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...indeed, it does exist. But there's one small hitch--the company is in Lynn, quite a trip for the average student...
...Navy Discharge. Perot, an Annapolis graduate, claims that he cut short his Navy hitch because his commanding officer wanted him to bend or break shipboard rules. The officer, now retired, flatly denies this. Another Perot explanation -- that he was shocked to discover that sailors used profane language -- belongs in the "didn't inhale" category...
...down the back ways of this civilization through Ohio and around Lake Erie to Buffalo. The earlier buscades along the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys were surprisingly successful strikes, finding people in neighborhoods where they lived, not at airports or pre-packaged arenas. Reporters from local television stations could hitch a bus ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more than $1,000 on a political airlift. Nor were the local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family...
...expected the Resolution Trust Corporation, the oddball agency cobbled together in 1989 to undertake the largest federal bailout ever, to liquidate more than 800 savings and loans without a hitch. And the dubious were right. From the beginning, the RTC, whose charter is to find and prosecute the crooked, the greedy and the inept among the nation's thrift managers, has been dogged by questions of efficiency, propriety and conflict of interest. Last week three RTC attorneys had more bad news; they testified on Capitol Hill that they had been blocked from prosecuting former S&L officials...
...losing attempt to match the value and quality of import models. To ensure customer satisfaction, Saturn built cars at its all-new plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., with the crawly pace of a craft shop. It also gained something of a quirky reputation for recalling them at the tiniest hitch...