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Declaring the resumption of business-as-usual, Assistant Secretary Everett Pyatt said that naval investigators had found "no pattern of corruption" with regard to General Dynamics' billing practices. If anything, Pyatt asserted, the Defense Department's "imprecise and ludicrous" guidelines were partly to blame. Said he of the St. Louis-based company: "They were simply doing what our procedures would allow them...
...pattern for the summit was set: though each leader had brought with him a wide array of senior advisers who had labored for months to lay the groundwork, the essential work would be done one to one, face to face. "All that machinery, all those cars and buildings and communications and people, and then, by God, two personalities just took charge," a top Administration official later mused. "Everything was different once those two leaders shook hands...
...jets dropped a payload of bombs on Kharg Island, where Iran loads 85% of its oil onto tankers for export. The Iraqi pummeling closed Kharg for three days; on Friday, Iraq claimed that another attack had caused a fire at the facility. The assaults were part of a pattern of escalation in the five-year Iran-Iraq war that has already cost thousands of lives. By repeatedly attacking Kharg, the Iraqis hope to reduce if not halt the oil exports that provide the revenues needed to bankroll Iran's war effort. A string of air attacks in September, including...
...role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream scholarship. To ensure that con men would not try to fool him with a counterfeit version, he even memorized the pattern of wax droplets left on the work when Munch blew out a candle one night...
Concentration statistics have followed a similar pattern as enrollment statistics. Fifteen students concentrated in Af Am this year, up from 11 students last year, but down from 21 students in 2001-2002 and 34 students in the 1997-1998 academic year...