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...course, with the tiresome executive tradition of asking the Fed to lower interest rates every four years, but quick improvement is unlikely, and the recession has dragged on for so long that it has become a part of the American mindset. (The recession is not completely the President's fault, of course, but that never stopped the American public from blaming it on him before...
Congress and regulatory authorities are gearing up investigations to look into the latest outage. The New York Public Service Commission, for one, is probing whether AT&T's participation in the power-sharing discount plan was at fault -- or is appropriate, given the consequences. AT&T is launching an in- house probe. According to the union representing telephone workers, several technicians who would have responded to the alarms were absent from their posts because, ironically, they were attending a class on new alarm systems...
Western officials did not exempt Tudjman from fault. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The Croatian government is far from blameless or democratic, and it has severely discriminated against Serbs living in Croatia." But Milosevic's aims are expansionist, and success on his part threatens to undo everything the E.C. stands...
...tone of the article suggested that The Crimson would find fault with the UC no matter what agenda is pursued. In reference to a UC survey given to guage support for last spring's calender reform resolution to lengthen intersession this year, I was shocked to read that "If the Council believed it was truly a representative body, then it would not have needed to survey its constituents...
...doubt anticipating inferior care, many blacks avoid doctors and hospitals altogether. Black women report a prevalent attitude among gynecologists that anything wrong might be the patient's own fault. "Back a few years ago, I was having excruciating abdominal pain, and I wound up at a hospital in my area," says Alicia Georges, who lives in the Bronx and is a professor of nursing at Lehman College. "The first thing they began to ask me was how many sexual partners I'd had. I was married and owned my own house. But immediately, in looking at me, they said...