Word: low
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...miracle work of Penn goalie Wendy DiDomenico, along with Harvard's close-but-no-cigar shots kept the score low, but the Crimson (1-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy) dominated the game from beginning...
...Recruit affair has put intense pressure on the Takeshita government, whose popularity is at a record low of 21% in the polls. Opposition parties have called for the Prime Minister to resign unless he acts soon to clear up the scandal. Says one pundit: "Takeshita is in a real...
...sold eleven of its passenger-boarding gates and a choice Miami-to-London route, and has transferred 20 airliners to Continental, another unit of Texas Air. Two years ago, Eastern sold its computerized reservation system to Texas Air for $100 million -- a price most industry experts said was too low. Last October, Eastern agreed to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots...
Dick Cheney is perhaps the only good thing to come out of the John Tower mess. The six-term Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed...
...ratings. But as the Married . . . With Children flap demonstrated, ratings are not everything, even along Madison Avenue. "What Married . . . With Children has done is make everybody take a sharper look at standards," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president of Saatchi & Saatchi advertising. NBC, under attack for its low-road programming, is re-creating the position of vice president of program standards and policy, eliminated last year for budgetary reasons. The network is also setting up meetings with ad executives to explain its policy for screening out offensive material...