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...Similarly, Iran is importing eggs from Turkey, poultry from Rumania and rice from Thailand. Tehran is making up for the cutoff of U.S. medicines by buying some 600 pharmaceutical items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors Corp. assembly plant in any third country. True, the shops in Tehran may no longer be able to stock imported items like detergents, disposable diapers and tooth paste, and there are occasional shortages of bread, eggs, meat and other items. But otherwise, there...
...President John Carey also resigned, and left town on vacation, offering no explanation. After lengthy meetings with Mrs. Catherine Rohter, Carey's replacement as school board president, two of Hannon's top financial officials resigned. Mrs. Rohter let it be known that she had been unable to obtain an accurate fix on school finances, despite round-the-clock investigation by a high-priced firm of accountants. Even so, depressing details began to dribble out: to meet expenses, administrators had failed to set aside $15.9 million in federal withholding taxes due the Federal Government and $5.3 million in teachers...
...than a year, said they will tell Rent Board examiners that Harvard workers began renovations this week on two units that were occupied when the ordinance went into effect this August. The law, passed in attempt to keep rental property from being converted to other uses, requires developers to obtain a permit from the city before renovating apartments...
Developers at those two sites said that since they had announced plans to demolish the buildings before the law went into effect they did not need to obtain the permits...
There are few opportunities to obtain more brains of dyslexics, he added. "It was only sheer chance that we came upon this one," he said...