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...Texas, Democrats campaigned hard for the re-election of State Senator John Wilson, even though the 43-year-old legislator died of lung cancer nearly two months ago. Wilson's Republican opponent, J. Everett Ware, did not slack off either. "Being that there was a dead man on the ballot, I felt obliged to make a serious campaign," he said. Since Wilson had died 24 hours past the deadline to change the ballot, Democratic officials had to support his posthumous candidacy with the hope of winning so they would have a chance to retain the seat in the subsequent...
...yesterday only Eliot was on the minds of Winthrop quarterback Charlie Slack and company Winthrop opened the scoring in the first quarter, when Slack found an open Cormac McLeod in the end zone When he hit Claudio Phillips for the two-point conversion Eliot found itself behind...
...Slack put any hopes of an Eliot victory to rest when he scored on an Harvard run with seven minutes left to play...
...increases over three years. Management held out for concessions worth $6 billion. By taking a hard line, the companies are risking their first strike in 24 years when the current contract expires at the end of next July. Yet with the steel industry still suffering from excess capacity and slack demand, the union has little leverage in the talks...
...hard hit by high rates. Farmlands, which once served as attractive loan collateral, are falling in value, and thus many commercial banks no longer view farmers as worthy risks. In the past ten years, commercial bank participation in farm debt has dropped from 57% to 41%. Taking up the slack somewhat, U.S. Government lending institutions have increased non-mortgage farm loans from 14% to 31% during the same period...