20037067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Czech dam can't be operated solely at peak periods without the Nagymaros project.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20037068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A painting by August Strindberg set a Scandinavian price record when it sold at auction in Stockholm for $2.44 million.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20037069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Lighthouse II" was painted in oils by the playwright in 1901 . . .@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20037070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After years of decline, weddings in France showed a 2.2% upturn last year, with 6,000 more couples exchanging rings in 1988 than in the previous year, the national statistics office said.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20037071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the number of weddings last year -- 271,124 -- was still well below the 400,000 registered in 1972, the last year of increasing marriages.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20038001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BRAMALEA Ltd. said it agreed to issue 100 million Canadian dollars (US$85.1 million) of 10.5% senior debentures due Nov. 30, 1999, together with 100,000 bond purchase warrants.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20038002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Toronto-based real estate concern said each bond warrant entitles the holder to buy C$1,000 principal amount of debentures at par plus accrued interest to the date of purchase.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20038003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The warrants expire Nov. 30, 1990.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20038004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The issue will be swapped into fixed-rate U.S. dollars at a rate the company said is less than 9%; a spokesman declined to elaborate.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20038005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lead underwriters for the issue are Scotia McLeod Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc., both Toronto-based investment dealers.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20038006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bramalea said it expects to complete the issue by the end of the month.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20039001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As an actor, Charles Lane isn't the inheritor of Charlie Chaplin's spirit.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20039002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Steve Martin has already laid his claim to that.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20039003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it is Mr. Lane, as movie director, producer and writer, who has been obsessed with refitting Chaplin's Little Tramp in a contemporary way.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20039004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1976, as a film student at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York, Mr. Lane shot "A Place in Time," a 36-minute black-and-white film about a sketch artist, a man of the streets.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20039005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now, 13 years later, Mr. Lane has revived his Artist in a full-length movie called "Sidewalk Stories," a poignant piece of work about a modern-day tramp.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20039006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of course, if the film contained dialogue, Mr. Lane's Artist would be called a homeless person.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20039007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So would the Little Tramp, for that matter.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20039008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I say "contained dialogue" because "Sidewalk Stories" isn't really silent at all.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20039009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Composer Marc Marder, a college friend of Mr. Lane's who earns his living playing the double bass in classical music ensembles, has prepared an exciting, eclectic score that tells you what the characters are thinking and feeling far more precisely than intertitles, or even words, would.@@@@1@46@@oe@2-2-2013
20039010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Much of Mr. Lane's film takes a highly romanticized view of life on the streets (though probably no more romanticized than Mr. Chaplin's notion of the Tramp as the good-hearted free spirit).@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20039011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Filmed in lovely black and white by Bill Dill, the New York streets of "Sidewalk Stories" seem benign.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20039012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Wall Street men and women walk with great purpose, noticing one another only when they jostle for cabs.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20039013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Artist hangs out in Greenwich Village, on a strip of Sixth Avenue populated by jugglers, magicians and other good-natured hustlers.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20039014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(This clearly is not real life: no crack dealers, no dead-eyed men selling four-year-old copies of Cosmopolitan, no one curled up in a cardboard box.)@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20039015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Artist has his routine.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20039016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He spends his days sketching passers-by, or trying to.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20039017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At night he returns to the condemned building he calls home.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20039018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His life, including his skirmishes with a competing sketch artist, seems carefree.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20039019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He is his own man.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20039020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then, just as the Tramp is given a blind girl to cure in "City Lights," the Artist is put in charge of returning a two-year-old waif (Nicole Alysia), whose father has been murdered by thugs, to her mother.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20039021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This cute child turns out to be a blessing and a curse.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20039022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She gives the Artist a sense of purpose, but also alerts him to the serious inadequacy of his vagrant life.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20039023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The beds at the Bowery Mission seem far drearier when he has to tuck a little girl into one of them at night.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20039024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To further load the stakes, Mr. Lane dreamed up a highly improbable romance for the Artist, with a young woman who owns her own children's shop and who lives in an expensive high-rise apartment building.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20039025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This story line might resonate more strongly if Mr. Lane had as strong a presence in front of the camera as he does behind it.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20039026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lane's final purpose isn't to glamorize the Artist's vagabond existence.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20039027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He has a point he wants to make, and he makes it, with a great deal of force.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20039028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The movie ends with sound, the sound of street people talking, and there isn't anything whimsical or enviable in those rough, beaten voices.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20039029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The French film maker Claude Chabrol has managed another kind of weird achievement with his "Story of Women."@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20039030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He has made a harsh, brilliant picture -- one that's captivating -- about a character who, viewed from the most sympathetic angle, would seem disagreeable.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20039031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet this woman, Marie-Louise Giraud, carries historical significance, both as one of the last women to be executed in France and as a symbol of the Vichy government's hypocrisy.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20039032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While Vichy collaborated with the Germans during World War II in the deaths of thousands of Resistance fighters and Jews, its officials needed a diversionary symbolic traitor.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20039033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Marie-Louise, a small-time abortionist, was their woman.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20039034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She became an abortionist accidentally, and continued because it enabled her to buy jam, cocoa and other war-rationed goodies.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20039035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She was untrained and, in one botched job killed a client.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20039036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Her remorse was shallow and brief.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20039037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Although she was kind and playful to her children, she was dreadful to her war-damaged husband; she openly brought her lover into their home.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20039038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As presented by Mr. Chabrol, and played with thin-lipped intensity by Isabelle Huppert, Marie-Louise (called Marie Latour in the film) was not a nice person.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20039039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But she didn't deserve to have her head chopped off.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20039040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is very little to recommend "Old Gringo," a confused rendering of the Carlos Fuentes novel of the Mexican Revolution.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20039041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most of the picture is taken up with endless scenes of many people either fighting or eating and drinking to celebrate victory.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20039042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I mention the picture only because many bad movies have a bright spot, and this one has Gregory Peck, in a marvelously loose and energetic portrayal of an old man who wants to die the way he wants to die.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20039043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Video Tip: Before seeing "Sidewalk Stories," take a look at "City Lights," Chaplin's Tramp at his finest.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20040001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Boeing Co. said it is discussing plans with three of its regular Japanese suppliers to possibly help build a larger version of its popular 767 twin-jet.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20040002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The discussions are still in preliminary stages, and the specific details haven't been worked out between the Seattle aerospace company and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20040003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The three Japanese companies build the body sections of the 767, accounting for a combined 15% of the aircraft.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20040004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japanese press reports have speculated that the Japanese contribution could rise to between 20% and 25% under the new program.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20040005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If Boeing goes ahead with the larger 767, the plane could hit the market in the mid-1990s.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20041001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is the year the negative ad, for years a secondary presence in most political campaigns, became the main event.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20041002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The irony is that the attack commercial, after getting a boost in last year's presidential campaign, has come of age in an off-off election year with only a few contests scattered across the country.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20041003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in the three leading political contests of 1989, the negative ads have reached new levels of hostility, raising fears that this kind of mudslinging, empty of significant issues, is ushering in a new era of campaigns without content.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20041004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Now," says Joseph Napolitan, a pioneer in political television, "the idea is to attack first, last and always."