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...Washington, the State Department said in a statement: "We are gratified that the Sandinistas have released Hasenfus and that he will be reunited with his family during the Christmas season. However, the handling of this entire incident was orchestrated by the Sandinistas for maximum propaganda effect...
...Flatten the bottom half of your toothpaste tube--just like it says on the back of the box--so you get the maximum amount of paste per tube. After all, at nearly $1.50 a shot, toothpaste is really expensive. You wouldn't want to be wasteful, especially when there are children in Africa starving for extra toothpaste...
None of the above. Officials at the Marshall Space Center recently announced that the maximum "fee reduction" which Morton-Thiokol would receive is $10 million. That's one-tenth of Ivan Boesky's fine. It's not nearly severe enough to be called a slap on the wrist...
...conspirators in fixing the election of Jackie Presser as head of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1983. Whether or not Salerno is found guilty of these latest charges, he already faces more bad news in January, when he will be sentenced in the Mafia trial. The maximum stretch he could receive: 306 years...
Officers of the Undergraduate Council ofStudents at Brown University sometimes pays asecretary for a maximum of 10 hours a week,according to sophomore Steven E. Whinoker, acouncil representative. "All representatives doour own secretarial work," he said