20200001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In an Oct. 19 review of "The Misanthrope" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre ("Revitalized Classics Take the Stage in Windy City," Leisure & Arts), the role of Celimene, played by Kim Cattrall, was mistakenly attributed to Christina Haag.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20200002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. Haag plays Elianti.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20201001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Inc. said it expects its U.S. sales to remain steady at about 1,200 cars in 1990.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20201002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The luxury auto maker last year sold 1,214 cars in the U.S.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20201003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Howard Mosher, president and chief executive officer, said he anticipates growth for the luxury auto maker in Britain and Europe, and in Far Eastern markets.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20202001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BELL INDUSTRIES Inc. increased its quarterly to 10 cents from seven cents a share.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20202002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new rate will be payable Feb. 15.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20202003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A record date hasn't been set.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20202004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bell, based in Los Angeles, makes and distributes electronic, computer and building products.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20203001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Investors are appealing to the Securities and Exchange Commission not to limit their access to information about stock purchases and sales by corporate insiders.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20203002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A SEC proposal to ease reporting requirements for some company executives would undermine the usefulness of information on insider trades as a stock-picking tool, individual investors and professional money managers contend.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20203003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They make the argument in letters to the agency about rule changes proposed this past summer that, among other things, would exempt many middle-management executives from reporting trades in their own companies' shares.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20203004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The proposed changes also would allow executives to report exercises of options later and less often.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20203005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many of the letters maintain that investor confidence has been so shaken by the 1987 stock market crash -- and the markets already so stacked against the little guy -- that any decrease in information on insider-trading patterns might prompt individuals to get out of stocks altogether.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20203006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The SEC has historically paid obeisance to the ideal of a level playing field," wrote Clyde S. McGregor of Winnetka, Ill., in one of the 92 letters the agency has received since the changes were proposed Aug. 17.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20203007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Apparently the commission did not really believe in this ideal."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20203008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Currently, the rules force executives, directors and other corporate insiders to report purchases and sales of their companies' shares within about a month after the transaction.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20203009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But about 25% of the insiders, according to SEC figures, file their reports late.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20203010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The changes were proposed in an effort to streamline federal bureaucracy and boost compliance by the executives "who are really calling the shots," said Brian Lane, special counsel at the SEC's office of disclosure policy, which proposed the changes.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20203011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Investors, money managers and corporate officials had until today to comment on the proposals, and the issue has produced more mail than almost any other issue in memory, Mr. Lane said.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20203012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The SEC will probably vote on the proposal early next year, he said.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20203013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not all those who wrote oppose the changes.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20203014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities for the American Bar Association argues, for example, in its lengthy letter to the SEC, that the proposed changes "would substantially improve the {law} by conforming it more closely to contemporary business realities."@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20203015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What the investors who oppose the proposed changes object to most is the effect they say the proposal would have on their ability to spot telltale "clusters" of trading activity -- buying or selling by more than one officer or director within a short period of time.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20203016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to some estimates, the rule changes would cut insider filings by more than a third.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20203017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The SEC's Mr. Lane vehemently disputed those estimates.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20203018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The rules will eliminate filings policy-making divisions, such as sales, marketing, finance and research and development, Mr. Lane said.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20203019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The proposed rules also would be tougher on the insiders still required to file reports, he said.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20203020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Companies would be compelled to publish in annual proxy statements the names of insiders who fail to file reports on time.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20203021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Considered as a whole, Mr. Lane said, the filings required under the proposed rules "will be at least as effective, if not more so, for investors following transactions."@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20203022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Robert Gabele, president of Invest/Net, a North Miami, Fla., company that packages and sells the insider-trading data, said the proposal is worded so vaguely that key officials may fail to file the reports.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20203023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many investors wrote asking the SEC to require insiders to report their purchases and sales immediately, not a month later.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20203024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Mr. Lane said that while the SEC regulates who files, the law tells them when to do so.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20203025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Investors who want to change the required timing should write their representatives in Congress, he added.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20203026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The SEC would likely be amenable to legislation that required insiders to file transactions on a more timely basis, he said.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20204001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The nation's largest pension fund, which oversees $80 billion for college employees, plans to offer two new investment options to its 1.2 million participants.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20204002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund said it will introduce a stock and bond fund that will invest in "socially responsible" companies, and a bond fund.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20204003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both funds are expected to begin operation around March 1, subject to Securities and Exchange Commission approval.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20204004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For its employees to sign up for the options, a college also must approve the plan.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20204005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some 4,300 institutions are part of the pension fund.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20204006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new options carry out part of an agreement that the pension fund, under pressure to relax its strict participation rules and to provide more investment options, reached with the SEC in December.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20204007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new "social choice" fund will shun securities of companies linked to South Africa, nuclear power and in some cases, Northern Ireland.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20204008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also excluded will be investments in companies with "significant" business stemming from weapons manufacture, alcoholic beverages or tobacco.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20204009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sixty percent of the fund will be invested in stocks, with the rest going into bonds or short-term investments.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20204010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bond fund will invest in high-grade or medium-grade bonds, mortgages or asset-backed securities, including as much as 15% in foreign securities.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20204011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The fund also might buy and sell futures and options contracts, subject to approval by the New York State Insurance Department.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20204012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under two new features, participants will be able to transfer money from the new funds to other investment funds or, if their jobs are terminated, receive cash from the funds.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20204013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The investment choices offered by the pension fund currently are limited to a stock fund, an annuity and a money-market fund.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20205001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Brunswick Scientific Co., a maker of biotechnology instrumentation and equipment, said it adopted an anti-takeover plan giving shareholders the right to purchase shares at half price under certain conditions.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20205002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said the plan, under review for some time, will protect shareholders against "abusive takeover tactics.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20206001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@W. Ed Tyler, 37 years old, a senior vice president at this printing concern, was elected president of its technology group, a new position.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20207001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Solo woodwind players have to be creative if they want to work a lot, because their repertoire and audience appeal are limited.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20207002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The oboist Heinz Holliger has taken a hard line about the problem: He commissions and splendidly interprets fearsome contemporary scores and does some conducting, so he doesn't have to play the same Mozart and Strauss concertos over and over again.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20207003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Richard Stoltzman has taken a gentler, more audience-friendly approach.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20207004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Years ago, he collaborated with the new music gurus Peter Serkin and Fred Sherry in the very countercultural chamber group Tashi, which won audiences over to dreaded contemporary scores like Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time."@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20207005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Today, the pixie-like clarinetist has mostly dropped the missionary work (though a touch of the old Tashi still survives) and now goes on the road with piano, bass, a slide show, and a repertoire that ranges from light classical to light jazz to light pop, with a few notable exceptions.@@@@1@50@@oe@2-2-2013
20207006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Just the thing for the Vivaldi-at-brunch set, the yuppie audience that has embraced New Age as its very own easy listening.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20207007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But you can't dismiss Mr. Stoltzman's music or his motives as merely commercial and lightweight.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20207008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He believes in what he plays, and he plays superbly.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20207009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His recent appearance at the Metropolitan Museum, dubbed "A Musical Odyssey," was a case in point.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20207010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It felt more like a party, or a highly polished jam session with a few friends, than a classical concert.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20207011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Clad in his trademark black velvet suit, the soft-spoken clarinetist announced that his new album, "Inner Voices," had just been released, that his family was in the front row, and that it was his mother's birthday, so he was going to play her favorite tune from the record.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
20207012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He launched into Saint-Saens's "The Swan" from "Carnival of the Animals," a favorite encore piece for cellists, with lovely, glossy tone and no bite.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20207013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then, as if to show that he could play fast as well, he offered the second movement from Saint-Saens's Sonata for Clarinet, a whimsical, puckish tidbit that reflected the flip side of the Stoltzman personality.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20207014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And so it went through the first half: an ingeniously chosen potpourri of pieces, none longer than five minutes, none that would disturb or challenge a listener.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20207015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Stoltzman introduced his colleagues: Bill Douglas, pianist/bassoonist/composer and an old buddy from Yale, and jazz bassist Eddie Gomez.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20207016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An improvisational section was built around pieces by Mr. Douglas, beginning with "Golden Rain," a lilting, laid-back lead in to the uptempo "Sky," which gave Mr. Stoltzman the opportunity to wail in a high register and show off his fleet fingers.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20207017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bach's "Air" followed.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20207018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Stoltzman tied the composer in by proclaiming him "the great improviser of the 18th century," and then built on the image by joining with Mr. Douglas in some Bach two-part inventions, cleverly arranged for clarinet and bassoon by Mr. Douglas.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20207019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Keeping the mood light, the two then chanted and chortled their way through some murderous polyrhythms, devised by Mr. Douglas as an alternative to Hindemith's dry theory-teaching techniques, and then, with Mr. Gomez, soared and improvised on the composer's tight "Bebop Etudes."@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20207020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The end of the first half, however, brought what the standing-room-only crowd seemed to be waiting for: the pop singer Judy Collins, who appears on "Inner Voices."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20207021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Glamorous and pure-voiced as ever, Ms. Collins sang Joni Mitchell's "For Free" -- about an encounter with a street-corner clarinetist, to which Mr. Stoltzman contributed a clarinet obligatto -- and Mr. Douglas's lush setting of a Gaelic blessing, "Deep Peace."@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20207022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Deep Peace" also featured a slide show of lovely but predictable images of clouds, beaches, deserts, sunsets, etc.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20207023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was all too mellow to be believed, but they probably would have gotten away with it, had they not felt compelled to add Ms. Collins's signature tune, "Amazing Grace," and ask for audience participation.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20207024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That went over the permissible line for warm and fuzzy feelings.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20207025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Was this why some of the audience departed before or during the second half?@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20207026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Or was it because Ms. Collins had gone?@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20207027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Either way it was a pity, because Mr. Stolzman offered the most substantial music of the evening just after intermission: Steve Reich's "New York Counterpoint," one of a series of Reich works that juxtapose a live performer with recorded tracks of his or her own playing.@@@@1@46@@oe@2-2-2013
20207028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Mr. Reich's new "Different Trains" for string quartet uses the technique magisterially.)@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20207029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Stoltzman must have worried that his audience might not be able to take it: He warned us in advance that "New York Counterpoint" lasts 11 1/2 minutes.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20207030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He also unfortunately illustrated this intricate, jazzy tapestry with Mr. Pearson's images, this time of geometric or repeating objects, in a kitschy mirroring of the musical structure that was thoroughly distracting from Mr. Reich's piece and Mr. Stoltzman's elegant execution of it.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20207031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The rest of the concert was more straight jazz and mellow sounds written by Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Bill Douglas and Eddie Gomez, with pictures for the Douglas pieces.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20207032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was enjoyable to hear accomplished jazz without having to sit in a smoke-filled club, but like the first half, much of it was easy to take and ultimately forgettable.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20207033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Is this the future of chamber music?@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20207034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Managers and presenters insist that chamber music concerts are a hard sell, but can audiences really enjoy them only if the music is purged of threatening elements, served up in bite-sized morsels and accompanied by visuals?@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20207035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What's next?@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20207036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Slides to illustrate Shostakovich quartets?@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20207037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was not an unpleasant evening, certainly, thanks to the high level of performance, the compositional talents of Mr. Douglas, and the obvious sincerity with which Mr. Stoltzman chooses his selections.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20207038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it was neither deep nor lasting: light entertainment that was no substitute for an evening of Brahms.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20207039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. Waleson is a free-lance writer based in New York.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20208001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of Ronald Reagan's attributes as President was that he rarely gave his blessing to the claptrap that passes for "consensus" in various international institutions.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20208002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In fact, he liberated the U.S. from one of the world's most corrupt organizations -- UNESCO.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20208003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is the U.N. group that managed to traduce its own charter of promoting education, science and culture.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20208004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ever since, the remaining members have been desperate for the United States to rejoin this dreadful group.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20208005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now UNESCO apologists are lobbying President Bush to renege on President Reagan's decision to depart.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20208006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But we can think of many reasons to stay out for the foreseeable future and well beyond.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20208007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The U.S., along with Britain and Singapore, left the agency when its anti-Western ideology, financial corruption and top leadership got out of hand.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20208008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The personal antics of agency Director Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow drew much attention, such as when several of his top aides were uncovered as KGB plants and ejected from France and when a mysterious office fire was set just before Congress sent accountants to trace U.S. funds.@@@@1@45@@oe@2-2-2013
20208009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. M'Bow was an extreme case, but even his replacement, the more personally genial Spanish biochemist Federico Mayor, has had little success at achieving reforms.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20208010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Several ridiculous projects continue, including the "New International Economic Order," which means redistributionism from the West to pay for everyone else's statism.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20208011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Orwellian "New World Information Order" would give government officials rights against the press; journalists would be obliged to kowtow to their government, which would have licensing and censorship powers and, indeed, duties to block printing of "wrong" ideas.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20208012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@UNESCO somehow converted the founding U.N. ideals of individual rights and liberty into "peoples' rights."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20208013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Million-dollar conferences were held to chew on subjects such as "ethical responsibilities of scientists in support of disarmament" and "the impact of the activities of transnational corporations."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20208014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agency was so totally subverted from the high principles of its founding that even the Soviets now wonder about an agency that seemed so congenial to them.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20208015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Glasnost may be partly responsible, but Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze last year admitted, "The exaggerated ideological approach undermined tolerance intrinsic to UNESCO."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20208016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@UNESCO is now holding its biennial meetings in Paris to devise its next projects.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20208017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mayor's hope that references to "press freedom" would survive unamended seems doomed to failure; the current phrasing is "educating the public and media to avoid manipulation."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20208018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He hasn't been able to replace the M'Bow cabal.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20208019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soviets remain in charge of education programs, a former head of an African military tribunal for executions is in charge of culture, and a hard-line Polish communist in exile directs the human-rights and peace division.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20208020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of the agency's 2,750 staff members, 230 are in the field working on actual projects, such as literacy and oceanographic research.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20208021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The position of the United States, which once contributed 25% of the budget, is that nothing has changed.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20208022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@John Bolton, the assistant secretary of state for international organizations, told Congress that the continuing "statist, restrictive, nondemocratic" programs make rejoining any time soon "extremely unlikely."@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20208023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This hasn't much bothered the UNESCO delegates, who last week couldn't even agree to raise funds by selling off a fancy 19th-century French chateau the agency somehow owns.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20208024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other countries, including West Germany, may have a hard time justifying continued membership.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20208025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We see an even stronger argument against UNESCO than its unsurprising failure to reform.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20208026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is that the Reagan Revolution spanning Eastern Europe and Tiananmen Square shows the power of ideas unencumbered by international civil servants or government functionaries.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20208027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Free markets, free minds and free elections have an appeal that seems to get muddled only when delivered through U.N. organizations -- which of course are made up largely of governments that fear these principles at home.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20208028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Babelists of the United Nations are experts at obfuscation.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20208029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This can have its purposes at times, but there's no reason to cloud the importance and allure of Western concepts of freedom and justice.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20208030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We can see plenty of reasons to stay out, and none to rejoin UNESCO.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20209001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Researchers at Plant Genetic Systems N.V. in Belgium said they have developed a genetic engineering technique for creating hybrid plants for a number of key crops.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20209002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The researchers said they have isolated a plant gene that prevents the production of pollen.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20209003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The gene thus can prevent a plant from fertilizing itself.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20209004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such so-called male-sterile plants can then be fertilized by pollen from another strain of the plant, thereby producing hybrid seed.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20209005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new generation of plants will possess the flourishing, high-production trait known as "hybrid vigor," similar to that now seen in hybrid corn.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20209006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The development could have a dramatic effect on farm production, especially cotton," said Murray Robinson, president of Delta & Pine Land Co., a Southwide Inc. subsidiary that is one of the largest cotton seed producers in the U.S.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20209007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On a commercial scale, the sterilization of the pollen-producing male part has only been achieved in corn and sorghum feed grains.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20209008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's because the male part, the tassel, and the female, the ear, are some distance apart on the corn plant.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20209009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a labor-intensive process, the seed companies cut off the tassels of each plant, making it male sterile.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20209010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They sow a row of male-fertile plants nearby, which then pollinate the male-sterile plants.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20209011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first hybrid corn seeds produced using this mechanical approach were introduced in the 1930s and they yielded as much as 20% more corn than naturally pollinated plants.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20209012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The vast majority of the U.S. corn crop now is grown from hybrid seeds produced by seed companies.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20209013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A similar technique is almost impossible to apply to other crops, such as cotton, soybeans and rice.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20209014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The male part, the anthers of the plant, and the female, the pistils, of the same plant are within a fraction of an inch or even attached to each other.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20209015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The anthers in these plants are difficult to clip off.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20209016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In China, a great number of workers are engaged in pulling out the male organs of rice plants using tweezers, and one-third of rice produced in that country is grown from hybrid seeds.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20209017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At Plant Genetic Systems, researchers have isolated a pollen-inhibiting gene that can be inserted in a plant to confer male sterility.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20209018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jan Leemans, research director, said this gene was successfully introduced in oil-producing rapeseed plants, a major crop in Europe and Canada, using as a carrier a "promoter gene" developed by Robert Goldberg at the University of California in Los Angeles.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20209019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The sterilizing gene is expressed just before the pollen is about to develop and it deactivates the anthers of every flower in the plant.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20209020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Leemans said this genetic manipulation doesn't hurt the growth of that plant.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20209021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The researchers also pulled off a second genetic engineering trick in order to get male-sterile plants in large enough numbers to produce a commercial hybrid seed crop.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20209022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They attached a second gene, for herbicide resistance, to the pollen-inhibiting gene.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20209023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both genes are then inserted into a few greenhouse plants, which are then pollinated and allowed to mature and produce seed.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20209024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The laws of heredity dictate that half of the plants springing from these greenhouse-produced seeds will be male sterile and herbicide resistant and half will be male fertile and herbicide susceptible.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20209025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The application of herbicide would kill off the male-fertile plants, leaving a large field of male-sterile plants that can be cross-pollinated to produce hybrid seed.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20209026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Leemans said the hybrid rapeseeds created with this genetic engineering yield 15% to 30% more output than the commercial strains used currently.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20209027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This technique is applicable to a wide variety of crops," he said, and added that some modifications may be necessary to accommodate the peculiarities of each type of crop.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20209028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said the company is experimenting with the technique on alfalfa, and plans to include cotton and corn, among other crops.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20209029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said that even though virtually all corn seeds currently planted are hybrids, the genetic approach will obviate the need for mechanical emasculation of anthers, which costs U.S. seed producers about $70 million annually.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20209030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In recent years, demand for hybrid seeds has spurred research at a number of chemical and biotechnology companies, including Monsanto Co., Shell Oil Co. and Eli Lilly & Co.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20209031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One technique developed by some of these companies involves a chemical spray supposed to kill only a plant's pollen.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20209032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But there have been problems with chemical sprays damaging plants' female reproductive organs and concern for the toxicity of such chemical sprays to humans, animals and beneficial insects.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20209033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, Paul Johanson, Monsanto's director of plant sciences, said the company's chemical spray overcomes these problems and is "gentle on the female organ."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20209034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Biosource Genetics Corp., Vacaville, Calif., is developing a spray containing a gene that spreads from cell to cell and interferes with the genes that are responsible for producing pollen.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20209035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This gene, called "gametocide," is carried into the plant by a virus that remains active for a few days.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20209036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Robert Erwin, president of Biosource, called Plant Genetic's approach "interesting" and "novel," and "complementary rather than competitive."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20209037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There is a large market out there hungry for hybrid seeds," he said.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20209038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Robinson of Delta & Pine, the seed producer in Scott, Miss., said Plant Genetic's success in creating genetically engineered male steriles doesn't automatically mean it would be simple to create hybrids in all crops.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20209039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's because pollination, while easy in corn because the carrier is wind, is more complex and involves insects as carriers in crops such as cotton.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20209040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's one thing to say you can sterilize, and another to then successfully pollinate the plant," he said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20209041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nevertheless, he said, he is negotiating with Plant Genetic to acquire the technology to try breeding hybrid cotton.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20210001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A bitter conflict with global implications has erupted between Nomura Securities Co. and Industrial Bank of Japan, two of the world's most powerful financial companies.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20210002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The clash is a sign of a new toughness and divisiveness in Japan's once-cozy financial circles.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20210003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not only are Japan's financial institutions putting their enormous clout to work; increasingly they're squaring off against one another in unprecedented public fashion.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20210004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Already, the consequences are being felt by other players in the financial markets -- even governments.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20210005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What triggered the latest clash was a skirmish over the timing of a New Zealand government bond issue.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20210006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nomura was attempting to organize the 50 billion-yen ($352 million) borrowing in Japan at a time when many Japanese banks, led by Industrial Bank of Japan, were pressuring the Wellington government to help them recover loans made to a defunct investment bank that had been owned by New Zealand's civil-service pension fund.@@@@1@52@@oe@2-2-2013
20210007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unwilling to put up new money for New Zealand until those debts are repaid, most banks refused even to play administrative roles in the new financing, forcing an embarrassed Nomura to postpone it this week.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20210008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dispute shows clearly the global power of Japan's financial titans.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20210009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Aside from Nomura's injured pride, the biggest victim so far has been the New Zealand government.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20210010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Barred by its budget law from making any new domestic bond issues, Wellington's Debt Management Office had been casting abroad to raise the 3 billion New Zealand dollars (US$1.76 billion) to NZ$4 billion it needs to come up with by the end of its fiscal year next June 30.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20210011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With Japan's cash-flush banks aligned against it, though, raising money may be difficult.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20210012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not only can they block Wellington from raising money in Japan, bankers here say, but as the largest underwriters in the Eurobond market, they might be able to scuttle borrowings there, too.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20210013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Zealand's finance minister, David Caygill, lashed out at such suggestions.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20210014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He told reporters in Wellington Tuesday that the government hadn't guaranteed the loans to DFC New Zealand Ltd., an investment bank 80%-owned by the National Provident Fund, and wouldn't bail it out.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20210015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It may very well be what the Japanese banks want," he told Radio New Zealand.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20210016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I think it would be irresponsible and I am not about to be blackmailed by Japanese banks or any other international interests."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20210017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No less significant than the Japanese banks' attempt to cut off funds to pressure a foreign government are the implications of a confrontation between Japan securities and banking industries.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20210018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Anxiety is rising over recent government proposals to eventually lower the strict barriers that now separate -- and protect -- the two industries from each other.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20210019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both sides are jealously guarding their turf, and relations have been at a flashpoint for months.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20210020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The banks badly want to break into all aspects of the securities business.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20210021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, the securities companies -- most of them smaller than the banks -- are seeking access only to limited kinds of banking that wouldn't open them to the full brunt of competition from the banks.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20210022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nomura, the world's biggest securities company largely by virtue of its protected home field, and Industrial Bank of Japan, Japan's most innovative and aggressive bank in capital markets abroad, captain the opposing sides.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20210023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And their suspicions of each other run deep.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20210024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the past year, both have tried to stretch the limits of their businesses.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20210025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nomura started a credit-card venture with American Express Co. that allowed cardholders to use their Nomura securities accounts like a bank account, attracting the wrath of banks.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20210026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And Industrial Bank of Japan started up a London securities subsidiary that sells Japanese stocks to non-Japanese institutions overseas, a move that stirred the anger of the stock brokerage firms.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20210027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The New Zealand bond issue simply has brought the two institutions face-to-face.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20211001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ITEL CORP. reported third-quarter earnings, which were mistakenly shown in the Quarterly Earnings Surprises table in yesterday's edition to be lower than the average of analysts' estimates.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20211002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On a pretax basis, Itel's third-quarter earnings of 30 cents a share were actually 7.14% higher than the average of estimates.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20212001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Raymond E. Ross, 53 years old, formerly group vice president, U.S. plastics machinery, at this machine tool, plastics machinery and robots concern, was named senior vice president, industrial systems, succeeding David A. Entrekin, who resigned Monday.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20213001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@John A. Conlon Jr., 45, was named a managing director at this investment-banking company.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20213002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He will be in charge of research, equity sales and trading, and the syndicate operation of Rothschild.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20213003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Conlon was executive vice president and director of the equity division of the international division of Nikko Securities Co.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20214001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As Yogi Berra might say, it's deja vu all over again.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20214002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Crouched at shortstop, Bert Campaneris, once Oakland's master thief, effortlessly scoops up a groundball and flips it to second.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20214003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the outfield, Paul Blair, the Orioles' eight-time Gold Glove winner, elegantly shags a fly.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20214004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the mound, former Red Sox great Luis Tiant, the wily master of 1,001 moves, throws an off-speed strike.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20214005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Babies, kiddies," growls their manager -- a fellow named Earl Weaver, who, in a different time, handled four World Series teams and now handles the Gold Coast Suns.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20214006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Old-time kiddies," he says.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20214007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps.@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20214008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But for the next few months, these boys of summers long past are going to be reveling in an Indian summer of the soul.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20214009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now that the baseball season is officially over, you see, it's time for a new season to begin.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20214010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Today is the debut of the Senior Professional Baseball Association, a new eight-team pro sports circuit, modeled after the highly successful senior tennis and golf tours and complete with good salaries, a cable television contract and even expansion plans.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20214011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One hundred and ninety two former greats, near greats, hardly knowns and unknowns begin a 72-game, three-month season in spring-training stadiums up and down Florida.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20214012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For everyone involved, it's one more swig of that elixir of youth, baseball.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20214013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Someone always makes you quit," says legendary St. Louis Cardinals centerfielder Curt Flood, the league's commissioner.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You feel you want one more -- one more at-bat, one more hit, one more game."@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Until the baby-faced heroes of today reclaim these ballparks for spring training, there is one more.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And not just for the players.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20214017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's one more for the baseball-loving lawyers, accountants and real estate developers who ponied up about $1 million each for the chance to be an owner, to step into the shoes of a Gene Autry or have a beer with Rollie Fingers.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20214018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Nothing can be better than this," says Don Sider, owner of the West Palm Beach Tropics.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Early in the morning Mr. Sider, an estate lawyer, pores over last wills and testaments.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20214020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Midmorning, he dons an orange-and-blue uniform and, for fun, may field a bunt from Dave Kingman.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's one more, too, for the fans who dream of a season that never ends.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20214022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I feel like a little kid," says a gleeful Alex de Castro, a car salesman, who has stopped by a workout of the Suns to slip six Campaneris cards to the Great Man Himself to be autographed.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20214023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The league's promoters hope retirees and tourists will join die-hard fans like Mr. de Castro and pack the stands to see the seniors.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20214024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The league is the brainchild of Colorado real estate developer James Morley -- once a minor-leaguer himself -- who says he had the idea last January while lying on a beach in Australia.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20214025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When he sent letters offering 1,250 retired major leaguers the chance of another season, 730 responded.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eventually, about 250 made the trip to Florida to compete for the available slots.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20214027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Players have to be 35 or older, except for catchers, who are eligible at 32 because life behind the plate is so rough.)@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20214028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For some players, the lure is money -- up to $15,000 a month.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20214029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Others, just released from the majors, hope the senior league will be their bridge back into the big-time.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20214030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But as they hurl fireballs that smolder rather than burn, and relive old duels in the sun, it's clear that most are there to make their fans cheer again or recapture the camaraderie of seasons past or prove to themselves and their colleagues that they still have it -- or something close to it.@@@@1@54@@oe@2-2-2013