@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20041005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A trend that started with the first stirrings of politics, accelerated with the dawn of the television age and became a sometimes-tawdry art form in 1988, has reached an entirely new stage.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20041006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"To get people's attention these days," says Douglas Bailey, a political consultant, "your TV ad needs to be bold and entertaining, and, more often than not, that means confrontational.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20041007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And, unlike a few years ago, you don't even have to worry whether the ad is truthful."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20041008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1989, as often as not, the principal fights in the major campaigns are prompted by the ads themselves.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20041009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Take a look, then, at the main attack commercials that set the tone for Tuesday's elections in New York City, New Jersey and Virginia:@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20041010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New York City:@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20041011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The screen fills with a small, tight facial shot of David Dinkins, Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20041012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"David Dinkins failed to file his income taxes for four straight years," says a disembodied male voice.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20041013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And then this television commercial, paid for by Republican Rudolph Giuliani's campaign and produced by Roger Ailes, the master of negative TV ads, really gets down to business.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20041014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Dinkins, the ad charges, also failed to report his campaign contributions accurately, hid his links to a failing insurance company and paid a convicted kidnapper "through a phony organization with no members, no receipts and no office."@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20041015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"David Dinkins," says the kicker, "Why does he always wait until he's caught?"@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20041016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Nasty innuendoes," says John Siegal, Mr. Dinkins's issues director, "designed to prosecute a case of political corruption that simply doesn't exist."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20041017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stung by the Giuliani ads, Mr. Dinkins's TV consultants, Robert Shrum and David Doak, finally unleashed a negative ad of their own.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20041018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The screen shows two distorted, unrecognizable photos, presumably of two politicians.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20041019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Compare two candidates for mayor," says the announcer.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20041020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"One says he's for banning cop-killer bullets.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20041021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The other has opposed a ban on cop-killer bullets.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20041022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One claims he's pro-choice.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20041023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The other has opposed a woman's right to choose."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20041024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Funny thing," says the kicker, "both these candidates are named Rudolph Giuliani."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20041025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Who's telling the truth?@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20041026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Everybody -- and nobody.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20041027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's a classic situation of ads that are true but not always fully accurate.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20041028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Dinkins did fail to file his income taxes for four years, but he insists he voluntarily admitted the "oversight" when he was being considered for a city job.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20041029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He was on the board of an insurance company with financial problems, but he insists he made no secret of it.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20041030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The city's Campaign Finance Board has refused to pay Mr. Dinkins $95,142 in matching funds because his campaign records are incomplete.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20041031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The campaign has blamed these reporting problems on computer errors.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20041032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And, says Mr. Dinkins, he didn't know the man his campaign paid for a get-out-the-vote effort had been convicted of kidnapping.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20041033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But, say Mr. Dinkins's managers, he did have an office and his organization did have members.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20041034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Giuliani's campaign chairman, Peter Powers, says the Dinkins ad is "deceptive."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20041035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The other side, he argues, "knows Giuliani has always been pro-choice, even though he has personal reservations.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20041036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They know he is generally opposed to cop-killer bullets, but that he had some reservations about the language in the legislation."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20041037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Virginia:@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20041038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Democratic Lt. Gov. Douglas Wilder opened his gubernatorial battle with Republican Marshall Coleman with an abortion commercial produced by Frank Greer that analysts of every political persuasion agree was a tour de force.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20041039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Against a shot of Monticello superimposed on an American flag, an announcer talks about the "strong tradition of freedom and individual liberty" that Virginians have nurtured for generations.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20041040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then, just as an image of the statue of Thomas Jefferson dissolves from the screen, the announcer continues: "On the issue of abortion, Marshall Coleman wants to take away your right to choose and give it to the politicians."@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20041041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That commercial -- which said Mr. Coleman wanted to take away the right of abortion "even in cases of rape and incest," a charge Mr. Coleman denies -- changed the dynamics of the campaign, transforming it, at least in part, into a referendum on abortion.@@@@1@45@@oe@2-2-2013
20041042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The ad prompted Mr. Coleman, the former Virginia attorney general, to launch a series of advertisements created by Bob Goodman and designed to shake Mr. Wilder's support among the very women who were attracted by the abortion ad.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20041043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Coleman counterattack featured a close-up of a young woman in shadows and the ad suggested that she was recalling an unpleasant courtroom ordeal.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20041044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A voice says, "C'mon, now, don't you have boyfriends?"@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20041045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then an announcer interjects: "It was Douglas Wilder who introduced a bill to force rape victims age 13 and younger to be interrogated about their private lives by lawyers for accused rapists.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20041046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So the next time Mr. Wilder talks about the rights of women, ask him about this law he tried to pass."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20041047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Wilder did introduce such legislation 17 years ago, but he did so at the request of a constituent, a common legislative technique used by lawmakers.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20041048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The legislation itself noted that it was introduced "by request," and in 1983 Mr. Wilder introduced a bill to protect rape victims from unfounded interrogation.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20041049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"People have grown tired of these ads and Coleman has gotten the stigma of being a negative campaigner," says Mark Rozell, a political scientist at Mary Washington College.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20041050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Wilder has managed to get across the idea that Coleman will say anything to get elected governor and -- more important -- has been able to put the onus for all the negative campaigning on Coleman."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20041051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Coleman said this week that he would devote the remainder of the political season to positive campaigning, but the truce lasted only hours.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20041052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By Tuesday night, television stations were carrying new ads featuring Mr. Coleman himself raising questions about Mr. Wilder's sensitivity to rape victims.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20041053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Jersey:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20041054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The attacks began when Democratic Rep. James Florio aired an ad featuring a drawing of Pinocchio and a photograph of Mr. Florio's rival, Republican Rep. Jim Courter.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20041055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Remember Pinocchio?" says a female voice.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20041056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Consider Jim Courter."@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20041057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And then this commercial, produced by Bob Squier, gets down to its own mean and dirty business.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20041058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pictures of rusted oil drums swim into focus, and the female voice purrs, "That hazardous waste on his {Mr. Courter's} property -- the neighbors are suing for consumer fraud."@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20041059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And the nose on Mr. Courter's face grows.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20041060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The only fraud involved, cry Mr. Courter's partisans, is the Florio commercial itself, and so the Courter campaign has responded with its own Pinocchio commercial, produced by Mr. Ailes.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20041061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In this one, the screen fills with photographs of both candidates.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20041062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Who's really lying?" asks a female voice.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20041063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Florio's lying," the voice goes on, because "the barrel on Courter's land . . . contained heating oil, was cleaned up and caused no pollution."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20041064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Courter's long nose shrinks while Mr. Florio's grows.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20041065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Who's telling the truth?@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20041066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stephen Salmore, a political scientist at New Jersey's Eagleton Institute, says it's another example of an ad that's true but not fully accurate.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20041067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Barrels were dumped on the Courter property, a complaint was made, but there is no evidence the barrels were a serious threat to the environment.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20041068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even so, according to Mr. Salmore, the ad was "devastating" because it raised questions about Mr. Courter's credibility.