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...from an unwieldy 22, many of whom had been close associates of J. Peter Grace, to a more manageable 12. And with Grace gone and the CEO job still without a permanent occupant, some insiders may have been worried that the shareholders might press to bring back Bolduc, a prospect that apparently led to the leak of the proxy statement...
...There's the prospect for trading," Lau said,"But of course that's not allowed...
...compelling some Republicans to think about unraveling it. Nearly five months after the midterm election, Americans are worried more about reducing the deficit than reducing taxes, jeopardizing what Gingrich calls the "crowning jewels" in the contract. The popularity of spending cuts in general remains high, but the prospect of cutting school lunches and welfare benefits for indigent parents is distinctly less so--a harbinger of trouble when deeper and more specific cuts in middle-class programs come in April. And while support for some contract provisions, such as term limits, remains strong, many Americans are concerned that Republicans...
...world's great cities, the prospect is far more uncertain. In Tokyo the police had a wealth of signals that a major nerve- gas attack might be in the making but were still caught off guard when it came. Some counterterrorism officials are speaking of the Tokyo subway poisoning as a "wakeup call'' for governments around the world. But it is also possible that the gas attack in Tokyo was only a preview of what is yet to come...
SHAUNA MILLER, A 28-YEAR-OLD wife and mother from Livermore, California, was intrigued by the prospect of appearing on the Richard Bey show. The producers had told her she would be reunited with someone from her past. Suspecting it might be an older brother whom she had never met, Miller agreed. But when she was brought onstage, Miller found herself confronting someone else: her younger brother's fiance, Billi Burkett, with whom she had been feuding. Burkett--egged on, she says, by producers, who kept telling her, "You need to get angry"--began shouting at Miller. Among other things...