20214031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"My fastball is good.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20214032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Real good," says 39-year-old Pete Broberg, working in the midday heat of the Tropics camp.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20214033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Broberg, who started with the now-defunct Washington Senators, says that when he left baseball in 1978, he "never looked back."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20214034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For a long time, he ignored baseball altogether, even the sports pages.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20214035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now Mr. Broberg, a lawyer, claims he'd play for free.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20214036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You can't give it up that easily," he says.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20214037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I tried."@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20214038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The nagging memory of one afternoon fourteen years ago drove Jim Gideon, a lean 36-year-old righthander to take a four-month leave from selling insurance in Texas to try out for Mr. Weaver's team.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20214039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It doesn't replace pitching in the majors, but it proves to me that I would have been able to play if I'd stayed healthy," he says.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20214040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Back in 1975, late in the season, a then-21 Mr. Gideon made his only major league appearance, five and two-thirds innings for the Texas Rangers against the Chicago White Sox.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20214041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He gave up seven hits, walked five and didn't get a decision.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20214042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arm troubles forced him back to the minors the next year.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20214043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There's a satisfaction in going against the rules," offers Will McEnaney, once a stopper with Cincinnati's Big Red Machine.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20214044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He means the rule that a player can't cut it after a certain age.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20214045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These days he hustles to house-painting jobs in his Chevy pickup before and after training with the Tropics.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20214046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While sipping a beer after practice, he vividly recounts getting the Red Sox's Carl Yastrzemski to pop out to end the 1975 World Series, and repeating the feat against the Yankees' Roy White in 1976.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20214047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of the game's reigning philosophers dislike the idea of middle-aged men attempting a young man's sport.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20214048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I personally don't enjoy seeing players who I remember vividly from their playing days running about and being gallant about their deficiencies," says Roger Angell, New Yorker magazine's resident baseball sage.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20214049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I feel people should be allowed to remember players as they were."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20214050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Worse, says baseball author Lawrence Ritter, "Someone will get a heart attack and that will be the end of the whole story."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20214051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the ballplayers disagree.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20214052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most are trim.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20214053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some have been training for months; others only recently left active status.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20214054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(No one has worked out the players' average age, but most appear to be in their late 30s.)@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20214055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And there's pride.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20214056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I'm not going to look stupid," vows former Pittsburgh Pirate second baseman Rennie Stennett, sweat dotting his brow as he prepares for some practice swings.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20214057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's going to be a tough league," promises the 47-year-old Mr. Campaneris.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20214058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There will be a lot of malice."@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20214059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Men who have played hard all their lives aren't about to change their habits, he says.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20214060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nonetheless, one can't help wonder whether the game will be just a little bit slower.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20214061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the weatherbeaten Pompano Beach municipal stadium, Mr. Blair, the 45-year-old former Oriole, knows his power isn't what it used to be.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20214062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So he adjusts.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20214063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He no longer crowds the plate.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20214064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He's not thinking about home runs anymore, just base hits.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20214065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, "how sweet it is," he says, savoring the fat sound of the well-hit line drive that bounces off the center field wall.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20214066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And don't expect many complete games by pitchers -- perhaps three out of 288, laughs Mr. Fingers, the former Oakland reliever.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20214067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Expect "tricky" stuff from pitchers, says Mr. Weaver, the manager.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20214068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Expect brushbacks but no beanballs, says Mr. McEnaney.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20214069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even expect stolen bases, says the wiry and fit Mr. Campaneris: "If you know how to slide, it's no problem," he says.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20214070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And expect slower fastballs.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20214071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I'm not so young anymore," concedes the cigar-chomping, 48-year-old Mr. Tiant.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20214072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I won't be throwing 90 mph, but I will throw 80-plus," he says.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20214073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@White-haired Pedro Ramos, at 54 the league's oldest player and a pitcher-coach with the Suns, has lost even more speed.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20214074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stuffing a wad of Red Man into his cheek, he admits the fastball he brought into the majors in 1955 has become a slowball.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20214075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Its maximum velocity is 72 mph.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20214076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But he isn't worried.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20214077@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He will compensate with the guile learned from his years in the majors.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20214078@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He has good control.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20214079@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He will keep the ball down, move it around.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20214080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After all, he says, "Even to make love, you need experience.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20215001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Alltel Corp. said it will acquire the 55% of Pond Branch Telephone Company Inc.'s cellular franchise that it doesn't own already.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20215002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Terms weren't disclosed.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20215003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Alltel holds 45% of the franchise, which has operations in Aiken, S.C., and Augusta, Ga.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20215004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Alltel, which provides local telephone service in 25 states, said it exercised its right of first refusal following an offer from an undisclosed third party to acquire the majority position in the franchise.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20216001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stewart & Stevenson Services Inc. said it received two contracts totaling $19 million to build gas-turbine generators.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20216002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The separate contracts were from Paragould Light & Water Commission, a utility in Paragould, Ark., and PSE Inc., a cogeneration-plant operator in Houston.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20216003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stewart & Stevenson makes equipment powered with diesel and gas turbines.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20217001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Liberty National Bancorp said its acquisition of Florence Deposit Bank, Florence, Ky., first announced in April, has been completed in a transaction valued at $13.1 million.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20217002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Liberty National exchanged about 78.64 shares of its common stock for each of Florence Deposit's 5,600 shares outstanding.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20217003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Liberty National, a bank holding company, has assets exceeding $3 billion.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20218001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hani Zayadi was appointed president and chief executive officer of this financially troubled department store chain, effective Nov. 15, succeeding Frank Robertson, who is retiring early.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20218002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Zayadi was previously president and chief operating officer of Zellers Inc., a retail chain that is owned by Toronto-based Hudson's Bay Co., Canada's largest department store operator.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20219001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tuesday, October 31, 1989@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20219002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The key U.S. and foreign annual interest rates below are a guide to general levels but don't always represent actual transactions.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20219003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PRIME RATE: 10 1/2%.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20219004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The base rate on corporate loans at large U.S. money center commercial banks.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20219005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FEDERAL FUNDS: 9% high, 8 13/16% low, 8 7/8% near closing bid, 8 15/16% offered.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20219006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Reserves traded among commercial banks for overnight use in amounts of $1 million or more.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20219007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Source: Fulton Prebon (U.S.A.) Inc.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20219008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DISCOUNT RATE: 7%.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20219009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The charge on loans to depository institutions by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20219010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CALL MONEY: 9 3/4% to 10%.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20219011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The charge on loans to brokers on stock exchange collateral.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20219012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@COMMERCIAL PAPER placed directly by General Motors Acceptance Corp.: 8.55% 30 to 44 days; 8.25% 45 to 59 days; 8.40% 60 to 89 days; 8% 90 to 119 days; 7.90% 120 to 149 days; 7.80% 150 to 179 days; 7.55% 180 to 270 days.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20219013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@COMMERCIAL PAPER: High-grade unsecured notes sold through dealers by major corporations in multiples of $1,000: 8.62% 30 days; 8.55% 60 days; 8.45% 90 days.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20219014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT: 8.09% one month; 8.04% two months; 8.03% three months; 7.96% six months; 7.92% one year.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20219015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Average of top rates paid by major New York banks on primary new issues of negotiable C.D.s, usually on amounts of $1 million and more.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20219016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The minimum unit is $100,000.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20219017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Typical rates in the secondary market: 8.53% one month; 8.50% three months; 8.30% six months.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20219018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BANKERS ACCEPTANCES: 8.49% 30 days; 8.44% 60 days; 8.27% 90 days; 8.12% 120 days; 8.05% 150 days; 7.98% 180 days.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20219019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Negotiable, bank-backed business credit instruments typically financing an import order.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20219020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@LONDON LATE EURODOLLARS: 8 3/4% to 8 5/8% one month; 8 3/4% to 8 5/8% two months; 8 11/16% to 8 9/16% three months; 8 9/16% to 8 7/16% four months; 8 1/2% to 8 3/8% five months; 8 7/16% to 8 5/16% six months.@@@@1@45@@oe@2-2-2013
20219021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@LONDON INTERBANK OFFERED RATES (LIBOR): 8 3/4% one month; 8 11/16% three months; 8 7/16% six months; 8 7/16% one year.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20219022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average of interbank offered rates for dollar deposits in the London market based on quotations at five major banks.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20219023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FOREIGN PRIME RATES: Canada 13.50%; Germany 9%; Japan 4.875%; Switzerland 8.50%; Britain 15%.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20219024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These rate indications aren't directly comparable; lending practices vary widely by location.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20219025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@TREASURY BILLS: Results of the Monday, October 30, 1989, auction of short-term U.S. government bills, sold at a discount from face value in units of $10,000 to $1 million: 7.78% 13 weeks; 7.62% 26 weeks.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20219026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP. (Freddie Mac): Posted yields on 30-year mortgage commitments for delivery within 30 days.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20219027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@9.78%, standard conventional fixed-rate mortgages; 7.875%, 2% rate capped one-year adjustable rate mortgages.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20219028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Source: Telerate Systems Inc.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20219029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (Fannie Mae): Posted yields on 30 year mortgage commitments for delivery within 30 days (priced at par) 9.75%, standard conventional fixed-rate mortgages; 8.75%, 6/2 rate capped one-year adjustable rate mortgages.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20219030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Source: Telerate Systems Inc.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20219031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MERRILL LYNCH READY ASSETS TRUST: 8.63%.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20219032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Annualized average rate of return after expenses for the past 30 days; not a forecast of future returns.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20220001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Canada's gross domestic product rose an inflation-adjusted 0.3% in August, mainly as a result of service-industry growth, Statistics Canada, a federal agency, said.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20220002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The August GDP was up 2.4% from its year-earlier level.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20220003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GDP is the total value of a nation's output of goods and services.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20220004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Statistics Canada said service-industry output in August rose 0.4% from July.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20220005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Output of goods-producing industries increased 0.1%.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20220006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Separately, Statistics Canada reported that its industrial-product price index dropped 0.2% in September, its third consecutive monthly decline.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20220007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also reported a 2.6% decline in its raw-materials price index for September.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20221001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc. was dropped, effective today, from the recreational products and services industry group of the Dow Jones Equity Market Index.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20221002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Columbia Pictures is being acquired by Sony Corp., which is based in Japan.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20222001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@People's Savings Financial Corp. said it will buy back as much as 10% of its 2.4 million shares outstanding because the stock is undervalued.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20222002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The holding company said it has been "unfairly associated" with other banks in New England that have had major loan losses in recent quarters.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20222003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said its People's Savings Bank unit doesn't have a "large exposure to construction and commercial loans that have caused the loan-loss problems in many of the banks.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20223001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A seat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was sold for $410,000, down $6,000 from the previous sale Oct.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20223002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Seats currently are quoted at $400,000 bid, $425,000 asked.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20223003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The record price for a full membership on the exchange is $550,000, set March 9.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20224001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a surprise move, the British government cleared the way for a bidding war for Jaguar PLC by agreeing to remove an obstacle to a takeover of the auto maker.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20224002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Trade and Industry Secretary Nicholas Ridley told the House of Commons yesterday that he will relinquish the government's so-called golden share in the company as long as Jaguar shareholders agree.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20224003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The golden share restricts any individual holding to 15% and expires at the end of 1990.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20224004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was in Jaguar's best interests "for the company's future to be assured and the present climate of uncertainty resolved as quickly as possible," Mr. Ridley said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20224005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ridley's decision fires the starting pistol for perhaps a costly contest between the world's auto giants for Britain's leading luxury-car maker.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20224006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. have been trying to amass 15% stakes in Jaguar.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20224007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ford, which already has an unwelcome 13.2% holding, is prepared to bid for the entire company and had lobbied the government to lift the takeover restrictions early.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20224008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GM has been negotiating a friendly transaction with Jaguar that likely would involve joint ventures and an eventual stake of just under 30%.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the government's action, which caught Jaguar management flat-footed, may scuttle the GM minority deal by forcing it to fight for all of Jaguar.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20224010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I can't believe they (GM) will let Ford have a free run," said Stephen Reitman, a European auto industry analyst at UBS-Phillips & Drew.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20224011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I am sure they will be going for a full bid."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20224012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many investors certainly believe a bidding war is imminent.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20224013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jaguar shares skyrocketed yesterday after Mr. Ridley's announcement, following their temporary suspension on London's Stock Exchange.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20224014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In late trading, the shares were up a whopping 122 pence ($1.93) -- a 16.3% gain -- to a record 869 pence on very heavy volume of 9.7 million shares.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20224015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the U.S. over-the-counter market, Jaguar shares trading as American Depositary Receipts closed at $13.625, up $1.75.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20224016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Analysts expect Ford will make the first move, perhaps today, with an initial offer of about 900 pence ($14.25) a share.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20224017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such a proposal values Jaguar at more than #1.6 billion ($2.53 billion).@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20224018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Speculation about a takeover fight has sent Jaguar shares soaring in the past six weeks.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20224019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The share price was languishing at about 400 pence before Ford's Sept. 19 announcement of its interest in a minority stake.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20224020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ford is "in the driving seat at the moment," observed Bob Barber, an auto analyst at brokers James Capel & Co.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20224021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An aggressive Ford bid for Jaguar would put pressure on GM to make a better offer as the British company's "white knight."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20224022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such a countermove could end Jaguar's hopes for remaining independent and British-owned.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20224023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it isn't clear how long GM would be willing to fight Ford for Jaguar.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20224024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because of their longstanding rivalry, GM just "wants to make sure Ford pays a huge packet for (Jaguar)," said John Lawson, an auto analyst at London's Nomura Research Institute.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20224025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@People close to the GM-Jaguar talks agreed that Ford now may be able to shut out General Motors.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20224026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's either going to be a shootout, or there only may be one player in town," one person said.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20224027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another person close to the talks said, "It is very hard to justify paying a silly price for Jaguar if an out-and-out bidding war were to start now."@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20224028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a statement, Jaguar's board said they "were not consulted about the (Ridley decision) in advance and were surprised at the action taken."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The statement emphasized that holders representing 75% of the shares voting at a special shareholders' meeting must agree to lift the takeover restrictions.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jaguar officials in the U.S. noted that Ford, as Jaguar's largest shareholder, now has the power to call for such a meeting.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20224031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. auto analysts also noted that Ford is in the best position to benefit from the large number of Jaguar shares that have moved over the past month into the hands of arbitragers waiting for the highest takeover bid.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20224032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jaguar's own defenses against a hostile bid are weakened, analysts add, because fewer than 3% of its shares are owned by employees and management.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20224033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ford officials in the U.S. declined to comment on the British government's action or on any plans to call a special Jaguar shareholders meeting.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20224034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But GM officials said they, too, were surprised by the move, which left them to "consider all our options and explore matters further."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although GM has U.S. approval to buy up to 15% of Jaguar's stock, it hasn't yet disclosed how many shares it now owns.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a prepared statement, GM suggested its plans for Jaguar would be more valuable in the long run than the initial windfalls investors might reap from a hostile Ford bid.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20224037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Our intensive discussions with Jaguar, at their invitation," GM said, "have as their objectives to create a cooperative business relationship with Jaguar that would provide for the continued independence of this great British car company, to ensure a secure future for its employees and to provide an attractive long-term return for its shareholders."@@@@1@53@@oe@2-2-2013
20224038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jaguar was shocked by Mr. Ridley's decision, because management had believed the government wouldn't lift the golden share without consulting the company first.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, the government is taking a calculated risk.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20224040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ridley's announcement set off a howl of protests from members of the opposition Labor Party, who accused the Thatcher administration of backing down on promised protection for a privatized company.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20224041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The British government retained the single golden share after selling its stake in Jaguar in@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20224042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Conservative government's decision may reflect its desire to shed a politically sensitive issue well before the next election, expected in late 1991.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20224043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's now a very good time politically to get this over and done with," observed Daniel Jones, professor of motor industry management at the University of Cardiff in Wales.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20224044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The government, already buffeted by high interest rates and a slowing economy, has been badly hurt by last week's shake-up in Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20224045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the same time, the government didn't want to appear to favor GM by allowing a minority stake that might preclude a full bid by Ford.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20224046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ridley hinted at this motive in answering questions from members of Parliament after his announcement.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20224047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said he was giving up the golden share "to clear the way so the playing field is level between all contestants."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20224048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bradley A. Stertz in Detroit contributed to this article.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20225001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., and Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, said they completed the formation of Dow Elanco, a joint venture combining their plant-sciences businesses as well as Dow's industrial pest-control business.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20225002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The companies said Dow Elanco will be the largest research-based agricultural concern in North America, with projected first-year revenue of $1.5 billion.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20225003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow will own 60% of the venture, with Eli Lilly holding the rest.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20225004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The venture will be based in Indianapolis.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20226001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@William A. Wise, 44 years old, president of the El Paso Natural Gas Co. unit of this energy and natural-resources concern, was named to the additional post of chief executive officer, succeeding Travis H. Petty, 61, who continues as a vice chairman of the parent.@@@@1@45@@oe@2-2-2013
20227001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Erwin Tomash, the 67-year-old founder of this maker of data communications products and a former chairman and chief executive, resigned as a director.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20227002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dataproducts is fighting a hostile tender offer by DPC Acquisition Partners, a group led by New York-based Crescott Investments Associates.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20227003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the circumstances, Dataproducts said, Mr. Tomash said he was unable to devote the time required because of other commitments.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20227004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Tomash will remain as a director emeritus.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20227005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company had no comment on whether a replacement would be named.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20228001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Robert Q. Marston, president emeritus, University of Florida, and a director of this maker of medical devices, was named chairman.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20228002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dr. Marston, 66 years old, succeeds Alexander T. Daignault, 72, who didn't stand for re-election due to mandatory board retirement policy.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20229001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SFE Technologies said William P. Kuehn was elected chairman and chief executive officer of this troubled electronics parts maker.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20229002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 45-year-old Mr. Kuehn, who has a background in crisis management, succeeds Alan D. Rubendall, 45.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20229003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jerome J. Jahn, executive vice president and chief financial officer, said Mr. Rubendall was resigning by "mutual agreement" with the board.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20229004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"He is going to pursue other interests," Mr. Jahn said.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20229005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Rubendall couldn't be reached.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20229006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kuehn, the company said, will retain the rest of the current management team.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20229007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the nine months ended July 29, SFE Technologies reported a net loss of $889,000 on sales of $23.4 million.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20229008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That compared with an operating loss of $1.9 million on sales of $27.4 million in the year-earlier period.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20229009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In national over-the-counter trading, SFE Technologies shares closed yesterday at 31.25 cents a share, up 6.25 cents.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20230001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales of new cars in Europe fell 4.2% in September from a year earlier and analysts say the market could continue to soften in the months ahead.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20230002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After a stronger-than-expected pace early this year, analysts say the market, after a series of sharp swings in recent months, now shows signs of retreating.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20230003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Statistics from 12 countries which normally account for 94% of non-communist Europe's passenger car sales showed new car registrations totaled 911,606 in September, down 21% from August and down 4.2% for the year to date.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20231001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tokyo stocks rebounded Tuesday from two consecutive daily losses in relatively active dealings.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20231002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@London shares also rose, while trading in Frankfurt, West Germany, ended higher.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20231003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Tokyo, the Nikkei index of 225 selected issues was up 132.00 points to 35549.44.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20231004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The index fell 109.85 Monday.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20231005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Volume on the First Section was estimated at 900 million shares, up from 582 million shares Monday.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20231006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Advancing issues outnumbered decliners 542 to 362, while 208 issues were unchanged.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20231007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Small-lot buying targeted at incentive-backed issues pushed up the Nikkei.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20231008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But other sectors failed to attract investor interest and remained sluggish, making overall trading appear mixed.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20231009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Individuals and corporations, as well as dealers trading for their own account, actively bought Tuesday.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20231010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An official at Wako Securities said these investors feel the need to make quick profits, despite destabilizing external factors, such as political uncertainty tied to the ruling party's fate at next year's Lower House elections-an event which could directly affect the stock market.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20231011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Tokyo Stock Price Index of all issues listed in the First Section, which declined 5.16 on Monday, was up 16.05, or 0.60%, at 2692.65 on Tuesday.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20231012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Second Section index, which fell 21.44 points Monday, was up 6.84 points, or 0.19%, to close at 3642.90.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20231013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Second Section volume was estimated at 14 million shares, unchanged from Monday.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20231014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Institutional investors mostly remained on the sidelines Tuesday.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20231015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A fund manager at a life-insurance company said three factors make it difficult to read market direction.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20231016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First, he said, domestic interest rates are likely to stay at higher levels as increased anticipation of inflation followed rising consumer prices reported last week.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20231017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Second, the dollar is showing persistent strength despite a slowdown in the U.S. economy shown by economic indicators.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20231018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Third, oil prices haven't declined although supply has been increasing.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20231019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The topic that attracted participants' attention was Mitsubishi Estate's purchase of 51% of Rockefeller Center Properties, announced late Monday in New York.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20231020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mitsubishi Estate ended the day at 2680, up 150.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20231021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The gains also sparked buying interest in other real-estate companies, traders said.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20231022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sumitomo Realty & Development rose 40 to 2170.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20231023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Heiwa Real Estate gained 40 to 2210.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20231024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Investor focus shifted quickly, traders said.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20231025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many of the morning-session winners turned out to be losers by afternoon.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20231026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In other stock-market news, the Tokyo Stock Exchange said that for the week ended Friday, the balance of margin buying rose 189.8 billion yen ($1.34 billion), to 7.160 trillion yen ($50.46 billion).@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20231027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The balance of short positions outstanding fell 159.7 billion yen, to 779.8 billion yen.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20231028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In London, prices finished at intraday peaks, comforted by a reassuring early performance on Wall Street and news that the British government will waive its "golden share" in auto maker Jaguar.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20231029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But trading was very sketchy, as investment decision makers remain wary from gyrations and upsets of recent weeks.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20231030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Volume has been appalling," said a dealer at a British brokerage concern.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20231031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The market was dragged up by the scruff of its neck by Wall Street and by market makers getting caught short.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20231032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No one wants stock on their books."@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20231033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, the broad-based Financial Times 100-share index added 30.4 points to end at 2142.6, while reaching its minimum of 2120.5 a half hour into the session.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20231034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the close, the narrower 30-share index was up 19.7 points to 1721.4.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20231035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Volume totaled a modest 334.5 million shares, up from 257.8 million shares Monday.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20231036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The market also moved at early afternoon on news that Jaguar shares were being temporarily suspended at 746 pence ($11.80) each.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20231037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Nicholas Ridley said later in the day that the government would abolish its golden share in Jaguar, the luxury auto maker being stalked by General Motors and Ford Motor.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20231038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The golden share dates from Jaguar's public offering in 1984 and was designed to protect the company from takeover.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20231039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The golden share was scheduled to expire at the beginning of@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20231040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But although the golden share has been waived, a hostile bidder for Jaguar would still have to alter the British concern's articles of association which ban shareholdings of more than 15%.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20231041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jaguar shares closed at 869 pence, up 122 pence, on hefty turnover of 9.7 million shares.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20231042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As the London trading session drew to a close, the market was still listening to the parliamentary debate on the economy, with new Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major expected to clarify his approach to the British economy and currency issues.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20231043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, share prices closed higher in fairly thin trading, as selective buying by foreigners helped propel prices.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20231044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The DAX index closed at 1472.76, up from 1466.29.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20231045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite the modest gains, traders said the market remains dull, with investors remaining cautiously on the sidelines.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20231046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Contributing to the market's reserved stance was the release later in the day of new data on the health of the U.S. economy, in the form of the U.S. index of leading indicators.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20231047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Additionally, the end of the month position-squaring might have also played a minor role, traders said.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20231048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Elsewhere, share prices closed higher in Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan and Paris.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20231049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Prices were mixed in Zurich and lower in Stockholm.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20231050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stocks closed higher in Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Sydney and Wellington, but were lower in Seoul.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20231051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Taipei was closed for a holiday.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20231052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here are price trends on the world's major stock markets, as calculated by Morgan Stanley Capital International Perspective, Geneva.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20231053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To make them directly comparable, each index is based on the close of 1969 equaling 100.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20231054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The percentage change is since year-end.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20232001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@French consumer prices rose 0.2% in September from the previous month and were up 3.4% from a year earlier, according to definitive figures from the National Statistics Institute.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20232002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The state agency's figures confirm previous estimates and leave the index at 178.9, up from 178.5 in August and 173.1 a year earlier.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20232003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The index is based on 1980 equaling 100.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20232004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A breakdown showed that food prices were the most active part of growth with a rise of 0.6%.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20232005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An official linked the gain essentially to higher prices for beef and pork.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20232006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said summer drought problems that had hit several southern agricultural regions had stopped being a major source of price pressure in September.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20233001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japan's index of leading indicators rose to 63.6 in August, above the so-called boom-or-bust line of 50 for the first time since May, the Economic Planning Agency said.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20233002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The leading index recovered from July's revised level of 36.6 on strong performances in consumer durables and machinery orders, among other factors, according to an agency spokeswoman.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20233003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The index is intended to measure future economic performance.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20233004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A figure above 50 indicates the economy is likely to expand; one below 50 indicates a contraction may be ahead.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20234001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Metromedia Co. said its Metromedia Long Distance unit has been renamed Metromedia-ITT Long Distance, reflecting acquisitions from ITT Corp., which licenses its name to closely held Metromedia.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20234002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Metromedia said its unit is the fifth-largest provider of long-distance communications service in the U.S., with projected 1989 revenue of more than $550 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20234003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Metromedia, headed by John W. Kluge, has interests in telecommunications, robotic painting, computer software, restaurants and entertainment.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20235001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Korean consumer prices rose 5% in the first 10 months of this year, matching the government's target for the entire year, according to the Bank of Korea and the Economic Planning Board.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20235002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to reports released by the two government agencies, domestic consumer and wholesale prices each rose by 0.2% in October from the previous month.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20235003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, consumer prices for the first 10 months of 1989 surged by 5% and wholesale prices by 1.3%.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20235004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The South Korean government had been projecting a 5% consumer price increase for the entire year.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20236001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Martin Marietta Corp. said it won a $38.2 million contract from the U.S. Postal Service to manufacture and install automated mail-sorting machines.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20236002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under terms of the three-year contract, Martin Marietta said it will make and install 267 of the new machines at 156 postal offices.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20236003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new machines are capable of sorting by zip code up to 10,000 large flat mail pieces, including magazines and parcels, an hour.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20237001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thomas A. Donovan, 37 years old, formerly vice president, West Coast operations, at this hazardous-waste-site remediation concern, was named executive vice president and chief operating officer, both newly created posts, and a director, filling a vacancy.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20237002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Canonie said it anticipates naming Mr. Donovan to succeed Richard F. Brissette, 55, as president and chief executive officer, effective March 1.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20237003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Brissette will remain a Canonie board member and will be a consultant to the company.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20238001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yields on savings-type certificates of deposit dropped slightly in the week ended yesterday.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20238002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average yield on a six-month CD of $50,000 or less was 7.90%, compared with 7.94% a week earlier.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20238003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average one-year savings-type CD was down to 7.99% from 8.01%, according to Banxquote Money Markets, a New York information service that tracks CD yields.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20238004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This week was uneventful for the CD market," said Norberto Mehl, chairman of Banxquote.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20238005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The major banks haven't even reacted to sharp rises in the three-month Treasury bill rates" in the past two weeks.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20238006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Banks that adjusted payouts on CDs in the most recent week made only fractional moves, he said.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20238007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The CD trend runs counter to the direction of short-term interest rates at the Treasury bill auction Monday.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20238008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average six-month bill was sold with a yield of 8.04%, up from 7.90%.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20238009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average three-month issue rose to 8.05% from 7.77%.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20238010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Typically, banks offer CD yields higher than those on Treasury bills, which are considered the safest short-term investments; banks need a competitive edge to sell their products.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20238011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But when market interest rates move up rapidly, increases in bank CD yields sometimes lag.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20238012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most yields on short-term jumbo CDs, those with denominations over $90,000, also moved in the opposite direction of Treasury bill yields.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20238013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average six-month yield on a jumbo CD was at 7.90%, down from 7.93%, Banxquote said.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20238014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For longer-term CDs, yields were up.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20238015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average two-year and five-year jumbos were up 0.02 of a percentage point to 7.91% and 7.96%, respectively.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20238016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, CDs sold through major broker-dealer networks were up slightly almost across the board.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20238017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average six-month CD in that category added 0.05 percentage point to 8.35%, for example.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20238018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mehl attributed the rise specifically to the Treasury bill increase.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20238019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among the major banks surveyed by Banxquote in six regions of the country, 8.33% is the highest yield available.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20238020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is offered by the flagship banks of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Corp. in the one-year maturity only.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20238021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The yield is offered across a range of maturities at San Francisco's BankAmerica Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20238022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Just two weeks ago, BankAmerica's yields in many of those maturities was 8.61%.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20238023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, on average, the major California banks have the highest yields on CDs, according to Banxquote.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20238024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average yield there on six-month issues is 8.32%.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20239001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I had to reach back to French 101 when the monsieur avec clipboard leaned over my shoulder during the coffee phase of dinner and asked whether I wanted to ride in a montgolfiere.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20239002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I was a last-minute (read interloping) attendee at a French journalism convention and so far the festivities had been taken up entirely by eating, drinking, smoking, sleeping and drinking.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20239003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The man with the clipboard represented a halfhearted attempt to introduce a bit of les sportif into our itinerary.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20239004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But as the French embody a Zen-like state of blase when it comes to athletics (try finding a Nautilus machine in Paris), my fellow conventioners were having none of it.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20239005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The diners at my table simply lit more Gauloises and scoffed at the suggestion of interrupting a perfectly good Saturday morning to go golfing or even montgolfing (ballooning to you; the brothers Montgolfier, French of course, were the world's first hot-air balloonists).@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20239006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Back in the U.S.A. this kind of chi-chi airborne activity wins heartwarmingly covetous responses.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20239007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As in: "You went ballooning??!!@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20239008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In France??!!"@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20239009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Americans it seems have followed Malcolm Forbes's hot-air lead and taken to ballooning in a heady way.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20239010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@During the past 25 years, the number of balloonists (those who have passed a Federal Aviation Authority lighter-than-air test) have swelled from a couple hundred to several thousand, with some estimates running as high as 10,000.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20239011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some 30 balloon shows are held annually in the U.S., including the world's largest convocation of ersatz Phineas Foggs -- the nine-day Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta that attracts some 800,000 enthusiasts and more than 500 balloons, some of which are fetchingly shaped to resemble Carmen Miranda, Garfield or a 12-story-high condom.@@@@1@51@@oe@2-2-2013