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20041069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it's building on a long tradition.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20041070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1966, on route to a re-election rout of Democrat Frank O'Connor, GOP Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York appeared in person saying, "If you want to keep the crime rates high, O'Connor is your man."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20042001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A seat on the Chicago Board of Trade was sold for $350,000, down $16,000 from the previous sale last Friday.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20042002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Seats currently are quoted at $331,000, bid, and $350,000, asked.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20042003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The record price for a full membership on the exchange is $550,000, set Aug. 31, 1987.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20043001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japanese investment in Southeast Asia is propelling the region toward economic integration.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20043002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Interviews with analysts and business people in the U.S. suggest that Japanese capital may produce the economic cooperation that Southeast Asian politicians have pursued in fits and starts for decades.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20043003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Japan's power in the region also is sparking fears of domination and posing fresh policy questions.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20043004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The flow of Japanese funds has set in motion "a process whereby these economies will be knitted together by the great Japanese investment machine," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International Corp.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20043005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the past five years, Japanese companies have tripled their commitments in Asia to $5.57 billion.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20043006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Thailand, for example, the government's Board of Investment approved $705.6 million of Japanese investment in 1988, 10 times the U.S. investment figure for the year.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20043007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japan's commitment in Southeast Asia also includes steep increases in foreign assistance and trade.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20043008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Asia's other cash-rich countries are following Japan's lead and pumping capital into the region.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20043009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Taiwan and South Korea, rising wages are forcing manufacturers to seek other overseas sites for labor-intensive production.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20043010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These nations, known as Asia's "little tigers," also are contributing to Southeast Asia's integration, but their influence will remain subordinate to Japan's.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20043011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For recipient countries such as Thailand and Malaysia, the investment will provide needed jobs and spur growth.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20043012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Asian nations' harsh memories of their military domination by Japan in the early part of this century make them fearful of falling under Japanese economic hegemony now.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20043013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because of budget constraints in Washington, the U.S. encourages Japan to share economic burdens in the region.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20043014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it resists yielding political ground.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20043015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the coming decade, analysts say, U.S.-Japanese relations will be tested as Tokyo comes to terms with its new status as the region's economic behemoth.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20043016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japan's swelling investment in Southeast Asia is part of its economic evolution.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20043017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the past decade, Japanese manufacturers concentrated on domestic production for export.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20043018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the 1990s, spurred by rising labor costs and the strong yen, these companies will increasingly turn themselves into multinationals with plants around the world.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20043019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To capture the investment, Southeast Asian nations will move to accommodate Japanese business.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20043020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These nations' internal decisions "will be made in a way not to offend their largest aid donor, largest private investor and largest lender," says Richard Drobnick, director of the international business and research program at the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Business.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20043021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japanese money will help turn Southeast Asia into a more cohesive economic region.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20043022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But, analysts say, Asian cooperation isn't likely to parallel the European Common Market approach.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20043023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rather, Japanese investment will spur integration of certain sectors, says Kent Calder, a specialist in East Asian economies at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and Internatonal Affairs at Princeton University.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20043024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In electronics, for example, a Japanese company might make television picture tubes in Japan, assemble the sets in Malaysia and export them to Indonesia.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20043025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The effect will be to pull Asia together not as a common market but as an integrated production zone," says Goldman Sachs's Mr. Hormats.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20043026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Countries in the region also are beginning to consider a framework for closer economic and political ties.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20043027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The economic and foreign ministers of 12 Asian and Pacific nations will meet in Australia next week to discuss global trade issues as well as regional matters such as transportation and telecommunications.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20043028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Participants will include the U.S., Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand as well as the six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20043029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, the U.S. this year offered its own plan for cooperation around the Pacific rim in a major speech by Secretary of State James Baker, following up a proposal made in January by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20043030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Baker proposal reasserts Washington's intention to continue playing a leading political role in the region.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20043031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"In Asia, as in Europe, a new order is taking shape," Mr. Baker said.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20043032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The U.S., with its regional friends, must play a crucial role in designing its architecture."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20043033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But maintaining U.S. influence will be difficult in the face of Japanese dominance in the region.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20043034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Japan not only outstrips the U.S. in investment flows but also outranks it in trade with most Southeast Asian countries (although the U.S. remains the leading trade partner for all of Asia).@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20043035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, the Japanese government, now the world's largest aid donor, is pumping far more assistance into the region than the U.S. is.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20043036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While U.S. officials voice optimism about Japan's enlarged role in Asia, they also convey an undertone of caution.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20043037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There's an understanding on the part of the U.S. that Japan has to expand its functions" in Asia, says J. Michael Farren, undersecretary of commerce for trade.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20043038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If they approach it with a benevolent, altruistic attitude, there will be a net gain for everyone."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20043039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some Asian nations are apprehensive about Washington's demand that Tokyo step up its military spending to ease the U.S. security burden in the region.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20043040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The issue is further complicated by uncertainty over the future of the U.S.'s leases on military bases in the Philippines and by a possible U.S. troop reduction in South Korea.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20043041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many Asians regard a U.S. presence as a desirable counterweight to Japanese influence.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20043042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"No one wants the U.S. to pick up its marbles and go home," Mr. Hormats says.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20043043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For their part, Taiwan and South Korea are expected to step up their own investments in the next decade to try to slow the Japanese juggernaut.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20043044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"They don't want Japan to monopolize the region and sew it up," says Chong-sik Lee, professor of East Asian politics at the University of Pennsylvania.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20044001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cathryn Rice could hardly believe her eyes.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20044002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While giving the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills to ninth graders at Greenville High School last March 16, she spotted a student looking at crib sheets.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20044003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She had seen cheating before, but these notes were uncanny.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20044004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"A stockbroker is an example of a profession in trade and finance. . . .@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the end of World War II, Germany surrendered before Japan. . . .@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20044006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Senate-House conference committee is used when a bill is passed by the House and Senate in different forms."@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20044007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Virtually word for word, the notes matched questions and answers on the social-studies section of the test the student was taking.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In fact, the student had the answers to almost all of the 40 questions in that section.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The student surrendered the notes, but not without a protest.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20044010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"My teacher said it was OK for me to use the notes on the test," he said.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The teacher in question was Nancy Yeargin -- considered by many students and parents to be one of the best at the school.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20044012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Confronted, Mrs. Yeargin admitted she had given the questions and answers two days before the examination to two low-ability geography classes.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She had gone so far as to display the questions on an overhead projector and underline the answers.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin was fired and prosecuted under an unusual South Carolina law that makes it a crime to breach test security.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In September, she pleaded guilty and paid a $500 fine.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20044016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Her alternative was 90 days in jail.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20044017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Her story is partly one of personal downfall.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20044018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She was an unstinting teacher who won laurels and inspired students, but she will probably never teach again.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In her wake she left the bitterness and anger of a principal who was her friend and now calls her a betrayer; of colleagues who say she brought them shame; of students and parents who defended her and insist she was treated harshly; and of school-district officials stunned that despite the bald-faced nature of her actions, she became something of a local martyr.@@@@1@63@@oe@2-2-2013
