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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STILL wonder: Why do we have to go through with it at all? According to the Core Curriculum pamphlet, the purpose of the computer exam is "to teach students how to use a computer, enabling them to understand its capabilities and limitations." Does it fulfill its purpose...
...dividends. But even those that are not so constrained are unhappy. Harold Ofstie, for example, is portfolio manager of Philadelphia-based Delaware Management, which owns 3.7 million Texaco shares. The bankruptcy filing means a projected loss of $11.1 million in annual dividend income for Delaware. Says Ofstie: "We understand the reasons why Texaco went into Chapter 11. But we're an income-oriented investment company, and Texaco doesn't have a yield anymore. That's a problem we can't ignore." As time passes, Wall Street analysts expect that big investors will steadily dump millions of Texaco shares onto...
Because the law is directed at residents, not visitors, hotel dining rooms are exempt; restaurant bars and cocktail lounges are also excluded from the ban. "We understand the relationship between alcohol and cigarettes -- we're not out to reform human nature," explains former City Attorney Steven Rood. As for hotels, he notes, "French and Italian movie moguls can't do business without a cigarette in their mouth." Such reasoning does not satisfy restaurant owners. Vito Sasso, proprietor of the romantic Romeo and Juliet, argues that he too has foreign customers, citing one wealthy visitor who orders several $500 bottles...
...meant merely regulating the bloated arsenals of the superpowers rather than reducing them, the idea sounds innovative and bold. It would appear to be not just arms control but a big step toward real disarmament. Where now there are hundreds of weapons, soon there would be zero. Everyone can understand that, and most will approve. Most...
Parallel with the story is a secondary plot that focuses on Stalin and his actions. Rybakov, relying on both fact and imagination, attempts to enter Stalin's mind and to understand the process of cunning and paranoia that led him to terrorize an entire nation. In lengthy internal soliloquies that some ^ readers of the manuscript have found deeply disturbing, Stalin coldly ruminates on what Rybakov calls the "technology of power." At one point the tyrant says, "A state apparatus that is a reliable executor of the supreme will must be kept in a state of fear. That fear will then...