20239012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(The condom balloon was denied official entry status this year.)@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20239013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in Epinal, a gray 16th-century river town adjacent to France's Vosges mountain region, none of these Yankee-come-lately enthusiasms for things aloft was evident.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20239014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ballooning at the de rigueur hour of 6 a.m. held all the attraction for most people of sunrise root-canal work.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20239015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Feeling the naggings of a culture imperative, I promptly signed up.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20239016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first thing anybody will tell you about ballooning is that it requires zip in the way of athletic prowess, or even a measure of derring-do.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20239017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(So long as you don't look down.)@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20239018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They will also tell you that even if you hate heights, you can still balloon.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20239019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(I still say don't look down.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20239020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At least not when you are ascending.)@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20239021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What they won't tell you is not to go aloft in anything you don't want to get wet.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20239022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I'm not referring to the traditional champagne drenching during the back-on-terra-firma toast.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20239023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I'm talking about landing in a canal.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20239024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a porous wicker basket.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20239025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With a pilot who speaks no English.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20239026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To wit, my maiden voyage (and novitiates are referred to as virgins) began at dawn on a dew-sodden fairway and ended at noon in a soggy field.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20239027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Balloon flights almost always occur at dawn or dusk, when the winds are lightest.)@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20239028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In between came lots of coffee drinking while watching the balloons inflate and lots of standing around deciding who would fly in what balloon and in what order (the baskets hold no more than four passengers).@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20239029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When it wasn't my turn in the balloon I followed its progress from the "chase car," listening to the driver holler into a walkie-talkie.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20239030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After long stretches of this attendant ground activity came 20 or so lovely minutes of drifting above the Vosges watching the silver mists rise off the river and the French cows amble about the fields.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20239031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's hard not to feel that God's in his heaven with this kind of bird's-eye view of the world, even if your pilote in silly plaid beret kept pointing out how "belle" it all was.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20239032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eventually little French farmers and their little French farmwives came out of their stone houses and put their hands above their tiny eyes and squinted at us.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20239033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No wonder.@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20239034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We were coming down straight into their canal.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20239035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@See, the other rule of thumb about ballooning is that you can't steer.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20239036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And neither can your pilot.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20239037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can go only up or down (by heating the balloon's air with a propane burner, which does make the top of your head feel hot) and ride the air currents.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20239038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Which makes the chase car necessary.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20239039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most balloonists seldom go higher than 2,000 feet and most average a leisurely 5-10 miles an hour.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20239040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When the balloon is cruising along at a steady altitude there is little sense of motion.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20239041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Only when one is ascending -- or in our case descending a tad trop rapidement -- does one feel, well, airborne in a picnic basket.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20239042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"What's he doing?" hissed my companion, who was the only other English-speaking member of the convention and whose knuckles were white.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20239043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Attention," yelled our pilot as our basket plunged into the canal.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20239044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You bet attention," I yelled back, leaping atop the propane tanks, "I'm wearing alligator loafers!"@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20239045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Our pilot simply laughed, fired up the burner and with another blast of flame lifted us, oh, a good 12-inches above the water level.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20239046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We scuttled along for a few feet before he plunged us into the drink again.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20239047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eventually we came to rest in a soggy patch of field where we had the exquisite pleasure of scrambling out of the basket into the mud while the French half of our ballooning tag team scrambled in.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20239048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I looked at my watch.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20239049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Barely half-an-hour aloft.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20239050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Back in the chase car, we drove around some more, got stuck in a ditch, enlisted the aid of a local farmer to get out the trailer hitch and pull us out of the ditch.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20239051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We finally rendezvoused with our balloon, which had come to rest on a dirt road amid a clutch of Epinalers who watched us disassemble our craft -- another half-an-hour of non-flight activity -- that included the precision routine of yanking the balloon to the ground, punching all the air out of it, rolling it up and cramming it and the basket into the trailer.@@@@1@64@@oe@2-2-2013
20239052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was the most exercise we'd had all morning and it was followed by our driving immediately to the nearest watering hole.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20239053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This meant returning to the golf course, where we watched a few French duffers maul the first tee while we sat under Cinzano umbrellas, me nursing an espresso and my ego.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20239054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A whole morning of ballooning and I had been off the ground barely 30 minutes.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20239055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, I figured the event's envy-quotient back in the U.S.A. was near peerless.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20239056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As for the ride back to camp, our pilot and all the other French-speaking passengers clambered into the chase car.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20239057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@My American companion and I were left to ride alfresco in the wicker basket.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20239058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As we streaked by a blase gendarme, I couldn't resist rearing up on my soggy loafers and saluting.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20239059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. de Vries is a free-lance writer.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20240001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Treasury Undersecretary David Mulford defended the Treasury's efforts this fall to drive down the value of the dollar, saying it helped minimize damage from the 190-point drop in the stock market Oct. 13.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20240002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Testifying before a House subcommittee, Mr. Mulford said that if the Treasury hadn't intervened in foreign-exchange markets in September and early October to reduce the dollar's value, the plunge in the stock market might have provoked a steep fall in the currency that might have "unhinged financial markets."@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
20240003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mulford, responding to critics of intervention, also said intervention is "highly visible," is taken seriously by financial markets and works better than "was recognized some time ago."@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20240004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Differences between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve on the usefulness of intervention to help restrain the dollar resurfaced at the hearing.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20240005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fed Vice Chairman Manuel Johnson, who had dissented from the Treasury's policy, told lawmakers, "I became convinced about what looked to me like an attempt to push the dollar down against the fundamentals in the market."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20240006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Intervention, he added, is useful only to smooth disorderly markets, not to fundamentally influence the dollar's value.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20240007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. John LaFalce (D., N.Y.) said Mr. Johnson refused to testify jointly with Mr. Mulford and instead asked to appear after the Treasury official had completed his testimony.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20240008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Fed spokesman denied Mr. LaFalce's statement.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20240009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mulford said reports of tension between the Treasury and Fed have been exaggerated, insisting that they involved "nuances."@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20240010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Johnson also said that "in the scheme of things, these things are minor."@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20240011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On other matters, Mr. Mulford said West Germany is contributing to imbalances in the world economy because of its success as an exporter.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20240012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The solution is stronger domestic growth {in Germany}," he said.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20240013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But because the growth of the German economy has been stronger than expected, Mr. Mulford said, it's difficult for the U.S. to argue that Germany ought to adopt more stimulative monetary and fiscal policies.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20240014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Germany's trade surplus is largely with other European countries rather than with the U.S., Mr. Mulford acknowledged.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20240015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But nonetheless U.S. companies might be more successful in European markets if not for the German export push, he said.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20241001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Five officials of this investment banking firm were elected directors: E. Garrett Bewkes III, a 38-year-old managing director in the mergers and acquisitions department; Michael R. Dabney, 44, a managing director who directs the principal activities group which provides funding for leveraged acquisitions; Richard Harriton, 53, a general partner who heads the correspondent clearing services; Michael Minikes, 46, a general partner who is treasurer; and William J. Montgoris, 42, a general partner who is also senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.@@@@1@84@@oe@2-2-2013
20241002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The board increased by one to 26 members.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20241003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the past year, one inside director resigned, while three others retired.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20242001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some U.S. allies are complaining that President Bush is pushing conventional-arms talks too quickly, creating a risk that negotiators will make errors that could affect the security of Western Europe for years.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20242002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Concerns about the pace of the Vienna talks -- which are aimed at the destruction of some 100,000 weapons, as well as major reductions and realignments of troops in central Europe -- also are being registered at the Pentagon.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20242003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush has called for an agreement by next September at the latest.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20242004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But some American defense officials believe the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should take more time to examine the long-term implications of the options being considered.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20242005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For one thing, Pentagon officials, who asked not to be identified, worry that the U.S. will have a much tougher time persuading Europeans to keep some short-range nuclear weapons on their soil once Soviet armored forces are thinned out.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20242006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the same time, they contend that a reduction of NATO forces under a treaty will increase the possibility of a conventional Soviet attack unless the West retains a residual force of nuclear weapons in Europe.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20242007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Allies concerned about the deadline include the British, French and smaller NATO allies, some of whom don't have adequate staffs to provide quick answers to the questions being raised by what generally are considered the most complex arms-control talks ever attempted.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20242008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far, no ally has complained openly, preserving the impression that NATO is in line with the Bush position that a quick agreement bringing Soviet conventional forces down to parity with NATO is the West's top bargaining priority.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20242009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But even though NATO negotiators have only 10 months left under the Bush timetable, they are still wrestling over such seemingly fundamental questions as "What is a tank?"@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20242010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Five of the six categories of weapons under negotiation haven't even been defined.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20242011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tanks currently are defined as armored vehicles weighing 25 tons or more that carry large guns.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20242012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Soviets complicated the issue by offering to include light tanks, which are as light as 10 tons.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20242013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Oleg A. Grinevsky, the chief Soviet negotiator in the conventional-arms talks, argued that this would mean the Soviets would have to destroy some 1,800 tanks, while the U.S. would lose none because it has no light tanks in Europe.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20242014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the issue is stickier than it seems.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20242015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@France, Britain and Italy all have light tanks they would like to keep out of the talks.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20242016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And some U.S. Army analysts worry that the proposed Soviet redefinition is aimed at blocking the U.S. from developing lighter, more transportable, high-technology tanks.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20242017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Defining combat aircraft is even tougher.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20242018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Soviets insisted that aircraft be brought into the talks, then argued for exempting some 4,000 Russian planes because they are "solely defensive."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20242019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NATO hasn't budged from its insistence that any gun-carrying plane has offensive capability.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20242020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dispute over that issue, according to one U.S. official, is a "potential treaty stopper," and only President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev may be able to resolve it.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20242021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Accounting problems raise more knotty issues.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20242022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Greece and Turkey, for example, are suspected of overstating their arsenals in hopes that they can emerge from the arms-reduction treaty with large remaining forces to deter each other.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20242023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other nations aren't sure how many weapons they have in their own arsenals.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20242024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's just going to be sloppy, both on our side and theirs {the Warsaw Pact's}," says one NATO analyst.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20242025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far, neither the Bush administration nor arms-control experts in Congress seem moved by arguments that these problems may take more time to thrash out than President Bush has allowed.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20242026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They argue that the bigger danger would be that the West would delay action so long that the Soviets might back away from the current conciliatory attitude.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20242027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"So what if you miss 50 tanks somewhere?" asks Rep. Norman Dicks (D., Wash.), a member of the House group that visited the talks in Vienna.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20242028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The bottom line is that if we can get that {Warsaw Pact} superiority brought down to parity, we ought to keep pressing ahead as quickly as possible.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20242029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I worry more about things becoming so unraveled on the other side that they might become unable to negotiate.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20243001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@International Lease Finance Corp. announced a leasing contract with charter carrier American Trans Air Inc., in a transaction involving six Boeing Co. 757-200s.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20243002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The value of the jets, including spares, is in excess of $250 million.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20243003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two of the 757-200s are new aircraft to be delivered to American Trans Air, the main subsidiary of Amtran Inc., in December 1991 and January 1992.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20243004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Four of the planes were purchased by International Lease from Singapore Airlines in a previously announced transaction.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20243005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Delivery of the first aircraft is set for early November, a second for December and two for April 1990.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20244001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Norway's unemployment rate for October was 3.6%, unchanged from September but up from 2.6% in the same month last year.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20244002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The figure excludes a record number employed by extraordinary government work programs, the Labor Directorate announced Tuesday.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20244003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Including those in the state programs, there were 143,800 Norwegians, or about 6.5% of the work force, without permanent employment in October, up from September's 136,800.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20244004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The number of people registered as jobless at the end of October declined by 900 from September to 78,600.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20244005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Those employed in state-funded special programs increased by 7,400 to 65,200 in the same period, the Directorate said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20244006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In October 1988, there were 40,800 fewer employed by government programs.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20245001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coca-Cola Co., aiming to boost soft-drink volume in Singapore, said it is discussing a joint venture with Fraser & Neave Ltd., its bottling franchisee in that country.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20245002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The venture would be the latest in Coke's rapid expansion of overseas investment.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20245003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far this year, it has put nearly $700 million into bottling operations in Australia, New Zealand and France.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20245004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The move also reflects Coke's eagerness to have a hand in developing the soft-drink markets in Pacific Basin countries.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20245005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Aside from Europe, the Pacific division is where Coke will be focusing much of its attention for years to come.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20245006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's because when Coke looks to the Pacific area, it sees an economic and demographic gold mine.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20245007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In countries such as Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore, economies are growing, resulting in a rise in disposable income that consumers can use for soft drinks.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20245008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And unlike Europe and the U.S., where populations are aging, the Pacific Basin countries have growing proportions of youths -- the heaviest consumers of Coca-Cola and other sodas.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20245009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Coca-Cola spokesman said it is too early to say how the joint venture would be structured, or how much the company would invest in the transaction.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20245010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the past, however, Coke has typically taken a minority stake in such ventures.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20245011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By acquiring stakes in bottling companies in the U.S. and overseas, Coke has been able to improve bottlers' efficiency and production, and in some cases, marketing.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20245012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke has tended to increase its control when results were sluggish in a given country.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20245013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That doesn't appear to be the case in Singapore, a country of about three million people with a relatively high soft-drink consumption rate -- a key indicator of Coke's success in a market.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20245014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Singapore, per-capita consumption is about one-third that of the U.S.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20245015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And combining Fraser & Neave's own soft drinks with Coca-Cola's gives the Singapore company more than half the share of the soda market there, Coke said.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20245016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fraser & Neave, which also has interests in packaging, beer and dairy products, holds the Coke licenses for Malaysia and Brunei, where per-capita consumption isn't as high as in Singapore.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20245017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke could be interested in more quickly developing some of the untapped potential in those markets.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20245018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Coke spokesman said he couldn't say whether that is the direction of the talks.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20245019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke said the joint-venture arrangement, which needs approval from both companies' boards, should be completed early next year.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20246001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@AMERICAN BRANDS Inc., Old Greenwich, Conn., said it increased its quarterly 11% to 68 cents a share from 61 cents, payable Dec. 1 to stock of record Nov. 10.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20246002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The increase follows the company's report of strong earnings for the third quarter, and reflects what American Brands called its "tradition of sharing earnings growth" with shareholders.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20246003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@American Brands is a consumer products company with core businesses in tobacco, distilled spirits and life insurance.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20246004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As of Sept. 30, American Brands had 95.2 million shares outstanding.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20247001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Giovanni Agnelli & Co. announced a transaction that will strengthen its indirect control of Fiat S.p.A. and will admit Prince Karim Aga Khan as its first non-family shareholder.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20247002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Giovanni Agnelli, a limited partnership that is the master holding company for Fiat's Agnelli family, owns approximately 75% of the shares in Istituto Finanziario Industriale, which in turn owns approximately 40% of Fiat, Italy's biggest private-sector industrial group.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20247003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said Maria Sole Agnelli Teodorani, sister of Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, agreed to trade her shares in IFI for new ordinary shares in the limited partnership, which will give her control of 4.67% of Giovanni Agnelli & Co.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20247004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Aga Khan, meanwhile, agreed to trade some of his stake in Luxembourg-based Ifint S.A., another Agnelli family company, for 7.45% of Giovanni Agnelli & Co.'s capital.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20247005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His new stake would be in the form of preferred shares, which receive higher dividends but have voting rights only in extraordinary shareholders assemblies.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20247006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Aga Khan owns 10% of Ifint's capital, while IFI owns 23%.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20247007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result of the transaction, which is expected to be approved at a shareholders meeting Nov. 24, Giovanni Agnelli & Co. will control 79.18% of IFI's ordinary shares.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20247008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Its capital will also be raised to 232.4 billion lire ($172.5 million) from the current 204.3 billion lire.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20247009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IFI also has nonvoting preferred shares, which are quoted on the Milan stock exchange.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20247010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The value of the two transactions wasn't disclosed, but an IFI spokesman said no cash would change hands.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20247011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The move strengthens the existing links between the Agnellis and the Aga Khan, the head of the world's Ismaili Moslems who is a longtime family friend and frequently goes sailing with Mr. Agnelli.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20247012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Agnelli and the Aga Khan also have some business ties, and a spokesman for the Agnelli company didn't rule out that the current agreement could lead to further collaboration.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20247013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For instance, Ifint earlier this year bought an 18% stake in Alisarda, the Aga Khan's airline, which flies between Italy and Sardinia.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20247014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Giovanni Agnelli & Co., which was formed in January 1987 as a way of keeping the Agnellis' controlling stake in Fiat together despite an ever-growing family tree, has been playing a more active role in the Agnelli group of late.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20247015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It raised financing of 300 billion lire for the purchase this summer by another Agnelli-related group of the food concern Galbani S.p.A., by selling a chunk of its IFI shares to Mediobanca S.p.A.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20247016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mediobanca said during the weekend that it agreed to sell the shares back to Giovanni Agnelli for 333 billion lire.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20248001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Your Oct. 2 page-one article on people riding so-called "railbikes" on railroad tracks was a disservice to your readers.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20248002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It unfortunately encourages others to engage in a highly dangerous and illegal activity that only a very few are doing now.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20248003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And it treats such activities in a frivolous, cavalier fashion, with total indifference to common sense and public safety.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20248004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Saul Resnick@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20248005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Vice President@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20248006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Public Affairs@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20248007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Conrail@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20249001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MCI Communications Corp. said it received a three-year contract valued at more than $15 million to provide network, credit-card and other telecommunications services to Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20250001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed on a compromise minimum-wage bill, opening the way for the first wage-floor boost in more than nine years.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20250002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agreement ended a long impasse between the congressional leaders and the White House over the wage issue.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20250003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@President Bush in June vetoed a measure passed by Congress and said he wouldn't accept any minimum-wage rise that went beyond limits he set early in this year's debate on the issue.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20250004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The compromise was a somewhat softened version of what the White House had said it would accept.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20250005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the agreement with the House and Senate leaders, the minimum wage would rise from the current $3.35 an hour to $4.25 an hour by April 1991.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20250006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Employers could also pay a subminimum "training wage" for 90 days to new workers who are up to 19 years old, and then for another 90 days if the company institutes a specific training program for the newcomers.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20250007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@White House officials were delighted that the compromise includes the concept of a training wage, which Mr. Bush has fought for throughout the year.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20250008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"For the first time in history, we have a training wage that will be part" of the nation's labor laws, said Roger Porter, assistant to the president for economic and domestic policy.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20250009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@White House aides said that although they made a small compromise on the length of a training wage, the final minimum-wage increase will meet the standards set by Mr. Bush.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20250010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bill vetoed by the president in June, which the House failed to override, would have lifted the minimum wage to $4.55 an hour by late 1991, with a training wage for up to two months, generally for a worker's first job.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20250011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush had been holding out for a bill boosting the wage floor to $4.25 an hour by the end of 1991, coupled with a six-month training wage for workers newly hired by any employer.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20250012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the compromise, the $4.25 level would be reached nine months earlier, while the training subminimum would be shorter, unless it is tied to a training plan.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20250013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Democrats argued that the training wage was a way of allowing employers to pay less than the minimum wage, while new workers need far less than six months to be trained for their jobs.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20250014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Democrats had been negotiating with some Republican congressional leaders on a compromise lately.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20250015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With congressional elections next year, GOP leaders have worried about opposing a minimum-wage rise for low-paid workers at a time when Congress is moving toward a capital-gains tax cut that would directly benefit wealthier taxpayers.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20250016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Republicans have been imploring the White House to compromise on the wage issue.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20250017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the Senate, Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), chairman of the Labor Committee, and Pete Domenici, (R., N.M.) ranking minority member of the Budget Committee, have been working on a compromise, and their soundings showed that the Senate appeared to be heading toward enough strength to override another Bush veto, a Democratic staff official said.@@@@1@54@@oe@2-2-2013
20250018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The House is scheduled to vote this week on the compromise, as a substitute to a new Democratic bill, itself watered down from last spring's version.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20250019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Senate will probably vote not long afterward.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20250020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some Democrats thought they might have compromised too much.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20250021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Austin Murphy (D., Pa.), chairman of the House labor standards subcommittee, said they might have done better "if we'd held their feet to the fire."@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20250022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kennedy suggested Democrats "yielded a great deal" on the size of the increase, but he cited concessions from the White House on the training wage, which he said make it "less harsh."@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20250023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With only 16-year-olds to 19-year-olds eligible, 68% of workers getting less than $4.25 an hour, who are adults, won't be subject to the training wage, he said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20250024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The AFL-CIO, which previously opposed the administration's subminimum idea, said the compromise has "adequate safeguards, so the youth are not exploited and older workers are not displaced."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20250025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gerald F. Seib contributed to this article.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20251001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moody's Investors Service Inc. said it lowered the ratings on about $3.2 billion of Houston Lighting & Power Co.'s securities because of the company's low levels of interest coverage and internal cash generation.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20251002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Houston Lighting is a unit of Houston Industries Inc., a utility holding company in Houston.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20251003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Downgraded by Moody's were Houston Lighting's first-mortgage bonds and secured pollution-control bonds to single-A-3 from single-A-2; unsecured pollution-control bonds to Baa-1 from single-A-3; preferred stock to single-A-3 from single-A-2; a shelf registration for preferred stock to a preliminary rating of single-A-3 from a preliminary rating of single-A-2; two shelf registrations for collateralized debt securities to a preliminary rating of single-A-3 from a preliminary rating of single-A-2, and the unit's rating for commercial paper to Prime-2 from Prime-1.@@@@1@77@@oe@2-2-2013
20251004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moody's said Houston Lighting's current situation has some positive aspects, including managing "very well" the construction and commercial operation risks of Units 1 and 2 of the South Texas Project nuclear power plant.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20251005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Capital requirements will be declining and no new generating facilities will be required for several years, Moody's said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20252001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scott C. Smith, formerly vice president, finance, and chief financial officer of this media concern, was named senior vice president.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20252002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Smith, 39, retains the title of chief financial officer.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20253001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Armstrong World Industries Inc. agreed in principle to sell its carpet operations to Shaw Industries Inc.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20253002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The price wasn't disclosed but one analyst estimated that it was $150 million.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20253003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Armstrong, which has faced a takeover threat from the Belzberg family of Canada since July, said that disposing of the carpet business would improve "total financial performance."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20253004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The move also would allow the company to concentrate on core businesses, which include ceramic tile, floor coverings and furniture.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20253005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, such a sale could help Armstrong reassure its investors and deter the Belzbergs, who own a 9.85% stake in the Lancaster, Pa., company.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20253006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Analysts expect Armstrong to use proceeds of the sale to reduce debt, buy back stock or perhaps finance an acquisition.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20253007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The carpet division had 1988 sales of $368.3 million, or almost 14% of Armstrong's $2.68 billion total revenue.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20253008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company has been manufacturing carpet since 1967.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20253009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Recently it upgraded its plants so that it could make stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20253010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the past year or two, the carpet division's operating profit margins have hovered around 5%, high by industry standards, but disappointing compared with the 13% to 19% margins for two of Armstrong's chief businesses, flooring and building products.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20253011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Analysts hailed the planned transaction as being beneficial to Armstrong and Shaw, the market leader in the U.S. carpet industry, with an estimated 17% to 20% share.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20253012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Shaw, based in Dalton, Ga., has annual sales of about $1.18 billion, and has economies of scale and lower raw-material costs that are expected to boost the profitability of Armstrong's brands, sold under the Armstrong and Evans-Black names.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20253013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday, in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Shaw's shares closed ex-dividend at $26.125, up $2.25.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20253014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Armstrong's shares, also listed on the Big Board, closed at $39.125, up 12.5 cents.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20253015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday, Armstrong reported flat earnings for the third quarter and nine months, worsened by the stock dilution of an employee stock ownership plan adopted earlier this year.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20253016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the quarter, earnings were $47 million, or 92 cents a share, including a one-time gain of $5.9 million.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20253017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the year-ago quarter, earnings were $42.9 million, or 93 cents a share.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20253018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday, Armstrong announced an agreement to sell its small Applied Color Systems unit to a subsidiary of the Swiss company, Brauerei Eichof Ltd.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20253019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The price wasn't disclosed.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20253020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Armstrong expects to close the sale of the color unit in late November and the carpet sale in December, with the gains to be applied to fourth quarter or first-quarter results.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20254001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The government's primary economic-forecasting gauge rose a slight 0.2% in September, but economists said the report offered little new information on the degree to which the U.S. economy is slowing.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20254002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The small increase in the index of leading indicators, which had climbed 0.5% in August but was unchanged in July, does lend support to the view that the economy has slowed noticeably.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20254003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, it doesn't give much of a clue as to whether a recession is on the horizon.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20254004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I don't think it provides much new information on the economy," said Richard Rippe, economist at Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20254005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far this year, the index of leading indicators has risen in four months, fallen in four months and remained unchanged in the other month.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20254006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In another report yesterday, the Commerce Department said sales of new single-family houses plunged 14% in September to an annual rate of 618,000 from 719,000 in August.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20254007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The declines were particularly pronounced in the Northeast and in the South, where Hurricane Hugo was a factor.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20254008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although September's weakness followed two strong months for home sales, the decline supports other indications that the drop in mortgage rates earlier this year has had only a limited beneficial effect on the housing market.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20254009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The September drop was the largest since a 19% drop in January 1982, but monthly changes in this measure are even less reliable than those in other economic indicators.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20254010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because the figures are based on a small sample, the department said it is 90% confident only that new-home sales fell somewhere between 5% and 23% during the month.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20254011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The department also said it takes four months to establish a trend.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20254012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far this year, 534,000 newly built homes have been sold, down 4.5% from the like months of 1988.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20254013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The index of leading indicators got a major boost in September from a surge in consumer expectations as measured by the University of Michigan.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20254014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This measure had dropped sharply in August.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20254015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Commerce Department said that as a result of a new adjustment to the formula used to calculate the index, the influence of this component has been reduced.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20254016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of the 11 components to the index, only three others rose in September: the money supply, the length of the average work week and stock prices.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20254017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Several components that track the health of the manufacturing sector of the economy turned down in September.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20254018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These include new orders for manufactured consumer goods, lead times on vendor deliveries, orders for new plant and equipment, and backlogs of orders for durable goods.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20254019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, the National Association of Manufacturers said yesterday a recent poll of 53 executives on its board found that 61% don't expect a recession to occur until 1991 or later.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20254020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The remainder expect a downturn to begin sometime in@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20254021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although manufacturers often are quick to call for lower interest rates, 60% of the executives said they would prefer that the Fed keep inflation-fighting as its top priority even if that means higher rates.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20254022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The other 40% said the Fed ought to worry less about inflation and bring interest rates down.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20254023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All the figures are adjusted to remove usual seasonal patterns.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20254024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here are the net contributions of the components of the Commerce Department's index of leading indicators.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20254025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After various adjustments, they produced a 0.5% rise in the index for August and a 0.2% rise for September.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20254026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@September, and the change from August, are: from 1.11 in the previous month.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20255001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Boston Edison Co. said it will take a previously reported $60 million charge against earnings in the fourth quarter.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20255002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The charge resulted from a settlement approved yesterday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20255003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As expected, the settlement limits rate increases for three years and ties future charges to customers for operation of the troubled Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to that plant's performance.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20255004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In its order, the state regulatory agency said the company "must be held accountable for the mistakes made in the management of the plant's operation."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20255005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pilgrim had been closed for 32 months.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20256001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average interest rate rose to 8.3875% at Citicorp's $50 million weekly auction of 91-day commercial paper, or corporate IOUs, from 8.337% at last week's sale.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20256002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bids totaling $515 million were submitted.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20256003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Accepted bids ranged from 8.38% to 8.395%.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20256004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Citicorp also said that the average rate rose to 8.0087% at its $50 million auction of 182-day commercial paper from 7.962% at last week's sale.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20256005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bids totaling $475 million were submitted.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20256006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Accepted bids ranged from 8% to 8.019%.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20256007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bank holding company will auction another $50 million in each maturity next Tuesday.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20257001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An imaginative novelist writing a thriller about amateur spy-chasing might invent a Clifford Stoll, but it's unlikely.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20257002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's also unnecessary.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20257003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Amateur spy-chaser Clifford Stoll is a real person, or as he might waggishly put it, a surreal person.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20257004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He is 37, an astronomer with impressive credentials, and something of a genius at making computers do his bidding.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20257005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He once described himself as a "Berkeley Hippie," and played the role well; obligatory ragged jeans, a thicket of long hair and rejection of all things conventional, including, for a time at least, formal marriage to his "sweetheart," Martha Matthews.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20257006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He also is an entertaining writer, combining wisecracks and wordplay with programmatic detail and lucid explanations of how computers work.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20257007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In "The Cuckoo's Egg" (Doubleday, 326 pages, $19.95), he spins a remarkable tale of his efforts over 18 months to catch a computer spy.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20257008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The result last spring was the arrest by West German authorities of five young West Germans, accused of stealing information from computers in the U.S. and Europe and selling it to the Soviet KGB.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20257009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of them, 25-year-old Markus Hess of Hannover, allegedly used the international telecommunications network to break into more than 30 high-security computers in the U.S., searching for secrets.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20257010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He probably didn't penetrate any top-secret files, but the KGB in East Berlin was willing to pay two of his associates, Peter Carl and Dirk Brezinski, $15,000 for some of the material Hess collected.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20257011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They promised yet more for really good stuff.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20257012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Stoll draws his title from the cuckoo's habit of laying eggs in the nests of other birds, making them surrogate parents.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20257013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The computer spy had discovered that a popular editing/electronic mail program called Gnu-Emacs could do tricks with the widely used Unix operating system created by AT&T.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20257014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Using Gnu-Emacs, the spy could substitute a bogus "atrun" program for the one that routinely cleans up the Unix system every five minutes.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20257015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once his cuckoo's egg was laid, he could enter Unix and become a "super-user," with access to everything.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20257016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Stoll was scanning the heavens at the Keck observatory of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1986 when his grant ran low and he was asked to switch to helping run the lab's computers.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20257017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He discovered a 75-cent discrepancy in the charges made to various departments for computer time and traced it to a user named "Hunter," who had no valid billing address.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20257018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Stoll suspected the intruder was one of those precocious students who has fun breaking into computers.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20257019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But after much tracking, it became evident to Mr. Stoll, through various clues, that the hacker was not on the Berkeley campus or even in California.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20257020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finding him became an obsession for Mr. Stoll.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20257021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He made a midnight requisition of all the printers he could lay hands on so that he could monitor all the telephone lines coming into the lab's computers.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20257022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After discovering that the hacker had taken over the dormant account of a legitimate user named Joe Sventek, he rigged up an alarm system, including a portable beeper, to alert him when Sventek came on the line.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20257023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some nights he slept under his desk.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20257024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His boss complained about neglect of other chores.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20257025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The hacker was pawing over the Berkeley files but also using Berkeley and other easily accessible computers as stepping stones to the network of computers used by the military and national security agencies.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20257026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The White Sands missile range and CIA contractor Mitre Inc. were among the targets.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20257027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When the hacker moved, Mr. Stoll moved too, calling up other systems managers to alert them but keeping his own system open to avoid arousing suspicion.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20257028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sometimes, if the hacker seemed to be into a sensitive file, he would drag his keychain across the terminal to create static or slow the system down to frustrate his quarry.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20257029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The FBI initially showed little interest, and he had the impression other federal security agencies were tangled up in legal red tape.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20257030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The CIA told him it does not do domestic counterespionage.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20257031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One learns a lot from this book, or seems to, about crippling federal bureaucracy.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20257032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Seems to" because it's possible that the CIA and the National Security Agency were more interested than they let on to Mr. Stoll.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20257033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finally, he got help.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20257034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tymnet is a major network linking computers.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20257035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of its international specialists, Steve White, took a quick interest in Mr. Stoll's hunt, ultimately tracing the hacker to West Germany.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20257036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The West Germans then took over and finally found Markus Hess.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20257037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eventually, Mr. Stoll was invited to both the CIA and NSA to brief high-ranking officers on computer theft.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20257038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He savored the humor of his uncombed appearance among these buttoned-up chaps.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20257039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Back in Berkeley, he was violently scolded by a left-wing lady friend for consorting with such people.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20257040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He became angry in return.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20257041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He had developed a hatred for the hacker and a grudging appreciation of the federal "spooks" who make national security their business.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20257042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At several different levels, it's a fascinating tale.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20257043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Melloan is deputy editor of the Journal.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20258001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mips Computer Systems Inc. today will unveil a new general-purpose computer that will compete with more expensive machines from companies such as Sun Microsystems Inc. and Digital Equipment Corp.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20258002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The closely held Sunnyvale, Calif., company also will announce an agreement to supply computers to Control Data Corp., which will sell Mips machines under its own label.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20258003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new Mips machine, called the RC6280, will cost $150,000 for a basic system.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20258004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The computer processes 55 million instructions per second and uses only one central processing chip, unlike many rival machines using several processors.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20258005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The machine employs reduced instruction-set computing, or RISC, technology.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20258006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At that price, an analyst familiar with the machine said, the computer offers up to 10 times the performance of similar machines.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20258007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"In the price range it's a tremendously high-performing product," said Sandy Gant, an analyst at the market-research firm InfoCorp.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20258008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The machine is part of an effort by Mips to establish itself as a supplier of computers, not just of integrated-circuit technology.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20258009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mips also wants to wedge into markets other than traditional RISC applications such as engineering; Mips said the new machine will also be used by businesses and for communications.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20258010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This clearly demonstrates that Mips is a systems company rather than just a chip company," said Mips Vice President John Hime.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20258011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Control Data deal is a boon for Mips because it gives the the five-year-old company one more ally as it battles more established electronic concerns such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard Co., Motorola Inc. and Intel Corp. for the emerging market for RISC machines.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20258012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RISC technology speeds up a computer by simplifying the internal software.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20258013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Mips, which expects revenue of $100 million this year, big-name allies such as Control Data are essential to attract software developers to the company's RISC architecture.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20258014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The thing it says about Mips is that they're on a roll right now," said Ms. Gant at InfoCorp.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20258015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"They're getting some major wins," she added.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20258016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last month, for example, Mips agreed to supply its computers to Nixdorf Computer AG of West Germany and France's Groupe Bull.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20258017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sony Corp., Tandem Computers Inc. and Digital Equipment have agreed to sell MIPS computers and companies such as Japan's NEC Corp. and West Germany's Siemens A.G. have agreed to make Mips chips under license.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20258018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Today's agreement gives Control Data a machine to compete against Digital and other general-purpose computer makers, said John Logan, a computer-market analyst at Aberdeen Group Inc. of Boston.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20258019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The machine is essentially a mainframe computer, he said.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20258020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Suddenly CDC (Control Data) has a competitive product to fight back against the VAX9000," a machine Digital announced last month, he added.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20258021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Control Data, based in Minneapolis, Minn., expects its sales of Mips systems, including the new RC6280, to amount to more than $100 million by the end of 1991, Mips said.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20258022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nixdorf, Bull and others will also sell versions of the machine, said Mips President Robert Miller.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20258023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mips will start shipping its new machine in the first quarter of 1990, he said.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20258024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The machine uses a single processor, which makes it easier to program than competing machines using several processors.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20258025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The computer can process 13.3 million calculations called floating-point operations every second.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20258026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The machine can run software written for other Mips computers, the company said.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20259001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another fight is brewing between Congress and the Bush administration over how to pay for the savings-and-loan bailout without adding to the federal budget deficit.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20259002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, the General Accounting Office and the Congressional Budget Office, which both are arms of Congress, advised the new S&L bailout agency to abandon plans to raise temporary working capital through debt issued from an agency that wouldn't be counted on the federal budget.@@@@1@53@@oe@2-2-2013
20259003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Officials of the Resolution Trust Corp. have said privately that such a plan was the most likely alternative to raise short-term cash for the bailout.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20259004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, the GAO and the Congressional Budget Office said, the RTC should consider using Treasury debt, which is less expensive and subject to oversight by Congress.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20259005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The spending could be exempted from meeting deficit-reduction targets in the Gramm-Rudman budget law.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20259006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The RTC has projected that it will require between $50 billion to $100 billion in temporary working capital.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20259007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The borrowing to raise these funds would be paid off as assets of sick thrifts are sold.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20259008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new S&L law allows the RTC to issue notes for as much as 85% of the value of the assets it holds.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20259009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But higher interest rates paid on off-budget debt could add billions to the bailout costs, and wouldn't be subject to congressional scrutiny, Ways and Means members argued.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20259010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"To allow this massive level of unfettered federal borrowing without prior congressional approval would be irresponsible," said Rep. Fortney Stark (D., Calif.), who has introduced a bill to limit the RTC's authority to issue debt.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20259011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The RTC will have to sell or merge hundreds of insolvent thrifts over the next three years.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20259012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new S&L bailout law allows $50 billion to be spent to sell or merge sick S&Ls and their assets, but that is a net cost.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20259013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the meantime, the agency must raise cash to maintain assets, such as real estate, until they can be sold.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20259014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then the short-term debt is paid off through the proceeds of selling the assets.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20259015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@David Mullins, assistant secretary of the Treasury, said that the working capital is necessary to reduce the final costs of the bailout, by allowing the agency to sell savings and loans without their bad assets, then hold the assets until they can be sold under favorable conditions.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20259016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said it hasn't yet been determined how the RTC will raise the cash, but the administration doesn't want it to be included on the federal budget, because it would "distort" the budget process by requiring either exemptions from Gramm-Rudman or big increases in the budget deficit.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20259017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the worst possibility would be raising no working capital, he said.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20259018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If working capital financing is not provided," he said, "the RTC may have to slow {S&L sales} or dump acquired assets through fire sales.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20260001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Panhandle Eastern Corp. said it applied, on behalf of two of its subsidiaries, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permission to build a 352-mile, $273 million pipeline system from Pittsburg County, Okla., to Independence, Miss.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20260002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The natural gas pipeline concern said the 500 million cubic feet a day capacity pipeline would be built by a proposed joint venture between two Panhandle Eastern units-Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. and Trunkline Gas Co.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20260003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Texas Eastern Transmission will build and operate the system, which will connect the Arkoma Basin with several interstate pipelines.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20261001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now was that a quarter cup or a half cup?@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20261002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not a gripping question, unless you're the pastry chef of this city's Chez Panisse restaurant and you've just lost your priceless personal dessert notebook.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20261003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chez Panisse was listed among the top 30 restaurants in the world this year by Connoisseur magazine.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20261004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tattered black binder, bulging with 18 years' worth of recipes held together by rubber bands, was in chef Lindsey Shere's purse when it was stolen from her house recently.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20261005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Berkeley police don't have any leads but doubt the crime was driven by a passion for sweets.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20261006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, they figure the culprit probably took money from Ms. Shere's wallet and discarded all the tips in the five-by-eight-inch looseleaf.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20261007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chez Panisse, whose founder, Alice Waters, is considered the inventor of the cooking style known as California cuisine and whose patrons make reservations a month in advance, hasn't exactly subjected diners to vanilla ice cream because of the theft.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20261008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For one thing, Ms. Shere can draw on her cookbook, published by Random House four years ago, which is teeming with recipes for such specialties as kiwi sherbet, gooseberry fool (a creamy dish made with crushed stewed berries) and hazelnut "oeufs a la neige."@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20261009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For another, sympathetic fans have sent Ms. Shere copies of her recipes clipped from magazines over the years.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20261010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, the restaurant's ever-changing menu of five-course dinners -- it supposedly hasn't repeated a meal since opening in 1971 -- requires constant improvisation.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20261011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And that puts added pressure on Chez Panisse dessert-menu planners.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20261012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We make what we know how to make," says business manager Richard Mazzera.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20261013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many in the Bay Area's pastry community express disbelief that Ms. Shere kept only one copy of such valuable notes, but she has received moral support from Baker's Dozen, a group of California pastry chefs that meets regularly to discuss issues like how to keep meringues from weeping and how bovine eating habits affect butter texture.@@@@1@56@@oe@2-2-2013
20261014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. Shere has offered a $500 reward for the book's return but figures she'll have to reinvent many recipes from scratch.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20261015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's an overwhelming job," she says.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20261016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There are so many possible proportions when you consider how many things are made out of eggs and butter and milk.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20262001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Newport Electronics Inc. named a new slate of officers, a move that follows replacement of the company's five incumbent directors last week.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20262002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Milton B. Hollander, 60 years old, was named chief executive officer, succeeding Barrett B. Weekes.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20262003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Hollander's Stamford, Conn.-based High Technology Holding Co. acquired most of its 49.4% stake in Newport in August.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20262004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Hollander was named chairman last week, succeeding Mr. Weekes, who was among the ousted directors.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20262005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company has declined requests to discuss the changes, but Mr. Weekes has said that Mr. Hollander wanted to have his own team.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20262006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scott Wakeman was named president and chief operating officer of U.S. operations, titles that had been held by Mr. Weekes.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20262007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Wakeman was vice president of the instrument and controls division of closely held Omega Engineering Inc., another company controlled by Mr. Hollander.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20262008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A company spokesman didn't know Mr. Wakeman's age.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20262009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@James R. Lees, 51, vice president of Newport's European operations, was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of European operations, assuming some former duties of Mr. Weekes.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20262010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arthur B. Crozier, 34, an attorney, was named secretary, succeeding John Virtue, who was another of the ousted directors.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20263001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@UNIFIRST Corp. declared a 2-for-1 stock split.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20263002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Wilmington, Mass., garment service company also boosted its quarterly dividend 20% to three cents a share adjusted for the split.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20263003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dividend had been five cents a share.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20263004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The split and quarterly dividend will be payable Jan. 3 to stock of record Nov. 16, the company said.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20263005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The split will raise the number of shares outstanding to about 10.2 million.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20263006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Separately, UniFirst reported that net income rose 21% to $3 million, or 29 cents a share adjusted for the split, for the fourth quarter ended Aug. 26.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20263007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A year earlier UniFirst earned $2.4 million, or 24 cents a share adjusted for the split.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20263008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales rose to $52.4 million from $50.1 million.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20264001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fibreboard Corp. said it completed the previously reported sale of approximately 27,500 acres of timberland near Truckee, Calif., to closely held Sierra Pacific Industries Corp., Arcata, Calif., for $32.5 million.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20264002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The lumber, insulation and fireproofing concern said the transaction, which includes a swap of other timber interests, would result in a $13.5 million after-tax gain, to be recorded in the fourth quarter.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20265001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Healthcare International Inc. said it reached a 120-day standstill agreement with its HealthVest affiliate calling for Healthcare to pay HealthVest $5 million right away and additional amounts in the future.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20265002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the agreement, Healthcare, a manager of health-care facilities, said it would pay HealthVest $3.9 million in overdue rent and mortgage payments and repay $1.1 million in funds that HealthVest advanced for construction work on facilities.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20265003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In return, HealthVest agreed that it won't exercise its rights and remedies against Healthcare during the 120-day period.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20265004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After the payment, Healthcare still will be $6.5 million in arrears on rent and mortgage payments to HealthVest, a real estate investment trust whose portfolio consists largely of properties operated by Healthcare.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20265005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Healthcare has given HealthVest a 12% note for that overdue amount, to be repaid over three years.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20265006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, Healthcare agreed to make monthly rent and mortgage payments of $2.7 million to $3 million to HealthVest during the standstill period, to be paid when Healthcare successfully completes asset sales.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20265007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because Healthcare actually owes HealthVest $4.2 million in rent and mortgage payments each month, the amount due above the amount paid will be added to the three-year note.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20265008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The funds should help ease a cash bind at HealthVest, which has been unable to pay its debts because Healthcare hasn't made complete rent and mortgage payments since July.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20265009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman said HealthVest has paid two of the three banks it owed interest to in October and is in negotiations with the third bank.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20265010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Healthcare, which has been in a severe liquidity bind, said it is able to make the payments because it completed a transaction with Greenery Rehabilitation Group Inc. in which Greenery purchased stock and warrants for $500,000 and loaned Healthcare $9 million.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20265011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The loan is backed by Healthcare's 5.4% stake in HealthVest and interest in certain facilities.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20266001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I was pleased to note that your Oct. 23 Centennial Journal item recognized the money-fund concept as one of the significant events of the past century.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20266002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Actually, about two years ago, the Journal listed the creation of the money fund as one of the 10 most significant events in the world of finance in the 20th century.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20266003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the Reserve Fund, America's first money fund, was not named, nor were the creators of the money-fund concept, Harry Brown and myself.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20266004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We innovated telephone redemptions, daily dividends, total elimination of share certificates and the constant $1 pershare pricing, all of which were painfully thought out and not the result of some inadvertence on the part of the SEC.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20266005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@President@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20266006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Reserve Fund@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20267001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The crowning moment in the career of Joseph F. O'Kicki came as 300 local and state dignitaries packed into his elegant, marble-columned courtroom here last year for his swearing in as President Judge of Cambria County.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20267002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Baskets of roses and potted palms adorned his bench.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20267003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The local American Legion color guard led the way.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20267004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As the judge marched down the center aisle in his flowing black robe, he was heralded by a trumpet fanfare.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20267005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To many, it was a ceremony more befitting a king than a rural judge seated in the isolated foothills of the southern Allegheny Mountains.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20267006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But then Judge O'Kicki often behaved like a man who would be king -- and, some say, an arrogant and abusive one.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20267007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While his case may be extreme, it reflects the vulnerability of many small communities to domineering judges.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20267008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last March, nine months after the judge's swearing-in, the state attorney general's office indicted him on a sweeping array of charges alleging more than 10 years of "official oppression" in Cambria County, a depressed steel and mining community in western Pennsylvania.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20267009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The allegations, ranging from theft and bribery to coercion and lewdness, paint a disquieting picture.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20267010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to testimony in a public, 80-page grand-jury report handed up to the state attorney general, Judge O'Kicki extorted cash from lawyers, muscled favorable loans from banks and bullied local businesses for more than a decade.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20267011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Prosecutors, in an indictment based on the grand jury's report, maintain that at various times since 1975, he owned a secret and illegal interest in a beer distributorship; plotted hidden ownership interests in real estate that presented an alleged conflict of interest; set up a dummy corporation to buy a car and obtain insurance for his former girlfriend (now his second wife); and maintained 54 accounts in six banks in Cambria County.@@@@1@72@@oe@2-2-2013
20267012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In testimony recorded in the grand jury report, court employees said the judge, now 59 years old, harassed his secretaries, made imperial demands on his staff and hounded anyone who crossed him.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20267013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bailiffs claimed they were required to chauffeur him to and from work, mow his lawn, chop his wood, fix his car and even drop by his house to feed his two grown mutts, Dixie and Husky.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20267014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One former bailiff charged that the judge double-crossed him by reneging on a promise of a better paying job after pocketing a $500 bribe.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20267015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of the allegations are simply bizarre.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20267016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two former secretaries told the grand jury they were summoned to the judge's chambers on separate occasions to take dictation, only to find the judge in his bikini underwear.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20267017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One secretary testified that the judge once called her to his office while wearing nothing at all.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20267018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge, suspended from his bench pending his trial, which began this week, vehemently denies all the allegations against him, calling them "ludicrous" and "imaginative, political demagoguery."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20267019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He blames the indictment on local political feuding, unhappiness with his aggressive efforts to clear the courthouse's docket and a vendetta by state investigators and prosecutors angered by some of his rulings against them.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20267020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know whose toes I've stepped on," says the judge.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20267021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I'll find out, eventually, who pushed the state police buttons into action."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20267022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even if only some of the allegations stand up, however, they provide ample testimony to the awesome power of judges in rural communities.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20267023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That power can sometimes be abused, particularly since jurists in smaller jurisdictions operate without many of the restraints that serve as corrective measures in urban areas.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20267024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lawyers and their clients who frequently bring business to a country courthouse can expect to appear before the same judge year after year.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20267025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fear of alienating that judge is pervasive, says Maurice Geiger, founder and director of the Rural Justice Center in Montpelier, Vt., a public interest group that researches rural justice issues.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20267026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, says Mr. Geiger, lawyers think twice before appealing a judge's ruling, are reluctant to mount, or even support, challenges against him for re-election and are usually loath to file complaints that might impugn a judge's integrity.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20267027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Judge O'Kicki, a stern and forbidding-looking man, has been a fixture in the local legal community for more than two decades.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20267028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The son of an immigrant stonemason of Slovenian descent, he was raised in a small borough outside Ebensburg, the Cambria County seat, and put himself through the University of Pittsburgh Law School.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20267029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He graduated near the top of his class, serving on the school law review with Richard Thornburgh, who went on to become governor of Pennsylvania and, now, U.S. Attorney General.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20267030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was also in law school that Mr. O'Kicki and his first wife had the first of seven daughters.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20267031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He divorced his first wife three years ago and married the daughter of his court clerk.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20267032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last year, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John P. Flaherty called Mr. O'Kicki one of the finest judges "not only in Pennsylvania but in the United States."@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20267033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Clearly, the judge has had his share of accomplishments.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20267034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After practicing law locally, he was elected to his first 10-year term as judge in 1971; in 1981, he was effectively re-elected.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20267035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Six years ago, Judge O'Kicki was voted president of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges by the state's 400 judges.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20267036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He has been considered several times for appointments to federal district and appellate court vacancies in Pennsylvania.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20267037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And when he ran unsuccessfully for a state appellate court seat in 1983, the Pennsylvania Bar Association rated him "one of the best available," after interviewing local lawyers.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20267038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"He probably was the smartest guy who ever sat on our bench," says a former president of Cambria County's 150-member bar association, who, like most lawyers in Cambria County, refuses to talk about the judge publicly.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20267039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"He's sharp as a tack.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20267040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He could grasp an issue with the blink of an eye."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20267041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For more than a decade, virtually no one complained about Judge O'Kicki.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20267042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"What about those institutions that are supposed to be the bedrock of society, the banks and the bar association. . . ?" wrote a columnist for the Tribune-Democrat, a newspaper in nearby Johnstown, shortly after the scandal became public.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20267043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If only a banker or a lawyer had spoken out years ago, the judicial process wouldn't be under the taint it is today."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20267044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Officials with the Pennsylvania Judicial Inquiry and Review Board, the arm of the state that investigates judicial misconduct, counter that they had no inkling of anything amiss in Ebensburg.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20267045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Nobody told us; nobody called us," says an official close to the case who asked not to be named.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20267046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Nobody had the guts to complain."@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20267047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Certainly not the lawyers.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20267048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Johnstown attorney Richard J. Green Jr. shelled out $500 in loans to the judge over five years, he said in testimony to the grand jury.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20267049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The judge never made a pretense of repaying the money," said Mr. Green.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20267050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eventually, Mr. Green testified, he began ducking out of his office rather than face the judge when he visited.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20267051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When Mr. Green won a $240,000 verdict in a land condemnation case against the state in June 1983, he says Judge O'Kicki unexpectedly awarded him an additional $100,000.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20267052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Green thought little of it, he told the grand jury, until the judge walked up to him after the courtroom had cleared and suggested a kickback.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20267053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Don't you think I ought to get a commission . . . or part of your fee in this case?" Mr. Green said the judge asked him.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20267054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Appalled, Mr. Green never paid the money, he testified.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20267055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But he didn't complain to the state's Judicial Inquiry and Review Board, either, saying later that he feared retribution.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20267056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. O'Kicki said he will respond to Mr. Green's allegation at his trial.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20267057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like most of Cambria County's lawyers and residents who had dealings with the judge, Mr. Green declined to be interviewed for this article.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20267058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And no one with a complaint about the judge would allow his name to be printed.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20267059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I don't have anything much to say, and I think that's what you're going to find from everyone else you talk to up here," says local attorney Edward F. Peduzzi.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20267060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Says another lawyer: "The practice of law is a matter of biting one's lip when you live in a small community.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20267061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One had best not dance on top of a coffin until the lid is sealed tightly shut."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20267062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge was considered imperious, abrasive and ambitious, those who practiced before him say.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20267063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He sipped tea sweetened with honey from his high-backed leather chair at his bench, while scribbling notes ordering spectators to stop whispering or to take off their hats in his courtroom.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20267064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Four years ago, he jailed all nine members of the Cambria County School Board for several hours after they defied his order to extend the school year by several weeks to make up for time lost during a teachers' strike.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20267065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Visitors in his chambers say he could cite precisely the years, months, weeks and days remaining until mandatory retirement would force aside the presiding president judge, giving Judge O'Kicki the seniority required to take over as the county's top court administrator.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20267066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge, they say, was fiercely proud of his abilities and accomplishments.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20267067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"My name is judge," Judge O'Kicki told a car salesman in Ebensburg when he bought a new red Pontiac Sunbird in October 1984, according to the grand-jury report.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20267068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dealership dutifully recorded the sale under the name "Judge O'Kicki."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20267069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet, despite the judge's imperial bearing, no one ever had reason to suspect possible wrongdoing, says John Bognato, president of Cambria County's 150-member bar association.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20267070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The arrogance of a judge, his demeanor, the way he handles people are not a basis for filing a complaint," says Mr. Bognato.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20267071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Until this came up and hit the press, there was never any indication that he was doing anything wrong."@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20267072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@State investigators dispute that view now, particularly in light of the judge's various business dealings in Cambria County.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20267073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge came under scrutiny in late 1987, after the state attorney general's office launched an unrelated investigation into corruption in Cambria County.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20267074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The inquiry soon focused on the judge.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20267075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even his routine business transactions caused trouble, according to the grand jury report.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20267076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When the judge bought his new Sunbird from James E. Black Pontiac-Cadillac in Ebensburg five years ago, the dealership had "certain apprehensions" about the judge's reputation, according to the grand-jury report.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20267077@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dealership took the extra step of having all the paper work for the transaction pre-approved by Ebensburg's local lender, Laurel Bank.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20267078@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then, as an additional precaution, the car dealership took the judge's photograph as he stood next to his new car with sales papers in hand -- proof that he had received the loan documents.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20267079@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But when the judge received his payment book, he disavowed the deal.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20267080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There was no loan, there is no loan, there never shall be a loan," the judge wrote the bank on his judicial stationery, according to the report.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20267081@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Later, the judge went a step farther.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20267082@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After Laurel Bank tried to repossess the car, a vice president asked him to intervene in an unrelated legal dispute involving a trust account.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20267083@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge wrote again.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20267084@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I find myself in an adversary relationship with Laurel Bank, and I am not inclined to extend myself as far as any favors are concerned," the judge wrote back in a letter attached to the grand jury's report.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20267085@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Perhaps if my personal matters can be resolved with Laurel bank in the near future, I may be inclined to reconsider your request. . . ."@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20267086@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge now says it was "unfortunate" that he chose to write the letter but says "there was certainly no intent to extort there."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20267087@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bank acquiesced.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20267088@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It refinanced the judge's loan, lowered its interest rate and accepted a trade-in that hadn't originally been part of the deal -- a beat up 1981 Chevy Citation the dealer had to repair before it could be resold.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20267089@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The incident wasn't the only time the judge got special treatment from his local bank.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20267090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two years later, he wrote to complain that the interest he was paying on an unsecured $10,000 loan was "absolutely onerous."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20267091@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Paul L. Kane, Laurel's president at the time, quickly responded.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20267092@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bank, he wrote back, was "immediately" lowering the rate by 3.5%, "as a concession to you."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20267093@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge says he can't discuss in detail how he will defend himself at his trial, although he contends that if he were as corrupt as state prosecutors believe, he would be far wealthier than he is.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20267094@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His seven-bedroom cedar and brick house outside of Johnstown is up for sale to pay for his lawyers.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20267095@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge says he is confident he will return to his old bench.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20267096@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Already, he notes, the 76 charges originally filed against him have been trimmed to 27.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20267097@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most of the allegations no longer pending were ethics charges withdrawn by state prosecutors as part of a pre-trial agreement.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20267098@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The heart of the case -- "official oppression" -- remains intact.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20267099@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If I lose, I lose my position, my career, my pension, my home and my investments," says the judge.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20267100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"My God and I know I am correct and innocent.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20268001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many thanks for Alexander Cockburn's comic masterpiece ("U.S. Economy: A House Built on Junk-Bond Sand," Viewpoint, Oct. 19).@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20268002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The use of the abominable construction practices in the Soviet Union -- as evidenced by the collapse of sand apartment blocks during the Armenian earthquake -- as a metaphor for the U.S. economic system was a sublime example of Mr. Cockburn's satirical muse.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20268003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I await his sequel: the economic and social resiliency of the San Francisco Bay area and the outstanding work of the local governments and the private charitable organizations there as metaphors for the supremacy of whatever failed system Mr. Cockburn now believes in.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20268004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It should be a scream.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20268005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@William S. Smith@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20269001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a money manager and a grass-roots environmentalist, I was very disappointed to read in the premiere issue of Garbage that The Wall Street Journal uses 220,000 metric tons of newsprint each year, but that only 1.4% of it comes from recycled paper.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20269002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By contrast, the Los Angeles Times, for example, uses 83% recycled paper.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20269003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With newspapers being the largest single component of solid waste in our landfills, and with our country overflowing with trash, all sectors of our society and all types of businesses must become more responsible in our use and disposal of precious natural resources.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20269004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Wall Street Journal is an excellent publication that I enjoy reading (and must read) daily.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20269005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Please make me and thousands of other readers more comfortable with our daily purchase of your newspaper by raising your environmental standards to your overall impeccable quality levels, and increase your use of recycled paper.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20269006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Virginia M.W. Gardiner@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20270001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL Corp. declared a special dividend of one share of Class B common stock for each share of Class A common stock, payable to holders of record on Nov. 10 if the Securities and Exchange Commission approves this as the effective date of the registration statement.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
