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Despite continued signs of moderate economic growth, reported last week by the Federal Reserve, corporate layoffs continued. Among the latest cuts: 5,500 positions, or 25% of the banking work force, at Fleet Financial Group, parent of New England's largest bank; and 4,400 positions, or 7% of the work force, at Raytheon Co., maker of the Patriot missile...
...Night of (Safe) Sex. AIDS Educationand Outreach presents a benefit performance withProfessor Irv De Nore of Science B-29 as M.C. Withperformances by The Callbacks, Glee Club Lite, TheStanford Fleet Street Singers and The Veritones.Emerson 105, 8 p.m. Tickets on sale at HCTO and atthe door...
...cheating by midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Some naval officers and military experts note that the Navy's recent problems have come under a series of chiefs -- from James Watkins in 1982 to Carlisle Trost in 1986 to Kelso -- who arose from the aloof and secretive submarine fleet. Submarine commanders usually are trained as engineers and are not renowned for their people skills. Presiding over crews of 155 or fewer highly screened men hasn't prepared the Navy's recent leaders to grapple with modern personnel problems. Kelso and other submariners "didn't have the leadership challenges that...
...Navy hasn't been run by a purebred surface-ship captain -- whose sailors make up the bulk of its force -- since Elmo Zumwalt left the job a generation ago. "When you go a long period of time without having a surface-fleet CNO, then it becomes a very serious morale problem for that vast segment of the Navy," Zumwalt says...
Environment Minister Tim Yeo resigns after admitting to being the father of a five-month-old "love child" (Fleet Street's formulation, not his own) born to his mistress, a north London Conservative Party worker...