20900001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Marsh & McLennan Cos. said it agreed to acquire the rest of Gradmann & Holler, a leading West German insurance brokerage firm in which it has held a 15% stake for 15 years.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20900002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The transaction, for cash and stock, would represent the biggest European takeover since 1980 for New York-based Marsh & McLennan, the world's largest insurance broker.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20900003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's also the first major sign of the long-awaited consolidation in the European insurance industry as the European Community Commission moves toward a single market by 1992.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20900004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Protective barriers will start coming down within the insurance industry next summer, when big industrial companies will be able to buy insurance from carriers in any other EC country for the first time.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20900005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's why "we have been working hard to develop a single, more unified presence in Europe," said A.J.C. Smith, Marsh & McLennan's president, at a London news conference yesterday.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20900006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Analysts speculated that Marsh & McLennan would spend between 250 million marks ($136.4 million) and 350 million marks for the rest of Gradmann & Holler, or roughly 25 to 30 times the private firm's estimated earnings.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20900007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This is paying a big price to maintain their virility as the world's leading insurance broker," said Philip Olsen, an analyst at Kitcat & Aitken, a U.K. brokerage firm.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20900008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earlier this year, New York Life Insurance Co. agreed to acquire Windsor Group Ltd., a first step toward establishing a presence in the European market ahead of 1992.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20900009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But most U.S. insurers haven't rushed to change the way they do business in Europe because they believe the European market will still be dominated by a handful of domestic companies.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20900010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Under the proposed combination, Marsh & McLennan would gain a majority stake in Gradmann & Holler that would increase over time to the rest of the remaining 85%.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20900011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The three managing general partners would receive a "significant" number of Marsh & McLennan shares, said Walther L. Kiep, a partner who would also join Marsh & McLennan's board.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20900012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kiep said he sought the combination because "all our large clients in Germany are becoming European companies or multinational companies and they expect an insurance broker" to serve them as well in Paris as in Germany.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20900013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Beatrice E. Garcia in Philadelphia contributed to this article.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20901001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WASHINGTON --@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20901002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@United Technologies Corp. won an $18 million Army contract for helicopter modifications and spare parts.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20901003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company will modify one UH-60A Blackhawk transport helicopter to the prototype MH-60K configuration for use by military special forces.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20901004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc., a division of Litton Industries Inc., was given a $15.5 million extension on a contract for shipyard services.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20902001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Furukawa Electric Co. said it plans to increase production of computer memory devices on a large scale in the U.S. and Japan.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20902002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As part of the move, its affiliated U.S. company, International Components Technology Corp., purchased a Mexican plant formerly belonging to KSI Disc Products Inc.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20902003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The price wasn't disclosed.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20902004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Together with two existing plants in the U.S., Furukawa said it will expand its current local monthly production of memory disks to 1.4 million sheets from 800,000.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20902005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Japan, Furukawa said it will raise production at a plant outside Tokyo to 300,000 sheets monthly from 100,000.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20902006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Furukawa said the U.S. market is strengthening as related computer technology gains in sophistication and quality.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20903001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PRIMERICA Corp., New York, raised its quarterly 14% to eight cents a share, from seven cents, payable Nov. 24 to stock of record Nov. 6.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20903002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The financial services company, which has about 98.8 million shares outstanding, noted its "continued confidence in the ongoing strength of the operations.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20904001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Compaq Computer Corp. said that its net income rose 51% in the third quarter, bolstered by unusual gains from its investment in a disk-drive maker and reflecting continued growth in its European operations.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20904002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The computer maker said net jumped to $87 million, or $2.02 a share, from $58 million, or $1.40 a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20904003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales increased 36% to $683 million from $502 million.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20904004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The latest quarter's results, however, included a pretax gain of $13.7 million, or 20 cents a share, in the carrying value of the company's investment in Conner Peripherals Inc. and a $7.6 million gain, or 11 cents a share, from the sale of one million Conner shares.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20904005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Net for the nine months was $254 million, or $5.94 a share, up 56% from $163 million, or $4.06 a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20904006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales rose 50% to $2.1 billion from $1.4 billion.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20904007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Net for the year-earlier nine months also included a gain of $9.7 million, or 15 cents a share, in the carrying value of the Conner investment.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20904008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Swavely, president of Compaq's North America division, attributed the company's third-quarter performance to continued increases in international sales, which accounted for 43% of the company's sales, a 74% increase from a year earlier.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20904009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Over the next couple of years we would not be surprised to see Europe and international {sales} represent 50% of the company's revenues," he said.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20904010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@During the third quarter, Compaq purchased a former Wang Laboratories manufacturing facility in Stirling, Scotland, which will be used for international service and repair operations.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20904011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Swavely said the new space will allow Compaq to increase the manufacturing capacity of its plant in Erskine, Scotland.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20904012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Compaq shares fell $1.625 to $108.625.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20905001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Wilson H. Taylor, president and chief executive officer of this insurance and financial services concern, was elected to the additional post of chairman.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20905002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Taylor, 45 years old, succeeds Robert D. Kilpatrick, 64, who is retiring, as reported earlier.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20905003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kilpatrick will remain a director.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20906001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Diversified Investment Group Inc. said it agreed to be acquired by Star States Corp. for stock valued at $13.75 a share, or about $24.4 million.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20906002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Diversified, the holding company for Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Association, said the agreement also gives Star States the option to acquire 588,300 of Diversified's 1,774,326 shares outstanding "under certain circumstances."@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20906003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The acquisition would give Wilmington, Del.-based Star States access to the Pennsylvania market.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20906004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agreement is subject to regulatory approval and resolution of lawsuits brought by certain Diversified holders in connection with the proposed merger.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20907001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chandler Insurance Co. said it expects to report third-quarter net income jumped 97% to $2.8 million, or 51 cents a share.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20907002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the year-earlier quarter, the automobile and trucking insurer had earnings of $1.4 million, or 48 cents a share on a restated basis, on revenue of $16.5 million.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20907003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In an interview, W. Brent LeGere, chairman and chief executive officer, said he expects revenue in the latest quarter to total about $28 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20907004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The earnings-per-share figures reflect a 25% stock dividend in June 1989.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20907005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. LeGere attributed the earnings increase to growth in the company's longhaul trucking insurance lines and the ability to keep premium rates firm.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20908001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Calgon Carbon Corp. said it will build a $40 million plant for producing granular activated carbon.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20908002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The maker of water-treatment chemicals and equipment said it will select the plant site early next year, and production is expected to begin in 1991.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20909001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Call Jim Wright's office in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, these days and the receptionist still answers the phone, "Speaker Wright's office."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20909002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The former congressman, who resigned as speaker of the House after an investigation of his financial dealings, is ensconced in his district office, maintained by taxpayers on a $200,000 allowance.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20909003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He is negotiating a rich book contract to boot.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20909004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the hottest tickets on Washington's social calendar this fall was a charity benefit honoring former Congressman Tony Coelho, who landed a million-dollar job on Wall Street after resigning over a controversial junk-bond investment last summer.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20909005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Deaver, the former White House aide, has become the most recent addition to the teeming ranks of fallen politicians and officials earning their way as lobbyists and consultants here.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20909006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Deaver has reopened a public-relations business.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20909007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Surviving scandal has become a rite of political passage at a time when a glut of scandal has blunted this town's sensibility.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20909008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Let the president demand strict new ethics rules: With four sitting House members accused of sexual misdeeds, amid the unfolding HUD scandal and after the Wright debacle, "people are slightly dulled by scandal," says political humorist Art Buchwald.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20909009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It now takes something really weird to inspire public outrage."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20909010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not all the scandal-tripped have enjoyed soft landings.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20909011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But many have.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"These people bounce back more resiliently than regular people," says Washington writer Suzanne Garment, who is working on a history of post-Watergate scandal.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20909013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Given their own penchant for book writing, it is surprising that none of the masters of scandal survival have yet published a guide to the art.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20909014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For there is an emerging protocol -- indeed, an etiquette -- to it.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20909015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among the rules:@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pretend Nothing Happened@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As if he were still in his old job, Mr. Wright, by resigning with his title instead of being forced from his job, by law enjoys a $120,000 annual office expense allowance, three paid staffers, up to $67,000 for stationery and telephones and continued use of the franking privilege.@@@@1@49@@oe@2-2-2013
