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...James M. Verdier, a lecturer in public policy at the K-School who worked under Rivlin in the Congressional Budget Office, says he believes Rivlin's research will have a significant impact on American politics and the presidential campaign...
...James M. Verdier, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School, said the plan was a "terrific success story" in Massachusetts, but added he was not certain it could be enforced nationally. He pointed to the fact that the federal IRS is currently better structured tax collection program than the one in Massachusetts in 1983, saying it is questionable "whether you can turn the enforcement screws any tighter...
...Though Verdier agreed that Dukakis's national plan will increase revenue, he said the actual implementation will require several years to train new employees and raise a larger budget to pay for staffers and improved IRS facilities...
...International Olympic Committee, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is concerned, there is no going back on the 1981 decision to give the Games to South Korea. Said I.O.C. Spokeswoman Michele Verdier last week: "The Games have been awarded to Seoul, and there is absolutely no change in our position." Only an "act of war," she said, might change the committee's view. Verdier has solid precedent on her side: the quadrennial Summer Games have been suspended only three times -- in 1916, 1940 and 1944 -- and in each case because of a world conflict...
...Soviet espionage operation got under way in 1985 after Konorev met and seduced a Rumanian woman named Antonetta Manole, who worked at the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies in Rouen, northwest of Paris. She, in turn, allegedly had an affair with her French boss, Pierre Verdier, and brought him into the conspiracy. Verdier later visited Moscow, where he fell in love with a woman named Ludmilla Varygin. The Soviets are said to have agreed to allow Varygin to emigrate to France to marry Verdier, but only if he would provide them with important technical information. That...