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...that had been initiated by Jordache, top agency officials began to investigate Saranow's possible role. The probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...
Although football Coach Joe Restic never returned a single phone call to me during the fall season, and his secretary refused a request to set up an appointment for me to speak with him, Restic failed to return the calls of any of The Crimson's three football writers. So it wasn't just...
...long as the expectation that you need to be a superstar in x amount of time exists, then they need to give us the time," says Assistant Professor of History Eric Arnesen. History Department members recently asked Bok to allow them more paid leave time, a request identical to the one pressed by English faculty at their recent meeting with the president...
...Almost simultaneously, say some Congressmen and agribusiness executives, the Administration quietly shelved a Soviet request to buy U.S. soybean oil for the first time. The Soviets offered to purchase 200,000 tons, worth $120 million, using subsidies extended to other buyers of U.S. surplus soybean oil. Says one agribusiness executive: "What Gorbachev wants to do is fill up his stores and put something on the shelves fast. A housewife who can't find cooking oil is in a hell of a fix." This expert insists that the White House has nixed the sale, and adds, "Gorbachev is going to view...
...some political face. He wrote to President Bush asking for U.S. help in setting up an international conference to end the fighting and create a broad-based coalition government that would include the Kabul Communists. Confident that the rebels' star was in the ascendant, the White House refused the request. But disappointment over the guerrillas' military failure has led policymakers to debate the wisdom of eyes-closed support to the mujahedin. For now, though, the U.S. has apparently decided to stand firm. "In a nutshell," said one adviser, "we still think our guys can win, and there is no reason...