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...Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski rushed through committee business. In fact, the Illinois Democrat was out on the links in Hawaii last March when the White House wanted a begin negotiations on the 1983 budget. It was one of 45 days during a recent vacations period that Rostenkowski spent on far-flung golfing vacations BLACHMAN paid for by corporations and lobbying groups, according to a report last week in the Washington Post...
...far-flung variety of Ground Zero participants may have been more significant than their absolute numbers. From Greenville, S.C., to Clackamas County, Ore., local officials issued declarations of support. In 200 of the 650 towns and cities that held Ground Zero observances, markers were installed, each signifying the center of a 12-sq.-rrfi. circle of total destruction that a one-megaton warhead would wreak. Around the Ground Zero spot in Billings, Mont., a mime group per, formed an antiwar piece; in neighboring North Dakota, 600 people in Grand Forks applauded a speaker's suggestion that the Government dismantle...
...Empire began quietly, when Canada was granted self-rule in 1867. Australia won independence in 1901, and New Zealand in 1907. After World War I, Britain managed to retain most of its holdings, but following World War II, economic exhaustion at home combined with the nationalistic aspirations of its far-flung subjects led to the dismantling of the empire...
...Administrations have also persisted in trying to find some fresh definition of linkage, some formulation that will make it harder for the Soviets to get away with murder, often literally, in far-flung corners of the Third World and within their own empire. It has been a discouraging quest. In fact, the goal of a credible, workable version of linkage seems more elusive now than it did in 1969, when Henry Kissinger used the term to explain the strategy of nudging the Soviet Union toward cooperation with the U.S. along a broad front of issues...
Though computers are most vulnerable to crimes by employees inside a company, security specialists are increasingly concerned about threats from outsiders. Modern banks and other corporations use far-flung computer systems in which the machines communicate with each other over telephone lines between cities. It is possible for interlopers armed with home computers to call telephones hooked up to business computers and then give the machines the order, for example, to transfer money into their personal bank accounts...