20044020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin's case also casts some light on the dark side of school reform, where pressures on teachers are growing and where high-stakes testing has enhanced the temptation to cheat.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20044021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 1987 statute Mrs. Yeargin violated was designed to enforce provisions of South Carolina's school-improvement laws.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20044022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Prosecutors alleged that she was trying to bolster students' scores to win a bonus under the state's 1984 Education Improvement Act.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bonus depended on her ability to produce higher student-test scores.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20044024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There is incredible pressure on school systems and teachers to raise test scores," says Walt Haney, an education professor and testing specialist at Boston College.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20044025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"So efforts to beat the tests are also on the rise."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20044026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And most disturbing, it is educators, not students, who are blamed for much of the wrongdoing.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20044027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A 50-state study released in September by Friends for Education, an Albuquerque, N.M., school-research group, concluded that "outright cheating by American educators" is "common."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20044028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The group says standardized achievement test scores are greatly inflated because teachers often "teach the test" as Mrs. Yeargin did, although most are never caught.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20044029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Evidence of widespread cheating has surfaced in several states in the last year or so.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@California's education department suspects adult responsibility for erasures at 40 schools that changed wrong answers to right ones on a statewide test.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20044031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After numerous occurrences of questionable teacher help to students, Texas is revising its security practices.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And sales of test-coaching booklets for classroom instruction are booming.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20044033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These materials, including Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co.'s Scoring High and Learning Materials -- are nothing short of sophisticated crib sheets, according to some recent academic research.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20044034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By using them, teachers -- with administrative blessing -- telegraph to students beforehand the precise areas on which a test will concentrate, and sometimes give away a few exact questions and answers.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20044035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Use of Scoring High is widespread in South Carolina and common in Greenville County, Mrs. Yeargin's school district.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Experts say there isn't another state in the country where tests mean as much as they do in South Carolina.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20044037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the state's Education Improvement Act, low test scores can block students' promotions or force entire districts into wrenching, state-supervised "interventions" that can mean firings.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20044038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@High test scores, on the other hand, bring recognition and extra money -- a new computer lab for a school, grants for special projects, a bonus for the superintendent.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20044039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And South Carolina says it is getting results.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20044040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since the reforms went in place, for example, no state has posted a higher rate of improvement on the Scholastic Aptitude Test than South Carolina, although the state still posts the lowest average score of the about 21 states who use the SAT as the primary college entrance examination.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20044041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Critics say South Carolina is paying a price by stressing improved test scores so much.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Friends of Education rates South Carolina one of the worst seven states in its study on academic cheating.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Says the organization's founder, John Cannell, prosecuting Mrs. Yeargin is "a way for administrators to protect themselves and look like they take cheating seriously, when in fact they don't take it seriously at all."@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20044044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Paul Sandifer, director of testing for the South Carolina department of education, says Mr. Cannell's allegations of cheating "are purely without foundation," and based on unfair inferences.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20044045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Partly because of worries about potential abuse, however, he says the state will begin keeping closer track of achievement-test preparation booklets next spring.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20044046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Carolina's reforms were designed for schools like Greenville High School.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20044047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Standing on a shaded hill in a run-down area of this old textile city, the school has educated many of South Carolina's best and brightest, including the state's last two governors, Nobel Prize winning physicist Charles Townes and actress Joanne Woodward.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20044048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But by the early 1980s, its glory had faded like the yellow bricks of its broad facade.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It was full of violence and gangs and kids cutting class," says Linda Ward, the school's principal.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Crime was awful, test scores were low, and there was no enrollment in honors programs."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Ward took over in 1986, becoming the school's seventh principal in 15 years.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20044052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Her immediate predecessor suffered a nervous breakdown.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20044053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Prior to his term, a teacher bled to death in the halls, stabbed by a student.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20044054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Academically, Mrs. Ward says, the school was having trouble serving in harmony its two disparate, and evenly split, student groups: a privileged white elite from old monied neighborhoods and blacks, many of them poor, from run-down, inner city neighborhoods.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20044055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Ward resolved to clean out "deadwood" in the school's faculty and restore safety, and she also had some new factors working in her behalf.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20044056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One was statewide school reform, which raised overall educational funding and ushered in a new public spirit for school betterment.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20044057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another was Nancy Yeargin, who came to Greenville in 1985, full of the energy and ambitions that reformers wanted to reward.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Being a teacher just became my life," says the 37-year-old Mrs. Yeargin, a teacher for 12 years before her dismissal. "@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I loved the school, its history.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20044060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I even dreamt about school and new things to do with my students."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20044061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While Mrs. Ward fired and restructured staff and struggled to improve curriculum, Mrs. Yeargin worked 14-hour days and fast became a student favorite.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20044062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1986-87 and 1987-88, she applied for and won bonus pay under the reform law.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Encouraged by Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Yeargin taught honor students in the state "teacher cadet" program, a reform creation designed to encourage good students to consider teaching as a career.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20044064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She won grant money for the school, advised cheerleaders, ran the pep club, proposed and taught a new "Cultural Literacy" class in Western Civilization and was chosen by the school PTA as "Teacher of the Year."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20044065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"She was an inspirational lady; she had it all together," says Laura Dobson, a freshman at the University of South Carolina who had Mrs. Yeargin in the teacher-cadet class last year.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20044066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She says that because of Mrs. Yeargin she gave up ambitions in architecture and is studying to become a teacher.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20044067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mary Beth Marchand, a Greenville 11th grader, also says Mrs. Yeargin inspired her to go into education.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"She taught us more in Western Civilization than I've ever learned in other classes," says Kelli Green, a Greenville senior.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20044069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the classroom, students say, Mrs. Yeargin distinguished herself by varying teaching approaches -- forcing kids to pair up to complete classroom work or using college-bowl type competitions.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20044070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On weekends, she came to work to prepare study plans or sometimes, even to polish the furniture in her classroom.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20044071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"She just never gave it up," says Mary Marchand, Mary Beth's mother.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20044072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You'd see her correcting homework in the stands at a football game."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20044073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some fellow teachers, however, viewed Mrs. Yeargin as cocky and too yielding to students.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20044074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Ward says she often defended her to colleagues who called her a grandstander.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20044075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pressures began to build.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20044076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Friends told her she was pushing too hard.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20044077@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because of deteriorating hearing, she told colleagues she feared she might not be able to teach much longer.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044078@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin's extra work was also helping her earn points in the state's incentive-bonus program.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044079@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the most important source of points was student improvement on tests.