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...fight and to kill people with snout-mounted .45-cal. guns. Said Richard O'Barry, dolphin trainer for the 1960s television series Flipper and now an opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium, which has made similar transfers before, put the plan on hold. Said executive director John Prescott: "We want to satisfy any anxiety raised by this decision...
...last week and try to tighten their supervision of banking operations. The report noted that 22 of the 406 banks that failed in 1988 and 1989 never appeared on the FDIC's problem-bank list. "Banks have been able to hide their nonperforming loans," contends Robert Litan, a banking expert at the Brookings Institution. Such subterfuge would be more difficult if banks were to undergo annual on-site inspections. Until 1956 federal regulations required two such audits a year, but by the 1980s some banks saw an inspector only once every two years, or even less often...
Nepotism is rife even in the armed forces. "Every commander has some link to the royal family," notes Anthony Cordesman, Washington's foremost expert on the Saudi military. "Loyalty to the House of Saud is the critical factor, not military proficiency." According to U.S. advisers, many of the princely pilots fly only when they want to. During scrambles early in the crisis, a discouraging proportion of them called in sick...
...government." From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. "If there's an internal threat to the kingdom," says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, "it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers on the left...
...Steven Langer, a compensation expert for a consulting firm, discussing why Harvard's two top salary-earners--venture capital managers Michael Eisenson and Scott M. Sperling--each took home more than $1 million in the 1988-89 fiscal year...