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...truck driver-a potent combination in a city of energetic ethnics. Part Irish, part Croatian, standing 5 ft. 6 in. and looking even younger than he is, Democrat Kucinich is accused of going for the jugular even when he does not have to. He accused Republican Mayor Ralph Perk in the primary of selling out to business interests and neglecting the neighborhoods. Perk finished a poor third behind Kucinich and State Representative Feighan...
...three-day tournament was the first women's sporting event to be played in Harvard Stadium, but the splendid surroundings did not perk up the Crimson women's play. Following the Yale loss, Harvard knocked off Keene State in the first round of the consolations, 3-1, on goals by Gwill York, Jenny Stone, and Julie Kornman...
...individuals, $3.4 billion to business. Last week Blumenthal reported that White House planners were considering deepening the net cut to as much as $22 billion-possibly $15 billion to individuals, $7 billion to corporations. The aim was to provide a better climate for profits and investment that would eventually perk up the economy. What form the enlarged business reductions would take-if indeed they are made at all-has not yet been decided...
...time by enabling him to conduct business over a lunch table, and the atmosphere in many restaurants, where both host and guest are on neutral turf and no phones ring, affords a more congenial setting for discussion than an office. In many companies, the expense account is also a perk for executives who have earned at least limited discretion over how they spend their time and the company's money. Manhattan Public Relations Man John Scanlon makes a wry complaint: "It took me all my life to get into the eating class, and now they want to take...
Though no one in the Administration is ready to cheer a yawning trade gap and a weakening dollar, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and other top officials are by no means upset by them. They believe the best way to perk up the sluggish world economy is for the relatively well-off nations to buy more from depressed countries by either revaluing their currencies (to make imports cheaper) or expanding their economies faster (to increase demand for foreign products). The main reason for the big U.S. deficit, Treasury officials contend, is that the American economy has been growing at a much...