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20044080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Huge gains by her students in 1987 and 1988 meant a total of $5,000 in bonuses over two years -- a meaningful addition to her annual salary of $23,000.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20044081@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Winning a bonus for a third year wasn't that important to her, Mrs. Yeargin insists.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044082@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But others at Greenville High say she was eager to win -- if not for money, then for pride and recognition.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044083@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mary Elizabeth Ariail, another social-studies teacher, says she believed Mrs. Yeargin wanted to keep her standing high so she could get a new job that wouldn't demand good hearing.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20044084@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, Mrs. Yeargin was interested in a possible job with the state teacher cadet program.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044085@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last March, after attending a teaching seminar in Washington, Mrs. Yeargin says she returned to Greenville two days before annual testing feeling that she hadn't prepared her low-ability geography students adequately.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20044086@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When test booklets were passed out 48 hours ahead of time, she says she copied questions in the social studies section and gave the answers to students.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20044087@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin admits she made a big mistake but insists her motives were correct.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20044088@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I was trying to help kids in an unfair testing situation," she says.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20044089@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Only five of the 40 questions were geography questions.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20044090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The rest were history, sociology, finance -- subjects they never had."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20044091@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin says that she also wanted to help lift Greenville High School's overall test scores, usually near the bottom of 14 district high schools in rankings carried annually by local newspapers.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20044092@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mostly, she says, she wanted to prevent the damage to self-esteem that her low-ability students would suffer from doing badly on the test.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20044093@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"These kids broke my heart," she says.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20044094@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"A whole day goes by and no one even knows they're alive.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20044095@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They desperately needed somebody who showed they cared for them, who loved them.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20044096@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The last thing they needed was another drag-down blow."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20044097@unknown@formal@none@1@S@School officials and prosecutors say Mrs. Yeargin is lying.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20044098@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They found students in an advanced class a year earlier who said she gave them similar help, although because the case wasn't tried in court, this evidence was never presented publicly.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20044099@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"That pretty much defeats any inkling that she was out to help the poor underprivileged child," says Joe Watson, the prosecutor in the case, who is also president of Greenville High School's alumni association.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20044100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin concedes that she went over the questions in the earlier class, adding: "I wanted to help all" students.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20044101@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Watson says Mrs. Yeargin never complained to school officials that the standardized test was unfair.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20044102@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Do I have much sympathy for her?" Mr. Watson asks.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20044103@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Not really.@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20044104@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I believe in the system.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20044105@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I believe you have to use the system to change it.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20044106@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What she did was like taking the law into your own hands."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20044107@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Ward says that when the cheating was discovered, she wanted to avoid the morale-damaging public disclosure that a trial would bring.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20044108@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She says she offered Mrs. Yeargin a quiet resignation and thought she could help save her teaching certificate.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044109@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin declined.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20044110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"She said something like `You just want to make it easy for the school.'@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20044111@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I was dumbfounded," Mrs. Ward recalls.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20044112@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It was like someone had turned a knife in me."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20044113@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To the astonishment and dismay of her superiors and legal authorities -- and perhaps as a measure of the unpopularity of standardized tests -- Mrs. Yeargin won widespread local support.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20044114@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The school-board hearing at which she was dismissed was crowded with students, teachers and parents who came to testify on her behalf.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20044115@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Supportive callers decried unfair testing, not Mrs. Yeargin, on a local radio talk show on which she appeared.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20044116@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The show didn't give the particulars of Mrs. Yeargin's offense, saying only that she helped students do better on the test.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20044117@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The message to the board of education out of all this is we've got to take a serious look at how we're doing our curriculum and our testing policies in this state," said the talk-show host.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20044118@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Editorials in the Greenville newspaper allowed that Mrs. Yeargin was wrong, but also said the case showed how testing was being overused.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20044119@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The radio show "enraged us," says Mrs. Ward.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20044120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Partly because of the show, Mr. Watson says, the district decided not to recommend Mrs. Yeargin for a first-time offenders program that could have expunged the charges and the conviction from her record.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20044121@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And legal authorities cranked up an investigation worthy of a murder case.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20044122@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Over 50 witnesses, mostly students, were interviewed.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20044123@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At Greenville High School, meanwhile, some students -- especially on the cheerleading squad -- were crushed.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20044124@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's hard to explain to a 17-year-old why someone they like had to go," says Mrs. Ward.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044125@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soon, T-shirts appeared in the corridors that carried the school's familiar red-and-white GHS logo on the front.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044126@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the back, the shirts read, "We have all the answers."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20044127@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many colleagues are angry at Mrs. Yeargin.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20044128@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"She did a lot of harm," says Cathryn Rice, who had discovered the crib notes.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20044129@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We work damn hard at what we do for damn little pay, and what she did cast unfair aspersions on all of us."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20044130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But several teachers also say the incident casts doubt on the wisdom of evaluating teachers or schools by using standardized test scores.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20044131@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Says Gayle Key, a mathematics teacher, "The incentive pay thing has opened up a can of worms.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20044132@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There may be others doing what she did."@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20044133@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Yeargin says she pleaded guilty because she realized it would no longer be possible to win reinstatement, and because she was afraid of further charges.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20044134@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Ward, for one, was relieved.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20044135@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite the strong evidence against Mrs. Yeargin, popular sentiment was so strong in her favor, Mrs. Ward says, that "I'm afraid a jury wouldn't have convicted her.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20045001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since chalk first touched slate, schoolchildren have wanted to know: What's on the test?@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20045002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These days, students can often find the answer in test-coaching workbooks and worksheets their teachers give them in the weeks prior to taking standardized achievement tests.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20045003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The mathematics section of the widely used California Achievement Test asks fifth graders: "What is another name for the Roman numeral IX?"@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20045004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also asks them to add two-sevenths and three-sevenths.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20045005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Worksheets in a test-practice kit called Learning Materials, sold to schools across the country by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co., contain the same questions.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20045006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In many other instances, there is almost no difference between the real test and Learning Materials.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20045007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What's more, the test and Learning Materials are both produced by the same company, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, a joint venture of McGraw-Hill Inc. and Macmillan's parent, Britain's Maxwell Communication Corp.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20045008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Close parallels between tests and practice tests are common, some educators and researchers say.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20045009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Test-preparation booklets, software and worksheets are a booming publishing subindustry.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20045010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But some practice products are so similar to the tests themselves that critics say they represent a form of school-sponsored cheating.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20045011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If I took {these preparation booklets} into my classroom, I'd have a hard time justifying to my students and parents that it wasn't cheating," says John Kaminski, a Traverse City, Mich., teacher who has studied test coaching.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20045012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He and other critics say such coaching aids can defeat the purpose of standardized tests, which is to gauge learning progress.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20045013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's as if France decided to give only French history questions to students in a European history class, and when everybody aces the test, they say their kids are good in European history," says John Cannell, an Albuquerque, N.M., psychiatrist and founder of an educational research organization, Friends for Education, which has studied standardized testing.@@@@1@55@@oe@2-2-2013