20270002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Shareholders of the Santa Ana, Calif., title-insurance company approved the creation of this second class of stock, which will be traded on the national over-the-counter market and which the company said would be used for acquisitions and other general corporate purposes.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20271001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The following were among yesterday's offerings and pricings in the U.S. and non-U.S. capital markets, with terms and syndicate manager, as compiled by Dow Jones Capital Markets Report:@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20271002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Continental Cablevision Inc. --@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20271003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$350 million of senior subordinated debentures, due Nov. 1, 2004, was priced at par to yield 12 7/8%.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20271004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rated single-B-1 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. and single-B by Standard & Poor's Corp., the issue, which is non-callable for five years, will be sold through underwriters led by Morgan Stanley & Co.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20271005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Beatrice Co. --@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20271006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$251 million of notes, due Nov. 1, 1997, was priced in a two-part offering through underwriters at Salomon Brothers Inc.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20271007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The size of the issue was scaled back from an originally planned $350 million.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20271008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first part, consisting of $151 million of 13 3/4% senior subordinated reset notes, was priced at 99.75.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20271009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The rate on the notes will be reset annually to give the issue a market value of 101.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20271010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, the maximum coupon at which the notes can be reset is 16 1/4%.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20271011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The minimum coupon is 13 3/4%.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20271012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The second part, consisting of $100 million of senior subordinated floating-rate notes, was priced at 99 3/4 to float 4.25% above the three-month London interbank offered rate.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20271013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The initial coupon on the floating-rate notes will be 12.9375%.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20271014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The issue is rated single-B-3 by Moody's and single-B-plus by S&P.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20271015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Jersey Wastewater Treatment Trust --@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20271016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$75.1 million, two-part offering of bonds apparently was won by a Merrill Lynch Capital Markets group.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20271017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The group's bid for $40.9 million of wastewater treatment insured bonds, Series 1989 A, produced a 7.0826% true interest cost.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20271018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Series 1989 A bonds are insured and rated triple-A by Moody's and S&P.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20271019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The group's bid for $34.2 million of wastewater treatment bonds, Series 1989 B, produced a 7.0808% true interest cost.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20271020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Series 1989 B bonds are uninsured and rated double-A by Moody's and S&P.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20271021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both the Series 1989 A and Series 1989 B bonds were priced to yield from 6% in 1991 to 7.15% in 2008-2009, according to a Merrill Lynch official.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20271022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Matagorda County Navigation District No. 1, Texas --@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20271023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$70.3 million of pollution control revenue bonds (Houston Lighting & Power Co. Project), due Oct. 1, 2019, were tentatively priced by a Goldman, Sachs & Co. group at 98 1/4 to yield 7.649% with a coupon of 7 1/2%.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20271024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Interest on the bonds will be treated as a preference item in calculating the federal alternative minimum tax that may be imposed on certain investors.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20271025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bonds are insured and rated triple-A by Moody's and S&P.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20271026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. --@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20271027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$500 million of Remic mortgage securities is being offered in 11 classes by a Morgan Stanley group.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20271028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The offering, Series 109, is backed by Freddie Mac 10% securities.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20271029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Complete details weren't immediately available.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20271030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lomas Mortgage Funding Corp. II --@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20271031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$100 million issue of collateralized mortgage obligations is being offered in four classes by a Morgan Stanley group.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20271032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The securities yield from 9.35% to 10.48% for a 30-year issue with an average life of 21.18 years.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20271033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 10.48% yield represents a spread to the 20-year Treasury of 2.45 percentage points.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20271034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The collateral consists of collateralized whole loans with a weighted average coupon rate of 11.08% and weighted average remaining term to maturity of 28 years.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20271035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The issue is rated triple-A by S&P, Moody's and Fitch Investors Service Inc.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20271036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The issue is 6% to 7% overcollateralized, and 75% of the loans are covered by a General Electric pool policy covering losses of as much as 10% of the original principal balance of the loans.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20271037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@J.C. Penney Co. --@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20271038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$350 million of JCP Master Credit Card Trust asset-backed certificates, Series B, with a final stated maturity of Oct. 15, 2001, was priced at 99.1875 to yield 9.192% with a coupon of 8.95%.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20271039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The certificates, which have an average life of 10.05 years, were priced at 1.31 percentage points over the benchmark Treasury 10-year note.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20271040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rated triple-A by Moody's and S&P, the issue will be sold through First Boston Corp.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20271041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The issue is backed by a 12% letter of credit from Credit Suisse.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20271042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Keio Teito Electric Railway Co. (Japan) --@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20271043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$300 million of bonds due Nov. 16, 1993, with equity-purchase warrants, indicating a 3 3/4% coupon at par via Nomura International Ltd.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20271044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Each $5,000 bond carries one warrant, exercisable from Nov. 30 through Nov. 2, 1993, to buy company shares at an expected premium of 2 1/2% to the closing share price when terms are fixed Tuesday.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20271045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Diesel Kiki Co. (Japan) --@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20271046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$200 million of bonds due Nov. 16, 1994, with equity-purchase warrants, indicating a 4 1/2% coupon at par via Yamaichi International Europe Ltd.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20271047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Each $5,000 bond carries one warrant, exercisable from Nov. 30 through Nov. 2, 1994, to buy company shares at an expected premium of 2 1/2% to the closing share price when terms are fixed Monday.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20271048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chugoku Electric Power Co. (Japan) --@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20271049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@$150 million of 8 7/8% bonds due Nov. 29, 1996, priced at 101 7/8 to yield 8 7/8% less full fees via Nikko Securities Ltd.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20271050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fees 1 7/8.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20271051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Singapore branch (Italian parent), via the Law Debenture Trust Corp. --@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20271052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@10 billion yen ($70 million) of 6% bonds due Feb. 24, 1993, priced at 101 1/4, via Daiwa Europe Ltd.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20271053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Okobank (Finland) --@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20271054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@10 billion yen of 6% bonds due Nov. 30, 1992, priced at 101.225 to yield 6.056% via IBJ International.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20272001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@EG&G Inc. said it acquired Laboratorium Prof. Dr. Berthold, a German maker of scientific instruments.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20272002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Terms weren't disclosed.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20272003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Wellesley, Mass., maker of scientific instruments and electronic parts said Berthold expects 1989 sales of more than 100 million Deutsche marks ($54.5 million) and employs about 400 people.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20272004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Berthold is based in Wildbad, West Germany, and also has operations in Belgium.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20272005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@John M. Kucharski, EG&G's chairman and chief executive, said the acquisition "will extend EG&G's core technologies, strengthen its position in the European Economic Community and assure a strength and presence in the Eastern European market."@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20272006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said it especially will strengthen the company's efforts in the rapidly growing field of bio-analytical instrumentation, and in applied nuclear physics.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20272007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Separately, EG&G said it sold most of its Mason Research Institute subsidiary to Transgenic Sciences Inc., a closely held biotechnology company based in Worcester, Mass.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20272008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The sale, for $7 million in cash and securities, will leave EG&G with a 12% stake in Transgenic, executives said.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20272009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mason is the largest toxicology lab in New England, with annual revenue of $8 million and 140 employees.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20272010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mason serves commercial and government customers, including the National Institutes of Health.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20272011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The combined companies will become profitable by January 1990, said James P. Sherblom, Transgenic's chairman and chief executive officer.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20273001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Internal Revenue Service said it is willing to let the U.S. Tax Court decide how much oil man William Herbert Hunt will owe the government after his assets are liquidated.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20273002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The surprise announcement came after the IRS broke off negotiations with Mr. Hunt on a settlement of the one-time tycoon's personal bankruptcy case.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20273003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although the action removes one obstacle in the way of an overall settlement to the case, it also means that Mr. Hunt could be stripped of virtually all of his assets if the Tax Court rules against him in a 1982 case heard earlier this year in Washington, D.C.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20273004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The IRS has been seeking more than $300 million in back taxes from Mr. Hunt.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20273005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Separately, a federal judge hearing Mr. Hunt's bankruptcy case yesterday turned down a proposed $65.7 million settlement between Mr. Hunt and Minpeco S.A., another major creditor in the case.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20273006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Peruvian minerals concern had been seeking a claim of $251 million against Mr. Hunt.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20273007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition to turning down the compromise, Judge Harold C. Abramson said he would allow a claim of only $19.7 million.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20273008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Minpeco attorneys said they would appeal the decision to a federal district court.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20273009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Regarding Mr. Hunt's taxes, he and the IRS have apparently agreed on a basic formula for liquidating his estate in which the IRS would get 70% of the proceeds from a liquidating trust and 30% would go to other creditors.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20273010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But they have been at odds over how much Mr. Hunt would owe the government after his assets are sold.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20273011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The IRS had demanded $90 million but Mr. Hunt would agree to no more than $60 million.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20273012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Grover Hartt III, a government lawyer, warned that Mr. Hunt stood to lose certain oil and gas properties, $200,000 in English pottery, a Colorado condominium and other assets he might have kept if he had settled with the IRS.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20273013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But they wanted to roll the dice and we're going to let them," Mr. Hartt said.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20273014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stephen McCartin, Mr. Hunt's attorney, said his client welcomed the gamble.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20273015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Tax Court isn't expected to rule before early next year.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20274001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japan has found another safe outlet for its money: U.S. home mortgages.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20274002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An increasing number of big Japanese investors are buying up U.S. home mortgages that have been pooled and packaged for sale as interest-bearing instruments known as mortgage-backed securities.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20274003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As much as 10% of new U.S. mortgage securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac, now flow into Japanese hands.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20274004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That may not come as a surprise to Americans who have watched the Japanese snap up properties in the U.S. from golf courses to a stake in Rockefeller Center.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20274005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it marks a big change for the Japanese, who shunned mortgage securities after getting burned by a big downturn in interest rates a few years back.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20274006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You can't say it's a "tsunami" (tidal wave), but we're making some headway," says Fannie Mae's chairman, David O. Maxwell, who visits Tokyo at least once a year to explain and drum up investor interest in mortgage securities.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20274007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Interest is a great deal higher than it was a year ago."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20274008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The steady growth of the mortgage securities market in the U.S. has even triggered talk of building up a similar market here.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20274009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Evidence of the growing Japanese demand for mortgage securities abounds.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20274010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earlier this year, Blackstone Group, a New York investment bank, had no trouble selling out a special $570 million mortgage-securities trust it created for Japanese investors.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20274011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Industrial Bank of Japan, which claims to be the biggest Japanese buyer of U.S. mortgage securities, says it will more than double its purchases this year, to an amount one official puts at several billion dollars.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20274012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And a Fannie Mae seminar this week promises to draw hundreds of prospective investors, who can be expected to channel tens of billions of dollars into the market in the next few years.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20274013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Last year, there were only several big investors who were interested," says Kinji Kato, a vice president at the international arm of Nomura Securities Co.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20274014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This year, some investors are changing their policies and investing a lot."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20274015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ultimately, he says, strong demand could help to drive down interest rates on mortgage securities.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20274016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the moment, Nomura is the only Japanese institution authorized to act as a primary seller of Fannie Mae instruments.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20274017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But other Japanese institutions say privately that they are considering asking to join the 59-dealer selling group.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20274018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These securities are attractive to Japanese investors for three reasons.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20274019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First, they are safe.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20274020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While they aren't backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, as Treasury bonds are, it is widely assumed that the government would support them if necessary.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20274021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(U.S. Treasury bonds are still the dollar-denominated investment of choice for long-term Japanese investors).@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20274022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Second, they are liquid.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20274023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The secondary market in federally backed mortgage securities now exceeds $900 billion, or nearly half of the $2.2 trillion in U.S. residential mortgages issued.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20274024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Third, they offer high yields.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20274025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the moment, some offer as much as 1.6 to 1.8 percentage points over Treasury securities of similar maturities.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20274026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But there is a risk, which the Japanese discovered when they first dipped their toes into the market nearly five years ago.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20274027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since most mortgages can be prepaid or refinanced at any time, issuers of mortgage securities retain the right to buy back their bonds before maturity.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20274028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's a headache for long-term investors, since it forces them to reinvest their money -- usually at lower rates than the original mortgage securities carried.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20274029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Two or three years ago, the problem was that people didn't understand the prepayment risk," says Nomura's Mr. Kato.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20274030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"So they were surprised and very disappointed by prepayment."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20274031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Compounding the trouble to Japanese investors, mortgage securities pay interest monthly, since most mortgages require homeowners to make monthly payments.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20274032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Japanese institutional investors are used to quarterly or semiannual payments on their investments, so the monthly cash flow posed administrative problems.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20274033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, Japanese investors steered clear of the mortgage securities.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20274034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But they didn't lose touch with the U.S. issuers.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20274035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since 1985, Japanese investors have bought nearly 80% of $10 billion in Fannie Mae corporate debt issued to foreigners, money that Fannie Mae uses to buy mortgages from U.S. banks.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20274036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And Japanese investors took up nearly all of two $200 million Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits, a kind of collateralized mortgage obligation, that were offered to foreigners this year.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20274037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, further packaging of mortgage-backed securities, such as Blackstone's fund, have reduced the effects of prepayment risk and automatically reinvest monthly payments so institutions don't have to.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20274038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Freddie Mac for years has offered a so-called participation certificate that guarantees it won't be prepaid for a set number of years and offers semiannual payments.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20275001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As Georgia-Pacific's bid for Great Northern Nekoosa has shown, uninvited takeovers are still alive despite premature reports of their demise.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20275002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Therefore, the debate about poison pills will continue to rage in the boardrooms of corporations and the halls of academia.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20275003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although poison pills come in different colors and shapes, they usually give current shareholders the right to buy more stock of their corporation at a large discount if certain events occur -- typically, if a hostile bidder acquires more than a specified percentage of the corporation's stock.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20275004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, these discount purchase rights may generally be redeemed at a nominal cost by the corporation's directors if they approve of a bidder.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20275005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Supporters of poison pills argue that their adoption forces bidders to negotiate with a corporation's directors, who are thereby put in a better position to pursue the long-term interests of the corporation.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20275006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Recent studies by Georgeson & Co. conclude that corporations with poison pills have experienced greater stock-price appreciation than corporations without poison pills during the past few years.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20275007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Critics of poison pills argue that they harm shareholders by letting corporate management defeat takeover bids at premium prices and by deterring premium bids from ever being made to shareholders.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20275008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These critics are backed by several academic studies showing that the adoption of poison pills reduces shareholder values not merely in the short run, but also over longer periods.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20275009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Institutional investors that must evaluate poison pills on a regular basis are interested less in this general debate than in the answers to specific questions about the corporation issuing the pill.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20275010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Does this corporation have a high-quality management team with a good track record?@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20275011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Does this team have a viable strategy for improving shareholder values, and does this strategy require implementation over an extended period?@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20275012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Will the adoption of this particular form of a poison pill significantly improve the chances for management to carry out this strategy?@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20275013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If the answers to these questions are affirmative, then institutional investors are likely to be favorably disposed toward a specific poison pill.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20275014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, the problem is that once most poison pills are adopted, they survive forever.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20275015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although the current management team may be outstanding, who will be the CEO in 10 years?@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20275016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although the five-year strategy may be excellent, what will be the strategy in 25 years?@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20275017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The solution to this problem is a time-limited poison pill.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20275018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The limit could range from three years to seven years, depending on the composition of the management team and the nature of its strategic plan.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20275019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the end of this period, the poison pill would be eliminated automatically, unless a new poison pill were approved by the then-current shareholders, who would have an opportunity to evaluate the corporation's strategy and management team at that time.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20275020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One rare example of a time-limited poison pill is the shareholder rights plan adopted by Pennzoil last year after it received a huge litigation settlement from Texaco.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20275021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pennzoil's poison pill covers five years in order to give current management enough time to put these proceeds to work in a prudent manner.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20275022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another interesting example is the poison pill adopted recently by Pittsburgh-based National Intergroup Inc., a diversified holding company.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20275023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which owned about 7% of the company's voting stock, worked with management to devise a time-limited poison pill.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20275024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This pill automatically expires after three years unless continued by a vote of the shareholders.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20275025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The attitude of the Wisconsin Investment Board reflects a growing receptivity to time-limited poison pills on the part of institutional investors, as shown by the discussions at recent meetings of the Council of Institutional Investors and my informal survey of several retirement plans with large stock positions.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20275026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More widespread time limits on poison pills would allow shareholders to evaluate a specific poison pill within the context of a specific management team's strategy.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20275027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such concrete analysis is likely to lead to more fruitful dialogue between management and shareholders than the abstract debate about poison pills.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20275028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Pozen is the general counsel and a managing director of Fidelity Investments in Boston.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20276001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Blair, former president and chief executive officer of Enfield Corp., failed to win election to the company's board at a special shareholder meeting.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20276002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Blair said after the meeting that he had filed separate lawsuits in the Ontario Supreme Court for unjust dismissal against Enfield and for libel against its largest shareholder, Canadian Express Ltd., and two executives of Hees International Bancorp Inc., which controls Canadian Express.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20276003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Holders at the meeting elected a full slate of Canadian Express nominees to Enfield's 11-member board.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20276004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Blair and Hees have been feuding for months.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20276005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday's election was a sequel to Enfield's annual meeting in June when Mr. Blair disallowed proxies in favor of two Hees nominees.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20276006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Ontario Supreme Court overturned Mr. Blair's decision.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20276007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He later resigned from his executive positions with Enfield, saying that actions by its board "amounted to {my} dismissal."@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20276008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Blair said his libel suit seeks 10 million Canadian dollars (US$8.5 million) from Canadian Express and Hees executives Manfred Walt and Willard L'Heureux.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20276009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said his suit against Enfield seeks two years severance pay, equivalent to C$720,000.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20276010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hees and Canadian Express executives couldn't be reached for comment.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20276011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Enfield is a holding company with interests in manufacturing concerns.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20276012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is 38.5% owned by Canadian Express, another holding company.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20276013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hees is a merchant bank controlled by Toronto financiers Peter and Edward Bronfman.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20276014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All the concerns are based in Toronto.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20277001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Buying 51% of Rockefeller Group Inc. is right up Mitsubishi Estate Co.'s alley in one sense: The huge Japanese real estate company is entering a long-term relationship with a similarly conservative U.S. owner of tony urban property.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20277002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in another sense, the $846 million purchase is uncharacteristically nervy, industry analysts say.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20277003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The usually cautious giant will become the majority owner of the company that owns New York's beloved Rockefeller Center at a time when tensions over Japanese purchases of U.S. property are at an all-time high.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20277004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Officials of Rockefeller Group and Mitsubishi Estate prefer to focus on the affinities, nearly dismissing the threat of a backlash from the U.S. public.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20277005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We think there will be positive as well as negative reactions," says Raymond Pettit, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Rockefeller Group.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20277006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"On balance, we think it will be positive."@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20277007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But some Japanese government officials and businessmen worry that the prominent purchase is just the sort of deal that should be avoided for the time being.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20277008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In particular, they criticize the timing, coming as it does on the heels of Sony Corp.'s controversial purchase of Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20277009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Officially, yes, we encourage the free flow of direct investment," says a Foreign Ministry official.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20277010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But they didn't have to choose this particular moment."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20277011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@During the past year, government officials and leading business organizations have repeatedly urged Japanese companies to refrain from flashy real estate purchases in the@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20277012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since the mid-1980s, Japan's other major real estate purchases in the U.S. include Dai-Ichi Seimei America Corp.'s $670 million purchase of an office building at 153 East 53rd St. in Manhattan in 1987 and Mitsui Fudosan Inc.'s $610 million purchase of the Exxon Building, part of Rockefeller Center, in 1986.@@@@1@50@@oe@2-2-2013
20277013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Los Angeles, Arco Plaza was sold to Shuwa Corp. for $620 million in 1986, and Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. paid $300 million for Atlanta's IBM Tower last year.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20277014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Altogether, annual Japanese investment in U.S. commercial real estate grew from about $1.3 billion in 1985 to about $7.1 billion in 1988.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20277015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many Japanese companies have taken the warnings by the country's leaders to heart and sought development partnerships rather than landmark properties.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20277016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Critics say Mitsubishi Estate's decision to buy into Rockefeller reflects the degree to which companies are irritated by the pressure to act for the good of Japan.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20277017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Those who have no money and aren't buying think it's right to refrain, but those with money who want to buy for themselves pay no attention," says an official of the Japan-U.S. Business Council.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20277018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But to Mitsubishi Estate, the acquisition has just the elements that should win support from both sides.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20277019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First of all, it is a friendly acquisition in which Rockefeller sought out Mitsubishi Estate and asked it to buy a majority share.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20277020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Secondly, the two companies found a similarity in their business and development philosophies and intend to cooperate in a range of activities from real estate to telecommunications.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20277021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finally, Mitsubishi Estate has no plans to interfere with Rockefeller's management beyond taking a place on the board.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20277022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We'll continue to work with them, in keeping with the reputation of the company, and we'll rely very much on their leadership," says Mitsubishi Estate President Jotaro Takagi.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20277023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rockefeller may well have found its match in Mitsubishi Estate, a company of long history, strong government ties and sound resources.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20277024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In asset terms, Mitsubishi Estate is the largest real estate firm in Japan.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20277025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The core of its holdings is 190,000 square meters of incredibly expensive property in the Marunouchi district, the business and financial center of Tokyo, often jokingly called "Mitsubishi Village."@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20277026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Mitsubishi family company acquired that property from the government some 100 years ago when it was a portion of samurai residential land running from the moat of the Imperial Palace east toward the hodgepodge of tiny shops and twisted alleys that made up the merchants' district.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20277027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the time, Japan had just opened its doors to the world after about 250 years of isolation and needed a Western-style business center.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20277028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mitsubishi built the government's dream development, the story goes, in exchange for the official decision to locate Tokyo's central railway station there.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20277029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That was just an early step in a relationship with government that has earned the Mitsubishi group the dubious moniker of "seisho," literally government-business, a title that has the pejorative connotation of doing the government's bidding, but also suggests the clout inherent in maintaining such close ties.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20277030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mitsubishi Estate is one of the dozens of companies in today's Mitsubishi group.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20277031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's known for its cautiousness in part because it has had little need for bold overseas ventures: In the year ended March 31, 57.4% of its total revenue came from office building management.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20277032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Its earnings can rise 10% to 12% annually simply from the natural turnover of tenants and automatic rent increases, says Graeme McDonald, an industry analyst at James Capel Pacific Ltd.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20277033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the latest fiscal year, the company's net income jumped a robust 19% to 35.5 billion yen ($250.2 million).@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20277034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Mitsubishi Estate, the Rockefeller purchase will catapult it firmly into the overseas real estate business, the one area where it has lagged notably behind Japanese competitors such as Mitsui, which had purchased the Exxon Building.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20277035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Japanese companies need to invest in overseas real estate for diversification," says Yoshio Shima, an industry analyst at Goldman Sachs (Japan) Corp.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20277036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rockefeller isn't the first overseas purchase for Mitsubishi Estate -- it has already played a leading role in designing Los Angeles's Citicorp Plaza.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20277037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the Rockefeller investment is its largest.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20277038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nonetheless, it will barely make a dent in Mitsubishi Estate's finances, analysts say.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20277039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mitsubishi Estate hasn't decided how it will raise the funds for the purchase, which are due in cash next April, but the Marunouchi holdings alone are estimated to have a market value of as much as 10 trillion yen to 11 trillion yen.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20277040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, as a member of the Mitsubishi group, which is headed by one of Japan's largest banks, it is sure to win a favorable loan.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20277041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Analysts say the company also could easily issue new convertible bonds or warrants.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20277042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, at home, Mitsubishi has control of some major projects.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20277043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is the largest private-sector landowner of the Minato-Mirai 21 project, a multibillion-yen development in the port city of Yokohama, about an hour outside Tokyo.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20277044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The project is one of a select group of public projects opened to U.S. firms under a U.S.-Japan construction trade agreement reached last year.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20277045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The centerpiece of that complex, the Landmark Tower, will be Japan's tallest building when it is completed in 1993.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20277046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mitsubishi is also pushing ahead with a controversial plan to redevelop Marunouchi into a business center of high-tech buildings, a project budgeted for 30 years and six trillion yen.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20278001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Time Warner Inc. and Sony Corp. may be today's public enemies, but the two entertainment giants could end up becoming partners in a number of ventures as part of a settlement of their acrimonious legal dispute over Hollywood producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20278002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Warner Bros. studio and Sony signaled they are close to a settlement yesterday, asking a Los Angeles Superior Court to postpone a hearing scheduled for tomorrow on Warner's request for a preliminary injunction blocking Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters from taking the top posts at Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.@@@@1@50@@oe@2-2-2013
20278003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In separate statements, the two sides said they want to have "further discussions."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20278004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sony is acquiring Columbia and Guber-Peters Entertainment Co. in two separate transactions valued at more than $5 billion.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20278005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Warner Communications Inc., which is being acquired by Time Warner, has filed a $1 billion breach-of-contract suit against Sony and the two producers.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20278006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Warner has a five-year exclusive contract with Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters that requires them to make movies exclusively at the Warner Bros. studio.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20278007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two sides in the legal battle have hurled accusations of duplicity at each other for weeks, and both Warner and Sony have accused each other of trying to sabotage each other's prospects for success in the entertainment business.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20278008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it may amount to little more than posturing; the two have continued on-again, off-again settlement talks over the last few weeks, and people familiar with the talks say the matter could be resolved within a week.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20278009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both Warner and Sony declined to comment on the terms of the settlement discussions.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20278010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the people familiar with the talks said that Warner isn't expected to get any cash in the settlement.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20278011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, Sony is likely to agree to let Warner participate in certain of its businesses, such as the record club of Sony's CBS Records unit.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20278012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Warner has surpassed Sony as the largest record company, but it doesn't have a powerful world-wide record club like CBS.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20278013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two sides are also discussing certain business ventures involving cable rights to Columbia's movies.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20278014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, Sony is expected to agree to swap Columbia's 35% stake in the sprawling Burbank, Calif., studio that Warner and Columbia share, in exchange for the old MGM studio lot that Warner acquired with the purchase of Lorimar Telepictures Corp.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20278015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, it may be tough for the two to have a smooth partnership in anything, in the wake of sworn affidavits filed over the last week.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20278016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One, for example, came from CBS Records Chairman Walter Yetnikoff, who will head a committee that will oversee Sony's entertainment division, including both records and movies.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20278017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In his affidavit, Mr. Yetnikoff accused Warner Chairman Steven J. Ross of having an "antiSony, anti-Japanese bias" and said that Mr. Ross had tried to talk him out of letting Sony buy CBS Records two years ago for that reason.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20278018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ross, who will be chairman and co-chief executive officer of Time Warner after the merger is complete, denied that in his own affidavit, and called Mr. Yetnikoff's remarks "vicious" and his claims "reckless, irresponsible and baseless," saying Warner under his leadership has started a number of businesses in Japan.@@@@1@50@@oe@2-2-2013
