client specifies...
...kiosk will not be its own familiar site in the Square during the construction period. In stead, passengers will stop in front of the Yen Ching chinese restaurant on Mass Ave, and descend into the subway in front of Holyoke Center. Another stop at the Kennedy School of Government will also include buses, and word has it that the new occupants of this building are not exactly looking forward to the location of the temporary stop...
About 20 very talented and very large athletes are going to descend on The Crimson when they see their names omitted from this admittedly arbitrary list, but as the cartoonist says, that's all, folks...