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...roots of President Clinton's missile-defense predicament: In order to meet his own 2005 deadline for deploying a system designed to defend against missiles fired by "rogue states" - and to defend himself and Vice President Gore from Republican charges that they've left America wide open to all manner of future imagined nuclear missile threats - the President has to give the go-ahead this fall to start work on the site next spring. That timetable, though, is based on a legal interpretation that the proposed work is in violation of the ABM treaty. By that reading, if the Russians...
...this day, though, Donaldson, a founder of the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and a former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, was out to present Aetna's new bedside manner. "In response to a real market need, we heartily embraced managed care," he told the crowd. "But there was a price, in terms of too many restrictions and too much process that have grown increasingly unpopular. There are those who say the pendulum has swung too far. I agree...
...colonial Commencement, the first Latin oration was delivered "in a heavy manner," noted a bored Samuel Eliot Morrison, Class...
...Commencement in the 1890s, the audience was getting a little tired of the orations, delivered in a measured manner that didn't vary from presenter to presenter...
...When an issue arose with a female student--had they been hurt or were having problems of adjustment--Radcliffe felt it had the right to be informed, but Wilson would not always find out in a timely manner, Bovet says...