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