20909018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not to mention a generous federal pension.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20909019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is also a busy schedule of speaking engagements at $10,000 a pop, at tony places including the Yale Political Union.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20909020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"He's as busy as he was as speaker," reports Mr. Wright's administrative aide, Larry Shannon.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20909021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Atone@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
20909022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the edge of fashionable Georgetown, in a chic office with a river view and a number of corporate clients whom he won't name, Mr. Deaver is trying to reclaim his reputation as one of the savviest image makers in town.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20909023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are few mementos of his days as White House deputy chief of staff and confidant of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20909024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The former $3 million-a-year lobbyist now frequents shelters for the homeless and devotes a third of his time counseling other recovering alcoholics.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20909025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I feel better than I ever have in my life," he says.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20909026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Deaver confessed to his alcoholism during his trial on perjury charges.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20909027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He is also a recovering workaholic, relaxing with his family and creating topiary, or garden-shrub sculpture, a fashionable pursuit for which he developed a passion during his three-year legal ordeal.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20909028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One sign of Mr. Deaver's renaissance: an appearance on ABC's "Nightline" for a show on pack journalism.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20909029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Host Ted Koppel introduced him as "the media master of the Reagan Administration," with nary a mention of Mr. Deaver's conviction in 1987 on perjury charges.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20909030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finding God@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20909031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"When someone says, 'I've turned to God,' everybody lays off," observes Frank Mankiewicz, an old Washington hand and former aide to Robert Kennedy.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20909032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thus have Charles Colson and Jeb Magruder launched successful post-Watergate careers at the pulpit.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20909033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it doesn't always work so smoothly.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20909034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After allegations surfaced in a 1985 divorce contest that he had beaten his wife, SEC enforcement chief John Fedders retreated to a Trappist monastery in rural Virginia.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20909035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He is now in solo law practice in Washington, but his fees have been meager and he failed in efforts to win a chunk of his ex-wife's royalties on her tell-all book.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20909036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@From time to time he returns to the monastery for prayer, meditation and pro bono legal work.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20909037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Fedders is philosophical about his travails.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20909038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"This whole experience has been an opportunity for internal growth," he says.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20909039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He sees a psychoanalyst five mornings a week.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20909040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I've surrendered to the circumstances," Mr. Fedders says.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20909041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The word surrender has a precise psychoanalytic meaning.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20909042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@My universe has changed.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20909043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I'm enjoying my life and who I am today.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20909044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The aspect of being a mega-lawyer isn't as important."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20909045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Don't Linger@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20909046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The best thing you can do is get off the screen," says Mr. Buchwald.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20909047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nobody proved that more masterfully than Mr. Coelho, the former Democratic majority whip.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20909048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Declaring that there was life after Congress, he resigned almost immediately after media reports questioned the propriety of a 1986 junk-bond investment, before any official investigations took hold.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20909049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among the glitterati who turned out in bipartisan black-tie force to benefit the Coelho Epilepsy Fund last month were Sen. Robert Dole, Rep. Newt Gingrich, and other kingpins of Congress.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20909050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dan Rather served as emcee.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20909051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@From his new, million-dollar-a-year perch on Wall Street as a managing director of Wertheim Schroder & Co., Mr. Coelho reports that many of his former colleagues have contacted him to find out how they, too, can pursue investment banking careers.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
20909052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It Helps to Be Male@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20909053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Male scandal victims invariably fare better.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20909054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Anne Burford, the former EPA chief who resigned under fire in 1983 during a flap with Congress, was kayoed in the confrontation, even though she was never charged with official wrondgoing.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20909055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She worked part-time as a consultant and wrote a book, but never restarted her high-powered legal career.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20909056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It didn't help when, in 1986, she was charged (and then cleared) on allegations of public drunkenness.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20909057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I cut my losses and ran," she says, from her new home in Colorado, where she is busy remodeling.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20909058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Burford remains bitter over the overwhelming legal expenses involved in clearing her name.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20909059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"My husband was instantly impoverished by the very act of marrying me," she says.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20909060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another former EPA official, Rita Lavelle, is still struggling after her conviction in 1983 on perjury charges.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20909061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There's nothing she could do to bring herself back to where she was," says her lawyer, James Bierbower.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20909062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You could say she survived, but it wasn't easy on her."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20909063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No book contracts have been dangled before Deborah Gore Dean, the reigning queen of the HUD scandal.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20909064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Donna Rice of Gary Hart fame failed to obtain a book contract and lost her modeling contract for "No Excuses" jeans.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20909065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, has yet to launch a hoped-for television news career, according to her lawyer.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20909066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rita Jenrette, the former wife of Abscam-indicted Rep. John Jenrette, has yet to hit it big in Hollywood, although with roles in such movies as "Zombie Island Massacre" and "Aunt Ida's Bikini Shop," she is doing a lot better than her former husband.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20909067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He was back in jail over the summer on shoplifting charges.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20909068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Be the Star@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Central figures -- such as Richard Nixon -- usually fare better than those with supporting roles.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20909070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Richard Secord, the retired Air Force general felled in the Iran-Contra scandal, is all but ruined -- forced to sell his Virginia home and pull his kids out of college, according to a recent fund-raising appeal sent out on his behalf.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20909071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet his co-defendant in the case -- also a former military officer by the name of Oliver North -- has been busily and profitably burnishing his involvement in the affair.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20909072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What accounts for the difference?@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20909073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@During the televised Iran-Contra hearings, Mr. North came off as a patriot from central casting.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20909074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Secord's performance was decidedly less inspiring.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20909075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. North remains in heavy demand as a speaker, for fees reported in the $20,000 range.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20909076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even in the wake of Hurricane Hugo 750 people turned out in a remote Virginia town in September for a "family tribute" to Mr. North given by two dozen conservative members of Congress.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20909077@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If Sex Is Involved, All Bets Are Off@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20909078@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sex scandals make people look careless and silly, and one of the worst sins in Washington is to be laughed at.