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...tougher U.S. attitude may already be paying off. The Air Force and Justice Department are investigating charges by Arthur Williams, former chief of the contracts-law division at Yokota Air Base, that another dango association has overcharged the Air Force and Navy about $76 million on $180 million worth of communications contracts during the past ten years. Most of the firms practicing dango were window dressing for a subsidiary of NEC, the electronics firm, which consistently got most of the work...
...their bags of tricks, but they turned out to be a lot of hogwash. The main concern should have been, Who's minding the store?" Observes William Weisz, vice chairman of Motorola: "The kind of issues we have are survival issues. The competitive environment is going to get much tougher. Tremendous battles will have to be fought. If we don't succeed, America will just end up as a nation that rents hotel rooms and sells hamburgers to each other...
...more desperate straits than either of them was. For one thing, its low ratings are compounded by poor demographics: its audience is not just smaller but also older. What's more, cable and other viewing choices have siphoned away much of the network audience and made it tougher for a weak network to revive itself. If one drops too far behind, there may be no bouncing back...
...always been tougher on himself than anyone else," his mother said, "but he finally felt like he was picking up as many points as he should be. This is just so frustrating for him. He's concerned. He know he has to be thinking about what could happen down the line...
...number-one seeded Mark Baker found it tougher playing a first team All-American, such as the Big Red's Paul Gardner, he sure didn't show it. Described after the match by his coach as "one of the better intercollegiate players," Baker confidently struck out his talented opponent in three games. And brothers Jon and Jim Masland, playing at four and six seeds, were literally on the ball, exhausting their opponents with their persistence...