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...preparations started some ten days earlier when Executive agencies were asked to provide background information. Fitzwater's aides then spent two days boiling down a foot-high stack of material into a 31-page summary for the President to read over the weekend at Camp David. Only after Reagan and Nancy returned and said that he was comfortable with the material was the final decision made to schedule the conference...
...prepare for the cover, Lemonick, along with Reporter-Researchers David Bjerklie and Carol Johmann, pored over a mountainous stack of scientific findings that had accumulated in the three weeks following the first sighting of the supernova. The importance of the event caught the imagination of the Science section staff. "It is something I never expected to see in my ( lifetime," says Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who conceived and edited the cover. "When you look out on a starry night, you're really looking backward in time. The light from the nearest star was emitted four years and four months...
...They like to stack themselves along the blue line," Harvard defenseman Randy Taylor said. "They try to stop you from breaking into their zone. I think that most of the game will be played between the blue lines...
...result is a novel comparative shopping list. General Mills, maker of Wheaties, for example, beats Quaker Oats. Reason: General Mills' "generous and innovative" programs for housing and minority business in Minneapolis. But Quaker Oats' Aunt Jemima pancakes stack up higher than the Downy Flake brand, because Downy's manufacturer, IC Industries, is a defense contractor...
Harvard used the asbestos for insulation and pipe covering in the stack area, said Nancy Curtin, assistant industrial hygenist for Harvard's Environmental Health Department...