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While a handful of local companies would be affected by the question. Draper has the largest stake in the current fight--85 percent of its work goes toward development of the MX missile, the Trident class submarine and other nuclear weapons, officials have said...
Former President Richard M. Nexon declined an invitation to the conference citing a conflicting engagement. Gottlieb added Still he noted the assemblage of chief executives will be the largest since Regan and the three former Presidents gathered last spring to celebrate the birthday of retired Admiral Hyman G. Rickover...
...odds were a stupefying 2 million to 1, but even that chance at the $8.8 million jackpot, the largest in North American history, was too good to pass up. So three weeks ago, Nicholas Jorich, 59, plunked down $20 of his savings for 20 Pennsylvania lottery tickets...
Ueberroth, 45, former head of First Travel Corp., one of the largest U.S. travel companies, has been churning out strategies for solvency ever since he assumed the L.A.O.O.C. presidency in 1979. To create start-up money, Ueberroth squeezed the biggest plum he had: TV rights. Five interested bidders, including the three major networks, were each required to put up a $750,000 deposit, refundable later without interest. "We had no funds, no office, no telephone," says Ueberroth, whose staff will swell from 425 currently to 35,000 by next July. "We needed an income source." The winner, ABC, will ante...
...mind for Nicaragua? One need not resort to the hackneyed image of falling dominoes to imagine that the sequential triumph of leftist revolutions and, perhaps more important, the establishment of leftist dictatorships around the waist of the Central American isthmus, could increase the chances of upheaval in Mexico, the largest and potentially most volatile nation in the region. If Mexico were transformed from a problem-ridden, rather resentful but basically friendly and dependent neighbor into a militarized, antagonistic one, oriented toward the Soviet Union internationally, the security problem for the U.S. would be second only to the one posed...