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...easy task for Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. To cool the economy, he may have to nudge interest rates upward. But doing so could drop a political bombshell on the presidential campaign of Vice President George Bush. For a loyal Republican like Greenspan, it is a dilemma with the sharpest of horns...
...sharpest charges of maintenance laxity have been leveled at Texas Air and its two struggling carriers, Eastern and Continental. In assembling the largest U.S. air company (market share: 20%) and making it the industry's discount leader, Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has tried to cut costs drastically. His pressure for concessions from unions at Eastern, especially on pilots and machinists, has prompted bitter accusations that the company is flying close to the edge. Pilots for Continental and Eastern claim they are given planes with problems ranging from broken gauges to leaking fuel tanks, while Eastern mechanics say their nonunion...
Price hikes seem to make Poles see red. Riots over such increases toppled Poland's leadership in 1956, 1970 and 1980. So Warsaw officials trod cautiously last week when they announced price rises on virtually everything from cigarettes to kindergarten classes in the sharpest round of increases in six years. Though the jump in food prices was far smaller than the 110% boost that voters rejected in November, at 40% it was big enough to cause new ripples of unrest. In Gdansk, some 3,000 protesters chanted slogans and waved banners outside the local Communist Party headquarters...
Goalie to the Stars: The Crimson's sharpest shooters may be a little more widely dispersed than they were last year, but like the past two years, a Crimson netminder heads the conference goals-against-average race...
These figures come across loud and clear to some of the sharpest of today's college-bound women, 24% of whom say they are interested in pursuing a business major -- twice the proportion 20 years ago and only 2% lower than the men's figure. Some are also aware of studies suggesting that female egos take a subtle but destructive pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight...