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Japanese officials say participation by 163 nations make this the largest state funeral or gathering of international leaders in modern history...
...largest percentage drop among the Ivies, Dartmouth received more than 8400 applications, an 18 percent fall from last year's record setting...
Mama Reeglands is a six-pack of breasts--they are all over, on her hips, her bottom, her stomach. The ones on her chest are reputed to be the largest over in the Pudding's history, and they often seem to move all on their own. Her performance is all in her appearance--with her faint moustache, one long eyebrow, and house-sized black lace dress--but even better is her body language. Shaking her groove thing, or two, comes natural to Mama, as she forcefully swats a bat and lurches her hips in the "Mobster Mash" number...
...instructions that control the chip's functions. Manufacturers safeguard the valuable microcodes with copyrights, but their legality has been a vexing question. No longer. In a landmark ruling last week in San Jose, Federal Judge William Gray upheld a microcode copyright used by Intel Corp., the world's largest producer of microprocessors. The decision came in a dispute that began in 1984 when Japan's NEC challenged the copyright. Intel responded that NEC had illegally used the code in its own products. But while Gray upheld the copyright, he found that the NEC microcode differed from Intel...
American Savings (assets: $30 billion), which was once the largest thrift in the U.S., had got into the same trouble as many other go-go S & Ls. During the early 1980s its maverick chairman, Charles Knapp, furiously pumped up the company's growth with brokered deposits and high-risk loans. When the thrift suffered a run on deposits in 1984, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board seized American and installed fresh management. But the new team gambled and failed in a multibillion-dollar investment in mortgage-backed securities. When the Bank Board went looking for help again, it eventually decided...