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...cover, which has been assailed by many Asian-Americans nationwide as racist and offensive, will be the target of a campus-wide campaign to halt Asian-American stereotypes in the media...
Lighthouse Magazine, a "forum for the discussion of women's issues," published a March 1997 issue after near-bankruptcy caused the student group to halt production for a semester...
...senior executives now openly admit what was stonewalled at the time, that the giant company's steady roll toward the precipice finally came to a halt only a few feet from the edge. Says vice chairman Harry Pearce, then GM's general counsel: "We came perilously close to declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy. We were almost too far down the hill. The first act was simply to survive...
...Replacement System, whose deadline for start-up was 1985. Instead 1985 was the year the great meltdown almost occurred. Because of computer bugs, a backlog of unprocessed returns (in Philadelphia more than 100 unopened envelopes containing returns were found in garbage cans) almost brought the entire system to a halt. "We came as close as you can to going out of business," says Gibbs, who took over as IRS Commissioner...
...fanatics," he said. ?What we expect is not 100 percent success but 100 percent effort. And we have not seen that." Mostly absent from this meticulous accounting was the settlement at Har Homa, the issue on which he likely will have to bend. To Netanyahu's calls for a halt to terrorism, Arafat calls for a halt to the settlement. President Clinton today renewed his call for a statement from Yasser Arafat promising "zero tolerance" for terrorism, and said he would welcome "any reasonable opportunity" to revive the stalled talks. The President was careful to note that...