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...coming academic year, is the outgrowth of the festering scandal in which the university has been accused of overbilling the Federal Government as much as $200 million for research expenses during the 1980s. But there was no smoking gun, no dramatic new revelation, no public ultimatum to prompt his surprise abdication after 11 years in office. Instead, as he explained at a valedictory press conference, "I'm the chief executive officer of the institution, and, as has been said, you bear responsibility when you have that...
...many cities, a mother whose newborn tests positive for cocaine is given a choice: enter a treatment program or give up the child. This ultimatum can work surprisingly well, provided that a good program is available. Margaruite Custode was offered the choice between jail and treatment last June and picked the latter, figuring that she would dry out, get her baby back and get high again. Custode, a 30-year-old New Yorker, had been through detox before, and the treatment never stuck. She had lost custody of two previous children. But this time she entered a program at Daytop...
...this time Bush had given Iraq an ultimatum, demanding the withdrawal of the Iraqi forces from Kuwait within a week and from Kuwait City within 48 hours. Moreover, this withdrawal was to begin at noon New York time on Saturday...
...chance to survive as head of state. Nor did Mitterrand reject Mikhail Gorbachev's belated peace plan outright: Foreign Minister Roland Dumas called it a step in the right direction -- and then sliced it to shreds with diplomatic "corrections" and an insistence on deadlines that helped Bush fashion the ultimatum...
...begin the ground assault. But some subordinates thought they needed two more days to get ready. So he and George Bush fixed 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 -- noon in Washington -- as zero hour, and Bush made that the expiration time of a final ultimatum to Saddam. As the deadline approached, tanks equipped with bulldozer blades cut wide openings through the sand berms Saddam's soldiers had erected as a defensive wall along the border, and tanks and troops began pushing through on probing attacks; some were across hours before the deadline...