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Mandery said he hopes the council will not limit the agenda for the upcoming meeting to the open forum issue. "I think it would be a more productive tactic to have the Corporation perceive us as an ally rather than an antagonist," he said...
...abuse. During their daily 5 1/2 hours, students do regular schoolwork and take part in a much praised program developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk to inmates about prison life and learn that offenders as young as 14 can be tried as adults in Massachusetts. Explains Tucker: "It's a way of letting these kids know that the customary smack on the hand...
Doctors saw ways to protect their incomes from corporate budget cutters. One tactic: scheduling more frequent office visits for patients. Physicians also began to sell prescription drugs as a profitable sideline. In all, nonhospital expenditures grew last year by 10%. Says Deborah Steelman, a health-care analyst for Epstein Becker & Green, a Washington-based law firm: "We squeezed on one end of the system, and it came out on the other...
...Turkey has been sitting on a pending military treaty with the U.S. for nearly a year, refusing to ratify the document until it is satisfied that Congress will deliver the $913 million in military and economic aid promised by the Reagan Administration negotiators. The stalling tactic has so far not significantly impaired operations at more than two dozen U.S. military installations in the country...
Perhaps too late, La Generale is putting up a defense. The company issued $1.5 billion in new stock, aiming to dilute the value of De Benedetti's shares. A Brussels commercial court ruled the stock issue invalid, but the Belgian banking commission gave approval for the defense tactic, thus setting the stage for a legal and regulatory battle. Even Belgium's Finance Minister, Mark Eyskens, intervened. "We are not against Europeanization," he reportedly said. "You can do it, but you can't do it sneakily, breaking in like a thief in the night." In a hurriedly called meeting, Eyskens persuaded...