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Neither could maintain a definitive advantage with nine lead changes occurring in the first half alone...
...first of two road games, the Crimson traveled to New Haven on Friday trying to maintain its perfect record in the Ancient Eight...
...lower house and 144 out of 252 in the upper chamber. Still, strong opposition has already surfaced, especially to the imposition of new taxes. In last July's general election, Nakasone promised that he had "no idea of introducing a large-scale" sales tax. While the Prime Minister will maintain that a 5% levy does not qualify as "large-scale," many Japanese consumers will resent the burden nonetheless. Some lawmakers are attacking the plan on more general grounds. Says Diet Member Shigeru Aoki: "The problem with this package is that it has no philosophy. It calls for tax reductions...
...operations, from processing paychecks to programming robots on assembly lines. But in the original merger agreement Perot had insisted that he and EDS be granted a highly unusual degree of independence. He did not want the parent company to audit EDS. Moreover, he demanded that EDS be allowed to maintain a different pay structure from GM's?one that called for greater variation in salaries and bonuses, to give EDS employees better incentives for good performance. It galled top GM officials that some of their EDS counterparts were making more money than they were. Finally, some GM units thought that...
...keeping supplies flowing to the contras after the congressional ban. Although North had met regularly with contra leaders in El Salvador and Honduras, he withdrew from this visible activity after the military ban. Instead he dispatched Robert Owen, 33, a former congressional aide to Indiana Senator Dan Quayle, to maintain these contacts. In November 1985, U.S. embassy personnel in Honduras introduced Owen to high Honduran military officials as a White House envoy. In fact, Owen had no official Government position. Last year North got Owen a job as a consultant at the State Department office that administered the contras' nonlethal...