20278019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ross also said he enjoys "warm professional and personal relationships" with Japanese executives including Sony Chairman Akio Morita, "who has visited my home here."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20278020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But despite the acrimony between Mr. Ross and Mr. Yetnikoff, officials of the Time side of Time Warner have reportedly been increasingly interested in a settlement that might yield attractive business opportunities.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20278021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Time executives such as the company's president, N.J. Nicholas, who will eventually be co-chief executive of Time Warner alongside Mr. Ross, have no personal relationships or ego at stake in the fight over the Guber-Peters duo, and were never directly drawn into the fray.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20278022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Talks between the two sides could unravel, of course, as they have more than once since Sony announced its plans to hire Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20278023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But both sides appear to be more willing now to meet each other's terms to resolve the issue.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20278024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And although Warner has said it wanted the producers to fulfill the terms of their contract, the producers said in sworn court declarations that they didn't believe the relationship could be repaired after the acrimony of the legal battle.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20278025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Any settlement is also expected to exclude Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters from any of the projects they were working on at Warner.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20278026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Guber-Peters duo have 50 projects in various stages of development and production at Warner, including "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Bright Shining Lie."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20278027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But that doesn't mean Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters might not eventually get their hands on some of their projects; studios develop hundreds of movies but produce only 10 to 20 each year.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20278028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once a studio chooses not to actually make a movie that is in development, producers are typically free to take it elsewhere.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20278029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters also almost certainly wouldn't be able to participate in future sequels to "Batman," the blockbuster hit they produced for Warner.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20278030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in acquiring Guber-Peters Entertainment, Sony will actually get a piece of the profits from "Batman," since the publicly held concern gets certain revenue from the movies Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters produce.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20278031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two producers own a combined 28% stake in Guber-Peters.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20279001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Southern Co.'s Gulf Power Co. subsidiary pleaded guilty to two felony charges of conspiracy to make illegal political contributions and tax evasion, and paid $500,000 in fines.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20279002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gulf Power's guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Robert L. Vining yesterday marks the end of only one part of a wide-ranging inquiry of Southern Co.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20279003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into whether its officials and its utility subsidiaries conspired to cover up their accounting for spare parts to evade federal income taxes.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20279004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The terms announced today are strictly between the United States and Gulf Power," said U.S. Attorney Robert L. Barr.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20279005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This is only a further step in a lengthy investigation."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20279006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The plea settlement does not allow Southern Co. to charge any of the $500,000 to its customers, or take action against employees who provided information during the federal inquiry.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20279007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gulf Power had been under investigation for violating the Utility Holding Company Act, which prohibits public utilities from making political contributions.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20279008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a statement, Southern Co. President Edward L. Addison said, "We believe our decision to plead (guilty) to these charges is responsible and proper.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20279009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And our action today will allow Gulf Power to avoid prolonged, distracting legal proceedings."@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20279010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He did not say what effect, if any, the $500,000 fine would have on the company's earnings.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20279011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Barr said yesterday's plea by Gulf Power, which came after months of negotiations, was based on evidence that Gulf Power had set up an elaborate payment system through which it reimbursed outside vendors -- primarily three Florida advertising agencies -- for making illegal political contributions on its behalf.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20279012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Appleyard Agency, for example, allegedly made contributions from 1982 to 1984 to various funds for political candidates, then submitted bills to Gulf Power.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20279013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The contributions were funded by monthly payments of $1,000 to $2,000 to Appleyard in the guise of a "special production fee" -- in effect, hiding the nature of the payments from the Internal Revenue Service, federal prosecutors said.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20279014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The government also indicated that former Gulf Power senior vice president Jacob F. "Jake" Horton was the mastermind behind the use of the ad agencies -- Appleyard, Dick Leonard Group II Inc. and Hemmer & Yates Corp. -- to make payments to various political candidates from 1981 to 1988.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20279015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Horton, who oversaw Gulf Power's governmental-affairs efforts, died mysteriously in a plane crash in April after learning he might be fired following the uncovering of irregularities in a company audit.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20279016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Government officials declined to say whether the investigation includes the ad agencies or the politicians involved.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20279017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In New York Stock Exchange trading, Southern Co. rose 50 cents a share to $27.125.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20280001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@`Frequent Drinker' Offer Stirs Up Spirited Debate@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20280002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@TO GRAB a bigger piece of the declining scotch market, Seagram Co. has launched a controversial "frequent drinker" promotion for its Chivas Regal brand.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20280003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the program, dubbed Chivas Class, customers who send in two labels from Chivas bottles will receive an upgrade in seating class on some Trans World Airlines flights.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20280004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Repeat customers also can purchase luxury items at reduced prices.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20280005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But at a time of mounting concern over alcohol abuse, some liquor marketers consider Seagram's frequent buyer promotion risky.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20280006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I'm surprised they're doing this," says Penn Kavanagh, president of Schieffelin & Somerset Co., which markets Johnnie Walker scotches.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20280007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I would be very leery of anything that says if you drink more, you get more."@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20280008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Others question the impact on Chivas's upscale image of a promotion that has customers soaking off labels.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20280009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's really bizarre," says Albert Lerman, creative director at the Wells Rich Greene ad agency.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20280010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Chivas has an image of something you would savor, rather than guzzle."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20280011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chivas Class isn't the first such promotion.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20280012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last year, J&B Scotch offered 500 TWA frequent flier miles in exchange for a label.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20280013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And Dewar's gave discounts on Scottish merchandise to people who sent in bottle labels.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20280014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the scope of Seagram's Chivas promotion sets it apart.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20280015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The current campaign is just the first leg of an aggressive three-to-five-year direct marketing plan.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20280016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Seagram says the promotion is designed to build brand loyalty rather than promote heavy drinking.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20280017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Seagram asks customers to buy only two or three bottles over a 12-month period, says Richard Shaw, vice president of U.S. direct marketing.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20280018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We're not asking them to save up 50 proof-of-purchases.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20280019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We're not saying drink more, we're saying trade up."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20280020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Goya Concocts a Milk For Hispanic Tastes@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20280021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MOST FOOD companies these days are trimming the fat and cholesterol content of their products to appeal to health-conscious consumers.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20280022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Goya Foods Inc. believes it can milk some sales by bucking the trend.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20280023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Secaucus, N.J., company has formed a joint venture with a distributor called La Lecheria to market a higher-fat milk targeted at Hispanic consumers.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20280024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To give Leche Fresca the creamier taste Goya says Hispanics prefer, the new brand has a butterfat content of 3.8%.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20280025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That compares with 3.5% butterfat for whole milk.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20280026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman for Borden Inc., the nation's largest milk producer, concedes Goya may be on to something.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20280027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Borden sells considerably more whole milk than reduced-fat milks in southern and Hispanic markets, he says.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20280028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Borden even tested a milk with 4% butterfat in the South, but decided the market was too small.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20280029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Goya is selling Leche Fresca in nearly 500 grocery stores and bodegas in New York and parts of New Jersey.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20280030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And it's adding 15 to 20 new outlets a day, says Greg Ricca, sales director at La Lecheria.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20280031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because of Leche Fresca's success, he says, the joint venture is developing other dairy products tailored to Hispanic tastes.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20280032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jewelry Makers Copy Cosmetics Sales Ploys@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20280033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FOR YEARS, costume jewelry makers fought a losing battle.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20280034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jewelry displays in department stores were often cluttered and uninspired.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20280035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And the merchandise was, well, fake.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20280036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, marketers of faux gems steadily lost space in department stores to more fashionable rivals -- cosmetics makers.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20280037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But lately, retailers say, fake has become more fashionable.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20280038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And jewelry makers are beginning to use many of the same marketing tricks honed in the aggressive world of cosmetics.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20280039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last year, the total women's fashion jewelry business topped $4.9 billion, says Karen Alberg, editor of Accessories magazine.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20280040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And it's growing fast, with annual sales gains of more than 10%.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20280041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To increase their share of that business, jewelry makers such as Crystal Brands Inc.'s Trifari and Monet units and Swank Inc., maker of Anne Klein jewelry, are launching new lines with as much fanfare as the fragrance companies.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20280042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They're hiring models to stroll the aisles sporting their jewels, and they're even beginning to borrow a perennial favorite of the beauty business -- offering a gift when consumers make a purchase.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20280043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We've started trying just about anything to keep sales moving in the stores," says Kim Renk, a Swank vice president.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20280044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But there are limits.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20280045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. Renk says retailers nixed a promotion for pins with animal motifs.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20280046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Her idea: bring in live zoo animals.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20280047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Trifari, whose national ads earlier this year included paper cutouts of its costume finery, takes a tamer approach.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20280048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company focuses on the how-to aspects, says Andrew E. Philip, president.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20280049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Trifari now trains sales help to advise customers on the best earring styles.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20280050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But cosmetics firms still have one big marketing edge: They motivate sales people with commissions.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20280051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jewelry makers rarely pay commissions and aren't expected to anytime soon.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20280052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Odds and Ends@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20280053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DESPITE GROWING interest in the environment, U.S. consumers haven't shown much interest in refillable packages for household products.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20280054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Procter & Gamble Co. recently introduced refillable versions of four products, including Tide and Mr. Clean, in Canada, but doesn't plan to bring them to the U.S.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20280055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Marketers believe most Americans won't make the convenience trade-off. . . .@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20280056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Braumeisters Ltd. tests a beer brewed with oat bran, rather than rice or corn.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20280057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Called Otto's Original Oat Bran Beer, the brew costs about $12.75 a case.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20280058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No cholesterol, of course.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20281001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Northwest Airlines settled the remaining lawsuits filed on behalf of 156 people killed in a 1987 crash, but claims against the jetliner's maker are being pursued, a federal judge said.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20281002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Northwest, a unit of NWA Inc., and McDonnell Douglas Corp., which made the MD-80 aircraft, also are pursuing counterclaims against each other in the crash near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20281003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Terms of the settlements for the remaining 145 lawsuits against Northwest weren't disclosed.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20281004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A total of 157 lawsuits were filed on behalf of crash victims.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20281005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. District Judge Julian A. Cook Jr. announced the settlements as the jury trial was to begin yesterday.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20281006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He reset opening arguments for today.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20281007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The jury will resolve the claims against McDonnell Douglas, Northwest's claim that a defect in the aircraft caused the crash, and McDonnell Douglas' claim that the plane was improperly flown.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20281008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that pilots failed to set the plane's wing flaps and slats properly for takeoff and failed to make mandatory preflight checks that would have detected the error.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20281009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, a cockpit warning system failed to alert the pilots the flaps and slats were not set for takeoff, the NTSB said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20281010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The only passenger who survived the crash was Cecelia Cichan, then 4, of Tempe, Ariz., whose parents and brother died in the crash.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20281011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She now lives with relatives in Alabama.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20282001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sun Myung Moon, the Korean evangelist-industrialist who in 1954 founded the Unification Church, remains the mystery man behind a multimillion-dollar political and publishing operation based in this country and catering to the American right.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20282002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But there may be less there than meets the eye.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20282003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Moon planned to convert millions of Americans to his unique brand of Christianity -- in which he plays the role of Old Testament-style temporal, political messiah -- and then to make the U.S. part of a unified international theocracy.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20282004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His original strategy (in itself a brilliant innovation for spreading a religion) was to create new economic enterprises each time he wanted to extend and fund his various religious missions.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20282005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tax-exempt airport and street-corner solicitations were intended only to provide start-up funds.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20282006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More stable industries were to build an economically viable infrastructure for the Moon movement in North America, as they had in Japan and South Korea.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20282007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then he would move his movement to Europe.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20282008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But that was not to be.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20282009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s spokesmen for both the Unification Church and its opponents in the anticult movement gave wildly exaggerated membership figures.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20282010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Their legacy lives on.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20282011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is still common to read in the press that the church has 10,000 or more full-time American members and 25,000 "associates."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20282012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some estimates have gone as high as 80,000 members.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20282013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But internal church documents clearly show that at its publicity-seeking heights, as when it organized a spectacular Yankee Stadium bicentennial rally in 1976, there actually were only about 2,000 full-time Unification Church members in the U.S.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20282014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Moon's support for a Watergate-beleaguered Richard Nixon, the Koreagate scandal, and his prison sentence for income-tax evasion did not help the church's recruitment efforts.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20282015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Defections, burnouts, and abduction "deprogrammings" kept member turnover high.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20282016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That the membership number has even kept close to its 1976 size is the result of the "graying" of the church.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20282017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many of the enthusiastic young "Moonies" of the Nixon era who remained faithful to Father Moon are now parents, producing new members by procreation rather than conversion.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20282018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The reputed wealth of the Unification Church is another matter of contention.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20282019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For a while in the 1970s it seemed Mr. Moon was on a spending spree, with such purchases as the former New Yorker Hotel and its adjacent Manhattan Center; a fishing/processing conglomerate with branches in Alaska, Massachusetts, Virginia and Louisiana; a former Christian Brothers monastery and the Seagram family mansion (both picturesquely situated on the Hudson River); shares in banks from Washington to Uruguay; a motion picture production company, and newspapers, such as the Washington Times, the New York City Tribune (originally the News World), and the successful Spanish-language Noticias del Mundo.@@@@1@92@@oe@2-2-2013
20282020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet these purchases can be misleading.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20282021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most were obtained with huge inputs of church money from South Korea and Japan, minimum cash downpayments and sizable mortgages.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20282022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Those teams of young fund-raisers selling flowers, peanuts or begging outright at traffic intersections brought in somewhere near $20 million a year during the mid-to-late 1970s, but those revenues were a pittance compared to the costs of Mr. Moon's lavish international conferences, speaking tours, and assorted land buys.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
20282023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Only his factories in Japan and Korea, employing his followers at subsistence wages and producing everything from rifles to ginseng to expensive marble vases, kept the money flowing westward.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20282024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Virginia Commonwealth University sociologist David Bromley, who more than any other researcher has delved into the complex world of Unificationist finances, has concluded that profitable operations in the U.S. have been the exceptions rather than the rule.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20282025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Likewise, journalists John Burgess and Michael Isikoff of the Washington Post have estimated that at least $800 million was transferred from Japan to the U.S. to deal with the church's annual operating losses in this country.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20282026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Moon's two English-language U.S. newspapers illustrate the scope of this financial drain.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20282027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Start-up costs for the Washington Times alone were close to $50 million, and the total amount lost in this journalistic black hole was estimated at $150 million by 1984.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20282028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since then, Moon's organization has inaugurated a pair of high-quality glossy opinion magazines, The World and I and Insight, which are a further drain.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20282029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Insiders say that not even their editors know for sure how much these show-piece publications, along with the newspapers, have cost Mr. Moon.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20282030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many American church-owned businesses, such as a $30 million factory to build fishing vessels, are defunct.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20282031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some components of the American church had their budgets cut in half last year and again this year.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20282032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The relatively small academic conferences that have attracted conservative guests -- and press scrutiny -- in recent years are much more narrowly targeted and austere than the thousand-person get-togethers in fancy digs and exotic locales of years past.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20282033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I attended several of these in the dual role as a presenter of research findings as well as an investigator of my hosts.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20282034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Mr. Moon's Paragon House eventually even published three of my co-edited books on religion and politics.)@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20282035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to veteran watchers of Unificationist affairs, such as Dr. J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, almost all operations are being drastically reduced as Mr. Moon now concentrates more on developing his empire in the Far East.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20282036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Everything," one non-"Moonie" senior consultant to the Unification Church recently told me in an interview, "is going back to Korea and Japan."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20282037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Europe had proved even less hospitable than North America.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20282038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@European politicians were less reluctant to have their governments investigate and harass new religions.)@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20282039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So Mr. Moon is in retreat, refocusing on the Far East.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20282040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Korea and Japan continue to be profitable.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20282041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moon's Tong'Il industry conglomerate is now investing heavily in China, where church accountants have high hopes of expanding and attracting converts even in the wake of the bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20282042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Panda Motors is one such investment.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20282043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to senior consultants to the church, Mr. Moon has successfully negotiated a joint venture with the Chinese government to build an automobile-parts plant in Guangdong Province, an area of China with a substantial Korean minority.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20282044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Moon has agreed to put up $10 million a year for 25 years and keep the profits in China.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20282045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In return, he has the government's blessing to build churches and spread Unificationism in that country.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20282046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Whatever respectability and ties to intellectuals and opinion-makers the publications and conferences bring really are salvage -- not the Rev. Moon's original final goals, but the ones for which he will have to settle.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20282047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Shupe is co-author (with David G. Bromley) of "`Moonies' in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade" and "Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20283001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust said it is considering several ways to ease a liquidity crunch that could include the sale of Manville Corp. to a third party.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20283002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the majority holder of Manville acknowledged that the cash portion of its initial funding of $765 million will be depleted next year, and that alternative sources of funds will be necessary to meet its obligations.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20283003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The trust, which was created as part of Manville's bankruptcy-law reorganization to compensate victims of asbestos-related diseases, ultimately expects to receive $2.5 billion from Manville, but its cash flow from investments has so far lagged behind its payments to victims.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20283004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Spokespersons for both the trust and the company refused to comment on whether any talks with a possible acquirer of Manville had actually taken place.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20283005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The trust is considering a sale of its Manville holdings, but Manville has the right of first refusal on any sales of its stock held by the trust.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20283006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Manville, a forest and building products concern, has offered to pay the trust $500 million for a majority of Manville's convertible preferred stock.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20283007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Manville and the trust are discussing the offer, but no decision has been made.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20283008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The filing also said the trust is considering a sale of Manville securities in the open market; an extraordinary dividend on the common stock; or a recapitalization of Manville.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20283009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Soviet Union's jobless rate is soaring to 27% in some areas, Pravda said.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20283010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It said the situation is caused by efforts to streamline bloated factory payrolls.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20283011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unemployment has reached 27.6% in Azerbaijan, 25.7% in Tadzhikistan, 22.8% in Uzbekistan, 18.8% in Turkmenia, 18% in Armenia and 16.3% in Kirgizia, the Communist Party newspaper said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20283012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All are non-Russian republics along the southern border of the Soviet Union, and all but Kirgizia have reported rioting in the past six months.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20283013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The newspaper said it is past time for the Soviet Union to create unemployment insurance and retraining programs like those of the West.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20283014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pravda gave no estimate for overall unemployment but said an "Association of the Unemployed" has cropped up that says the number of jobless is 23 million Soviets, or 17% of the work force.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20283015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An 11-week dispute involving Australia's 1,640 domestic pilots has slashed airline earnings and crippled much of the continent's tourist industry.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20283016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The only people who are flying are those who have to," said Frank Moore, chairman of the Australian Tourist Industry Association.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20283017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He added: "How is a travel agent going to sell a holiday when he cannot guarantee a return flight?"@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20283018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Transport giant TNT, which owns half of one of the country's two major domestic carriers, said the cost of the dispute had been heavy, cutting TNT's profits 70% to $12 million in the three months to Sept. 30.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20283019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Brazilian financier Naji Nahas, who was arrested on Monday after 102 days in hiding, is likely to be interrogated next week by the Brazilian judiciary.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20283020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Nahas, who single-handedly provoked a one-day closure of Brazil's stock markets in June when he failed to honor a debt of $31.1 million owed to his brokers, yesterday blamed his predicament on the president of the Sao Paulo stock exchange; a few days before Mr. Nahas's failure, the exchange raised the required margin on stock-margin transactions.@@@@1@57@@oe@2-2-2013
20283021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@China's parliament ousted two Hong Kong residents from a panel drafting a new constitution for the colony.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20283022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two, Szeto Wah and Martin Lee, were deemed unfit because they had condemned China's crackdown on its pro-democracy movement.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20283023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The committee is formulating Hong Kong's constitution for when it reverts to Chinese control in 1997, and Chinese lawmakers said the two can only return if they "abandon their antagonistic stand against the Chinese government and their attempt to nullify the Sino-British joint declaration on Hong Kong."@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20283024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NUCLEAR REACTOR FOR ISRAEL?@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20283025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Israeli officials confirmed that Energy Minister Moshe Shahal and his Canadian counterpart, Jake Epp, discussed a possible Israeli purchase of a $1.1 billion Canadian nuclear reactor for producing electricity.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20283026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, a Canadian Embassy official in Tel Aviv said that Canada was unlikely to sell the Candu heavy-water reactor to Israel since Israel hasn't signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20283027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Israel has been accused in the past of using subterfuge to seek elements needed to develop nuclear weapons.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20283028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The South Korean government is signing a protocol today establishing formal diplomatic relations with Poland.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20283029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two are also signing a trade agreement.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20283030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Korean government officials said they don't expect that Seoul can loan money to Warsaw, but it can "offer experience."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20283031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Poland is the second Communist nation to recognize the Seoul government; South Korea established diplomatic relations with Hungary in February 1989.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20283032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Venezuela will hold a debt-equity auction Friday, with 32 potential bidders participating.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20283033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earlier this year, Venezuela announced it was opening up debt-equity swaps to foreign investors but said the program would be limited to a net disbursement of $600 million a year.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20283034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Friday's auction will be limited to $150 million disbursed by the Central Bank to potential investors.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20283035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The office of foreign investment has authorized some $1.78 billion worth of investment proposals, said Edwin Perozo, superintendent of foreign investment.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20283036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most of the proposals are in tourism, basic industry and fishery and agro-industry projects, he said.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20283037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the debt-equity program, potential investors will submit sealed bids on the percentage of discount they are willing to purchase the debt at, and the bids will be allocated based on these discount offers.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20283038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Venezuelan central bank set a 30% floor on the bidding.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20283039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A song by American singer Tracy Chapman praising jailed black leader Nelson Mandela was banned from South African state radio and television.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20283040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The South African Broadcasting Corp. said the song "Freedom Now" was "undesirable for broadcasting." . . .@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20283041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Britain's House of Commons passed a law that will force English soccer fans to carry identity cards to enter stadiums.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20283042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The "anti-hooligan" law, which would deprive troublemakers of cards, must be ratified by the House of Lords and is expected to become effective early next year.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20284001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A federal judge ruled that Imelda Marcos wasn't brought to the U.S. against her will and that marital privileges, which protect spouses from incriminating each other, don't apply in her case.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20284002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, Judge John F. Keenan of New York ordered Mrs. Marcos to turn over to the court all pleadings and documents she may have filed in foreign countries in opposition to U.S. requests for evidence.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20284003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Marcos had claimed that she didn't have to turn over the documents because she was brought here involuntarily and because providing the materials would violate her marital privilege.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20284004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1988, a year and a half after Mrs. Marcos and her late husband, Ferdinand Marcos, the ousted president of the Philippines, fled the Philippines for Hawaii, they were charged with racketeering, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and mail fraud in a scheme in which they allegedly embezzled more than $100 million from their homeland.@@@@1@54@@oe@2-2-2013
20284005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Much of the money was fraudulently concealed through purchases of prime Manhattan real estate, federal prosecutors have charged.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20284006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Marcos's trial is expected to begin in March.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20284007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. law requires criminal defendants to turn over foreign documents such as those sought in the Marcos case.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20284008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The law is meant to overcome delays caused by defendants' use of foreign procedures to block U.S. requests for records, Judge Keenan said in his opinion.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20284009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For instance, the documents could involve foreign business dealings or bank accounts.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20284010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The U.S. has charged that the Marcoses' alleged crimes involved bank accounts in the Philippines, Hong Kong, the U.S. and other countries.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20284011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the allegation of kidnapping, Judge Keenan wrote, "The suggestion that Mrs. Marcos was brought to this country against her will is unsupported by affidavit or affirmation."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20284012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge also said the two marital testimonial privileges cited by Mrs. Marcos don't apply.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20284013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first one permits a witness to refuse to testify against her spouse.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20284014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Judge Keenan said that privilege's purpose is "fostering harmony in marriage."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20284015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because Mr. Marcos died Sept. 28, the privilege can no longer apply, the judge said.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20284016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The second marital privilege cited by Mrs. Marcos protects confidential communications between spouses.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20284017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Judge Keenan said that privilege is meant to protect private utterances -- not litigation papers filed with foreign governments, as Mrs. Marcos's attorneys maintained.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20284018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Though Judge Keenan threw out most of Mrs. Marcos's objections, he agreed with one of her concerns: that turning over the foreign documents could violate the defendant's constitutional right against self-incrimination.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20284019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, he said he will examine the Marcos documents sought by the prosecutors to determine whether turning over the filings is self-incrimination.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20284020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Judge Keenan also directed the prosecutors to show that Mrs. Marcos's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination won't be violated.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20284021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Marcos's attorney in New York, Sandor Frankel, declined to comment on the ruling.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20284022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Marcos hasn't admitted that she filed any documents such as those sought by the government.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20284023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Charles LaBella, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the Marcos case, didn't return phone calls seeking comment.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20284024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. AND BRITISH LAW FIRMS announce rare joint venture in Tokyo.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20284025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sidley & Austin, a leading Chicago-based law firm, and Ashurst Morris Crisp, a midsized London firm of solicitors, are scheduled today to announce plans to open a joint office in Tokyo.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20284026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The firms will be registered under Japanese law as foreign legal consultants and their practice with Japanese clients will be limited to advising them on matters of foreign law.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20284027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The office may also be able to advise foreign and multinational clients on international law and general matters.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20284028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The office will provide "one-stop shopping" for Japanese financial institutions and other clients seeking advice on access to the world capital markets, according to A. Bruce Schimberg, Sidley's senior banking specialist, who will move to Tokyo from Chicago to open the office next year.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20284029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Sidley-Ashurst venture will also be staffed by another Sidley partner specializing in corporate law, a partner from Ashurst concentrating on acquisitions and a Japanese attorney.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20284030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The office will tap the resources of Sidley's 700 lawyers in the U.S., London and Singapore as well as the 400 Ashurst staff members in London and Brussels.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20284031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ashurst is new to the Far East.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20284032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sidley will maintain its association with the Hashidate Law Office in Tokyo.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20284033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS said it will seek a rehearing of a U.S. appellate court ruling against the union's claim that the state of Michigan engages in wage-discrimination against female employees.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20284034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A three-judge panel of the court in Cincinnati made the ruling Saturday.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20284035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The UAW is seeking a hearing by the full 14-judge panel.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20284036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The union sued the state in November 1985, alleging that it intentionally segregated job classifications by sex and paid employees in predominantly female jobs less than males in comparable jobs.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20284037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The UAW also charged that the state applied its own standards for determining pay in a discriminatory manner.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20284038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In November 1987, a district court judge in Detroit ruled against the UAW.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20284039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The union is the bargaining representative for more than 20,000 Michigan state employees.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20284040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NEW JERSEY MERGER:@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20284041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the largest law firms in central New Jersey has been created through the merger of Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, a 41-lawyer firm, and Manger, Kalison, McBride & Webb, a health-care specialty law firm with 14 lawyers.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20284042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Norris McLaughlin is a general-practice firm that has expanded recently into such specialties as banking, labor and environmental work.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20284043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The merged firm will carry Norris McLaughlin's name.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20284044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DRUG WARS:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20284045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Texas legislator proposes color-coding drivers' licenses of some drug offenders.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20284046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bill would authorize courts to order the licenses as a condition of probation.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20284047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@State Senator J.E. "Buster" Brown, a Republican who is running for Texas attorney general, introduced the bill.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20284048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said an altered license would be an "embarrassment" to teenagers and young adults and would act as a deterrant to drug use.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20284049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Richard Avena, executive director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, called the proposal "political gimmickry," and said it fails to recognize the drug problem as a health issue.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20285001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The amendment, offered by Rep. Douglas Bosco (D., Calif.), was approved 283-132 during debate on a bill designed to strengthen the Transportation Department's authority in dealing with leveraged buy-outs of airlines.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20285002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bill would require the agency to block the acquisition of 15% or more of an airline's stock if the purchase threatened safety, reduced the carrier's ability to compete, or put the airline under foreign control.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20285003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Debate on the legislation, which faces a veto threat from President Bush, is to continue today.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20285004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The amendment would require the department to block the purchase of a major airline by anyone who has run two or more carriers that have filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20285005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1983, Texas Air's Continental Airlines filed for bankruptcy.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20285006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earlier this year, Texas Air's Eastern Airlines filed for bankruptcy.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20285007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This ought to be subtitled the `Don't let Frank Lorenzo take over another airline' amendment," said Rep. James Oberstar (D., Minn.), chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, who argued that the provision was unnecessary because the bill already would give the department ample power to block undesirable deals.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
