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After keeping his schoolteacher wife Jonda awake through much of Sunday night by tossing and turning in bed, McFarlane failed to respond when she tried to awaken him Monday morning. He stirred only when she shook him, and then appeared to be, in her words, "semilucid." Fearing that he had suffered a stroke, Jonda summoned a rescue squad. By the time it arrived she had discovered a note left by her husband, whose contents no one would divulge. Before an ambulance rushed him to nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital, the groggy McFarlane mumbled something to its crew about taking...
...Yale's fast-break offense, led by guard Randi Meberg--who netted all of her team-high 15 points in the second half--which subdued the Crimson. Or maybe it was fatigue from a drawn-out road schedule and a home game against Brown the night before that shook Harvard...
...other cases, they have slashed costs and boosted profitability precisely to keep their stock prices above the level at which they would attract bargain-hunting takeover sharks, who are likely to chop far more brutally and indiscriminately than the present managements. No less a titan than ITT warily shook off a takeover bid by Raider Irwin Jacobs in 1985. That effort gave renewed impetus to a slimming exercise already begun by ITT Chairman Rand Araskog. Since 1980, Araskog has sold off more than 100 businesses, and last year he cut ITT's work force...
...President has instructed me to return home with all the hostages," McFarlane told Ghorbanifar. The middleman insisted there had been a deal to deliver only two of the four Americans. "We reached an agreement and shook hands yesterday," Ghorbanifar protested. Replied McFarlane: "There is no agreement. Unless you produce the four hostages for me today, I am returning to the United States...
...Aquino government, but the toll surpassed that of a similar tragedy in Manila in September 1983, when Ferdinand Marcos was still in power. At that time eleven people were killed at the very same spot during an antiregime rally. Surveying the scene after last week's carnage, a policeman shook his head and muttered, "They fired too soon...