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Airlines are not the only businesses buffeted by deregulation. From bus lines to banking, industries are learning to live without the shackles-or the safety net-of Government rules. And in all cases, stiff price competition has developed where once hardly any existed...
...appealed in his behalf, to no avail. After Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, 1982, his successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...
Sadly, this seems to be happening too much now in America: the weaker newspaper in a two-paper town shuts down. Then the stronger announces-before the body is even cold-that it will be expanding. More pages. More personnel (including, charitably, some off the stiff). And, more important, more color...
...four published novels before Animal Farm are readable but minor performances. His women characters are particularly stiff and lifeless. He was not an imposing political theorist; his strength lay in recognizing problems, not in propounding detailed solutions...
...Juniors Kate Wiley and Kathy Good, the women ended an undefeated season with a victory at the Heps and go to Burlington as the favorites. This year, however, they should face some stiff competition from the Boston College and Boston University squads, neither of which they have come up against this year...