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...that most of the munitions used in the war were not smart bombs but unguided ones that all too often missed their target. It also disclosed possible defects in the Bradley fighting vehicle and chronicled a Navy admiral's stepped-up efforts to weed out lesbians. Moreover, at the peak of the crisis, the Times had the financial muscle to put 17 correspondents in the gulf -- five more than the New York Times and seven more than the Washington Post. "They had superlative coverage," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Foundation Media Center at Columbia University...
...motivated BA, whose global traffic has dropped 30% since last year. The airline had canceled its Concorde service to Washington and reduced Concorde flights between London and New York City from two to one a day. Even with the alluring freebie gambit, BA does not expect to regain the peak traffic levels attained during 1989 until next year -- at the earliest...
...least four times a day--and that's just the nine-to-five shift. Better make it six times a day. During peak hours it's worse...
...count on him for at least a year. While physicians disagreed on whether he could ever recover from his injury, most agreed that he would be out of baseball and football for that long, if not longer, and that if he returned, he most probably would not regain peak form. In general, Jackson stayed mum about his plans. "I don't talk about football in the baseball season, and I don't talk about baseball in the football season," he said...
...collectors have been courted more assiduously than Walter Annenberg, 83, the former chairman of Triangle Publications and Richard Nixon's onetime ambassador to Britain. Over the years, Annenberg had assembled a choice group of some 50 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, for which -- only a year ago, at the peak of the now badly deflated art market -- he turned down an offer of $1 billion from a Japanese syndicate...