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From the initial discussions about how to refashion the car in 1992, through the myriad meetings, arguments, sketches and prototypes that went into the final model, Mary Walton, a business writer, was given complete access to the $2.7 billion investment...
...knows, of course, exactly which of the myriad details in the bill will become law. As a starting point for their negotiations with President Clinton, Senate and House Republicans last week agreed on a unified position on the central provisions: a $500-per-child tax credit, another tax credit for college tuition, and a cut in the capital-gains tax. The White House has ideas of its own in those areas, so some change is likely in all three. All of it will add more pieces to the tax puzzle...
After hearing a piece played by scores of soloists from myriad eras and traditions, it's rare that a performer can tell you something new. But so it was with Christian Zacharias, whose performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto highlighted an otherwise lackluster afternoon at Tanglewood Sunday. Zacharias gave such a spirited reading of the concerto's finale that the audience rose almost immediately with the last chord...
Bryan's approach is a radical departure from the way most of America's myriad new telephone companies have plotted their growth. Most have tried to break into local-phone markets on the cheap by negotiating with the incumbent to lease and resell service on its lines. Bryan's company decided to exploit a provision in the act that allows utilities to offer phone service. Many of them have modern fiber-optic communications networks to monitor plants and transmission over wide areas, and Bryan offered to use their extra capacity for phone service. Last year, for example, ICG signed...
...report did not say how the initiative would be funded. Committee members later said they expected funds to come from professors' salaries and grant funds, from departmental budgets and from the central FAS budget--the myriad of sources that currently fund faculty and staff computers...