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Councillor Edward N. Cyr at the time voiced the prevailing sentiment when he said that although the state's portion of the interstate highway system had become direly outmoded, Z was "just not a good long-term solution...
This April, California insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized the $10.1 billion insurer as it teetered on the edge of insolvency. Two weeks ago, he told a crowd of worried pensioners they are almost certain to lose a portion of their savings. Along with 84,000 other Executive Life annuity holders in 46 states, Lillian Finan, 69 and now living month to month, worries whether she will lose her only steady income. "What am I going to do?" she wonders. "Is somebody going to give me a job? And why should I have to do that after my husband...
...that revelation led to the ultimate in simplified Holy Writ, the Bible for Today's Family. The Bible society has just published the New Testament portion, with the Old Testament due by 1996. The new Bible is the work of three translators living in Springfield, Mo., plus dozens of consultants, and comes in both Protestant and authorized Catholic editions...
...Kuwait. The claims will be immense; according to a U.N. estimate, the destruction in Kuwait is on the order of $8 billion. Reparations are to be paid out of a fund financed by Iraqi oil revenues and administered by a special U.N. commission. That body must still determine what portion of Iraq's oil money to retain. Washington favors seizing 40% to 50% of the overall revenues, while London proposes 25% to 30%. But Iraq supporters like Yemen and Cuba want a much lower rate of 10%, arguing that anything higher would punish the Iraqi people too harshly...
This was only to be expected given the history of risk-free disruptions over the last several years. From Dartmouth to Stanford, the typical sit-in scenario has run something like this: Angry students occupy some portion of university property, issue a list of nonnegotiable "demands," sing chants and leave in time for the next day's lectures. Spineless administrators have played their part too, often by making concessions or refusing to punish protestors for breaking the rules...