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...Wood's problem was that the motors of his day could not turn at a constant enough rate of speed. As a result, the curvature of his mirror kept changing. Also he was unable to avoid vibrations, which set up ripples in the metallic pool. Wood was aware of another shortcoming of his telescope: because it always had to face straight up, it could not be swung around to point at interesting stars and galaxies or to take time-exposure photographs by following the celestial objects across the sky as the earth rotated...
...idea of introducing a large-scale" sales tax. While the Prime Minister will maintain that a 5% levy does not qualify as "large-scale," many Japanese consumers will resent the burden nonetheless. Some lawmakers are attacking the plan on more general grounds. Says Diet Member Shigeru Aoki: "The problem with this package is that it has no philosophy. It calls for tax reductions on the one hand and tax increases on the other...
...salaries and bonuses, to give EDS employees better incentives for good performance. It galled top GM officials that some of their EDS counterparts were making more money than they were. Finally, some GM units thought that EDS was charging the parent company too much for computer services. "The fundamental problem," said a member of GM's board, "was that Ross could never accept the fact that he had sold EDS and would not be able to maintain the level of autonomy that he was used...
...Sikh leaders closer to terrorist elements. Gandhi vigorously defended the arrests, saying the "toughest and most aggressive" measures were needed. But by jailing moderate and militant alike, the Prime Minister seemed for the moment to have abandoned his 25-month search for a political solution to the Punjab problem...
...Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Edwin Gray once chartered a plane to see his dying father when no commercial flights were available. Cost: nearly $14,000. His wife Monique spent close to $12,000 on air travel, hotel rooms and meals while accompanying Gray on business trips. The problem: these bills were paid with industry funds provided by the twelve regional banks of the FHLB system. Last week Gray said he had personally repaid the full...