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SafeStreets, a student escort service, started up on March 6 under the leadership of Abigail N. Sosland '91. Sosland brought her idea to the Women's Alliance--which helped create the service--in the wake of the Science Center rape last December. The Undergraduate Council subsequently helped fund SafeStreets, as did the office of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Sosland intended for the service to supplement the overburdened two-car University police escort program, she says...
...rebuff last week was the latest in a series of dogfights between the company and its suitors. The maneuvering began on March 28, when NWA announced that another investment group had amassed a 4.9% stake in the company and might make a takeover bid. NWA promptly rejected the overture. While the unidentified group has not been heard from since, word of its interest apparently helped draw Davis into the contest. His bid pushed NWA's stock price from 68 1/4 in late March to 88 3/4 at the end of last week...
...does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting the new rules he risks appearing to be a tool for Jackson. One possible solution: keep the new procedures but move major primaries, like California's, to earlier dates to narrow the field of competitors by March...
...three- and four-year plans. The automakers have also increased their rebates to as much as $2,000 on slower-selling vehicles. The Big Three are suffering a painful sales slowdown, partly because of rising interest rates. Sales of U.S.-made cars and trucks fell 12.6% in March, compared with the same month...
When the Government released its closely watched unemployment report for March last week, the figures seemed to give fresh evidence of economic strength. They showed an unexpected drop in the U.S. jobless rate to 5%, down from 5.1% in February and the lowest monthly rate in more than 15 years...