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...probers are investigating: Deaver's role in negotiating a settlement for the Daewoo Corp., a big South Korean steel- maker that violated American import restrictions; his efforts on behalf of Rockwell International to persuade the Government to buy more B-1 bombers; and his lobbying for Puerto Rico to retain tax breaks worth $600 million a year to the island's economy. So far, the investigations have publicly produced no evidence of wrongdoing. They have stirred up some smoke, however, by poking into Deaver's efforts on behalf of Canada concerning the issue of acid rain...
...made its first public stock offering in March, raising $45 million. When investors eagerly snapped up the stock at $16 a share, the founders, who retain shares worth about $62 million, became overnight millionaires. But they have little time to savor their new wealth. Says McNealy: "We run a nervous operation. We're constantly looking over our shoulder to see who's gaining...
...inelegantly refer to the Baby Boom generation as "the pig in the python," a moving bulge that distorts and distends everything around it as it rumbles through the stages of life. Locked together in a crowded race, many Boomers have learned to use their elbows. The most outspoken members retain a kind of generational arrogance epitomized by Stockman's egregious assertion in his newly published memoirs (The Triumph of Politics; Harper & Row) that the so-called Reagan Revolution was in fact not Reagan's: "It was mine...
...ROTC unless you give up your social life," says the midshipman, who is "pretty sure" he is going to quit ROTC next year. "If ROTC was more flexible to allow for greater participation in other activities, I think it would benefit their program and they would be able to retain more people...
...size and cost of home dishes dropped (from more than $10,000 just a few years ago to about $2,500 for many current models), the devices began to appear in urban and suburban areas, where more and more viewers are opting for dishes instead of cable. To retain control of their channels, the programmers turned to scrambling, in which the picture is electronically inverted and blurred. To unscramble it, a dish owner must buy a $395 decoder and, in the case of "premium" cable services, pay an extra monthly fee similar to that paid by cable subscribers...