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Customer service is also a source of pride--and profit--for WordsWorth, Burkin says. She says the store always has at least five people specifically responsible for looking up titles at customers' request...
Customer service is also a source of pride--and profit--for WordsWorth, Burkin says. She says the store always has at least five people specifically responsible for looking up titles at customers' request...
Republican congressional leaders, critical of what they say is President Clinton?s neglect of the armed forces, plan to use the President?s $6 billion emergency request for Kosovo to fight their own war over the defense budget. Their emerging strategy: Use the President?s requisition for the NATO action to tack on supplemental funding, perhaps $10 billion or more, to bolster the nation?s defenses. The move has the advantage of both backing the troops in Kosovo while also maintaining the GOP?s distance from Clinton?s general military policy...
Also on April 17, a cab driver responding to a pickup request on Cambridge St. reported he was assaulted by two people who got into his cab. The driver told police he asked his riders if they had called for the cab. They told him "no." He then asked them to leave. He claims that one of the people then punched him in the chest three times...
...last week Clinton executed the most important order of the war since its beginning on March 24: he granted a request from NATO Commander General Wesley Clark for 24 Apache helicopters and 18 long-range missile launchers. Those weapons might not sound pivotal in a war in which three different kinds of American heavy bombers have already seen action, until you consider the nearly 3,000 fully armed support G.I.s who follow those weapons everywhere they go. Even as Clinton, his aides and his allies insisted that they were not contemplating a ground war, the President was in the process...