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Bush lieutenants admit to two other mild disappointments. Scud missile launchers in Iraq have taken a longer time to find and destroy than expected. General Schwarzkopf reported that 35 Scuds were lobbed against Israel or Saudi Arabia in the first seven days of the war, only 18 in the second seven days. And in the first half of the war's third week only four launchings were recorded: three warheads fell on or near the Israeli-occupied West Bank, causing no reported casualties, and another aimed at Riyadh was destroyed by a Patriot missile. But 1,500 sorties have been...
Today: clouds and fog in the morning. Brighter in the afternoon. High 47. Tonight: partly cloudy, low 34. Tomorrow: breezy and mild, high...
...performance as a director of Denver's Silverado S&L, which collapsed in 1988 at a cost of $1 billion to the U.S. When Judge Daniel Davidson issued his decision, he declared that Bush had broken conflict-of-interest rules. The judge ordered Bush to avoid future conflicts, a mild sanction. But the OTS lawyers' cryptic reference to a potential new problem intrigued congressional investigators...
...often require the hormone estrogen in order to grow. If lab tests show the presence of estrogen receptors in a tumor (a sign of a good prognosis), therapy with tamoxifen, an estrogen-blocking drug, is usually recommended. It reduces the risk of disease recurrence by approximately 20%, with relatively mild side effects...
...fact is that much of the controversy stems from the fragility of black gains in higher education. According to the most recent statistics, black enrollment at U.S. colleges in 1988 was 8.7% of the national total. That marked a mild gain over the previous two years, but is still low considering that blacks represent about 12.4% of the U.S. population. "If we were color- blind as a nation, then ending these scholarships would be understandable," says Gina Smith, 19, the first recipient of a joint Hope College-University of Michigan scholarship for minority students interested in medicine...