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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, you have plenty of time to correct the failings of the first 100 days. I hope for our country's sake that the balance of your term makes all I have written look silly and premature. Perhaps the final summary of your administration will be found in a kinder, gentler history book...
...exit of Control Data could aggravate U.S.-Japan trade friction over supercomputers. Says Etsuro Yamada, a spokesman for Fujitsu: "The fact is that Control Data lost in a fight with Cray, but that may not be the way the Americans will look at it." The U.S. has long complained about the Japanese government's failure to buy U.S.-made supercomputers. The two countries signed a 1987 accord in which Tokyo agreed to eliminate discrimination against U.S. supercomputer makers in the purchasing procedures of Japanese government agencies and universities. But since then, Tokyo has failed to buy a single U.S. supercomputer...
Wright may have more trouble defending himself against charges relating to bulk sales of his nonbook Reflections of a Public Man (it consists mainly of speech excerpts slapped together by an aide). On the surface, at least, the sales look like a blatant attempt to slide around House limits on members' outside income; honorariums for speeches are restricted, but book royalties are not. In several cases Wright's staff members pointed out that the Speaker was near his limit on honorariums and suggested that organizations buy books instead of paying him directly. Wright refused to answer any questions about...
Moreover, the case against Wright may still be building. The committee last week dispatched two investigators to Texas to look further into an oil-well sale involving Wright. The story: Mallick and the Wrights were fifty-fifty partners in an investment company called Mallightco, but in 1987 Wright instructed the trustee of his blind trust to sell out. Mallick told the committee that he wanted to "bet the farm" on one more deal before the pullout...
...going to be very tough," Mulvehalsaid. "They beat Yale, 8-1, and we were even withthem. It's going to be a really tough match. Butwe can't look past Cornell...