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...addition to discussions and lectures, HAC will also hold a call-in campaign every day this week to spur action on an AIDS relief bill currently before the House International Relations Committee...
...bellied up to the bar last week and ordered a double. Greenspan & Co.'s decision to drop short-term interest rates by half a percentage point surprised Wall Street--which had expected a quarter-point cut--and brought rates to their lowest level in 41 years. That might help spur the economy by making it cheaper for businesses to borrow, but there's a downside. With inflation running at 1.8%, your bank savings or money-market fund yielding barely 1% is becoming a money loser. If you want safety with reasonable income, you'll have to get more creative...
...officials say that they're reviewing those controls and have provided technological fixes to iron out some of the problems. NATO officials hope the Spanish will demonstrate progress at Prague in improving the meager capacity of European allies to refuel their planes in flight. The allies got a further spur in September, when Rumsfeld formally proposed a combat force of up to 20,000 troops that can be deployed within a week and stay at least a month. This "NATO response force" - which bears more than a passing resemblance to the E.U.'s Rapid Reaction Force - is expected...
...equally knotty problem is the trucks. Omya would like to keep new traffic off the congested roads, and one way is by expanding rail shipments. Both the state and the company are lobbying for a new rail spur--financed by taxpayers and Omya--to connect the company's processing plant in Florence with its biggest quarry, in nearby Middlebury. Though the proposed mine in Danby would add trucks to the road, the Middlebury spur would take many more off, about four for every operating railcar...
Tina: There is no typical Friday night—I have no life. I wish I could stay home and watch movies more, but instead, it’s spur of the moment. If my friends are doing something, I jump in. Sometimes I go to Boston College, where I have friends. I like to go club-hopping, but I don’t like the club scene around here. I do like going...