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Bush commercials show Dukakis riding around in a tank to prove he's soft on defense. The reality is that America under President Reagan has had the largest peacetime military buildup in history; we are stuck with stockpiles of excess, overpriced weapons systems and a Department of Defense bloated with consultants and conflict-of-interest connections with industry...
...case with which a computer hacker. Robert T. Morris '87-'88, levelled one of the nation's largest computer networks may be used to justify unreasonable Department of Defense (DOD) restrictions on computer access and exchange of information. said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck...
Nobody likes to pay for other people's mistakes -- least of all the bankers at Great Western Financial of Beverly Hills. So the California giant, the third largest savings and loan association in the U.S., with assets of $31 billion, was indignant in 1987, when the fees it pays the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation for insurance coverage on deposits went up by 150%, to $43 million a year. Healthy S and Ls like Great Western were being forced to subsidize the cash-starved agency's efforts to rescue scores of poorly managed, insolvent institutions...
...million supplied by the N.R.A. to canvass urban neighborhoods, proclaiming that cheap handguns are often the only means poor people have to defend themselves against crime. Outspent more than 12 to 1, defenders of the gun ban have countered by emphasizing its many influential backers, including the state's largest law-enforcement agencies. Governor Schaefer was so outraged by the N.R.A.'s campaign that he is starring in a TV spot on behalf of gun control. "The gun lobby is spending millions to mislead you about the law," he declares, taking a swipe at the group...
Farming, while important to those involved, is not big business in Massachusetts. Biomedicine, on the other hand, is one of the largest, most rapidly growing industries in the state. Should this question get significant support, it will give a justification for a possible future measure that replaces "farm animals" with "research animals...