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Mahony, a two-year varsity veteran, will steer the heavyweight fours in tomorrow's Head of the Charles Regatta...
...intramural dispute came to a head last week at a meeting of the National Security Planning Group, an informal panel of top advisers that deliberates with the President on major foreign policy and national security questions. After hearing the arguments from both sides, Reagan chose to steer a center course, but one that will leave him with little leeway to make new proposals for arms control. He decided against offering any specifics to the Soviets at this time, which State Department moderates had been advocating as a way of drawing the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. This...
...profits vanish and companies struggle, the venture-capital firms that helped fuel Silicon Valley's early growth have become stingier. Investment bankers who steer young companies toward the stock market are also cutting back. San Francisco's Hambrecht & Quist recently announced layoffs for 5% of its work force. After arranging initial public offerings for 66 companies, worth $2.2 billion in 1983, Hambrecht & Quist has managed only eight sales worth $96 million so far this year...
Although the dissidents believe that Neves is the more likely of the two candidates to restore confidence in Brazil's government and hasten the return to democracy, neither is expected to steer Brazil far from the policies of Figueiredo. In trying to manage the country's estimated $100 billion foreign debt, Neves emphasizes social and economic justice first, whereas Maluf proposes a free-market solution to the problem. Says Maluf: "Brazil has never had a businessman as President. We need to change the mentality of the country...
Telling's most distinctive innovation during his remodeling of Sears was to steer the company into the financial-services business. Within a single week in 1981, Sears moved to buy Dean Witter for $610 million and Coldwell Banker, a California real estate firm, for $202 million...