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...more. It is a cornucopia of miscellany-"everything from vaginal foam to cement mixers," says one AID official. Among the items found so far: tin plate, steel sheet, chemicals, dies, pumps, cotton, newsprint, forklift trucks, photocopying machines. Says Frink in Hong Kong: "We have part of a rice mill. It may be an entire rice mill-I won't know until I get into the boxes. The same thing with an edible oil mill. There is a big shipment of ladles. Our hunch is that they are ladles for pouring glass...
...What preceded La Crepe? The 24 Rest? The Grist Mill? Canaday Hall? "Satch" Sanders...
France so far is leading the export race, showing marked ability to sell "product-in-hand" plants-highly automated factories already functioning with trained personnel. Premier Jacques Chirac recently agreed in principle on more than $6 billion worth of contracts in Iran: a subway for Tehran, a steel mill, an auto assembly plant, a color television system and 200 housing units. In Iraq, he signed a similar $3 billion deal...
...says. Nor can the county help when federal and state inheritance taxes, which are based on the land's full value, come due. Under the development-rights scheme, however, all taxes will be reckoned only on the land's agricultural value. Beyond the tax advantage, says Water Mill Farmer Tom Halsey, "I still keep my pride in ownership. I am still able to build farm buildings on my land. And with the money that I can get from selling my development rights, I might even be able to buy more farm land...
...question was built by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and installed at Harvard five years ago, presumably reliably analyzing data at a steady, comforting clip. No one discovered until early this month that it was inaccurate in, of all places, the ninth digit -still quite serviceable for run-of-the-mill computer wizardry, but not the very best the machine was fully capable of. Some infinitesimally remote calculation was slipping ever so slightly out of its grasp. The flaw is so minuscule a problem that most routine users probably would not discover it unless they were weighing electrons, and the Harvard...