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...their questions with "constitutionally appropriate candor." When he introduced the judge last ) week, Bush insisted that even he did not know the nominee's views on abortion -- a claim that would allow the President to accuse opponents of subjecting Souter to an unfair "litmus test" if they try to pin him down...
...late January 1986, Dr. Carl Keller, chairman of the White House science panel, and several other of its members concluded that Houk had already decided that the CDC study was not feasible and was trying to pin the blame on the Pentagon. To break the impasse, retired Army Major General John Murray was asked by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to review the Pentagon records. After a four-month study, Murray thought the records were useful. But as a nonscientist he did not feel competent to rebut the objections raised by Houk and the White House scientists. He gave up, agreed...
Some of the connections may not be so appealing to everyone. Creativity resists even the most creative definitions. "Trying to pin down creativity," as a speaker noted recently at one of the Hallmark card company's regular seminars, "is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall." When the corporate back is to the wall, however, a wild swing can be the best move. "Desperation is a good motive," says David Luther, senior vice president and corporate director of quality at Corning. "Customers came to us and said if we didn't change, they'd go somewhere else...
...Italy BNL officials attempted to pin the blame on a rogue branch manager in Atlanta. But the trail has also led to accusations that BNL credits were used to finance sales by Italian and other Western firms of equipment for Iraq's Condor 2 missile, an intermediate-range nuclear-capable missile. But uncovering the full details about how the loans were used has proved extremely difficult: as much as $500 million of the credits that BNL Atlanta approved, say Italian sources, do not carry the names of specific companies, making it impossible to determine what they financed...
...April 13--Good Friday, as it happened--the original pin that held the clapper in place severed, putting the bell out of commission for two-and-a-half weeks. After that event, which Memorial Church officials say was completely unexpected, Scott Haywood of Harvard Real Estate brought the bell to the Engineering Sciences Laboratory to have a new pin cast from milled steel...