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...America's fastest-growing private companies (estimated 1988 revenues: $20 million). Sterling regularly mails a free newsletter to more than 300,000 health-care professionals, mostly dentists, promising to increase their incomes dramatically. The firm offers seminars and courses that typically cost $10,000. But Sterling's true aim is to hook customers for Scientology. "The church has a rotten product, so they package it as something else," says Peter Georgiades, a Pittsburgh attorney who represents Sterling victims. "It's a kind of bait and switch." Sterling's founder, dentist Gregory Hughes, is now under investigation by California's Board...
These projects aim to help teaching fellows assemble portfolios reviewing their work, and should yield "videotaped vignettes" based on real-life classroom situations and a handbook for junior faculty...
Vessenski says his primary goal while in the U.S. is to study American management systems, something he says he admires tremendously and wants to write about when he returns to the Soviet Union after the end of this academic year. To achieve that aim, last semester Vessenski took courses at the Business School and the Law School...
Saddam took aim first at the south, where he gathered the remnants of his defeated army and the armor that escaped the allies into a loyal force that rapidly overwhelmed the weak and ill-equipped Shi'ite insurgents. He dispatched two Republican Guard divisions that had been stationed around Baghdad to ensure the efficiency of the Iraqi troops that had failed so miserably against the allied coalition. This time it was the Shi'ite rebels who were doomed to failure. They lacked a joint command-and-communications system and were dependent largely on weapons and ammunition abandoned by Iraqi soldiers...
BUSH OFTEN ACCUSES liberals of naively believing that increased spending can magically solve problems. It doesn't. But the irony is that Bush himself opposes current legislation which would aim to prevent the impulsive purchase of handguns and the acquisition of these weapons by convicted criminals--without spending lots of money...