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...Congressman's desire to protect his home turf often saves weapons that ought to fade away. Neither the Air Force nor the Army asked for money for the C-12 personnel-carrying aircraft, and the Navy requested only twelve, presumably because all the services knew the politics involved would guarantee them the funds anyway. The transport plane is made by Beech Aircraft, which is owned by Raytheon Co., which happens to be in Massachusetts, the home state of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He reportedly told Aspin "not to come back" from the conference without funds for the aircraft...
...relatively poor quality ratings--and other securities that offer high yields. Like the banks, investors count on getting their money back from earnings of the acquired firm or from the sale of its assets. "Lenders look for a business that is very stable," says a California moneyman. "The company ought to generate lots of cash...
...internal struggle is being waged over how CBS News should be run and the way news should be presented. For some veterans, nothing less is at stake than the legacy of CBS Icon Edward R. Murrow. Says a long-term CBS correspondent: "The issue is what kind of product ought to be going out in the name of CBS News...
...assistant principal at Midland came in and shook himself off. "I got a three-quarter-ton pickup truck, and I flooded out," he said. "It's just the condensation in that distributor. I ought to go out there and dry it out, but I'd drown doing...
Nothing you or I say or do will ever change that, so we—the apologists of the Harvard athletics department—might as well stop, re-evaluate our position, and begin once again. What ought we, as Crimson fans, do in order to support the teams to which we claim allegiance? How might we save ourselves the embarrassment of being one of the few dozen students to be outnumbered by our Cornell counterparts come next hockey season, or one of the smattering of fans drunkenly berated by our Brown “peers?...