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Johnston must have been relieved finally to get a goal. She had three excellent scoring chances--one was saved and two went wide by inches. Although the Vermont net seemed to shrink every time the freshman forward had the ball, Johnston kept working until it paid...
...exports and an 8.9% drop in imports, prompted almost giddy reactions within the Administration. Only a day earlier Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady had predicted during his Senate confirmation hearings that "one of the surprises of the next two or three years will be how fast" the trade gap will shrink...
...clear will be vastly reduced by new U.S. regulations that took effect last week. The law requires that checks drawn on local institutions must clear within three business days and that out-of-town checks may take no more than seven days. By September 1990, the holding period will shrink to two business days for local checks and five days for out-of- town checks...
Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk had created the opening. Kirk decided that a crafty way to debunk the charge that Democrats promise everything to everyone was to shrink the normally gargantuan party platform to a brief statement of principles. That seemed logical enough, but the ploy reinforced the claim by George Bush that Michael Dukakis is a "Stealth candidate" who ducks specific positions. So when Republican drafters went to work, they produced a 30,000-word monster, nearly ten times the size of its Democratic counterpart...
Bush needs to overcome the so-called convention bump that has propelled Dukakis to big leads in opinion polls following the Democrat's party in Atlanta. The Bay State Governor's lead will shrink over the next few weeks, especially after Bush has a convention of his own in to put him in the spotlight...