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...stiffest resistance could come from U.S. labor leaders and Democrats in Congress who fear that the trade pact would tempt companies to shift factories and jobs to low-wage Mexico. Declared Senator Donald Riegle, a Michigan Democrat: "To integrate our economy with a Third World economy will create massive unemployment here." Congressional critics seem certain to demand safeguards for U.S. jobs and the environment when the trade deal comes to a vote next year...
Harvard actually expects to face its stiffest challenge from Yale, and American University...
While the Crimson (1-11, 1-1 Ivy) is tied for second place, the competition is the stiffest the league has seen in years. Harvard is near the bottom of nearly every statistical category...
...Green shot four strokes better than the Crimson (624) to capture second place. Harvard had counted on Yale and fourth-place Princeton to provide the stiffest competition, but Dartmouth was able to hold on to second place when the final 18 holes were cancelled due to heavy rain...
...deeply cut into revenues from state corporate and income taxes while also leading to cautious consumer spending that reduces the take from sales taxes. Meanwhile, outlays have been rising sharply for bridge and highway maintenance, prison construction and new schoolrooms for the second wave of the baby boom. The stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches," says Ray Scheppach, executive...