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...weeks ago were more muted last week. With the help of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and the Democratic leadership, the Administration beat back, by a 274-to-153 vote, an attempt in the House to cut off funds for the Marines in Beirut. Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat, expressed the feeling of most members when he argued that withdrawing the Marines would damage the fragile peace talks under way in Geneva, hurt the government of Lebanon and help Syria have its way in the Middle East. The most intense discussions over Lebanon occurred in committee investigations...
...survey of major banks by the Direct Marketing Association showed that one-third plan to offer the service by 1990. William Wyman, who directed a study of home information systems for the consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, estimates that in 1995, the home banking industry will have revenues of as much as $2.6 billion. Bankers plan to market the home tellers as a way for average depositors to liberate themselves from such hassles as long lobby lines and 3 p.m. closing times...
...dramatic increase." The following day, however, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the ratings of the three utilities. Two other services, Standard & Poor's and Duff & Phelps, put the utilities on a credit watch. Fearful of bankruptcy, Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric and Dayton Power & Light have asked the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to rule on who would be liable for the $1.6 billion should the project collapse. Says Gerald Morgan, an analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities: "You have the three utilities fighting among themselves as to who is to blame for all the mismanagement...
Some of debaters took these topics more seriously than others. Vecchione and James W. Grauberger of Hamilton College used one of the topics to argue that "All living things stink, and stinking is the reason for existence...
Among the roughly 40 rowers in the elite singles race that might pose a threat, according to Parker, are Doug Hamilton, a Canadian rower and Olympic prospect for his country, and Joe Busacrne, who Wood describes as a "refugee from Yale" and who has been working out at Newell Boat House with Wood...