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20909079@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"You can be wicked, but not foolish," says Mr. Mankiewicz.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20909080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nevertheless, Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was handily re-elected because of the candor with which he handled revelations that he had sex with a male congressional page in 1983.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20909081@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Former Rep. Robert Bauman, a Maryland Republican who lost his seat in 1980 after he was caught soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy, has never regained his professional footing as a lawyer.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20909082@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bauman, a conservative, says he was deserted by the right wing.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20909083@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Conservatives shoot their own," he says.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20909084@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If the political establishment is reluctant to forgive sexual misadventures, the private sector sometimes will.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20909085@unknown@formal@none@1@S@John Tower was accused of womanizing and boozing during his unsuccessful bid to win confirmation as secretary of defense earlier this year.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20909086@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now he is writing a book, serving on an elite foreign policy advisory board and consulting for an array of corporate clients, including British publishing mogul Robert Maxwell.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20909087@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Become a Lobbyist@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909088@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When all else fails, Gucci Gulch -- the fabled halls of the Capitol inhabited by lobbyists and their imported shoes -- offers a welcome environment for fallen officials.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20909089@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Former Rep. Fernand St Germain, brought down by the savings-and-loan crisis, now represents -- you guessed it -- savings-and-loans associations.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20909090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some become pseudo-lobbyists.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909091@unknown@formal@none@1@S@John Mack promptly quit his job last spring as an aide to Speaker Wright amid public outrage over Mr. Mack's violent attack on a young woman when he was 19 years old.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20909092@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After a few weeks in seclusion, Mr. Mack opened a consulting firm, but not to enable him to directly lobby; that would require him to disclose his clients by registering as a lobbyist.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20909093@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, Mr. Mack says he talks to "30 members of Congress a week."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20909094@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Misery Loves Company@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20909095@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other scandal survivors are sometimes the best source of solace.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20909096@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Raymond Donovan, the New Jersey construction executive who was forced to resign as labor secretary and indicted in 1985, only to be acquitted of fraud charges, often calls other scandal-tossed public figures to offer a sympathetic ear.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20909097@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Each time a new scandal hits, he says, "it pulls the scabs off your knees."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20909098@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the first people to come to the Deaver home after his troubles erupted was former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, whom Mr. Deaver scarcely knew.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20909099@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"He reassured me that the hurricane would end," Mr. Deaver recalls.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20909100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bauman received an encouraging letter from the recognized master of scandal survival, Richard Nixon.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20909101@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Says Mr. Bauman: "If things get really tough, I can always auction it off at Sotheby's.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20910001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Canadian government, with a view to becoming more politically active in Latin America, is expected to announce tomorrow its application to join the Organization of American States, a Washington-based regional agency.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20910002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The expected Canadian move has been welcomed by the Bush administration even though Canada has opposed such U.S. actions as the trade embargo against Cuba, the invasion of Grenada and the military support for Nicaragua's Contra guerrillas.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20910003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Latin American countries have long urged Canada to join the OAS in the hopes that it would be a counterweight to the U.S., which for many years tended to dominate the 32-nation organization.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
20910004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even though the U.S. also has supported Canadian membership, it hasn't been a Washington priority.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20910005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The fact that we might not side with the Americans may be a reason why Canada's membership in the OAS hasn't been, over the years, an item high on the U.S. agenda," said Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20910006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Canadian application is expected to be announced in San Jose, Costa Rica, by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who is attending a centenary celebration of Costa Rican democracy.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20910007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Canada has a larger and more beneficial role to play in the hemisphere," Mr. Mulroney said recently.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20910008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some Canadian political commentators have opposed Canada's joining what they see as a U.S.-dominated organization.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20910009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Canada could do plenty of things to get serious about Latin America without running the risk of getting caught in the cross fire" between the U.S. and Latin American members of the OAS, said Jeffrey Simpson, a columnist in Toronto's Globe & Mail newspaper.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
20910010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Canada, at times, could be an awkward OAS partner for the U.S. if its United Nations voting record is an indication.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20910011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In U.N. General Assembly votes last year, Canada voted the same as the U.S. only 63% of the time.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20910012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@France voted the same as the U.S. 76% of the time, West Germany 79% and Britain 83%.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20910013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a liberal research group, said that Latin American countries would be "profoundly disappointed" if Canada were to follow the U.S. lead in the OAS.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20910014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Latin Americans see Canada as a non-interventionist power that respects their sovereignty," he said.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20910015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The OAS, which tries to promote peace and economic development within the Americas, is attempting to find a settlement of the current Panama political crisis.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20910016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cuba has been suspended from OAS membership, but the organization's members are discussing Cuba's reinstatement.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20911001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Robert H. Knight's Oct. 5 editorial-page article bemoaning violence in comedy movies ("Hollywood, You Slay Me") is interesting, but somewhat off-base.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20911002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a fan of older movies from the 1920s on, I do not find modern comedies contain violence, sex and foul language to any greater degree than other recent movies.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20911003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Older movies have plenty of violence, though it is portrayed in keeping with the more restrictive social conventions of the time.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20911004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, one of my favorite movies is the 1949 British comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets," in which the entire comedy is based on actor Dennis Price's murdering eight titled relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) because they snubbed his mother and stand in the way of his acquiring the family title.@@@@1@52@@oe@2-2-2013
20911005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Similarly, one of the most popular comedy genres of the 1930s and '40s was the "murder mystery/comedy."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20911006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The "Thin Man" series of movies, as well as many others, based their entire comedic appeal on the star detectives' witty quips and puns as other characters in the movies were murdered.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20911007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Further, I think Mr. Knight made a poor choice in picking "A Fish Called Wanda" as an example of the deplorable state of modern comedy movies.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20911008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The specific scene he mentions in which pet dogs are crushed is somewhat reminiscent of the continual plights that befall the coyote in the old Warner Bros. "Road Runner" cartoons.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20911009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is no slow-motion close-up, blood-and-guts portrayal of the animal's demise.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20911010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Keep in mind that this is the same movie in which a character is flattened by a steamroller only to pop right back up and peer in the window of a Boeing 747 -- from the outside -- as it takes off.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
20911011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I will be the first to agree that there is much to be found wrong with modern movie making.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20911012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many modern scriptwriters seem to be incapable of writing drama, or anything else, without foul-mouthed cursing.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20911013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sex and violence are routinely included even when they are irrelevant to the script, and high-tech special effects are continually substituted for good plot and character development.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20911014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In short, we have a movie and television industry that is either incapable or petrified of making a movie unless it carries a PG-13 or R rating.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20911015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hence copious amounts of gratuitous sex, violence and gutter language are included as a crutch.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20911016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, these faults are not the exclusive property of modern comedies, and I believe Mr. Knight errs when he attempts to link this modern phenomenon too closely to a single category of movie making.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20911017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Smith@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
