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...sneaky as a PAC, as enduring as Claude Pepper, as annoying as an overzealous lobbyist, the unelected American cockroach is surely the most resilient resident of Capitol Hill. From the Rotunda to the farthest hearing room, congressional buildings are overrun with the scurrying pests, which seem harder to stamp out than waste, fraud and abuse. Efforts to exterminate them have failed miserably, so Congressman Silvio Conte has declared a war against what he says is a "1 trillion-strong" invasion of the hallowed halls. The irrepressible Massachusetts Republican has launched a "Conte Crush-a- Cockroach Campaign," the slogan of which...
Along with Harvard, Missouri and host U.C. Riverside, the tournament boasted San Diego State--rated No. 1 in the country midway through last year--and three Pac-10 teams: Arizona State, UCLA, and tournament champion Oregon State...
Harvard would "be a real solid hall club anywhere in the country," said UCLA coach Gary Adams. He should know, because teams now in his conference, the Pac-10, have won 14 of the last 20 College World Series. In contrast, only one university from the northeast ever captured a College World Series In contract, only one university from the northeast ever captured a Collage Would Series title (Holy Cross.1952...
...Pac-Man Defense. A maneuver named after the popular video game in which a company turns about and tries to swallow its pursuer. Even if it does not result in the acquisition of the firm that started the fray, the ploy can be a potent means of driving off the attacker...
...does Congress treat the dairy support system like a sacred cow? The main reason is the strong dairy lobby: the Associated Milk Producers PAC was the tenth-largest campaign contributor to Congressmen in 1984. Yet, despite this clout, most dairy farmers realize that some reforms are inevitable. "We want to be less dependent on subsidies," says James Jarvis, a small dairy farmer in Wautoma, Wis. "But we can't be cut off cold turkey. We've got to be let down slow...