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Chester Finn, who spoke in front of an audience of about 40 people in the Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall yesterday afternoon, said the federal government's education policy is mired in the past, and must change in order to address serious concerns about the national educational product...
Ever wonder how much Americans spend on munching hot dogs at football games or buying ski equipment for a winter jaunt? With the aid of the WEFA econometrics firm, a new Times Mirror magazine called Sports inc.: the Sports Business Weekly has compiled a gross national sports product (GNSP). The New York City- based magazine says Americans last year sank $47.25 billion, or more than 1% of total GNP, into sports. That puts sports just below the $49.5 billion motor vehicles industry but well ahead of the $38.9 billion U.S. petroleum and coal business. The GNSP includes estimates of spending...
Nonsense, responds Kerr-McGee Spokesman Rick Pereles. "Our product is no more dangerous than normal fertilizer." Indeed, company tests show the substance to be no higher in radioactivity or most toxic heavy metals than many other fertilizers. Aberrations like the freak frog occur naturally, note company officials; no one has conclusively linked the product to environmental or health problems...
Other alarming cases have since surfaced. Earlier this month two Japanese businessmen and two Hungarian diplomats were indicted in Asheville, N.C., and charged with diverting to Hungary an advanced U.S. laser trimming system used to manufacture semiconductors. The product had been shipped from Charlotte, N.C., to Tokyo as an ordinary "carpet trimmer." From there it was smuggled to Budapest as part of a diplomat's "household goods." The Hungarians, according to the indictment, paid the Japanese $380,000 for their trouble...
...three Senate Republicans who signed the majority report are Rudman, Maine's coolly independent William Cohen and Virginia's Paul Trible, whose unrelenting pursuit of the arms-money trail surprised Administration loyalists. But other Republicans felt the final product was, in Utah Senator Orrin Hatch's words, "too political." Claims Henry Hyde, the fiercely partisan Illinois Congressman: "The majority report is polemical in the extreme. It is impossible to sign." He argues that the report ignores what he believes was the true intent of the arms deals: to seek better relations with Iran. The majority report, in fact, cites various...