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...these factors, plus the fact that it's a road game for Harvard, spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E for the Crimson...
...disgusting thing," he says. "I quit after 30 days. Cindy said to me, 'What are you going to do now?' 'Act!' I said. 'What else?' she asked. 'I'm working on a screenplay. I'm a writer,' I said. 'A writer!' she screamed. 'You can't even spell!' She cleared the table, and papers flew up in the air like in a cartoon...
...growth. The good news in computerdom is that the sluggishness appears to be over and many makers of personal computers are once again registering record revenues and plump profits. The companies' stock prices have recovered, and some firms are hiring factory workers and sales people after a long spell of layoffs and attrition. Best of all, as far as customers are concerned, the computer companies have parlayed several recent technological breakthroughs into a passel of affordable, easy-to-use new machines that seem to be leaping through dealers' doors and into U.S. homes and offices. Says William Lempesis, an analyst...
Whatever formal authority he was given, North was adept at expanding on it. One of his techniques: when a presidential finding was issued authorizing a covert operation, North would exploit a bureaucratic mechanism known as a "memorandum of notification" to spell out the meaning of the vaguely worded finding. By drafting these memos, North was able to tailor the ways and means of the operation according to his own designs. If he got a memo approved, as he often did, he would then put together an interagency working group to plan how to carry out the mission...
...gulf to begin the escort operation. Private briefings given to Congress suggested that the Administration will take some time to think through how big a fleet it plans to send and exactly what the ships will do. Most legislators appeared content with the White House's promise to spell out the rules of engagement under which the ships would be allowed to open fire in advance of any actual deployment. That deployment seems several weeks away. One factor inhibiting the Administration from hatching any quick, ambitious military plans is the reluctance of U.S. allies to join them. President Reagan promised...