20912001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rochester Telephone Corp. said it agreed to buy Viroqua Telephone Co. of Viroqua, Wis.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20912002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Terms weren't disclosed.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20912003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rochester will exchange shares of its common stock for all shares outstanding of Viroqua Telephone, a family-owned company.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20912004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Viroqua serves about 3,000 access lines in western Wisconsin.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20913001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average unemployment rate in the 15 biggest industrialized democracies was steady in August at the 6.1% rate of the two previous months, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20913002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The August rate was 0.6 percentage point lower than in the like month a year earlier, reflecting the pickup of activity in the 15 countries.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20913003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The OECD said that most of the improvement occurred in the second half of last year; since February of this year, unemployment has been steady at around 6.2% of the labor force.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20914001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ALAMCO Inc. said its board has approved a 1-for-10 reverse stock split.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20914002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Clarksburg, W.Va., producer of gas and oil, said it wants shareholders to approve the split because it would "enhance the marketability" and trading of the stock.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20914003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If approved at a shareholder meeting in December, the number of shares outstanding would decrease to five million from 50 million, and par value would rise to 10 cents from a penny.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20915001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Duriron Co. said it has agreed to buy Automax Inc., a Cincinnati maker of control accessories for industrial valves.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20915002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Terms weren't disclosed, but Duriron said the deal will be completed through an exchange of stock.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20915003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Closely held Automax has annual sales of about $10 million.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20915004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Duriron, a maker of pumps, valves and other controls, said the acquisition won't impact its 1989 profit.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20916001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Canadian manufacturers recorded a 0.8% decline in August in their backlog of unfilled orders, Statistics Canada, a federal agency, said.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20916002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The August drop was the fourth decline in five months.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20916003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most of the August decrease was attributed to lower order backlogs in the primary metal and electric and electronics-product industries.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20916004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Manufacturers' shipments rose 0.3% in August following two months of declines.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20916005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Inventories fell 0.3% in August.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20917001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Burmah Oil PLC, a British independent oil company, said its West German subsidiary Castrol has a 49% share in Explonaft G.m.b.H., a new Polish lubricants company.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20917002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The remaining 51% of the joint venture will be controlled by Polish lubricants manufacturers, refiners and technical institutes.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20917003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Explonaft will develop application guidelines for lubricants, sell high-quality mineral oils, and offer services in industrial cleaning and related fields.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20917004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Burmah, which has a strong market position supplying marine lubricants and metal-working fluids in Poland, described the joint venture as "fairly small."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20917005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It didn't provide details of setup costs.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20918001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Du Pont Co. reported that third-quarter profit grew a robust 19% from a year ago on the strength of the company's operations in various chemicals and fibers, and in petroleum.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20918002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Du Pont also raised its quarterly dividend to $1.20 a share from $1.05, a change that will increase the annualized payout to shareholders by some $140 million.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20918003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Du Pont, unlike companies hurt badly by sharp price declines for basic chemicals and plastics, is benefiting from its broad range of businesses.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20918004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The profit gain was made despite a weakening in the housing market, for which the company is a supplier, and a strengthening in the dollar, which lowers the value of overseas earnings when they are translated into dollars.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20918005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Wilmington, Del., company reported net of $547 million, or $2.36 a share, which was in line with Wall Street estimates.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20918006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the year-earlier period, the company earned $461 million, or $1.91 a share.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20918007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales in the latest quarter were $8.59 billion, up 9.4% from $7.85 billion.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20918008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The dividend increase was Du Pont's second this year, an affirmation of statements by top executives that they intend to increase rewards to shareholders.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20918009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We haven't benefited the shareholder as much as we need to," said Edgar Woolard Jr., Du Pont's chairman and chief executive officer, in an interview several months before he entered his current position in April.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20918010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The largest beneficiary will be Seagram Co., which owns about 23% of Du Pont.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20918011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman for Seagram, the Montreal wine and spirits concern controlled by the Bronfman family, said the company will post additional pretax profit of about $33 million a year because of the additional Du Pont dividends.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20918012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Du Pont also announced plans for a 3-for-1 stock split, although the initial higher dividend will be paid on pre-split shares.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20918013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Du Pont's stock rose $2.50 a share to close at $117.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20918014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Seagram closed at $84.75, up 12.5 cents a share in Big Board trading.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20918015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Leading the gains for Du Pont in the latest quarter was its industrial products segment, where profit soared to $155 million from $99 million a year earlier.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20918016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company benefited from continued strong demand and higher selling prices for titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paints, paper and plastics.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20918017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@James Fallon, a New Providence, N.J., marketing consultant to the chemicals industry, says Du Pont still holds an edge in making the pigment because the company was "first in with the technology" to lower costs.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20918018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said Du Pont holds about 23% of the world-wide market, the largest single share, at a time when growing uses for the pigment have kept it in tight supply, although others are now adding low-cost production capacity.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20918019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Profit climbed to $98 million from $71 million in the petroleum segment, as Du Pont's Conoco Inc. oil company was helped by crude oil prices higher than a year ago and by higher natural gas prices and volume.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20918020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the diversifed businesses segment, which includes herbicides, profit grew to $64 million from $27 million.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20918021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman said herbicide use in some areas of the U.S. was delayed earlier in the year by heavy rains, thus increasing sales in the third quarter.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20918022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the fibers segment, profit rose to $180 million from $155 million, a gain Du Pont attributed to higher demand in the U.S. for most textile products.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20918023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two segments posted lower earnings for the quarter.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20918024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Profit from coal fell to $41 million from $58 million, partly because of a miners' strike.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20918025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And profit from polymers dropped to $107 million from $122 million amid what Du Pont called lower demand and selling prices in certain packaging and industrial markets.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20918026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the nine months, Du Pont earned $2 billion, or $8.46 a share, up 18% from $1.69 billion, or $7.03 a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20918027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales increased 10% to $26.54 billion from $24.05 billion.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20918028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The increased dividend will be paid Dec. 14 to holders of record Nov. 15.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20918029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The stock split, which is subject to holder approval, would be paid on a still unspecified date in January to holders of record Dec. 21.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20919001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@American Medical International Inc. was dropped from the health care providers industry group of the Dow Jones Equity Market Index.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20919002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company is being acquired.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20919003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. Healthcare Inc. was added to the health care providers group.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20919004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both moves are effective today.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20920001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Canadian government plans to auction on Tuesday 750 million Canadian dollars (US$639.9 million) of 9.25% bonds due Dec. 1, 1999, the Finance Department said.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20920002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Proceeds of the issue will be used for general government purposes.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20921001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finnish conglomerate Nokia Oy AB said it reached an agreement to buy Dutch cable company NKF Kabel B.V. for 420 million Finnish markka ($99.5 million).@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20921002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nokia said it will gain control over NKF Kabel by buying 51% of the shares in NKF Holding N.V., which owns NKF Kabel.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20922001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Western European leaders who favor speedy economic and monetary union are adding a new argument to their arsenal: the dizzying political changes under way in Eastern Europe.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20922002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@French President Francois Mitterrand, European Community Commission President Jacques Delors, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez and others have begun linking the rapid changes in the East to the need to speed up changes in the West.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20922003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They are stressing that the best way for the West to help the East is to move faster towards Western European economic and monetary unity.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20922004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This would make the market-oriented system more attractive to Eastern countries, they argue, and allow greater economic aid and technological know-how to flow from West to East.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20922005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The only response to the challenge being presented to us by the East," Mr. Mitterrand told the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday, "is to reinforce and accelerate the union and cohesion of the European Community."@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20922006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mitterrand proposed that a conference be convened next fall to write a new treaty for the EC allowing a European central bank, and that the treaty be ratified by 1992.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20922007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Mitterrand also proposed a separate "Bank for Europe" that would channel development money to the East.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20922008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One basis for linking change in the East and change in the West is the notion that integrating 110 million Eastern Europeans with 320 million Western Europeans is primarily the task of Europeans, despite the U.S.'s obvious strategic and economic interest.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
20922009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Says a European strategist: "The U.S. tends to look at Eastern Europe {not including the Soviet Union} as Europe looks at Latin America: important but far away.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20922010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But for us in Western Europe, these are Europeans next door."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20922011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A reintegrated Europe implies big changes in 40-year-old military and economic policies.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20922012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is likely to be a natural division of labor, says Francois Heisbourg, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, with the U.S. more engaged in strategic issues with the Soviet Union, and Western Europe more involved with specific aid measures for the East.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
20922013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The designation at July's economic summit of major industrialized nations of the EC Commission as coordinator of Western aid to Poland and Hungary was a first step.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20922014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In part, this division is dictated by economics: West Germany is a net exporter of capital while the U.S. isn't.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20922015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While American aid efforts have been limited by budget problems, yesterday France announced a three-year, four billion French franc ($650 million) aid plan for Poland.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20922016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite sudden changes in the strategic equation, some Western European leaders, especially British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, remain skeptical about European political and economic unity, and are unlikely to let East-West concerns change their minds.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20922017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But British analysts are beginning to link the issues.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20922018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We need a Western Ostpolitik," says John Roper, of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, referring to West Germany's longstanding policy of a diplomatic opening to the East.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20922019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"For Poland and Hungary we need to think about a stick-and-carrot economic approach that would force them to price things realistically in return for removing all our tariff barriers."@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20922020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He notes that the Marshall Plan of U.S. aid to Europe "didn't just throw money at post-war Europe, it also liberalized and opened up those markets."@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20922021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The French analysis goes further.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20922022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Most of the West's leaders have finally concluded that we all want perestroika {Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring} to succeed," says Hubert Vedrine, security adviser to Mr. Mitterrand.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20922023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But they haven't yet drawn the operational policy conclusions."@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20922024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He adds that with communism collapsing and Mr. Gorbachev scrambling to rejuvenate the Soviet economy, "Our interest lies in a controlled transformation, a contained nuclear reaction, so we need to help him, and not just with words."@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20922025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Managing change, he adds, will require a lot more aid and a prominent role for the EC, especially in dealing with the question of German reunification.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20922026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thierry de Montbrial, director of the French Institutue for International Relations in Paris, says it isn't clear what, exactly, West Germany wants.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20922027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Any push for a Gorbachev vision of a "common European home," implying the eventual dissolution of the EC, a Soviet-German partnership and the withdrawal of U.S. forces, "would be a very, very serious problem," he says.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20922028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He doubts a Bismarckian super state will emerge that would dominate Europe, but warns of "a risk of profound change in the heart of the European Community from a Germany that is too strong, even if democratic."@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
20922029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He adds: "We, and the rest of the EC have to talk to the Germans, now, frankly and raise these future risks with them."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20922030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While many commentators, particularly French ones, worry that hasty and emotional reaction to the changes in the East might lead to dangerous pressures for a denuclearized Europe or the speeded-up withdrawal of American troops, Mr. Roper in London sees a more positive scenario.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20922031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There seems to be a message from Moscow there's a deal on offer," he says.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20922032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"They want reassurance we won't try to undermine or destroy the Warsaw Pact. . . .@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20922033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In return, the U.K. and France could keep their nuclear weapons.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20922034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He adds: "Once both sides feel comfortable, it should be that much easier to make more progress toward the economic and social reforms that are now starting in the East.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20923001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Kyle Technology Corp. said a Seattle investor has signed a letter of intent to buy the company for about $3.1 million, or $1.20 a share.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20923002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The investor, Donald A. Wright, plans to run the company, said a spokesman for Kyle.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20923003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The transaction has been approved by Kyle's board, but requires the approval of the company's shareholders.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20923004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Kyle manufactures electronic components.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20924001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dominion Textile Inc. holders adopted a shareholder-rights plan at the annual meeting.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20924002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The so-called poison pill took effect Aug. 9 pending ratification by holders.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20924003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rights attached to the company's common shares were issued that are triggered if a hostile bidder acquires more than 20% of the shares outstanding.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20924004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once triggered, the rights allow holders to buy additional shares at 50% of the then current market price or, at the board's discretion, to receive securities or assets.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20924005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Separately, Dominion Textile posted net income of 4.7 million Canadian dollars ($4 million), or 12 Canadian cents a share, for the fiscal-first quarter ended Sept. 30.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20924006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company had a net loss of C$2.3 million, or 14 Canadian cents a share, a year ago.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20924007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales were C$348.2 million compared with C$307.2 a year earlier.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20925001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Computer Sciences Corp. said it received a U.S. Postal Service contract that will have a value of at least $33 million.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20925002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Computer Sciences will perform data processing work for the Postal Service under the three-year contract, which also includes two additional option years for which compensation hasn't yet been fixed.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20925003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Computer Sciences said its work will improve mail-processing efficiency.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20925004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For its fiscal year ended March 31, Computer Sciences had revenue of $1.3 billion.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20926001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ohbayashi Corp. agreed to buy E.W. Howell Co., the U.S. subsidiary of Selmer-Sande AS, of Norway, for about $7 million.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20926002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Howell, a Port Washington, N.Y., construction concern, was established in 1891.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20926003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It has three U.S. branches.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20926004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ohbayashi officials said the purchase was undertaken to participate in ventures in and around New York City.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20926005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They said Howell is particularly successful there because of its membership cooperation with local unions.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20926006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ohbayashi is Japan's second largest construction company.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20926007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Until now, its inability to form membership ties with organized labor has kept it from penetrating the lucrative New York metropolitan area construction market.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20926008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company also hopes the latest acquisition will help secure large construction orders from Japanese concerns with U.S. operations.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20926009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ohbayashi cited industry publications crediting Howell, currently capitalized at $2.2 million, with receiving orders valued at $225 million in 1988.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20926010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Japanese company received orders totaling 12.44 billion yen ($87.9 million) from its U.S. business activities during the fiscal year ended in March.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20927001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@H. Marshall Schwarz was named chairman and chief executive officer of U.S. Trust Corp., a private-banking firm with assets under management of about $17 billion.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20927002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Schwarz, 52 years old, will succeed Daniel P. Davison Feb. 1, soon after Mr. Davison reaches the company's mandatory retirement age of 65.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20927003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Schwarz, who is president of U.S. Trust, will be succeeded in that post by Jeffrey S. Maurer, 42, who is executive vice president in charge of the company's asset-management group.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20927004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. Trust, a 136-year-old institution that is one of the earliest high-net worth banks in the U.S., has faced intensifying competition from other firms that have established, and heavily promoted, private-banking businesses of their own.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20927005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, U.S. Trust's earnings have been hurt.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20927006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Mr. Schwarz welcomes the competition in U.S. Trust's flagship businesses, calling it "flattery."@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20927007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Schwarz says the competition "broadens the base of opportunity for us."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20927008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other firms "are dealing with the masses.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20927009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I don't believe they have the culture" to adequately service high-net-worth individuals, he adds.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20927010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. Trust recently introduced certain mutual-fund products, which allow it to serve customers with minimum deposits of $250,000.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20927011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Previously, the company advertised at the $2 million level.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20927012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We have always taken smaller accounts, but now we are looking for smaller accounts that will grow," Mr. Schwarz says.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20927013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Our bread and butter is still the $2 million to $20 million account," he says.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20927014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new services allow U.S. Trust to cater to the "new wealth," Mr. Schwarz says.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20927015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Quarterly net income this year has risen just over comparable periods in 1988, when year-end net was below the 1987 level.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20927016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In this year's third quarter, for example, net was $10.5 million, or $1.05 a share, compared with $10.3 million, or $1.02 a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20927017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Assets as of Sept. 30 fell to $2.46 billion from about $2.77 billion.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20927018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We will have a reasonably flat year this year," Mr. Schwarz says.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20927019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Schwarz also said costs associated with U.S. Trust's planned move to midtown Manhattan from Wall Street will continue to be a drag on earnings through 1990.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20927020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Schwarz's great-grandfather founded the New York toy store F.A.O. Schwarz, but his family no longer has ties to the company.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20927021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Schwarz's father was a U.S. Trust trustee until 1974.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20927022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@U.S. Trust also created a four-member office of the chairman, effective Feb. 1.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20927023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It will include Messrs. Schwarz and Maurer.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20927024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Donald M. Roberts, 54, treasurer, and Frederick S. Wonham, 58, who takes responsibility for the funds-service group, were named vice chairmen and will serve in the office of the chairman.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20927025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Roberts continues as treasurer, and Mr. Wonham remains responsible for the offices of comptroller, planning, marketing and general services.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20927026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frederick B. Taylor, 48, also was named a vice chairman and chief investment officer, a new post.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20927027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He previously held similar responsibilities.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20927028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Taylor also was named a director, increasing the board to 22, but is not part of the new office of the chairman.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20927029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@James E. Bacon, 58, executive vice president, who has directed the funds-service group, will retire.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20928001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sun Microsystems Inc., snapping back to profitability after its first quarterly loss as a public firm, said it earned $5.2 million, or seven cents a share, in the fiscal first quarter.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20928002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sun, a maker of computer workstations, reported sales of $538.5 million for the quarter ended Sept. 29, up 39% from $388.5 million a year earlier.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20928003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the 1988 period, the company earned $20.6 million, or 26 cents a share.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20928004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sun's results were slightly better than expectations.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20928005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earlier this month, the company said it expected to break even for the quarter on sales of $530 million.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20928006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a statement, Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive officer, said the company's performance was hampered by problems tied to the introduction of a major new family of computers in April.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20928007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of those new computers, called Sparcstation 1, accounted for nearly half of the 28,000 systems Sun shipped in the quarter, he said.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20928008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More than two-thirds of the systems shipped, meanwhile, were products introduced in April.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20928009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But problems in manufacturing, forecasting demand and getting the bugs out of a new management information system made it extremely difficult for Sun to meet demand for its newest computers well into the summer.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20928010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These problems also resulted in Sun reporting a $20.3 million loss for its fourth quarter ended June 30.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20928011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. McNealy said the issues that hurt Sun's performance earlier this year are now "largely" behind the firm, and he indicated that Sun's profitability should increase throughout the fiscal year.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20928012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sun also reported a record backlog of orders.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20928013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While this indicates continued strong demand for the company's desk-top computers, Sun faces increasing competition from Digital Equipment Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20928014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Recently, analysts have said Sun also is vulnerable to competition from International Business Machines Corp., which plans to introduce a group of workstations early next year, and Next Inc.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20929001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@C.B. Rogers Jr. was named chief executive officer of this business information concern.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20929002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Rogers, 60 years old, succeeds J.V. White, 64, who will remain chairman and chairman of the executive committee.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20929003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Rogers, who was president and chief operating officer of Equifax, will retain his position as president.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20929004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said a new chief operating officer won't be appointed.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20930001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A merchant bank and investment fund have agreed to co-sponsor a reorganization plan to bring Sharon Steel Corp. out of Chapter 11 proceedings and to acquire the company's steel-related assets in a transaction valued at more than $300 million.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
20930002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Castle Harlan Inc., a New York merchant bank, and Quantum Fund said they would acquire the assets for a combination of cash and the assumption of certain of Sharon's liabilities.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20930003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The balance of the company's assets and liabilities would be transferred to a new company that would be owned by Sharon's creditors.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20930004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Quantum said it has agreed to purchase as much as $50 million in equity in the new company, if necessary, for the confirmation of the plan.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20930005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Castle Harlan and Quantum said the plan is expected to be filed within 60 days with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20930006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agreement is subject to certain conditions, including obtaining financing.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20930007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Castle Harlan said that such financing is already being sought and that a formal proposal would be made to Sharon's Chapter 11 trustee and other Sharon creditors over the next few days.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20930008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sharon, based in Farrell, Pa., filed for protection from creditors under the federal Bankruptcy Code in April 1987.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20930009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company had been one of the maninstays of Miami Beach financier Victor Posner's empire.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20930010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Posner resigned as president and chief executive officer of Sharon in April 1988.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20930011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He remains chairman, but wields little power at the company.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20930012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Quantum Fund, based in New York, is a $2.1 billion investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20930013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Quantum is Sharon's largest unsecured creditor.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20930014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Castle Harlan group includes Walter Sieckman, former chief operating officer of Sharon, and Wolfgang Jansen, former executive vice president.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20930015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Executives at Sharon declined to comment on the proposal.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20930016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company's trustee, F.E. Agnew, was unavailable for comment.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20931001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two old friends, George Bush and Deng Xiaoping, are trying to limit further damage to U.S.-China ties.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20931002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But as Congress prepares a fresh package of sanctions against Beijing, the already-tense relationship could get worse.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20931003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The problem for Congress will be to weigh what China is saying to its people against the more conciliatory message it is delivering to the Bush administration.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20931004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a move apparently aimed at heading off new punitive legislation, Mr. Deng sent an indirect signal to Washington via T.D. Lee, a Columbia University physicist who met Mr. Deng and other Chinese leaders in Beijing last month.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
20931005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When he met with Mr. Bush on his return, Mr. Lee says, he told the president that the Chinese "made statements to me that I regard as a first step toward reconciliation."@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20931006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The communication Mr. Lee brought represents the softer line the U.S. has been hoping to hear from Chinese officials since the June 4 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20931007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Chinese leader, Mr. Lee informed Mr. Bush, expressed some regret for what had happened in Beijing and conceded that China's officials bore some responsibility.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20931008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lee says Mr. Deng told him: "We should not mind those who participated in demonstrations, signed anti-government materials and went on hunger strikes."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20931009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Deng added, says Mr. Lee, that "we really made mistakes.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20931010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We must not shirk our responsibility and we cannot just blame the demonstrators."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20931011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lee also reported to the president that, in a separate meeting, Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin said the Chinese leadership "looked kindly on the students who took part in the demonstrations."@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20931012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Jiang also pledged that the Chinese Red Cross would publish "very soon" a list of those killed.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20931013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And he told the physicist that China's leaders were "very much concerned" about the deaths and had arranged aid for the victims' families.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20931014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I transmitted my conversations to the White House," Prof. Lee says.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20931015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But, he adds, "I was not acting as a messenger."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
20931016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He says that the Chinese never asked him to convey their statements to President Bush, but that the White House spontaneously invited him to do so.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20931017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lee concedes the statements made to him are far different from others being issued in China, but attributes that to the fact that the situation in China is "very complex."@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20931018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to U.S. sources in Beijing, the administration hopes Mr. Deng's fairly conciliatory comments will prod Congress to be cautious about further sanctions against Beijing.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
20931019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The president doesn't want to have legislative sanctions," says a U.S. official.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20931020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But he may not have a choice."@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20931021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Given China's far-from-conciliatory statements to its own people, Mr. Bush may be unable to prevent new sanctions.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20931022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Beijing officials have said they will step up the campaign of arrests and intimidation against those who participated in the demonstrations.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20931023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sentences have been stiff.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20931024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A university student got eight years for participating in the rallies, sources in Beijing said, while an 18-year-old worker got 10 years.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20931025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nor has Beijing hinted to its citizens that it will publish the identities of those killed.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20931026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far, the victims are officially considered evil-doers, and their families receive no compensation.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20931027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A man gunned down by a stray bullet while cycling to work carries, after his death, the official stigma of "counterrevolutionary," his wife says.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20931028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What's more, much of China's official rhetoric is hostile to the U.S.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20931029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@China frequently lambastes the U.S. Embassy for harboring astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a political dissident who took refuge there after the massacre.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20931030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"In the U.S., there are still people who want to crush China and interfere in our internal affairs," Zhu Qizhen, China's new ambassador to the U.S., said as he left for Washington last week.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
20931031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The House and Senate are to begin soon hashing out an agreement for sanctions legislation.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20931032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It will probably be attached to a State Department authorization bill, which Mr. Bush isn't expected to veto.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20931033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A congressional staffer involved in drafting the sanctions says they are likely to mirror those Mr. Bush enacted shortly after the massacre.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20931034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But as legislative action, they would carry greater weight and would be more difficult to rescind.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20931035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Measures already in effect that are expected to be made law include a ban on military sales and exchanges, a suspension of most high-level government contacts and a halt to U.S. trade enhancement programs, such as the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the Trade Development Program.@@@@1@46@@oe@2-2-2013
20931036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Codifying those sanctions could prompt Chinese retaliation.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
20931037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If the two sides aren't careful, U.S.-China ties could spin downward, out of control," says a U.S. official in Beijing.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20931038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Bush and Deng are hoping {that} cooler heads prevail.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20932001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The amount of blood surgical patients can donate and store before surgery can be increased by the new genetically engineered drug, EPO.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20932002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@EPO, or erythropoietin, is a protein the human body makes to stimulate the growth of red blood cells.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20932003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A genetically engineered version of the human protein developed by Amgen Corp. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., recently has been marketed by the Ortho Pharmaceuticals division of Johnson & Johnson.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20932004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A competing version of EPO is being developed by Genetics Institute Inc. in Cambridge, Mass.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20932005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The drug is being used primarily to treat anemias.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20932006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A new experiment, reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, involved giving injections of Amgen's EPO to 23 patients who wanted to store units of their own blood.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20932007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The patients began receiving EPO injections about a month before their scheduled surgery.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20932008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They then began donating blood twice a week, receiving an EPO injection each time.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20932009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If tests indicated a low number of red cells, blood wasn't taken.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20932010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The EPO-treated patients donated an average of 5.4 units of blood each compared with only 4.1 units donated by a similar group of surgical patients who received a placebo injection.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20932011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The volume of red cells donated by the EPO-treated patients was 41% higher per donor, the research team representing a number of hospitals and blood banks reported.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20933001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(During its centennial year, The Wall Street Journal will report events of the past century that stand as milestones of American business history.)@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20933002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@TAX SHELTERS CALLED Individual Retirement Accounts, or "IRAs," were created without fanfare on Sept. 2, 1974, but grew beyond expectations as an inducement to personal saving.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20933003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That Labor Day, in his first major act after succeeding the resigned Richard Nixon as president, Gerald R. Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20933004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pension reform was its main thrust.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20933005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Labor and business leaders, quoted at the White House Rose Garden rites, hailed its provisions for insuring corporate pension benefits.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20933006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IRAs were like stepchildren there.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20933007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The IRA's conception is murky.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20933008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1972, then Treasury Secretary George Shultz, with the key support of Sen. Carl Curtis, sought some form of pensions for the uncovered.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20933009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That year a four-man group headed by William Lieber in the Legislation and Regulations division of the Office of the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, was assigned the task of designing a plan.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20933010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They used the 1962 Keogh Plan, a pension plan created by a New York congressman for the self-employed, as a partial model.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20933011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This team initially called its new model Personal Retirement Account, or "PRA."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20933012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it didn't sing.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
20933013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So they opted for IRA, naming it after Ira Cohen, a brilliant IRS actuary who helped them.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20933014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ira, himself, confirms this account.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
20933015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IRA rules have been changed over the years.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
20933016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One in 1981 raised to $2,000 a year from $1,500 the amount a person could put, tax-deductible, into the tax-deferred accounts and widened coverage to people under employer retirement plans.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20933017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This caused an explosion of IRA promotions by brokers, banks, mutual funds and others.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20933018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in 1986 Congress sharply reduced the number of people who could qualify for its benefits and IRA tax-deductions slowed their roaring growth.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20933019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IRA account assets have grown to about $400 billion from $393 billion last year and just $26 billion in 1981.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20934001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Soviet State Bank announced a 90% devaluation of the ruble against the dollar for private transactions, in an apparent attempt to curb the nation's rapidly growing black market for hard currency.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20934002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The measure, which will take effect next Wednesday, will create a two-tier exchange rate.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20934003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Commercial transactions will continue to be based on the official rate of about 0.63 rubles to the dollar.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
20934004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But for Soviet citizens who travel abroad for business or tourism, the rate will jump to 6.26 rubles to the dollar.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20934005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tass news agency said the devaluation also will apply to foreigners' transactions.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
20934006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it didn't elaborate, and it remains unclear how far Western tourists and foreigners living in Moscow will be allowed to benefit from the sweeping rate cut.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
20934007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The current ruble rate has long been out of line with the black market.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
20934008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has opened up the country to foreign trade, the discrepancy has become ever greater.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20934009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Western tourists in the Soviet Union who could exchange a dollar -- albeit illegally -- for about four rubles a year ago are now being offered 15 rubles or more.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20934010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even at such rates, black marketeers have been able to make big profits because of the dire shortage of consumer goods here.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20934011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They use dollars to buy Western items such as video recorders and personal computers and then sell them at a huge mark-up.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20934012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The going rate for a small personal computer that costs about $2,000 in the West is anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20934013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even a pack of 20 Western cigarettes can fetch 20 rubles or more.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20934014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With more than 300 billion rubles in savings accounts and little to spend them on, Soviet consumers grumble at the exorbitant black-market prices for such goods -- but they buy them anyway.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20934015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Moscow has already tacitly admitted that the ruble isn't worth much, announcing in August that it will pay Soviet farmers in hard currency for grain and other produce that they grow in excess of state-plan quotas.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
20934016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The absurdity of the official rate should seem obvious to everyone," the afternoon newspaper Izvestia wrote in a brief commentary on the devaluation.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20934017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The State Bank's move is part of a drive to iron out exchange-rate discrepancies as Moscow moves toward making the ruble convertible -- a goal that Soviet bankers and economists say is still far away.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20934018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rumors of an impending devaluation have been circulating in Moscow for weeks, but the size of the cut took many Western bankers by surprise.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20934019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's much bigger than we expected," said one German banker, who asked not to be named.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20934020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The next step, which could have a larger effect on businesses, will come early next month, when the Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs is to hold its first auction of foreign currency.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
20934021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soviet companies needing Western currencies to buy equipment and supplies abroad will be able to submit bids.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20934022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Plans for the auction, which was supposed to take place last spring and become a regular event, have been thwarted by a lack of hard currency.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20934023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soviet firms that hold some are unwilling to part with it, and joint ventures aren't yet allowed to participate.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20934024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Kremlin also has been unwilling to provide hard currency for the auction, using a lot of it instead to finance emergency imports of consumer goods.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
20934025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If foreign tourists and businesses could sell their currencies freely at the new, better exchange rate, that would enable the State Bank to increase its dollar reserves and would mop up some of the excess rubles in the economy at the same time.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
20934026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the amounts they exchange may be limited; most Soviet hotels, for example, demand payment in hard currency from Western visitors.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20934027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unless other rules are changed, the devaluation could cause difficulties for the people it is primarily meant to help: Soviets who travel abroad.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20934028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Over the past three years, thousands of people here have made use of looser travel restrictions to get their first taste of life abroad.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20934029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But under current rules, they are allowed to change just 200 rubles into dollars and other currencies for each trip.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20934030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the new rate, that would give them about $30 to travel on.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20934031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It isn't yet clear whether the 200-ruble limit will be lifted.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
20934032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If it isn't, the black market for dollars probably will continue to thrive.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20935001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@International Business Machines Corp. made news this summer when it landed an unusual contract to manage all of Eastman Kodak Co.'s data-processing needs.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
20935002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the computer giant appears to have lost a second key contract with Kodak to archrival Digital Equipment Corp.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20935003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Kodak yesterday confirmed that it has entered negotiations with Maynard, Mass.-based Digital to manage all of its voice and data communications needs.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20935004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Kodak, based in Rochester, N.Y., said IBM also had bid for the business.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20935005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IBM is based in Armonk, N.Y.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
20935006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The loss is a setback to IBM, which pointed to the Kodak contract as an example of its success in systems integration.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20935007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's an emerging business in which computer makers or consultants provide turnkey communications and computing services to major corporations.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20935008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Kodak spokesman declined to disclose the potential value of the contract, which is still in negotiation.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20935009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said that American Telephone & Telegraph, MCI Communications Corp., Rochester Telephone Corp. and IBM itself would likely be Digital's subcontractors on the project.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
20935010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"When we decided to look outside the company for critical data-processing and communications services, we wanted to get the best vendor for that service," said Paul Allen, the spokesman.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20935011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"That's why we went with IBM for data center management . . . and now Digital for voice and data telecommunications.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20936001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This year is the 75th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and some members of Congress think it's time to take a fresh look at the nation's central bank.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20936002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After 75 years there may be a few things that are worth reexamining.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20936003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The regional Federal Reserve Bank setup, for instance, may be out of date.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20936004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In earlier years it may have seemed reasonable to give Richmond, Va., a bank and allow Los Angeles only a branch of the San Francisco bank, but times have changed.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20936005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Maybe the whole regional system is an anachronism; the Fed, after all, is a national central bank.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
20936006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of the would-be reformers, however, want to restore an arrangement we once had -- or, at least, part of it.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
20936007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the beginning, the treasury secretary and the comptroller of the currency were both ex officio members of the Federal Reserve Board.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
20936008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in 1935, when Congress was trying to find someone or something to blame for the Great Depression, it decided to drop both the secretary and the comptroller from the board.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
20936009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Carter Glass, a former treasury secretary who was then back in Congress, probably influenced the decision.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
20936010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said that when he was on the board he felt that he had a great deal of power and, somehow, he didn't think that was a good thing.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
20936011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Times have changed.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
20936012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Byron Dorgan (D., N.D.) has introduced a bill in Congress, co-sponsored by Rep. Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.), that would put the treasury secretary back on the board.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
20936013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is doubt that the change would accomplish much but at least Congress, as in 1935, would be doing something.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
20936014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far no one has suggested putting the comptroller back on the board.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
20936015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nicholas Brady, the incumbent treasury secretary, is of course aware of the proposal, and he doesn't like it much.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20936016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Dorgen has changed tactics, dropping the seat-for-the-secretary idea.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
20936017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That may have pleased the secretary, but H. Erich Heinemann, chief economist of the investment firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., suggests that Mr. Brady may figure he already has all the power he needs.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
20936018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like most treasury secretaries, Mr. Brady takes a keen interest in monetary matters, of course.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
20936019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He was, in fact, taking an especially keen interest in board matters even before he went to the treasury.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
20936020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After the October 1987 market crash, Mr. Brady as a private citizen headed a presidential commission that tried to decide what went wrong and what should be done about it.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
20936021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the commission's recommendations was that a single agency, probably the Federal Reserve, should coordinate regulation of all financial markets.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013