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...steady decline. The Pentagon budget is still staggering in size -- more than a quarter of annual federal outlays. But in fiscal 1990, for the fifth year in a row, defense spending will grow at a slower rate than inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the $295 billion spending request that Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has submitted for 1990 is 15% smaller than the 1985 budget...
Some celebrities invest a great deal of money to protect themselves from their fans. Gavin de Becker, who operates a 100-client security service in Los Angeles, charges those who request full-time protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone...
...faculty meeting last fall, some professors questioned the propriety of what they perceive as a for-profit summer school. At the request of the Faculty Council, the steering committee of the Faculty, the Summer School administration this spring produced a comprehensive report describing the "mission" of the Harvard Summer School...
...largest information and entertainment company. If the judge had granted Paramount's motion, which was joined by several major Time shareholders, Paramount could have pressed ahead with its hostile bid to acquire Time for $12 billion. But after 5 1/2 hours of hearings last week, Allen denied Paramount's request for an injunction to halt the Time-Warner deal...
Last month a federal judge denied the Yorks' request for a preliminary injunction against the institute and ordered that the case be tried by a jury in the fall. The decision was a blow to the Yorks, for whom time is critical. Risa is 39, and the spontaneous abortion rate for in vitro implants increases dramatically in women beyond the age of 40. Also, the longest recorded freezing of an embryo that was later successfully implanted is 28 months; the Yorks' embryo has been in a cryogenic state for 24 months...