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...Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis and was due to report for duty as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. Salt Lake City, a nuclear attack submarine. He shot himself in the right temple with a 9-mm Ruger handgun after apparently using the same weapon to kill Grizzard and O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enemy of Promise | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...Bowdoin offense was also handicapped by the loss of their main weapon, Gorton, due to a concussion received due to a nasty check at the hands of Mleczko...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Bowdoin Bowed at Bright | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

This administrative bribe, or tax abatement, has become the weapon of choice in a destructive economic turf war raging among Balkanized areas across the country...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: The Siren Call of Tax Abatements | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

Soon to be ex-New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, for example, branded his statewide 234 million dollar tax incentive program his "secret weapon" for economic development This plan led to what both New York and New Jersey officials called a "border war," with each side trying to steal businesses away from the other. The hostilities became so mutually harmful that Florio and New York Governor Mario Cuomo eventually declared a "non-aggression pact...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: The Siren Call of Tax Abatements | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

Unlike a conventional weapon of war, the trade weapon cuts both ways: Both sides are injured when it is used. China, with its roaring economic growth, can afford the loss; Clinton believes that the U.S., with its stagnant economy, cannot...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Clinton's Reluctant Donkey | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

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