20045014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Standardized achievement tests are given about 10 million times a year across the country to students generally from kindergarten through eighth grade.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20045015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The most widely used of these tests are Macmillan/McGraw's CAT and Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills; the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, by Houghton Mifflin Co.; and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.'s Metropolitan Achievement Test and Stanford Achievement Test.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20045016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales figures of the test-prep materials aren't known, but their reach into schools is significant.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20045017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina and Texas, educators say they are common classroom tools.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20045018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Macmillan/McGraw says "well over 10 million" of its Scoring High test-preparation books have been sold since their introduction 10 years ago, with most sales in the last five years.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20045019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@About 20,000 sets of Learning Materials teachers' binders have also been sold in the past four years.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20045020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The materials in each set reach about 90 students.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20045021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scoring High and Learning Materials are the best-selling preparation tests.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20045022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Kean, director of marketing for CTB Macmillan/McGraw, the Macmillan/McGraw division that publishes Learning Materials, says it isn't aimed at improving test scores.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20045023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He also asserted that exact questions weren't replicated.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20045024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When referred to the questions that matched, he said it was coincidental.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20045025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kaminski, the schoolteacher, and William Mehrens, a Michigan State University education professor, concluded in a study last June that CAT test versions of Scoring High and Learning Materials shouldn't be used in the classroom because of their similarity to the actual test.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20045026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They devised a 69-point scale -- awarding one point for each subskill measured on the CAT test -- to rate the closeness of test preparatives to the fifth-grade CAT.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20045027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because many of these subskills -- the symmetry of geometrical figures, metric measurement of volume, or pie and bar graphs, for example -- are only a small part of the total fifth-grade curriculum, Mr. Kaminski says, the preparation kits wouldn't replicate too many, if their real intent was general instruction or even general familiarization with test procedures.@@@@1@57@@oe@2-2-2013
20045028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Learning Materials matched on 66.5 of 69 subskills.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20045029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scoring High matched on 64.5.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20045030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In CAT sections where students' knowledge of two-letter consonant sounds is tested, the authors noted that Scoring High concentrated on the same sounds that the test does -- to the exclusion of other sounds that fifth graders should know.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20045031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Learning Materials for the fifth-grade contains at least a dozen examples of exact matches or close parallels to test items.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20045032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rick Brownell, senior editor of Scoring High, says that Messrs. Kaminski and Mehrens are ignoring "the need students have for becoming familiar with tests and testing format."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20045033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said authors of Scoring High "scrupulously avoid" replicating exact questions, but he doesn't deny that some items are similar.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20045034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When Scoring High first came out in 1979, it was a publication of Random House.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20045035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@McGraw-Hill was outraged.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20045036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a 1985 advisory to educators, McGraw-Hill said Scoring High shouldn't be used because it represented a "parallel form" of the CAT and CTBS tests.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20045037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in 1988, McGraw-Hill purchased the Random House unit that publishes Scoring High, which later became part of Macmillan/McGraw.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20045038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Messrs. Brownell and Kean say they are unaware of any efforts by McGraw-Hill to modify or discontinue Scoring High.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20046001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Alleghany Corp. said it completed the acquisition of Sacramento Savings & Loan Association from the H.N. & Frances C. Berger Foundation for $150 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20046002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Sacramento-based S&L, which has 44 branch offices in north central California, had assets of $2.4 billion at the end of September.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20046003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New York-based Alleghany is an insurance and financial services concern.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20046004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The purchase price includes two ancillary companies.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20047001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Department of Health and Human Services plans to extend its moratorium on federal funding of research involving fetal-tissue transplants.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20047002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Medical researchers believe the transplantation of small amounts of fetal tissue into humans could help treat juvenile diabetes and such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20047003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But anti-abortionists oppose such research because they worry that the development of therapies using fetal-tissue transplants could lead to an increase in abortions.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20047004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@James Mason, assistant secretary for health, said the ban on federal funding of fetal-tissue transplant research "should be continued indefinitely."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20047005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said the ban won't stop privately funded tissue-transplant research or federally funded fetal-tissue research that doesn't involve transplants.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20047006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Department officials say that HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan will support Dr. Mason's ruling, which will be issued soon in the form of a letter to the acting director of the National Institutes of Health.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20047007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both Dr. Mason and Dr. Sullivan oppose federal funding for abortion, as does President Bush, except in cases where a woman's life is threatened.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20047008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The controversy began in 1987 when the National Institutes of Health, aware of the policy implications of its research, asked for an HHS review of its plan to implant fetal tissue into the brain of a patient suffering from Parkinson's disease.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20047009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The department placed a moratorium on the research, pending a review of scientific, legal and ethical issues.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20047010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A majority of an NIH-appointed panel recommended late last year that the research continue under carefully controlled conditions, but the issue became embroiled in politics as anti-abortion groups continued to oppose federal funding.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20047011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dispute has hampered the administration's efforts to recruit prominent doctors to fill prestigious posts at the helm of the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20047012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Several candidates have withdrawn their names from consideration after administration officials asked them for their views on abortion and fetal-tissue transplants.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20047013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Antonio Novello, whom Mr. Bush nominated to serve as surgeon general, reportedly has assured the administration that she opposes abortion.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20047014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dr. Novello is deputy director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20047015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some researchers have charged that the administration is imposing new ideological tests for top scientific posts.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20047016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earlier this week, Dr. Sullivan tried to defuse these charges by stressing that candidates to head the NIH and the CDC will be judged by "standards of scientific and administrative excellence," not politics.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20047017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the administration's handling of the fetal-tissue transplant issue disturbs many scientists.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20047018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"When scientific progress moves into uncharted ground, there has to be a role for society to make judgments about its applications," says Myron Genel, associate dean of the Yale Medical School.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20047019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The disturbing thing about this abortion issue is that the debate has become polarized, so that no mechanism exists" for finding a middle ground.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20047020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yale is one of the few medical institutions conducting privately funded research on fetal-tissue transplants.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20047021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Dr. Genel warns that Dr. Mason's ruling may discourage private funding.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20047022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The unavailability of federal funds, and the climate in which the decision was made, certainly don't provide any incentive for one of the more visible foundations to provide support," he said.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20047023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite the flap over transplants, federal funding of research involving fetal tissues will continue on a number of fronts.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20047024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Such research may ultimately result in the ability to regenerate damaged tissues or to turn off genes that cause cancer" or to regulate genes that cause Down's syndrome, the leading cause of mental retardation, according to an NIH summary.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20047025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The NIH currently spends about $8 million annually on fetal-tissue research out of a total research budget of $8 billion.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20048001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rekindled hope that two New England states will allow broader interstate banking boosted Nasdaq's bank stocks, but the over-the-counter market was up only slightly in lackluster trading.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20048002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Nasdaq composite index added 1.01 to 456.64 on paltry volume of 118.6 million shares.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20048003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In terms of volume, it was an inauspicious beginning for November.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20048004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday's share turnover was well below the year's daily average of 133.8 million.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20048005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In October, the busiest month of the year so far, daily volume averaged roughly 145 million shares.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20048006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Nasdaq 100 index of the biggest nonfinancial stocks gained 1.39 to 446.62.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20048007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The index of the 100 largest Nasdaq financial stocks rose modestly as well, gaining 1.28 to 449.04.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20048008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the broader Nasdaq bank index, which tracks thrift issues, jumped 3.23 to 436.01.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20048009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bank stocks got a boost when Connecticut Bank & Trust and Bank of New England said they no longer oppose pending legislation that would permit banks from other regions to merge with Connecticut and Massachusetts banks.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20048010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two banks merged in 1985.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20048011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bank of New England's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20048012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The stocks of banking concerns based in Massachusetts weren't helped much by the announcement, traders said, because many of those concerns have financial problems tied to their real-estate loan portfolios, making them unattractive takeover targets.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20048013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But speculators, anticipating that Connecticut will approve a law permitting such interstate banking soon, immediately bid up shares of Connecticut banks on the news.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20048014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"A lot of the stocks that have been under water finally saw a reason to uptick," said George Jennison, head trader of banking issues in Shearson Lehman Hutton's OTC department.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20048015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The biggest beneficiary was Northeast Bancorp, which surged 7 3/4 to 69.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20048016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Stamford, Conn., concern has agreed to a buy-out by Bank of New York in a transaction with an indicated value of about $100 a share that expires next August.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20048017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ed Macheski, a Wilton, Conn., money manager who follows bank stocks, said the announcement effectively gives the deal "the green light."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20048018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Jennison said Northeast Bancorp also fared well because takeover stocks have returned to favor among investors.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20048019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another OTC bank stock involved in a buy-out deal, First Constitution Financial, was higher.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20048020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It rose 7/8 to 18 1/4.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20048021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First Constitution has signed a merger agreement with WFRR L.P. and GHKM Corp., under which all of its common shares will be acquired for $25 each, or $273.5 million.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20048022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among other Connecticut banks whose shares trade in the OTC market, Society for Savings Bancorp, based in Hartford, saw its stock rise 1 3/4 to 18 1/4.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20048023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Centerbank added 5/8 to 8 3/4; shares of NESB, a New London-based bank holding company, rose 5/8 to 5 7/8.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20048024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among other banking issues, Pennview Savings Association leapt more than 44% with a gain of 6 5/8 to 21 5/8.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20048025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Pennsylvania bank agreed to be acquired in a merger with Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania for $25.50 a share.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20048026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Valley Federal Savings & Loan, a California thrift issue, gained 1 to 4 1/4 after reporting a third-quarter loss of $70.7 million after an $89.9 million pretax charge mostly related to its mobile home financing unit.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20048027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dan E. Nelms, Valley Federal's president and chief executive officer, said the one-time charge substantially eliminates future losses associated with the unit.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20048028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said the company's core business remains strong.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20048029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He also said that after the charges, and "assuming no dramatic fluctuation in interest rates, the company expects to achieve near-record earnings in 1990."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20048030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Weisfield's surged 6 3/4 to 55 1/2 and Ratners Group's American depositary receipts, or ADRs, gained 5/8 to 12 1/4.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20048031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two concerns said they entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Ratners will begin a tender offer for all of Weisfield's common shares for $57.50 each.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20048032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also on the takeover front, Jaguar's ADRs rose 1/4 to 13 7/8 on turnover of 4.4 million.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20048033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since the British auto maker became a takeover target last month, its ADRs have jumped about 78%.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20048034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After troubled Heritage Media proposed acquiring POP Radio in a stock swap, POP Radio's shares tumbled 4 to 14 3/4.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20048035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Heritage Media, which already owns about 51% of POP Radio, proposed paying POP Radio shareholders with shares of a new class of Heritage Media preferred stock that would be convertible into four shares of Heritage Media's common.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20048036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rally's lost 1 3/4 to 21 3/4.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20048037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The restaurant operator said it has redeemed its rights issued Monday under its shareholder rights plan.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20048038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The fast-food company said its decision was based on discussions with a shareholder group, Giant Group Ltd., "in an effort to resolve certain disputes with the company."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20048039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Giant Group is led by three Rally's directors, Burt Sugarman, James M. Trotter III and William E. Trotter II, who earlier this month indicated they had a 42.5% stake in Rally's and planned to seek a majority of seats on Rally's nine-member board.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20048040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SCI Systems slipped 7/8 to 10 on volume of 858,000 shares.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20048041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Huntsville, Ala., electronic products maker said it expects to post a "significant" loss for its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20048042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the year-earlier period, SCI had net income of $4.8 million, or 23 cents a share, on revenue of $225.6 million.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20049001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Internal Revenue Service has threatened criminal sanctions against lawyers who fail to report detailed information about clients who pay them more than $10,000 in cash.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20049002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The warnings, issued to at least 100 criminal defense attorneys in several major cities in the last week, have led to an outcry by members of the organized bar, who claim the information is protected by attorney-client privilege.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20049003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The IRS warnings stem from a 1984 law that requires anyone who receives more than $10,000 in cash from a client or customer in one or more related transactions "in the course of trade or business" to report the payment on a document known as Form 8300.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20049004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The form asks for such details as the client's name, Social Security number, passport number and details about the services provided for the payment.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20049005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Failure to complete the form had been punishable as a misdemeanor until last November, when Congress determined that the crime was a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20049006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Attorneys have argued since 1985, when the law took effect, that they cannot provide information about clients who don't wish their identities to be known.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20049007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many attorneys have returned incomplete forms to the IRS in recent years, citing attorney-client privilege.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20049008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Until last week, the IRS rarely acted on the incomplete forms.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20049009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This form forces a lawyer to become, in effect, a witness against his client," said Neal R. Sonnett, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20049010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The IRS is asking lawyers to red-flag a criminal problem to the government," added Mr. Sonnett, a Miami lawyer who has heard from dozens of attorneys who received letters in recent days and has himself received the computer-generated IRS forms sent by certified mail.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20049011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Sonnett said that clients who pay cash may include alleged drug dealers who don't have domestic bank accounts.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20049012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These individuals may not necessarily be under investigation when they hire lawyers.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20049013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Sonnett said there also may be other circumstances under which individuals wouldn't want the government to know they had retained criminal defense lawyers.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20049014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Filling out detailed forms about these individuals would tip the IRS off and spark action against the clients, he said.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20049015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The defense lawyers' group formed a task force this week, chaired by New York attorney Gerald Lefcourt, to deal with the matter.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20049016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The American Bar Association's House of Delegates passed a resolution in 1985 condemning the IRS reporting requirement.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20049017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Ross, a New York lawyer who heads the ABA's grand jury committee, said that lawyers are prohibited by the ABA's code of ethics from disclosing information about a client except where a court orders it or to prevent the client from committing a criminal act that could result in death.@@@@1@51@@oe@2-2-2013
