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Sweeping out of last week's press conference like Errol Flynn in a gray suit, the triumphant Turner embarked on a twelve-block march to his law firm's Madison Avenue office. It seemed almost like a nose-thumbing gesture toward doubters in New York City's media and financial communities. "Hey, it's Ted!" cried star-struck pedestrians. Said one admiring businessman to a colleague: "That guy's got a lot of nerve...
Sophomore Gideon Valkin leveled the match with a quick 6-1, 6-4 victory in the sixth singles slot, and Chu gave the Crimson the lead with his 6-4, 7-6 win—but Chiu dropped a heated three-set contest, and Dhaka would soon follow suit...
...E.C.J., at that time against the Dutch government, which had refused to allow the firm to deduct interest and other costs incurred by its subsidiaries in other E.U. countries. The Dutch government estimated the decision would cost its national budget more than €2 billion if other companies followed suit, and quickly set about revamping its tax legislation to lessen the discrimination between national and E.U.-based transactions...
Nine states filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) two weeks ago, charging that its reduction requirements for mercury are grossly inadequate and will allow some of the most egregious polluters (typically older, coal-fired power plants) to avoid installing mercury controls indefinitely. I might be inclined to cut the EPA some slack if the rule-writing process didn't smell so, well, fishy. But the Government Accountability Office and the EPA inspector general have criticized the agency for ignoring scientific evidence and allowing industry lobbyists too much input...
Dressed in a blue suit and green tie, the president declared his interest in eliminating gender inequality in scientific fields, expressing the sentiment in the characteristic tone of an economist...