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There was something of a two-tier system among Kuwaitis themselves. Like preferred shareholders in a corporation that issues A and B stock, only males whose forebears were residents before 1920 were entitled to vote -- a mere 85,000 out of 826,500 Kuwaitis...
Even so, the industry is bound to consolidate further. High costs mean that ambitious carriers like USAir, Midway and America West are reining in their plans. A year ago, five airlines -- American, United, Delta, Northwest and Continental -- dominated the top tier of the U.S. industry, accounting for 66.3% of all passenger miles. Because of problems at Continental, that tier may soon shrink to four powerhouses...
...taking a step back from the game-to-game approach, you see depth only in the league's top eight teams. The league's bottom tier--Dartmouth, Army, Yale and Vermont--are led by only two or three stellar players, if that many. Injuries to these key players over the rigorous 30-game schedule could cripple these schools' chances at pulling off any upsets. Skating fewer solid lines will damage the conference's pretenders by the middle of the season...
Presiding alone amid dozens of empty chairs on the two-tier tribunal, Gorbachev managed to sidestep that first frontal attack. But there was plenty more Politburo bashing to come in the opening week of the ten-day conclave. Progressives and conservatives argued bitterly over who was responsible for the party's fading power. Nine members of the twelve-member council were forced to give accounts of themselves, and the assembly was not about to let them get away with long-winded, cliche-laden speeches. Where past Kremlin meetings greeted boiler-plate presentations with perfunctory outbursts of applause, this one constantly...
...stern Name AB R H BI Caeran,2b 6 3 2 0 Scan'll,ss 5 1 2 1 Mahoney,rf 4 0 2 1 Carelli,3b 5 2 3 0 Lombardi,c 4 3 2 0 Gibson,lf 4 4 2 0 Ch'tier,lb 3 3 2 5 Berry,dh 5 2 1 1 Buckley,cf 5 1 2 2 Totals...