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...agency for funding basic research. Over whelming foreign technological competition over the past decade, especially from Japan, has produced a growing sense of concern among government officials that we may be losing the battle for good. Moreover, there is increasing, evidence that Japanese corporations are not ready to relent, as they guide further ahead of their American counterparts, particularly in robotics, microelectronics and material science...
...recommended that Metromedia Inc. be found guilty of sex discrimination and awarded Craft $500,000 in damages on the charge of fraud. Last week, however, U.S. District Judge Joseph Stevens overturned the panel's findings and ordered a new trial on the fraud charge. Citing the "pervasive and relent less publicity" surrounding the case, Stevens said, "This verdict is the result of passion, prejudice, confusion or mistake on the part of the jury...
Perhaps Savitch was beginning to sense that she might never be fully admitted to the magic circle: Rather, Brokaw, Jennings. But she did not relent. Last year the newscaster published a Pollyanna autobiography, Anchorwoman, that seemed like an extended press release. Says Barbara King, who helped her with the book: "She thought if she could renew the old glory, one of the networks would offer a bigger and better job." None did, but a new deal with NBC reportedly raised her salary to nearly $500,000; the network was considering her as a substitute on Today during Jane Pauley...
...officers already concerned about educational reform. The Governor began to get letters. "Dear George," wrote J.R. Fluor, head of a multibillion-dollar engineering and construction firm, "I am urging you to reconsider the position you took during your campaign-a position which we all admired at the time-and relent just a bit so that sufficient revenues can be raised to ensure the reform and then the financial support so necessary to improve the quality of education here in California." Deukmejian relented, and the bill passed this summer...
Finally, Blair will relent and skate off first; Britz will march off to the locker room right behind...