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...stern. All he sees to guide him are the ship's banks of dimmed, tiny lights. Slowing his airspeed to about 150 m.p.h., the pilot tries to ease his howling machine down onto a bobbing runway barely 600 ft. long. At touchdown, if all goes well, a hook on the underside of the jet's tail grapples one of four cables strung a few inches over the flight deck, and the aircraft is yanked to a lurching halt. At 11:51 last Tuesday night, aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, that difficult maneuver went terribly awry...
...increasingly hot question of Harvard's financial support for the city. Though it is an enormous land-owner--and though it uses city services like fire protection--Harvard pays only slightly more than $500,000 a year in lieu of taxes. (It is charged substantially more for water, sewer hook-ups, and similar services.) Politicians have grumbled about that fact for years, but in the wake of the massive tax cuts stemming from Proposition 2 1/2, their protests are getting louder, A bill filed with the state legislature this year sought to end exemptions for universities from the property...
...public long accustomed to ads on regular TV seems to accept them readily on cable shows. A survey by the New York ad agency Benton & Bowles showed that almost half of those who do not now have pay cable television said they would gladly hook up, when the system is offered , even if it carried...
...last four years--and though Teso insists enforcement is citywide--Harvard Square drivers, especially students with out of state plates, seem to have been especially hard hit this year. "I went into Store 24 for cupcakes, and when I came out--no more car," one unhappy victim of the hook, said last week...
...very pleased with the reports I was getting about how rapidly the business was expanding. As we started to do some more careful investigating, it turned out that though the business was growing fast, it was not profitable. This fellow had adopted the philosophy that once you hook up with a customer-even if you do not charge him enough at first-you will eventually be able to make money on him. We started to put a little pressure on this M.B.A., and just when we were about to rein him in, one of our major competitors hired him with...