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Five tenants in the 16 unit buildingcomplained, Packer said. Two later signedaffadavits of compliance confirming thatSteinbergh had made repairs. Packer said boardinvestigations of the other three revealed thatone of the units was in satisfactory condition,and Steinbergh reported that the other two hadbeen repaired. The board then approved theincrease...
...Perot's best accounts was the Southwestern Life Insurance Co., which he inherited in 1958 from fellow salesman Jim Cox, who was promoted to a post in California. Some months earlier, Cox had received an order from Southwestern for a 7070 computer, then IBM's largest commercial unit. Perot had 90 days either to declare the deal dead (and get Cox to return a $10,000 partial commission) or to agree to try to install the machine himself for what was known as an installation commission. If he accepted the risk and failed, however, Perot would be required...
...rival, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, with carrying out the massacre with the aid of government security forces. President F.W. de Klerk denied both allegations. But late in the week, a black mine-security guard told a government-appointed commission that police from a former paramilitary unit had joined in the Boipatong killings...
...negative campaigning more than the late Lee Atwater, who applied to politics the ancient military maxim: Know yourself, and know your enemy. As manager of George Bush's 1988 campaign, Atwater emphasized the role of what he called the "35 excellent nerds" in his Opposition Research, or "Oppo," unit. They pored through the political record of Michael Dukakis and dug up the emotional issues -- the Pledge of Allegiance, Willie Horton -- with which Bush battered his rival...
...experts, in fact--including the world's leading authority on ants, Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson. Wilson recently received his second Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, a gigantic volume that served as a basis for the computer game SimAnt. His popular Core course, "Evolutionary Biology," Contains a large unit on ant social behavior...