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...less benevolent picture of his activities emerged from the testimony of four new witnesses. Psychology Professor Sydney Smith, a Democratic poll watcher at the time, said that in the '60s he saw Rehnquist go up to two black men at the polls and say to them, "You're not able to read, are you? You have no business being here." San Francisco Attorney James Brosnahan, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Phoenix in 1962, specifically contradicted Rehnquist's sworn testimony. Brosnahan recalled how he was summoned by panicky voters and officials to a precinct where Rehnquist was a challenger. Brosnahan said...
Most misdeeds boiled down to what Donn Parker, a computer-crime watcher at SRI International, calls "data diddling"--entering false numbers at a keyboard. To pay for his wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes...
Jack Trumpbour is a third-year graduate student in History and a longtime Stallone watcher...
...done by institutions. Their major concern is to get the highest possible return on investments, and a quick corporate takeover is often the way. Institutions are often eager to sell out to arbitragers for large profits once a merger fight begins. To such investors, notes one veteran Wall Street watcher, "a corporation is no longer a company, it's just a deal...
Although ridership on the regionals is up since the advent of deregulation, the number of airlines has been falling because of mergers and bankruptcies. In 1984, 26.1 million people flew on them, and one industry watcher believes that by the end of 1986 the number will grow to 45.8 million. Still, 29 of the 208 commuter lines went out of business between 1978 and 1984. An additional 50 are expected to fail before the end of the decade...