20049018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ross said he met with officials of the IRS and the Justice Department, which would bring any enforcement actions against taxpayers, to discuss the issue last May.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20049019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At that meeting, he said, the Justice Department assured him that enforcement procedures wouldn't be threatened against attorneys without further review and advance notice.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20049020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Ross said IRS officials opposed the Justice Department's moderate stance on the matter.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20049021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in the letters sent in recent days, Christopher J. Lezovich of the IRS computing center in Detroit, told attorneys that "failing to voluntarily submit the requested information could result in summons enforcement action being initiated."@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20049022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In some cases, the IRS asked for information dating back to forms it received in 1985.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20049023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman for the IRS confirmed that "there has been correspondence mailed about incomplete 8300s," but he declined to say why the letters were sent to lawyers now.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20049024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Individuals familiar with the Justice Department's policy said that Justice officials hadn't any knowledge of the IRS's actions in the last week.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20049025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lawyers worry that if they provide information about clients, that data could quickly end up in the hands of prosecutors.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20049026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Prosecutors need court permission to obtain the tax returns of an individual or a business.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20049027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But they have obtained 8300 forms without court permission and used the information to help develop criminal cases.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20049028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some criminal lawyers speculated that the IRS was sending the letters to test the issue.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20049029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a number of recent cases, federal courts have refused to recognize attorneys' assertions that information relating to fees from clients should be confidential.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20049030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@THE WAR OVER FEDERAL JUDICIAL SALARIES takes a victim.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20049031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Often, judges ease into more lucrative private practice with little fanfare, but not federal Judge Raul A. Ramirez in Sacramento, Calif.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20049032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Tuesday, the judge called a news conference to say he was quitting effective Dec. 31 to join a San Francisco law firm.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20049033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The reason: the refusal of Congress to give federal judges a raise.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20049034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"A couple of my law clerks were going to pass me in three or four years, and I was afraid I was going to have to ask them for a loan," the judge quipped in an interview.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20049035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Federal judges make $89,500 annually; in February, Congress rejected a bill that would have increased their pay by 50%.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20049036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Judge Ramirez, 44, said it is unjust for judges to make what they do.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20049037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Judges are not getting what they deserve.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20049038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You look around at professional ballplayers or accountants . . . and nobody blinks an eye.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20049039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When you become a federal judge, all of a sudden you are relegated to a paltry sum."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20049040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At his new job, as partner in charge of federal litigation in the Sacramento office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, he will make out much better.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20049041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge declined to discuss his salary in detail, but said: "I'm going to be a high-priced lawyer."@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20049042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DOONESBURY CREATOR'S UNION TROUBLES are no laughing matter.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20049043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is suing the Writers Guild of America East for $11 million, alleging it mounted a "campaign to harass and punish" him for crossing a screenwriters' picket line.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20049044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dispute involves Darkhorse Productions Inc., a TV production company in which Mr. Trudeau is a co-owner.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20049045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Trudeau, a Writers Guild member, also was employed as a writer for Darkhorse, which was covered by a guild collective-bargaining agreement.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20049046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The guild began a strike against the TV and movie industry in March 1988.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20049047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In his lawsuit, Mr. Trudeau says the strike illegally included Darkhorse, and the cartoonist refused to honor the strike against the company.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20049048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman for the guild said the union's lawyers are reviewing the suit.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20049049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said disciplinary proceedings are confidential and declined to comment on whether any are being held against Mr. Trudeau.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20049050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Trudeau's attorney, Norman K. Samnick, said the harassment consists mainly of the guild's year-long threats of disciplinary action.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20049051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Samnick said a guild disciplinary hearing is scheduled next Monday in New York.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20049052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Samnick, who will go before the disciplinary panel, said the proceedings are unfair and that any punishment from the guild would be unjustified.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20049053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition to the damages, the suit seeks a court order preventing the guild from punishing or retaliating against Mr. Trudeau.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20049054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ABORTION RULING UPHELD:@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20049055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that the U.S. can bar the use of federal funds for family-planning programs that include abortion-related services.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20049056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Department of Health and Human Services rule adopted in 1988 prohibits the use of so-called Title X funds for programs that assist a woman in obtaining an abortion, such as abortion counseling and referrals.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20049057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The rule also prohibits funding for activities that "encourage, promote or advocate abortion."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20049058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Title X funds are the single largest source of federal funding for family-planning services, according to the opinion by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20049059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The panel ruled that the restrictions don't violate the freedom of speech of health care providers and that the limits on counseling services don't violate the rights of pregnant women.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20049060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@INQUIRY CLEARS TEXAS JUDGE of bias in comments on homosexual murder victims.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20049061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dallas District Judge Jack Hampton had sparked calls for a judicial inquiry with his remarks to the press last December, two weeks after sentencing an 18-year-old defendant to 30 years in state prison for killing two homosexual men in a city park.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20049062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge was quoted as referring to the victims as "queers" and saying they wouldn't have been killed "if they hadn't been cruising the streets picking up teenage boys."@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20049063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Robert R. Murray, a special master appointed by the Texas Supreme Court, said Judge Hampton didn't breach any judicial standards of fairness, although he did violate the state's judicial code by commenting publicly on a pending case.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20049064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Observing that the judge "has never exhibited any bias or prejudice," Mr. Murray concluded that he "would be impartial in any case involving a homosexual or prostitute" as a victim.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20049065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Murray also said Judge Hampton's comments didn't discredit the judiciary or the administration of justice.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20049066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The report is subject to review by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which is empowered to impose sanctions.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20049067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GAF TRIAL goes to round three.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20049068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Attorneys in the third stock-manipulation trial of GAF Corp. began opening arguments yesterday in the Manhattan courtroom of U.S. District Judge Mary Johnson Lowe.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20049069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In an eight-count indictment, the government has charged GAF, a Wayne, N.J., specialty chemical maker, and its Vice Chairman James T. Sherwin with attempting to manipulate the common stock of Union Carbide Corp. in advance of GAF's planned sale of a large block of the stock in November 1986.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20049070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first two GAF trials ended in mistrials earlier this year.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20049071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This trial is expected to last five weeks.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20049072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SWITCHING TO THE DEFENSE:@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20049073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A former member of the prosecution team in the Iran/Contra affair joined the Chicago firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20049074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael R. Bromwich, a member since January 1987 of the three-lawyer trial team in the prosecution of Oliver North, became a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the 520-lawyer firm.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20049075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He will specialize in white-collar criminal defense work.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20049076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bromwich, 35, also has served as deputy chief and chief of the narcotics unit for the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, based in Manhattan.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20050001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. said it has reached an agreement in principle to buy buildings and related property in Albany, Ga., from Bridgestone/Firestone Inc.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20050002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Terms weren't disclosed.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20050003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tire maker said the buildings consist of 1.8 million square feet of office, manufacturing and warehousing space on 353 acres of land.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20051001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fujitsu Ltd.'s top executive took the unusual step of publicly apologizing for his company's making bids of just one yen for several local government projects, while computer rival NEC Corp. made a written apology for indulging in the same practice.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013