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Some firms are beefing up their civilian operations to soften the loss of military business. McDonnell Douglas is phasing out production of such lucrative aircraft as the F-15 Eagle fighter and the AV-8B Harrier fighter- bomber. To help take up the slack, the St. Louis-based firm agreed last year to join forces with Taiwan Aerospace Corp. to build a new generation of commercial jetliners. At the same time, overseas contracts and proposals to modernize McDonnell Douglas military aircraft now in service could salvage additional jobs on the firm's production lines...
...America is only afternoon television, then people will care, in a slack- jawed way, whether Bill was unfaithful to Hillary with Gennifer. It is the kind of question asked on soap operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...
Even the bees who usually act as guards take a break. Usually the most trigger-happy of the hive, they too slack off when swarming. Hell, there's no hive to defend, so why be paranoid? Just sit back and wait for the scouts to return...
...Harvard once again showed that it can win ugly. Like Matt Johnson and Robb Hirsch two weeks ago against Brown, Giardi picked up the slack against Penn when Harvard needed...
...lack of understanding of how serious such crimes really are leads to slack enforcement of the current laws against sexual harassment, the professors said. "As a society, we don't go after men who are sexual harassers," says Matsuda...