Word: mellone
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Ever since its protesters disrupted Easter Sunday services in Pittsburgh's wealthiest Presbyterian church, Denominational Ministry Strategy has become the best-publicized clergy group in Pennsylvania. Made up largely of Lutherans and Episcopalians, DMS and its militant labor-union allies want to force the Mellon Bank and U.S. Steel to pump more money into the sagging local economy. Among its tactics: repeated harassment at worship services attended by executives and disruption of bank operations, notably by putting dead fish in safe-deposit boxes and skunk oil in ventilation ducts. Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated...
...Department of Defense (DOD) has selected Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) to be the sight of a new center for computer software development...
Both Pusey and Conant went on to other careers after their lengthy tenures Pusey serving as head of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City and Conant as High Commissioner to Germany...
...Pentagon has refused to identify the bidders, which include a Texas A&M consortium, a University of Maryland-led group, a Big Ten team headed by the University of Michigas, and solo proposals from Carnegie-Mellon and the Georgia Institute of Technology...
While most economists agree that the deficit is a threat, there is no consensus on how to slash it. Many, including conservatives like Feldstein as well as liberals like Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institution, believe that tax increases are unavoidable. Others, like Allan Meltzer of Carnegie-Mellon University and David Meiselman of Virginia Polytechnic, think that the emphasis should be on reductions in spending. In the NABE survey, economists were almost evenly split on the issue: 42% said that the deficit should be pared solely through spending cuts, while 41% supported some form of tax increase or reform...