Word: rests
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Rounding out the rest of the eight-team regatta were last fall's GDBC champion MIT (94), Salem State (102), Boston University (103), Boston College (124), Northeastern (139) and Brandeis...
...century. His showroom, scanned by video cameras and kept moist by humidifiers, features a towering ivory pagoda and cases filled with ornate carvings. His computers track the movements of tons of ivory. Half of Kitagawa's stock goes to making figurines, about a third to name seals and the rest to jewelry...
...clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies were some 1,700 cancer patients, most of whom had been operated on for Dukes' C colon cancer. In this stage of the cancer, the tumor has penetrated the bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month's Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that 49% of patients receiving the treatment were still alive after five years, in contrast to 37% of another group that did not receive the drugs. In a second and much...
American's best defense seems likely to be an attack on the amount of debt needed to finance a takeover attempt. Trump, whose personal fortune is estimated at between $1 billion and $3 billion, has offered to put $1 billion of his own money into the deal. The rest would come from bank loans. Trump may get the money, but politicians and air-safety experts have alleged that highly leveraged carriers might be tempted to skimp on safety measures to maintain profits. AMR released a statement last week saying it "continues to believe that excess levels of debt...
...Congress mistakenly insisted that catastrophic insurance had to be self-financing, with none of the subsidy coming from general tax revenues. Small wonder that the most prosperous Medicare recipients, largely protected by private health insurance, rebelled against being singled out to aid the less fortunate. That responsibility should rest with all taxpayers. Despite the phony fixation on fiscal gimmicks, broad-based taxation remains the fairest way to fund federal programs. It is a principle that Congress and the White House ignore at their peril...