20286001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For years, a strict regimen governed the staff meetings at Nissan Motor Co.'s technical center in Tokyo's western suburbs.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Employees wore identification badges listing not only their names but also their dates of hire.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No one could voice an opinion until everybody with more seniority had spoken first, so younger employees -- often the most enthusiastic and innovative -- seldom spoke up at all.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20286004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in 1986, the badges and the "don't speak out of turn" rule were abolished -- early steps in a cultural revolution still rolling on with all the subtlety of a freight train.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20286005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In recent years, Nissan has instituted flex-time work schedules and allowed employees to dress casually, even in blue jeans.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A rule forbidding staffers to own competitors' cars has been lifted, and now many designers drive foreign cars to get useful ideas.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20286007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan's decades-old corporate song filled with references to Mount Fuji has been scrapped in favor of a snappy tune sung by a popular Japanese vocalist.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20286008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And in a Japanese corporate first, Nissan recently opened the first coed company dormitory for single employees at the suburban Tokyo technical center.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20286009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We had lots of internal debate about this one," concedes Tadahiko Fukuyama, a senior public-relations official.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20286010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But in the end, top management decided to follow the voice of the younger generation."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This corporate glasnost is a big reason Nissan, after years of making lackluster cars and lousy profits, has loosened up its rigid ways and now is riding a string of hits, ranging from the sleek Maxima sedan and Porsche-like 300ZX to the whimsically nostalgic Pao, a minicar sold only in Japan.@@@@1@51@@oe@2-2-2013
20286012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company's turnaround is far from complete; many crucial tests are just beginning.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But its surprising progress so far holds important lessons for companies in trouble.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The big one: A company's culture can't be radically changed unless top management first admits that things have gone badly awry and then publicly leads the charge.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20286015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Atsushi Muramatsu, Nissan's executive vice president for finance, helped set the tone in December 1986, when the company was heading toward the first operating loss by a Japanese auto maker since the nation's postwar recovery.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20286016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This is a time of self-criticism to discover what is wrong with us," he said.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yutaka Kume, who took the helm as Nissan's president in June 1985, added simply, "I am deeply disappointed."@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20286018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No wonder.@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20286019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan, Japan's second-largest auto maker and the world's fourth-largest, was getting beat up not only by its bigger rival, Toyota Motor Corp., but also by Honda Motor Co., the most successful Japanese car company in the U.S. but a relative pipsqueak in Japan.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20286020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan's market share in Japan had been dropping year by year since the beginning of the decade.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20286021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Its U.S. sales sagged, partly because of price increases due to the rising yen.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20286022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Worst of all, Nissan was preoccupied with management infighting, cronyism and corporate rigidity.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Consider the experience of Satoko Kitada, a 30-year-old designer of vehicle interiors who joined Nissan in 1982.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20286024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At that time, tasks were assigned strictly on the basis of seniority.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20286025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The oldest designer got to work on the dashboard," she recalls.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20286026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The next level down did doors.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20286027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If a new person got to work on part of the speedometer, that was a big deal."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20286028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This system produced boring, boxy cars that consumers just weren't buying.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20286029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Desperately hoping to spark sales, Nissan transferred 5,000 middle managers and plant workers to dealerships.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, President Kume ordered everyone from top executives to rookie designers to go "town watching," to visit chic parts of Tokyo to try to gain insights into developing cars for trend-setters.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20286031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some town-watching excursions were downright comic.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20286032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One group of middle-aged manufacturing men from the company's Zama plant outside Tokyo was supposed to check out a trendy restaurant in the city.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20286033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But when they arrived at the door, all were afraid to go in, fearing that they would be out of place.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other trips were more productive.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20286035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kume himself visited Honda's headquarters in Tokyo's upscale Aoyama district.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20286036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He liked the well-lighted lobby display of Honda's cars and trucks so much that he had Nissan's gloomy lobby exhibit refurbished.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Later, Nissan borrowed other Honda practices, including an engineering "idea contest" to promote inventiveness.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20286038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One engineer developed a "crab car" that moves sideways.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20286039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such sudden cultural shifts may come across as a bit forced, but they seem to be genuine -- so much so, in fact, that some older employees have resisted.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20286040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan handled the die-hards in a typically Japanese fashion: They weren't fired but instead "were neglected," says Kouji Hori, the personnel manager at the Nissan Technical Center.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20286041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite the pain of adjusting, the cultural revolution has begun to yield exciting cars.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20286042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A year ago, the company completely revamped its near-luxury sedan, the $17,699 Maxima, which competes against a broad range of upscale sedans; it replaced its boxy, pug-nosed body with sleek, aerodynamic lines.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20286043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since then, Nissan also has launched new versions of the $13,249 240SX sporty coupe and 300ZX sports car.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20286044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The restyled 300ZX costs as much as $33,000 and is squared off against the Porche 944, which begins at $41,900.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20286045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Besides new styling, the new Nissans have more powerful engines and more sophisticated suspension systems.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All three new models are outselling their predecessors by wide margins.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20286047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In its home market, Nissan has grabbed attention with limited-production minicars featuring styling odd enough to be cute.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20286048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One is the Pao, a tiny coupe with a peelback canvas top and tilted headlights that give it a droopy-eyed look.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan initially planned to sell just 10,000 Paos, but sales have passed 50,000, and there's a one-year waiting list for the car.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20286050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then, there's the S-Cargo, an offbeat delivery van with a snail-like body that inspired its name.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20286051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan helped develop a Tokyo restaurant with both vehicles as its design theme.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The chairs are S-Cargo seats, and a gift shop sells such items as alarm clocks styled like the Pao's oversized speedometer.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All these vehicles have sharply improved Nissan's morale and image -- but haven't done much for its market share.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan had 29% of the Japanese car market in 1980 before beginning a depressing eight-year slide that continued through last year.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Strong sales so far this year are certain to turn the tide, but even the 25% market share that Nissan expects in 1989 will leave it far below its position at the beginning of the decade.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20286056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan concedes that it won't recoup all its market-share losses in Japan until at least 1995, and even that timetable might prove optimistic.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20286057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Everyone else is going to catch up" with Nissan's innovative designs, says A. Rama Krishna, auto analyst at First Boston (Japan) Ltd.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20286058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan's pace of new-model hits will slow, he adds, just as arch-rival Toyota unleashes its own batch of new cars.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20286059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Likewise, in the U.S., Nissan has grabbed 5.2% of the car market so far this year, up from 4.5% a year ago.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20286060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But even that brings Nissan only to the share it had in 1987, and leaves the company behind its high of 5.5% in 1980 and 1982.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20286061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Why?@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20286062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far, Nissan's new-model successes are mostly specialized vehicles with limited sales potential.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In compact and subcompact cars, the bread-and-butter sales generators for Japanese auto makers, Nissan still trails Toyota and Honda.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan hopes that that will start to change this fall, with its new version of the Stanza compact sedan.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Stanza has been a nonentity compared with Honda's hugely successful Accord and Toyota's Camry.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But this year, Honda has revamped the Accord and made it a midsized car.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20286067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan instead has kept its new Stanza a bit smaller than that and cut the base price 6%; at $11,450, Stanza prices start $749 below the predecessor model yet have a more-powerful engine.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20286068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Accord prices start at $12,345.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20286069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan's risk is that its low-base-price strategy might get lost amid the highly publicized rebates being offered by Detroit's Big Three.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But "on a new car, a rebate doesn't work well" because it cheapens the vehicle's image, contends Thomas D. Mignanelli, executive vice president of Nissan's U.S. sales arm.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20286071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even if the new Stanza succeeds, Nissan will remain behind in the subcompact segment, where its Sentra doesn't measure up to the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20286072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan will introduce a completely revamped Sentra next fall.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20286073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the opposite end of the market, Nissan launches its luxury Infiniti division on Nov. 8 -- three years after Honda pioneered Japanese luxury cars and two months after Toyota's Lexus went on sale.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20286074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan started advertising Infiniti fully eight months before the cars hit American showrooms.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The ads featured fences, rocks and pussy-willow buds -- almost anything but the cars themselves.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The ads have generated some laughs but also plenty of attention because they are so unlike any other U.S. auto advertising.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20286077@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the other hand, Nissan's sales goals for Infiniti are modest compared with Toyota's targets for Lexus.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20286078@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan will build only about 3,500 of the $38,000 Infiniti Q45 sedans each month, sending about 2,000 of them to the U.S. and keeping the rest for sale in Japan.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20286079@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Toyota wants to sell about 49,000 Lexus LS400 sedans next year in the U.S. alone.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20286080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"When I saw the Lexus sales projections, I got worried," confesses Takashi Oka, who led the Infiniti development team.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286081@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But on reflection, Mr. Oka says, he concluded that Nissan is being prudent in following its slow-startup strategy instead of simply copying Lexus.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20286082@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Infiniti is Nissan's big business move for the 21st century, and we're in no hurry to generate large profits right away," Mr. Oka says.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20286083@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite plans to add two new Infiniti models next year, bringing the total to four, Infiniti won't show profits for at least five years, he adds.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20286084@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These days Nissan can afford that strategy, even though profits aren't exactly robust.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286085@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan had record net income of 114.63 billion yen ($868 million) in the fiscal year ended last March 31, a remarkable recovery from the 20.39 billion yen of two years earlier, when the company lost money on operations.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20286086@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan has increased earnings more than market share by cutting costs and by taking advantage of a general surge in Japanese car sales.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20286087@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Nissan expects to earn only 120 billion yen in the current fiscal year, a modest increase of 4.7%.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20286088@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The big reason: For all its cost-cutting, Nissan remains less efficient than Toyota.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20286089@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In its last fiscal year, Nissan's profit represented just 2.3% of sales, compared with 4.3% at Toyota.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20286090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To help close the gap, Nissan recently established a top-level cost-cutting committee.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20286091@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nissan is the world's only auto maker currently building vehicles in all three of the world's key economic arenas -- the U.S., Japan and Europe.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20286092@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That gives it an enviable strategic advantage, at least until its rivals catch up, but also plenty of managerial headaches.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20286093@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, Nissan's U.S. operations include 10 separate subsidiaries -- for manufacturing, sales, design, research, etc. -- that report separately back to Japan.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20286094@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And in July, Nissan's Tennessee manufacturing plant beat back a United Auto Workers organizing effort with aggressive tactics that have left some workers bitter.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20286095@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We are in a transitional phase from being a Japanese company to becoming an international company based in Japan," says Mr. Muramatsu, the executive vice president.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20286096@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He promises that Nissan will soon establish a holding company overseeing all U.S. operations, just as it's doing in Europe.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20286097@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps the biggest challenge, however, will be to prevent a return to its former corporate rigidity as its recovery continues.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20286098@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Already, personnel officials are talking about the need for a "Phase Two" cultural-reform effort of some sort.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20286099@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We are still only half way through the turnaround of this company, and there are many more things to do," President Kume says.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20286100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He adds, however, that "the momentum we have generated is unstoppable.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20287001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As expected, Warner Bros. Records said it agreed to form a recorded-music and music-publishing joint venture with former MCA Records Chairman Irving Azoff.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20287002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Warner said it will provide financing for the venture, but didn't disclose terms.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20287003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Azoff hasn't named the company yet, but any records it produces will be distributed by Warner.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20287004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Warner is part of Warner Communications Inc., which is in the process of being acquired by Time Warner Inc.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20287005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Azoff resigned as head of MCA Records, a unit of MCA Inc., in September, and had been discussing a joint venture with both Warner and MCA.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20287006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a statement yesterday, Mr. Azoff said he chose Warner, the largest record company, because "their standing in the entertainment industry is second to none.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20288001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will hold an informal meeting in early December, a move that should give both leaders a political boost at home.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20288002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The White House is purposely not calling the meeting a summit so that there won't be any expectation of detailed negotiations or agreements.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20288003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rather, senior administration officials said that the unexpected meeting was scheduled at Mr. Bush's request because of his preference for conducting diplomacy through highly personal and informal meetings with other leaders.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20288004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two leaders will meet on Dec. 2 and 3, alternating the two days of meetings between a U.S. and a Soviet naval vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20288005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The unusual seaborne meeting won't disrupt plans for a formal summit meeting next spring or summer, at which an arms-control treaty is likely to be completed.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20288006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In announcing the meeting yesterday, Mr. Bush told reporters at the White House that neither he nor Mr. Gorbachev expects any "substantial decisions or agreements."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20288007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, he said that the purpose is simply for the two to get "better acquainted" and discuss a wide range of issues without a formal agenda.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20288008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite the informal nature of the session and the calculated effort to hold down expectations, the meeting could pay significant political dividends for both leaders.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20288009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Gorbachev badly needs a diversion from the serious economic problems and ethnic unrest he faces at home.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20288010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@American officials have said that a meeting with the leader of the U.S. could help bolster his stature among Soviet politicians and academics, whose support he needs.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20288011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For his part, Mr. Bush has been criticized regularly at home for moving too slowly and cautiously in reacting to Mr. Gorbachev's reforms and the historic moves away from communism in Eastern Europe.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20288012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A face-to-face meeting with Mr. Gorbachev should damp such criticism, though it will hardly eliminate it.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20288013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D., Maine), who has been the most prominent Democratic critic of Mr. Bush's handling of the Soviet relationship, praised the president for arranging the meeting.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20288014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But he added: "The mere fact of a meeting doesn't deal with the substance of policy."@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20288015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush said that the December meeting, which was announced simultaneously in Moscow, will be held in the unusual setting of ships at sea to hold down the "fanfare" and force the two sides to limit participation to just small groups of advisers.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20288016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"By doing it in this manner we can have, I would say, more time without the press of social activities or mandatory joint appearances, things of that nature for public consumption," Mr. Bush said.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20288017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, at a news conference in Moscow, said, "As the two sides plan to hold a full-scale summit in late spring-early summer next year, they found it useful, I would say even necessary, to hold an interim informal meeting."@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20288018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although no specific agreements are expected, Mr. Shevardnadze said "that doesn't mean they will be without an agenda."@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20288019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If the two leaders cover the subjects that have been featured in lower level U.S.-Soviet meetings, their talks would include human rights, Soviet reforms, regional disputes, relations with allies, economic cooperation, arms control, and joint efforts to fight narcotics, terrorism and pollution.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20288020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The president specifically mentioned U.S. economic advice to Moscow as a possible topic.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20288021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Gorbachev has for months been publicly urging the U.S. to drop its restrictions on Soviet trade.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20288022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He recently told a small group of American businessmen in Moscow that he hoped to sign a general trade agreement with the U.S., possibly at the 1990 summit.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20288023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Soviets hope a trade agreement would give them Most-Favored Nation status, which would lower the tariffs on Soviet exports to the U.S.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20288024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In an unusually candid article about the latest economic woe -- unemployment -- Pravda yesterday reported that three million Soviets have lost their jobs as a result of perestroika and the number could grow to 16 million by the year 2005.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20288025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Economists in Moscow are now proposing that the state start a system of unemployment benefits.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20288026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But one Bush administration official knowledgeable about the summit plan cautioned against assuming that there will be bold new initiatives on the Soviet economy or other issues.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20288027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Don't take this as some big opening for major movement on economic cooperation, or arms control, or the environment," he said.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20288028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Those things will all come up, but in a fairly informal way."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20288029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, this official said, "This is vintage George Bush.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20288030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This was George Bush's own idea.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20288031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's George Bush wanting to meet a foreign leader and talk to him directly."@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20288032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Aside from the Soviet economic plight and talks on cutting strategic and chemical arms, one other issue the Soviets are likely to want to raise is naval force reductions.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20288033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Western analysts say that, given the meeting's setting at sea, Gorbachev is unlikely to pass up the opportunity to press once again for negotiated cuts in the navies of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20288034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That theme has been a recurring one for Soviet military officials for much of this year.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20288035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They argue that as the Kremlin follows through on announced plans to cut land forces -- the Soviets' area of greatest strength -- the U.S. should show more willingness to cut sea forces -- Washington's area of greatest superiority.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20288036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the reasons Bush administration aides are anxious to insist that the coming meeting will be informal is to avoid comparisons with the last such loosely structured superpower gathering, former President Reagan's 1986 meeting with Mr. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20288037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That meeting sent shivers through the Western alliance because Mr. Reagan was pulled into discussing the possible elimination of nuclear weapons without consulting American allies.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20288038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush said that he initiated talks with the Soviets on the informal meeting by sending a proposal to Mr. Gorbachev last July, which the Soviet leader readily accepted.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20288039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But word of the possible session was closely held by the president and a handful of top aides, and word of it didn't reach many second-level officials until the past few days.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20288040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, many senior officials had been insisting for weeks that Mr. Bush wasn't interested in such an informal get-together.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20288041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Though President Bush's political critics at home have been urging him to open a more direct dialogue with Mr. Gorbachev, it actually was the arguments of leaders within the Soviet bloc itself that led the president to seek the December meeting.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20288042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush decided he wanted the meeting after talking in Europe in July with the leaders of Poland and Hungary, who urged him to support Mr. Gorbachev's efforts to transform the Soviet system and to urge him to loosen his grip on Eastern Europe, a senior aide said.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
20288043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While flying home from those discussions, Mr. Bush drafted a letter to Mr. Gorbachev suggesting an informal get-together to precede their formal summit next year.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20288044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Peter Gumbel in Moscow contributed to this article.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20289001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Banca Nazionale del Lavoro said its potential losses from lending to Iraq could reach 1.175 trillion lire ($872 million), marking the bank's first quantification of potential costs of unauthorized lending by its Atlanta branch.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20289002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BNL previously reported that its Georgia branch had taken on loan commitments topping $3 billion without the Rome-based management's approval.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20289003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@State-owned BNL, Italy's largest bank, has filed charges against the branch's former manager, Christopher Drogoul, and a former branch vice president, alleging fraud and breach of their fiduciary duties.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20289004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BNL also said that its board had approved "after an in-depth discussion," a letter to the Bank of Italy outlining measures the state-owned bank has taken or plans to take to improve controls on its foreign branches.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20289005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The central bank had ordered BNL to come up with a suitable program by yesterday.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20289006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bank of Italy has also ordered BNL to shore up its capital base to account for potential foreign loan losses, and the Rome bank has outlined a 3 trillion lire capital-raising operation.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20289007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BNL was unable to elaborate on what measures were planned by the bank to improve controls on its branches abroad.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20290001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hardly a day passes without news photos of the police dragging limp protesters from some building or thoroughfare in one of our cities.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20290002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of recent note are the activities of the pro- and anti-abortionists, anti-nuclear activists, animal rights protesters, college students concerned about racism, anti-apartheid groups, various self-styled "environmentalists" and those dissatisfied with the pace of the war against AIDS.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20290003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Maybe he didn't start it, but Mohandas Gandhi certainly provided a recognizable beginning to non-violent civil disobedience as we know it today.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20290004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Mahatma, or "great souled one," instigated several campaigns of passive resistance against the British government in India.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20290005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unfortunately, according to Webster's Biographical Dictionary, "His policies went beyond his control and resulted . . . in riots and disturbances" and later a renewed campaign of civil disobedience "resulted in rioting and a second imprisonment."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20290006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I am not a proponent of everything Gandhi did, but some of his law breaking was justified because India was then under occupation by a foreign power, and Indians were not able to participate fully in decisions that vitally affected them.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20290007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is difficult, however, to justify civil disobedience, non-violent or not, where citizens have full recourse to the ballot box to effect change.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20290008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Where truly representative governments are safeguarded by constitutional protections of human rights and an independent judiciary to construe those rights, there is no excuse for breaking the law because some individual or group disagrees with it.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20290009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There may be a few cases where the law breaking is well pinpointed and so completely non-invasive of the rights of others that it is difficult to criticize it.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20290010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The case of Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to sit at the back of the bus, comes to mind as an illustration.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20290011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But most cases of non-violent civil disobedience are not nearly so benign.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20290012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The public has a tendency to equate lawful demonstrations with non-violent civil disobedience.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20290013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is true that both are non-violent, but there is a fundamental difference between them.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20290014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lawful demonstrations, such as peaceful picketing and other assemblages that do not disturb the peace or cause a public nuisance or interfere with the rights of others, are rights guaranteed by any truly free system of government.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20290015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Civil disobedience, violent or non-violent, is intentional law breaking.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20290016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The subject of this discussion is non-violent civil disobedience; but, before we get on with that, let me make just a few tangential remarks about lawful demonstrations.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20290017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They are useful to call public attention to grievances, but they have little value in educating anyone about the issues in dispute.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20290018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The delight of television in dramatic confrontation encourages overuse of slogans chanted through bullhorns, militant gestures, accusatory signs and other emotionally inspired tactics.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20290019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Civilized discourse and an environment where compromise can begin are lost in a hostile posture abetted by superficial media interviews.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20290020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At best, demonstrations are overused and boringly uninformative; at worst, they can become the stimuli that lead to law breaking.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20290021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Demonstrations are particularly apt to degenerate into criminal conduct when they leave the site of the grievance and become mobile.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20290022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Petty criminals and street people looking for excitement attach themselves like remora to the fringes of the crowd and use the protest as an excuse for rock throwing, auto trashing, arson, window breaking, looting, pocket picking and general hooliganism.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20290023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soon the whole purpose of the demonstration is lost in mob mania.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20290024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are better ways to promote a cause.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20290025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Where non-violent civil disobedience is the centerpiece, rather than a lawful demonstration that may only attract crime, it is difficult to justify.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20290026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some find no harm in the misdemeanors of trespass, minor property destruction, blocking traffic and the like.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20290027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They say these are small prices to pay for galvanizing action for the all-important cause.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20290028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The crimes may appear small, but the prices can be huge.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20290029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here are two cases to illustrate.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20290030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Assume a neighborhood demonstration to protest speeding on a certain road or a careless accident involving a police car.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20290031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The protesters lie down in the street, blocking traffic, and will not move until the authorities carry them away.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20290032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Assume that someone caught in the jam has a heart attack.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20290033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is no way to get an ambulance in quickly to move him to a hospital.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20290034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He dies.@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20290035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The demonstration was non-violent and involved only a simple misdemeanor, but its impact on that individual was violent and terminal.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20290036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Assume that a TV network is airing a celebrity interview program with a live audience.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20290037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The politician appearing is highly controversial and has recently generated a good deal of rancor amid certain groups.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20290038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a planned protest against his appearance, several members of the studio audience chain themselves in front of the TV cameras in such a way that the program cannot continue.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20290039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The network must refund money to the advertisers and loses considerable revenue and prestige.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20290040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The demonstrators have been non-violent, but the result of their trespasses has been to seriously impair the rights of others unconnected with their dispute.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20290041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It might be alleged that TV has done more than its share to popularize and promote non-violent civil disobedience, so the second situation hypothesized above would be simply a case of "chickens coming home to roost."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20290042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Or maybe the TV network would lose nothing.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20290043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Geraldo or Phil would probably pull up another camera and interview the chained protesters.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20290044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Let us look for a moment at another type of non-violent civil disobedience that only harms other people indirectly, yet does irreparable damage to the nation as a whole.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20290045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I am referring to those young men who chose to disobey their country's call to arms during the Vietnam war and fled to Canada or some other sanctuary to avoid combat.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20290046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Their cowardly acts of civil disobedience, which they tried to hide under the cloak of outrage at a war they characterized as "immoral," weakened the national fabric and threw additional burdens on those who served honorably in that conflict.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20290047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even more at fault are those leaders in and out of government who urged and supported their defections, thereby giving great help and comfort to the enemy propagandists.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20290048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is amazing that the ensuing mass executions in Vietnam and Cambodia do not weight more heavily on minds so morally fine-tuned.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20290049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Worse, it remained to a well-meaning but naive president of the United States to administer the final infamy upon those who fought and died in Vietnam.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20290050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the guise of "healing the wounds of the nation," President Carter pardoned thousands of draft evaders, thus giving dignity to their allegations of the war's "immorality."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20290051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The precedent having been set, who can complain if future generations called upon to defend the U.S. yield to the temptation to avoid the danger of combat by simply declaring the war immoral and hiding until it is over?@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20290052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finally, I think it important to point out the extraordinarily high visibility of non-violent civil disobedience in these days of intensive media coverage.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20290053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Give television a chance to cover live any breaking of the law, and no second invitation will be required.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20290054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This brings into question the motives of those who lead civil disobedience demonstrations.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20290055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Do they want the spotlight for themselves or for their cause?@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20290056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is a good rule of thumb: If the movement produced the leader, the chance that he is sincere is much greater than if the leader produced the movement.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20290057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In either case, ask yourself whether you have become better informed on the issues under protest by watching the act of civil disobedience.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20290058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you have not, it is probable that a thorough airing of the dispute by calm and rational debate would have been the better course.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20290059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Agnew was vice president of the U.S. from 1969 until he resigned in 1973.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20291001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gov. George Deukmejian and key legislators agreed to back a temporary one-quarter-cent increase in the state sales tax to raise $800 million for repairs and relief associated with last month's earthquake.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20291002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tax increase, which will be considered at a special session of the state legislature that begins tomorrow, would cover only part of the estimated $4 billion to $6 billion in total damage caused by the Oct. 17 quake.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20291003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Aside from as much as $3.45 billion in recently approved federal aid, the state is expected to draw from a gubernatorial emergency fund that currently stands at an estimated $700 million.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20291004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I am not aware that there is anything but bipartisan agreement for the general outline" of the revenue-raising plan, said a spokesman for the governor, after a Monday meeting with legislative leaders over the quake-relief question.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20291005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tax increase -- on top of the current six-cent per dollar sales tax -- would become effective this Dec. 1 and expire Dec. 31, 1990.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20291006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The sales-tax plan was preferred over an alternative that would have boosted the state gasoline tax.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20291007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some legislators expressed concern that a gas-tax increase would take too long and possibly damage chances of a major gas-tax-increasing ballot initiative that voters will consider next June.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20292001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite continuing problems in its newsprint business, Kimberly-Clark Corp. posted a 20% gain in third-quarter net income.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20292002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The consumer-products and newsprint company said net rose to $108.8 million, or $1.35 a share, from $90.5 million, or $1.12 a share, a year ago.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20292003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales rose 6.2% to $1.45 billion from $1.37 billion.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20292004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After a flat second quarter tied largely to lower newsprint earnings, Kimberly-Clark attributed the gain to improved results in its consumer businesses in North America, Brazil and Korea.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20292005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Those gains came from higher prices, particularly for disposable diapers and tissue products, and from increased sales, primarily for feminine-care products, the company said.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20292006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Newsprint results continued to be depressed, the company added, because of industrywide price discounting.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20292007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The quarter-to-quarter comparison was also enhanced by charges taken in the year-earlier period, including $11 million related to the modernization of a pulp and newsprint mill in Alabama.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20292008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the 1989 period also, interest expense and tax rates were lower than a year ago.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20292009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the first nine months, profit rose 10% to $313.2 million, or $3.89 a share, from $283.9 million, or $3.53 a share.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20292010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales rose 6.7% to $4.27 billion from $4 billion.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20292011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Kimberly-Clark closed at $66.50 a share, up $1.50.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20293001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@INTENSIVE AUDITS are coming to 55,500 taxpayers as research guinea pigs.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20293002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is the year: Unsuspecting filers of 1988 personal returns are being picked randomly for thorough audits to help the IRS update its criteria for enforcement, audit selection, and use of resources.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20293003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The last Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program survey covered 1985 returns.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20293004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 1988-return project starts Jan. 1 and is to be done by May 31, 1991.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20293005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Specially trained IRS agents will look for under-reported income and unsupported deductions and credits.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20293006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agents will make more than routine inquiries about such items as marital status and dependents; they want to look at living standards and business assets.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20293007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But they also are to see that taxpayers get all allowable tax benefits and to ask if filers who sought IRS aid were satisfied with it.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20293008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Courts have ruled that taxpayers must submit to TCMP audits, but the IRS will excuse from the fullscale rigors anyone who was audited without change for either 1986 or 1987.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20293009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rewards have been suggested -- but never adopted -- for filers who come through TCMP audits without change.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20293010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PENALTY OVERHAUL is still likely, congressional sources say.