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...payroll of 216,000, mostly through attrition and early retirement. IBM has already eliminated 20,000 jobs during the past two years by the same means. The company will also spend as much as $4 billion in a stock repurchase to boost its sagging share price. Some industry analysts predict more cuts as IBM shifts its emphasis to the smaller and more flexible computer systems offered by its rivals...
...have essentially agreed to reduce their forces in Europe to 275,000 each. But some NATO allies are dragging their feet on peripheral issues. British and French negotiators are wary of any deal that reduces the size of their independent air forces -- so wary, in fact, that some experts predict that aircraft will have to be taken off the table if Bush is to meet his deadline...
Dena O. Rakoff, the pre-law advising coordinator at the Office of Career Services (OCS), said yesterday that the number of students scoring a perfect "48" on their October LSATs tripled from last year to this year. She said she could not predict how the scores would affect admissions chances until she knew how Harvard students' performances compared with others nationwide...
Rakoff said she is currently gathering information to predict how the high scores will affect law school admissions...
Despite Bush's sweeping rhetoric, his closest advisers predict that he will stick to the cautious script he has followed since Hungary, Poland, East Germany and most recently Czechoslovakia began loosening the grip of Communist repression. But the President was dropping hints that if the chemistry is right, then maybe -- just maybe -- the meeting in Malta could go beyond the modest get-acquainted session he originally envisioned. He dangled that possibility in his televised speech. While stressing that the meeting "will not be a time for detailed arms-control negotiations" and that "there will be no surprises sprung...