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According to public documents, 103 ofSullivan's 176 campaign donations in excess of 50dollars between January and October 1991 were fromout-of-town contributors...
...influence of the sex hormones extends into the nervous system. Both males and females produce androgens, such as testosterone, and estrogens -- although in different amounts. (Men and women who make no testosterone generally lack a libido.) Researchers suspect that an excess of testosterone before birth enables the right hemisphere to dominate the brain, resulting in lefthandedness. Since testosterone levels are higher in boys than in girls, that would explain why more boys are southpaws...
...even more appealing. Engineers plan to boost the towers in some areas higher than they are at present so that the machines can escape ground turbulence and tap more consistent winds. Lighter materials could reduce the cost of building the towers. And researchers are looking into ways to store excess energy produced during windy periods so that it could be banked for use on calmer days or during peak energy demand...
Today CNN has a staff of more than 1,700, a global reach in excess of 75 million homes and a budget that keeps growing while the three broadcast networks cut back. Its headquarters are spread over several floors in a hotel- and-shopping complex in downtown Atlanta, formerly called the Omni and now dubbed CNN Center. The network has established its credibility, and it makes money: a profit of $134 million in 1990 and most likely more...
...great leaders." More important, what Turner recognized in the mid-'80s was that his roller-coaster emotional life, which had served him well in his risk-taking entrepreneurial days, was not particularly useful in running an international company with long-term ambitions and an estimated worth well in excess of $7 billion. The businessman who three times in his life had leveraged almost everything he owned and borrowed heavily -- to buy back his father's billboard company, to start CNN and to purchase MGM -- says he came to believe he did not "have to take desperate gambles anymore...