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...using such tactics to dupe investors. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Sherwin and GAF, a New Jersey-based chemical and building- products manufacturer, on criminal fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly manipulating the price of Union Carbide stock. GAF and Sherwin are the latest target of investigations growing out of the Ivan Boesky insider- trading probe...
...Captain Will Rogers III to reach a conclusion: the plane was a hostile fighter flying an attack pattern. An IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe) signal bounced back by the approaching aircraft seemed to confirm that conclusion. Two missiles launched by the Vincennes were electronically guided precisely to the target. A mere seven minutes after the plane had been detected, it was blown to bits before coming close enough to do any damage -- or even be seen by the unaided eye. The Aegis system, the most sophisticated battle-managing array of radars, sensors, computers and automatically guided weapons ever put together...
...pilots have got in the habit of ignoring such communications; until July 3, they got away with it. But Rogers requested and received permission from Rear Admiral Anthony Less, aboard the command ship U.S.S. Coronado, to fire. The Vincennes then launched two Standard SM-2 missiles that found their target with unerring precision...
Fitzsimmons says that in the past admissionsofficers have travelled to specific regions of thecountry to talk with guidance counselors, anxiousparents and students interested in the details ofHarvard life. And, while Fitzsimmons says theAdmissions Office does try to contact outstandingstudents and to target areas of the country that seemunderrepresented, he says that for the most part,the College tries to gain applicants from aroundthe globe...
Fitzsimmons says that once the target number ofapplications has been sent from the subcommittee,they join those of the full committee, a body of30 to 40 people, that votes on the remainingapplications...