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20293011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Long-debated proposals to simplify the more than 150 civil penalties and make them fairer and easier to administer are in the House tax bill.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20293012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But they were stripped from the Senate bill after staffers estimated penalty revenue would fall by $216 million over five years.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20293013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, congressional aides say penalty reform is a strong candidate for enactment, even if not this time around, although some provisions may be modified.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20293014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sen. Pryor (D., Ark.), a leader on the issue who generally backs the House plan, wants some changes -- for one, separate sanctions for negligence and large misstatements of tax owed, not a single penalty.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20293015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He would ease the proposed penalties for delayed payroll-tax deposits and for faulty Form 1099 and other reports that taxpayers correct voluntarily.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20293016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The General Accounting Office urges Congress to ensure that all penalties retain their force as deterrents.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20293017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@TAXPAYERS' RIGHTS are defined by a growing number of states.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20293018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 1988 tax act created a federal bill of rights spelling out IRS duties to protect taxpayers' rights in the assessment and collection of taxes.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20293019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@States are following suit.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20293020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@California enacted a rights law in 1988.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20293021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1989, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina have adopted rights laws, the Federation of Tax Administrators, a state officials' group, reports; the features vary.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20293022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And taxpayer groups are urging legislation in many other states.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20293023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One group is the Committee on State Taxation, which comprises 330 multistate corporations and advises the Council of State Chambers of Commerce.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20293024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The group's Mark Cahoon says its efforts begun in 1989 have led to the introduction of bills in Massachusetts, Minnesota and Colorado to establish evenhanded procedures affecting all kinds of taxpayers.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20293025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The group also seeks uniformity among states in provisions for taxpayers' rights.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20293026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This week, New York City announced a 10-point policy patterned on the federal bill of rights for taxpayers.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20293027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@THE MILEAGE RATE allowed for business use of a car in 1989 has risen to 25.5 cents a mile for the first 15,000 from 24 cents in 1988, the IRS says; the rate stays 11 cents for each added mile.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20293028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also unaltered: 12 cents for charitable activities and nine cents for medical and moving costs.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20293029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IRA BALANCES could be used to qualify for bank services under a bill entered by Reps. Chandler (R., Wash.) and Andrews (D., Texas).@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20293030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bill would thwart a recent Labor Department opinion that investing individual-retirement-account funds to earn free checking violates the law.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20293031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HUGO FELLED vast timberlands.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20293032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Carolina's congressional delegation has entered Senate and House bills to provide special casualty-loss treatment and other tax relief for timber growers in the hurricane disaster areas.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20293033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HE RODE HIS HOBBY, but he couldn't milk it, the Tax Court says.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20293034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The court often weighs deductions of sideline-business costs: Do they stem from a profit-seeking activity or a nondeductible hobby?@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20293035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it's rare to see both functions in one case.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20293036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Charles O. Givens of Mount Vernon, Ind.-investment broker, ex-accountant, and son of a former stable owner-bred Tennessee Walking Horses for six years, raised cattle for four, and never made a profit on either.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20293037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He claimed losses totaling $42,455 -- and the IRS denied them all.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20293038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Special Judge Galloway noted that Givens managed horse-breeding in a businesslike way: He kept detailed accounts, practiced soil conservation, enhanced his experience by consulting experts, spent several hours a day doing chores, and dropped the sideline when his best brood mare died.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20293039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet he took little businesslike care with his cattle: He had no prior experience and didn't seek business counsel about them.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20293040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge said Givens may deduct his $30,180 of losses from horse breeding, but rejected the $12,275 in deductions from the cattle operation.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20293041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BRIEFS:@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20293042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The IRS already is doing intensive TCMP audits of 19,000 returns for 1987 and fiscal 1988 filed by corporations with under $10 million in assets. . . .@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20293043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@President Bush says he will name Donald E. Kirkendall to the new Treasury post of inspector general, which has responsibilities for the IRS. . . .@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20293044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The U.S. and Finland signed an income-tax treaty, subject to ratification.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20294001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An arbitrator awarded Eastern Airlines pilots between $60 million and $100 million in back pay, a decision that could complicate the carrier's bankruptcy-law reorganization.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20294002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eastern, a unit of Texas Air Corp., said it is examining the ruling to determine if it can appeal.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20294003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's unclear whether Eastern will succeed in overturning the arbitrator's decision, made in a long-simmering "pay parity" dispute that predates both the carrier's Chapter 11 petition and its 1986 acquisition by Texas Air.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20294004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All Eastern's previous court efforts to head off the pilots' demands have failed.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20294005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An Eastern spokesman said he doesn't expect that the arbitrator's ruling "will have any overall material effect on the company's strategic plan."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20294006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bankruptcy experts said the law isn't clear on how such an arbitration ruling can affect a company's case.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20294007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like any other creditor, the pilots will have to apply to the court for payment of their claim.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20294008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That may leave a lot of leeway for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland to decide what, if anything, the pilots actually collect.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20294009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In August, he issued the ruling that let the pilots pursue their back-pay grievance before the arbitrator.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20294010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The pilots' contract with Eastern calls for a mutually acceptable private arbitrator to resolve such grievances.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20294011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a statement to employees, Eastern said the company was disappointed by the ruling.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20294012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The obligation is totally unwarranted," the statement said.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20294013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@James Linsey, a lawyer for the Air Line Pilots Association, said the pilots were extremely pleased.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20294014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This is a blow not only to Eastern but to the creditors committee," he said.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20294015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eastern's creditors committee, along with the company, has consistently opposed the pilots' claim, which if paid would have to come out of money both hope to use to pay off other bankruptcy claims.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20294016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eastern and its creditors are in the final, delicate stages of negotiating a second reorganization plan to pay off the airline's debts.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20294017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An earlier plan, which had received the creditors' approval in July, fell apart when Eastern changed its business plan.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20294018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It isn't known whether the pilot claim was figured into either plan.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20294019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dispute between Eastern and its pilots is over a "pay parity" clause in the pilots' contract.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20294020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The clause was part of an agreement in which pilots accepted a substantial pay cut as long as no other labor group got a raise.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20294021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Shortly after Texas Air took control of Eastern, some Machinists union supervisors received a 20% pay raise.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20294022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The pilots argued that this triggered a pay raise for them.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20294023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eastern has disputed the claim, but a federal district court, an appeals court and now the arbitrator have all sided with the pilots.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20294024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two sides don't even agree about how much money is at issue.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20294025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The pilots put the amount as high as $100 million, the company at $65 million.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20294026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another arbitrator is hearing another pay parity case between Eastern and its pilots, resulting from a similar set of circumstances involving a separate pay raise granted another union.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20294027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A decision on that case isn't expected before mid-November.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20294028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ironically, many of the pilots involved have left Eastern or are still striking the carrier, which filed for bankruptcy protection March 9.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20294029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@About 800 have crossed the picket lines and returned to work.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20295001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Few people in the advertising business have raised as many hackles as Alvin A. Achenbaum.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20295002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The general public may not know his name, but he's famous -- make that infamous -- in advertising circles: A marketing consultant, he pioneered slashing ad agency commissions, to the delight of advertising clients and the dismay of agencies.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20295003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now, after beating them, Mr. Achenbaum is joining them.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20295004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Backer Spielvogel Bates Worldwide named Mr. Achenbaum, 62, vice chairman of professional services, reporting directly to Carl Spielvogel, chairman and chief executive officer.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20295005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He joins Nov. 13, dissolving his consulting firm, Canter, Achenbaum Associates.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20295006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In years past, the ad industry's most distinguished executives didn't hesitate to excorciate Mr. Achenbaum.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20295007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They have since mellowed, although one senior Young & Rubicam executive, echoing others, said: "I think ad agencies owe Carl {Spielvogel} a vote of thanks for getting him out of the consulting business."@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20295008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But industry executives also believe hiring Mr. Achenbaum is a shrewd move for Backer Spielvogel, a unit of Saatchi & Saatchi.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20295009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Achenbaum has counted among his clients some of the most visible blue-chip advertisers in the country, including Nissan, Toyota, Seagram and Backer Spielvogel clients Hyundai and J.P. Morgan.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20295010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At Backer Spielvogel, he will work with clients and potential clients on marketing strategies; aside from agency compensation issues, he helped Nissan, for example, come up with its positioning and pricing for its new Infiniti line.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20295011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His client contacts, meanwhile, could prove a gold mine for an agency that has had few new business wins of late.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20295012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I've done over 40 ad agency searches {for clients}, so I have a pretty good notion of what clients are interested in when they look for an agency," Mr. Achenbaum said.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20295013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a consultant, he has given seminars at agencies including Ogilvy & Mather on how to win new business.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Spielvogel said he hopes Mr. Achenbaum will do some strategic consulting at the agency for "non-clients, in hopes that they become clients."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20295015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At Backer Spielvogel, Mr. Spielvogel's hallmark has been personal involvement with all major clients.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20295016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He pampers them; he invites them to fabulous parties; he strokes them.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20295017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Achenbaum, too, delves into his clients' business.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20295018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Carl has a much higher degree of intimacy with his clients than is ordinary for an agency his size.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And with Al's record of being a delver and a detail guy, you can see how the two fit," said Alan Gottesman, an analyst with PaineWebber.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20295020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Achenbaum's move follows the announcement last month that his consulting partner, Stanley Canter, 66, would retire.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20295021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When the announcement came out, "I picked up the phone and said, `Why don't you come to us?'" Mr. Spielvogel said.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20295022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Achenbaum, who had been considering paring down his firm or merging it with another small consulting outfit, soon agreed.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20295023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two men are longtime friends and tennis partners, having met about 25 years ago.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20295024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Before becoming a consultant in 1974, Mr. Achenbaum was a senior executive at J. Walter Thompson Co.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20295025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He spent most of his career formulating marketing strategies, but became best-known for chipping away at ad agency compensation.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ad agencies typically earned a straight 15% commission; if a client spent $100 million on TV time, the agency made $15 million.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20295027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Mr. Achenbaum pioneered negotiated fees, which often worked out to less than 15%.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20295028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More recently, he negotiated "indemnification" clauses in which an ad agency in some cases must pay a client if it drops the account.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20295029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He ultimately became so well-known for cutting compensation, however, that clients didn't seek him out for anything else.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20295030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I was very frustrated," he said.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20295031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The fact of the matter is, I am a marketer.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20295032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's another reason {for the Backer Spielvogel job}.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20295033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It struck me as a way to get back to what I really want to do."@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20295034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Spielvogel added pointedly: "The pressure on commissions didn't begin with Al Achenbaum."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20295035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Spielvogel said Mr. Achenbaum will work with clients to determine the mix of promotion, merchandising, publicity and other marketing outlets, and to integrate those services.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20295036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He will concentrate on, among others, J.P. Morgan and Hyundai.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20295037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Achenbaum helped Morgan in its recent agency search, and he has a long relationship with Hyundai, which is having severe troubles, including declining sales.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20295038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The trail of revenue is increasingly going away from pure advertising, and going towards other services," Mr. Spielvogel said.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead of being just an ad agency, he said: "We have redefined our mission here.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20295040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Our mission is to help our clients grow, and to use every tool of marketing communications to accomplish that."@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Industry executives are wishing Mr. Achenbaum well.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20295042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Leonard Matthews, then-president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, called Mr. Achenbaum a "quisling" in an incendiary 1987 speech.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20295043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday, Mr. Matthews, now a consultant with the Stamford, Conn., firm Matthews & Johnston, quipped, "I think he'll be very good at that {new job}.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20295044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And much better at that than at {the price-cutting} he's been doing recently."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20295045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cotton Inc. Campaign@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20295046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cotton Inc., the fiber company that represents cotton growers, will begin a new ad campaign, developed by Ogilvy & Mather, Thanksgiving Day.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20295047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@J. Nicholas Hahn, Cotton Inc.'s president and chief executive, was an outspoken critic of WPP Group's acquisition of Ogilvy Group earlier this year.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20295048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@During the takeover, Mr. Hahn said he would put his account up for review if WPP's bid were successful, but he didn't.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20295049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cotton Inc.'s new $9 million campaign calls cotton the "Fabric of Our Lives."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20295050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The campaign replaces its "Take Comfort in Cotton" ads and marks the end of its national cooperative advertising efforts.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For years, the company's ads were tied in with pitches for Cannon sheets or Martex towels, for example, and an announcer at the end of the ads would tell customers where to "find the true performance label."@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20295052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With the new TV spots, Ogilvy & Mather has opted for a family style with lots of laughter, hugs and tears.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20295053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We're making a fairly obvious plea for some emotional reaction," says Tom Rost, creative director at Ogilvy & Mather.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20295054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cotton Inc. will spend nearly $2 million on broadcasting on Thanksgiving Day alone, advertising on such programs as "Good Morning America," "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" and the NFL holiday game.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20295055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frank Mingo Dies at 49@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20295056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frank L. Mingo, one of the pioneers of advertising targeted at black audiences, died at the age of 49 after a stroke.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20295057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mingo was chief executive officer of the Mingo Group, which he founded in 1977 and which created ads for the black market.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20295058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Clients include Miller Brewing Co. and General Motors.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20295059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mingo was hospitalized Sept. 23 and died Monday, according to Samuel J. Chisholm, the agency's president and chief operating officer.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20295060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ad Notes. . . .@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20295061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@EARNINGS:@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20295062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Omnicom Group Inc., New York, reported third-quarter net income rose 54% to $5.6 million, or 22 cents a share, from $3.6 million, or 15 cents a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20295063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Revenue increased 20% to $246.6 million from $204.8 million.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20296001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's leader and one of Asia's leading statesmen for 30 years, recently announced his intention to retire next year -- though not necessarily to end his influence.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20296002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The prime minister, whose hair is thinning and gray and whose face has a perpetual pallor, nonetheless continues to display an energy, a precision of thought and a willingness to say publicly what most other Asian leaders dare say only privately.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20296003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 66-year-old Mr. Lee recently spent an hour discussing the state of Asia and the world with two Journal reporters in his plainly furnished, wood-paneled office.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20296004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The interview did not touch on Singapore's domestic affairs.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20296005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Skipping personal pleasantries, Mr. Lee picked up exactly where he left off several months earlier -- before the government crackdown in China -- when he had warned that the orthodox leadership in Beijing feared a plurality of views.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20296006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Excerpts follow:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20296007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On China's turmoil: "It is a very unhappy scene," he said.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20296008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It took Zhao Ziyang (former premier and party chief) 10 years to build a team of economists who understood how the Western economies work and now that team is part in exile, part being rusticated and part missing."@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20296009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rebuilding that team, Mr. Lee predicted, will take another 10 years.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20296010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"That's very sad for China and for Asia because China could have been a good engine for growth, not just for Hong Kong and Taiwan but for Japan, Korea and the rest of Asia."@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20296011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On similarities between China and the Soviet Union: "In important particulars, the Soviets are different from the Chinese.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20296012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They are already industrialized. . . .@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20296013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Their problem is one of inefficiency of an industrial economy.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20296014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Chinese problem is much greater -- it's how to industrialize to begin with."@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20296015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Asked if the Soviets, like Chinese officials, won't one day face a similar conflict between the desire to liberalize economically and yet retain political control, Mr. Lee said, "I would think that the Soviets face a deeper dilemma because they have been more in blinkers than the Chinese -- I mean keeping their people cut off from the outside world."@@@@1@60@@oe@2-2-2013
20296016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mikhail Gorbachev, he said, is ahead of China's leaders in his awareness of the world.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20296017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But I think the Soviet peoples are more introverted than the Chinese."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20296018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Regardless, he said, he still believes the Soviet Union, while falling far short of the efficiency of a Western economy, may well manage to improve considerably.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20296019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Asia-Pacific prosperity: "If America can keep up the present situation -- her markets open for another 15 years, with adjustments, and Japan can grow and not cut back, and so too, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand -- then in 15 years, the economies of these countries would be totally restructured to be able to almost sustain growth by themselves."@@@@1@65@@oe@2-2-2013
20296020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In such an arrangement, "all benefit," he said.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20296021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"And if the Europeans come in, they benefit too.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20296022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's not a zero-sum game."@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20296023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Asked about the possibility of greater economic cooperation among Asia-Pacific nations, which will be discussed Nov. 6 and 7 at a ministerial meeting in Canberra, Mr. Lee said the goal "is to have a free and open world trading system."@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20296024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An Asian bloc isn't intended, he said.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20296025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"That's not possible."@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20296026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On U.S.-Japan relations: "I'm encouraged.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20296027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I think the earlier strident notes struck by {U.S. Commerce Secretary Robert} Mosbacher and {U.S. Trade Representative} Carla Hills have been more rounded.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20296028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I believe the U.S. is becoming more patient and circumspect," he said.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20296029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's the total relationship that is important."@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20296030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The total relationship, as Mr. Lee sees it, is "the flow of dollars to the U.S. to fund the deficits, the investments the Japanese are making in the U.S. in order to satisfy American demand that American products consumed in America should be made as much as possible in America by Americans with Japanese technology and capital."@@@@1@57@@oe@2-2-2013
20296031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japan's recent political turbulence, Mr. Lee said, may mean Japan will slow market adjustments.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20296032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"They'll be more timorous in tackling their own voters, like opening up more to agricultural imports from America, hurting their farmers."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20296033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On U.S. military presence in Asia: Asked if his offer to allow the American military to use facilities in Singapore would help preserve America's presence in the region at bases in the Philippines, he said, "What we have done is make it easier for the Philippines to continue to host American bases without it being said they are lackeys of the imperialists and the only ones in Asia or in Southeast Asia.@@@@1@72@@oe@2-2-2013
20296034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We are willing to share the political burden of being host to America, an imperial power.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20296035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We think it isn't such a great burden, that it carries no stigma, and we are prepared to do it."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20296036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On U.S.-Philippine relations: "It's such a mixed-up relationship going back into history. . . .@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20296037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I really do not understand how it is that Filipinos feel so passionately involved in this father figure that they want to dispose of and yet they need.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20296038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I just don't understand it.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20296039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@My relationships with the British are totally different.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20296040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They lorded it over me.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20296041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They did me some good.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20296042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They did themselves even more good.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20296043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They let me down when the Japanese came down {during World War II}. . . .@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20296044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I don't feel down or done in because I show British serials on my television network or read their books.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20296045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I mean it is a normal adult relationship.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20296046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But the Filipinos and the Americans, when I talk to them, there's so much passion about Filipino manhood being diminished as a result of being squatted upon by the Americans and so on.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20296047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The occasional Englishman tries to put on airs but we let it pass. . . .@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20296048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's just comic when they try to pretend they're still the master race."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20296049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lee added that the Filipinos are "making it very difficult" for the U.S. military presence to last beyond five or 10 years.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20296050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On military alternatives if the U.S. pulls back: "The Soviets already are present.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20296051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I suppose sooner or later, the Japanese would have to fill up a large part of the gap on the naval side.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20296052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Maybe the Chinese, maybe even the Indians."@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20296053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On economic consequences of a diminished U.S. presence: "America is the only major power in recent history that has used its military might to sustain a system that enables all participants to equally benefit without her as the provider of the security taking royalties."@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20296054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Asked why so few nations seem to share his views of America, he said, "Many people see it that way.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20296055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But they have just taken it for granted."@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20296056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Cambodia: "Let's assume that {former Cambodian leader Prince Norodom} Sihanouk does what the press wants him to do and joins up with {Vietnamese-backed Cambodian leader} Hun Sen.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20296057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Is the trouble over?@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20296058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Can Sihanouk and Hun Sen knock off the Khmer Rouge still supported by China?@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20296059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He can't.@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20296060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"What is the way forward?@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20296061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To get the Khmer Rouge as part of a process for elections.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20296062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And when they lose, then we can expect China to stop aid.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20296063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Let's put it bluntly.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20296064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Chinese cannot be seen to have made use of the Khmer Rouge and then discard them."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20296065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. House is vice president of Dow Jones International Group.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20296066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Wain is editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20297001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Everything looked good as neurosurgeon Walter Levy and colleagues carefully cut away a woman's spinal tumor at the Cleveland Clinic in 1978.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20297002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Using small electrical shocks applied to her feet, they were able to monitor sensory nerves.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20297003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The shocks generated nerve impulses that traveled via spine to brain and showed up clearly on a brain-wave monitor, indicating no damage to the delicate spinal tissue.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20297004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then, says Dr. Levy, "she woke up paralyzed."@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20297005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The damage was to her motor nerves, which couldn't be monitored along with the sensory nerves, he explains.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20297006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tragedy, he adds, "galvanized me" to look for a way to prevent similar cases.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20297007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dr. Levy's answer may come with a new kind of magnetic brain probe, a device that he and dozens of U.S. researchers are studying with great hope.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20297008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Besides holding the promise of safer spinal surgery, the probe could improve the diagnosis of brain and nerve disorders such as strokes and multiple sclerosis.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20297009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps most exciting, the device is thrusting open a window to the workings of the brain.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20297010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The probe, which is painless, non-invasive and apparently harmless, employs strong magnetic fields to induce small whirlwinds of electricity within the brain.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20297011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If positioned over the brain's motor-control area, the hand-held electromagnets generate nerve impulses that zip down motor nerves and activate muscles, making, say, a finger twitch.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20297012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In principle, they will enable doctors to check the body's motor system the way an electrician tests a home's electrical circuits by running current through them.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20297013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Until now, we've had no objective way of measuring motor function," says Keith Chiappa, a neurologist conducting clinical tests with the devices at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20297014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"All we could do was tell a patient, `squeeze my fingers as hard as you can' or `raise your arm.'@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20297015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@" Under the best circumstances such tests are subjective; when a patient is unconscious, they don't work at all.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20297016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Magnetic brain tweaking started in the early 1900s, when researchers produced flashes of light in the visual field with magnets.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20297017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the 1960s, Mayo Clinic researchers developed magnetic devices to stimulate motor nerves in the hand and other limbs.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20297018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But for brain tests, the unwieldy machines "would have required patients to stand on their heads," says Reginald Bickford, a researcher at the University of California at San Diego.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20297019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The field took off in 1985 after scientists at Britain's Sheffield University developed a handy, compact magnet for brain stimulation.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20297020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since then, at least two commercial versions have been put on the U.S. market, and an estimated 500 have been sold.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20297021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In August, a Chicago conference on such devices attracted more than 100 researchers, who reported studies on everything from brain mapping to physical therapy.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20297022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We don't feel we can use {the devices} routinely in surgery yet, but we're getting close," says Dr. Levy, who is now with the University of Pittsburgh.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20297023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A problem, he adds, is that anesthetized brains are more resistant to magnetic stimulation than awake ones.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20297024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The devices could help indicate when surgery would help, says Charles Tator, a University of Toronto neurosurgeon.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20297025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, paralyzed car-crash victims occasionally have some intact spinal tissues that, if preserved by emergency surgery, enable partial recovery.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20297026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But such operations typically aren't performed because there is no sign right after an injury that surgery would be beneficial.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20297027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The cost {of magnetic stimulators} would seem like peanuts if we could retrieve limb function" in such people, Dr. Tator says.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20297028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scientists caution there is a chance the magnet technique might spark seizures in epileptics.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20297029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But no significant problems have been reported among hundreds of people tested with the devices.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20297030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The main sensation, besides feeling like a puppet jerked with invisible strings, is "like a rap on the head," says Sam Bridgers, a neurologist who has studied the brain stimulators at Yale University.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20297031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One apparent side effect is a minor increase in a brain hormone.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20297032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And some doctors who have conducted hours of tests on themselves report temporary headaches.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20297033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At least two companies, Cadwell Laboratories Inc. of Kennewick, Wash., and Novametrix Medical Systems Inc. of Wallingford, Conn., now sell versions of the magnetic devices.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20297034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The machines, which at $12,500 are inexpensive by medical standards, haven't been approved in the U.S. for marketing as brain stimulators but are sold for stimulating nerves in the hand, legs and other non-brain areas.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20297035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Researchers can apply for permission to use the probes for brain studies.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20297036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the University of Kentucky, a team led by Dean Currier, a physical therapy researcher, is testing the stimulators in conjunction with electric shocks to induce muscle contractions to help prevent wasting of thigh muscles after knee surgery.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20297037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Similarly, a Purdue University team led by heart researcher W.A. Tacker hopes to develop ways to magnetically induce cardiac muscle contractions.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20297038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The devices might someday serve as temporary pacemakers or restarters for stopped hearts, says Dr. Tacker, whose prototype was dubbed the "Tacker whacker."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20297039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The devices' most remarkable possibilities, though, involve the brain.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20297040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Probing with the stimulators, National Institutes of Health scientists recently showed how the brain reorganizes motor-control resources after an amputation.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20297041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Similar studies are expected to reveal how stroke patients' brains regroup -- a first step toward finding ways to bolster that process and speed rehabilitation.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20297042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scientists also are exploring memory and perception with the new machines.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20297043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the State University of New York at Brooklyn, researchers flash two groups of different letters on a computer screen in front of human guinea pigs.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20297044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Between flashes, certain areas in subjects' brains are jolted with a magnetic stimulator.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20297045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When the jolt is timed just right, the subjects don't recall seeing the first group of letters.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20297046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Where does that first stimulus go?" exclaims SUNY neurologist Paul Maccabee.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20297047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Trying to answer that is suggesting all kinds of theories," such as precisely where and how the brain processes incoming signals from the eyes.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20297048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He and others say that the machines are weak enough that they don't jeopardize the memory.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20297049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both the SUNY team and researchers at the National Magnet Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., are working with more potent magnetic brain stimulators.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20297050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among other things, the stronger devices may be able to summon forth half-forgotten memories and induce mood changes, neurologists say.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20298001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Du Pont Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Los Alamos National Laboratory said they signed a three-year, $11 million agreement to collaborate on superconductor research.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20298002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The collaboration will include at least 25 researchers and will be aimed primarily at developing thin films of high-temperature superconductors for use in electronics, the companies said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20298003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The materials, discovered during the past three years, conduct electricity without resistance and promise smaller, faster computers and other new technologies.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20298004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Joint-research programs have proliferated as U.S. companies seek to spread the risks and costs of commercializing new superconductors and to meet the challenges posed by foreign consortia, especially in Japan.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20298005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The latest research pact bolsters Du Pont's growing portfolio of investments in superconductors.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20298006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Wilmington, Del., chemicals concern previously signed research superconductor agreements with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and with Argonne National Laboratory.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20298007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last year, Du Pont agreed to pay $4.5 million for rights to superconductor work at the University of Houston.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20298008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hewlett-Packard is a Palo Alto, Calif., computer maker.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20298009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Los Alamos laboratory is one of three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories designed as pilot centers to foster joint industry-government programs to speed the transfer of new superconductors to the marketplace.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20299001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@J.C. PENNEY Co., Dallas, said it issued $350 million of securities backed by credit-card receivables.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20299002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The offering was priced with an 8.95% coupon rate at 99.1875% to yield 9.19%.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20299003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The retailer said the securities are expected to be rated triple-A by Standard & Poor's Corp. and Aaa by Moody's Investors Service Inc.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20299004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They pay interest only for 115 months, with principal payments beginning thereafter.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20299005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The expected average life of the certificates is 10 years, with the final scheduled payment in October, 2001.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20299006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First Boston Corp. is sole underwriter.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20299007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As part of the transaction, J.C. Penney will sell a portion of its credit-card receivables to its JCP Receivables Inc. unit, which will then transfer them to a master trust.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20299008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The trust will issue the certificates.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20299009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Credit support will be provided by a letter of credit facility from Credit Suisse in favor of the trustee, Fuji Bank & Trust Co., for the benefit of the certificate holders.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20299010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@J.C. Penney will continue to service the receivables.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013