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...Riegle missed one of them) to press their benefactor's complaints that then Federal Home Loan Bank Board chairman Edwin Gray and the board's San Francisco regulators were harassing Lincoln Savings. McCain asked the White House to name a Keating crony to the board. But McCain refused to relay a Keating- suggested compromise to the regulators. Though seeing no improper conduct by McCain, Bennett asked, "Why did he go to the meetings...
...point being that the campaign has not stopped," Monad says. "This is like a long-distance relay race and they're just passing the baton to the new president...
...East German slump was most evident in swimming, as the women's team captured only one of 13 individual gold medals (vs. eight of 13 at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul) and lost a major medley relay to an American squad for the first time since 1978. Said Kathleen Nord, who won the 200-meter butterfly in Seoul but was shut out in Seattle: "People have turned against us. We cannot concentrate on competition when the shape of our lives is so uncertain. When we become part of the free world, we will have to find corporate sponsors." Daniela Hunger...
...suburban Chicago electronics giant (1989 sales: $9.6 billion) hopes to put in place by 1996 a network of 77 satellites that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked...
Television and radio news floods the airwaves; major events from across the globe pop instantly onto home screens; computers and fax machines relay information in a flash. But anyone who thinks the media boom has created a nation of news junkies needs to readjust his antenna. A sobering new study titled The Age of Indifference, released last week by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, reveals that young Americans are barely paying attention. The under-30 generation, it reports, "knows less, cares less and reads newspapers less" than any generation in the past five decades...