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Hold on to your hats and batten down the hatches, the Harvard men's hockey team is scoring--and winning--at home again! St. Lawrence 3 Harvard...
...upcoming trial, the jury will only beable to consider Ostrowski's 1991 remark--and notthe kisses--as sexual harassment. A judge ruledthe kisses "time-barred" because Batten-field hadnot brought the accusation within six months ofthe incident...
...trial was scheduled to begin yesterday inMiddlesex County Superior Court but was postponedbecause the grandmother of Batten field's husbandfell seriously...
...wave of the baby boom. The stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors' Association. "The big question is how deep this recession is going...
Anxious consumers may be strolling the aisles, but they are holding on to their wallets more and more tightly. Fears about possible war in the Persian Gulf are piling upon recession worries and news of spreading corporate cutbacks. One consumer sounding after another is recording the development of a batten-down-the-hatches mentality. Since Iraq invaded Kuwait, consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in 44 years. In a national survey of 500 consumers conducted last week by the Leo Burnett advertising agency, 82% said the economy was in worse shape now than it was a year...