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...despite the new policy's complexity, it was put into effect with no major hitches. Despite predictions that social life around campus would all but disappear, students have complied with the new policy as masters and administrators have experimented with various means of enforcing...
...frigate for the money today and adds that to duplicate her would be impossible. "You'd have to put back a piece of the American steel business and part of the armaments industry that don't exist anymore." Critics argue that Mighty Mo should have been allowed to disappear also. Some naval tacticians say she's almost as outdated as the empty gun emplacements that line the headlands around the Golden Gate Bridge, ghostly sentinels of a day when the arts of war were simpler and its consequences not so frighteningly final...
...fidgeting. To try to add some suspense to roll-call votes, a clock showing the countdown to the 15-minute limit on voting time flashes occasionally on the screen. In reality, the Senate is not the least bit bound by the 15-minute limit, so the TV clock will disappear after 14 minutes have passed...
Fears that available programming will soon disappear have sent the home satellite business into a nose dive. Sales of dishes, tooling along at about 70,000 a month last autumn, fell to fewer than 15,000 in January. Bert LeCroy, owner of Sky Search Video in the Atlanta suburbs, estimates that ten dish dealers in the area have closed their doors in just the past two weeks. Many consumers are upset that the costly dishes they bought in pursuit of video independence may turn out to be duds. Says Vincent Morgan, 41, who has a dish in the backyard...
Some Pentagon officials theorize that the bomb may have been dropped by an attacker that was out of control. Three Navy pilots reported seeing one aircraft turn into a "fireball" and disappear into the ocean about ten miles offshore. The missing crewmen, who were presumed dead after a search yielded no signs of life, were Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico and Captain Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco...