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Senior running back Scott Oliaro may return on Saturday against Harvard. With McNiff and Oliaro back, the Big Red might regain some of the offensive firepower it has lacked since the beginning of the season...
...took Harvard a few minutes to regain its game tempo after a bit of a lay-off. The beginning of the first half was mainly spent at midfield, but Holy Cross, which mustered only four shots, never threatened Harvard's control...
Besieged by inflation, recession and unemployment as well as his pit-level approval rating (12%), Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is trying to regain ground by attacking "fat cat" government employees. Last week 110,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (who typically earn $450 a week) countered a Mulroney pay freeze, which wiped out their promised raise, with a countrywide strike...
While regulators admitted that new rules may ultimately be needed, they argued strenuously against any knee-jerk changes. The Treasury Department, anxious to regain its authority over a market it relies on to raise capital, announced that it was reopening its investigation to see if Salomon and one of its clients, Mercury Asset Management, worked together to cover up a bogus bid last February. Treasury's renewed interest may have been prompted in part by a Justice Department announcement that it was widening its probe of unauthorized bidding practices in search of violators in other Wall Street firms...
...draconian cutbacks at giant manufacturing firms. IBM has pared 32,000 jobs from its payroll since 1985 and plans to reduce its work force by another 17,000 this year. The latest moves will trim IBM's work force to some 356,000 as Big Blue struggles to regain a share of the worldwide computer market that has slipped from 35% a decade ago to less than 25% today. "We've cut layers of management," says a company spokesman. "These are our ways of staying alive and being competitive." In Detroit, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors have eliminated...