21824012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Congress, lawmakers already are looking for ways to add relief funds.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21824013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Money could be added to a pending spending bill covering the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which coordinates federal disaster relief.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21824014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More likely, relief funds could be added to an omnibus spending bill that Congress is to begin considering next week.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21824015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it isn't just Washington's relief dollars that are spread thin; its relief manpower also is stretched.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21824016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FEMA still has special disaster centers open to handle the aftermath of Hugo, and spokesman Russell Clanahan acknowledged that "we're pretty thin."@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21824017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Clanahan says FEMA now possibly may have the heaviest caseload in its history.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21824018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To further complicate relief efforts, the privately funded American Red Cross also finds itself strapped for funds after its big Hugo operation.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21824019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's been a bad month money-wise and every other way," said Sally Stewart, a spokeswoman for the Red Cross.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21824020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It just makes it a little rough when you have to worry about the budget."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21824021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Red Cross has opened 30 shelters in the Bay area, serving 5,000 people.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21824022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Twenty-five trucks capable of cooking food were dispatched from other states.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21824023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All the precise types of federal aid that will be sent to California won't be determined until state officials make specific requests to FEMA, agency officials said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21824024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And in the confusion after the earthquake, "the information flow is a little slow coming in from the affected area," said Carl Suchocki, a FEMA spokesman.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21824025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, some aid is moving westward from Washington almost immediately.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21824026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HUD officials said they will make available as many as 100 Bay area houses that are under HUD loans but now are vacant after the houses have been inspected to ensure they are sound.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21824027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Additional housing vouchers and certificates will be made available, officials said, and some housing and community-development funds may be shifted from other programs or made available for emergency use.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21824028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another federal agency not normally associated with disaster relief -- the Internal Revenue Service -- moved quickly as well.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21824029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The IRS said it will waive certain tax penalties for earthquake victims unable to meet return deadlines or make payments because of the quake's devastation.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21824030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agency plans to announce specific relief procedures in the coming days.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21824031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And the Treasury said residents of the San Francisco area will be able to cash in savings bonds even if they haven't held them for the minimum six-month period.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21824032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One advantage that federal officials have in handling earthquake relief is the large number of military facilities in the San Francisco Bay area, facilities that provide a ready base of supplies and workers.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
21824033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even before the full extent of the devastation was known, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ordered the military services to set up an emergency command center in the Pentagon and prepare to respond to various FEMA requests for assistance.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21824034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By yesterday afternoon, Air Force transport planes began moving additional rescue and medical supplies, physicians, communications equipment and FEMA personnel to California.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21824035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A military jet flew a congressional delegation and senior Bush administration officials to survey the damage.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21824036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And the Pentagon said dozens of additional crews and transport aircraft were on alert "awaiting orders to move emergency supplies."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21824037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two Air Force facilities near Sacramento, and Travis Air Force Base, 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, were designated to serve as medical-airlift centers.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21824038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some victims also were treated at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco and at the Naval Hospital in Oakland.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21824039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, 20 military police from the Presidio, a military base in San Francisco, are assisting with traffic control, and a Navy ship was moved from a naval station at Treasure Island near the Bay Bridge to San Francisco to help fight fires.@@@@1@43@@oe@2-2-2013
21824040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To help residents in Northern California rebuild, FEMA intends to set up 17 disaster assistance offices in the earthquake area in the next several days and to staff them with 400 to 500 workers from various agencies, said Robert Volland, chief of the agency's individual assistance division.@@@@1@47@@oe@2-2-2013
21824041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At these offices, earthquake victims will be helped in filling out a one-page form that they will need to qualify for such federal assistance as home-improvement loans and to repair houses.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21824042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And federal officials are promising to move rapidly with federal highway aid to rebuild the area's severely damaged road system.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21824043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Federal Highway Administration has an emergency relief program to help states and local governments repair federally funded highways and bridges seriously damaged by natural disasters.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21824044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The account currently has $220 million.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21824045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And though federal law dictates that only $100 million can be disbursed from that fund in any one state per disaster, administration officials expect Congress to move in to authorize spending more now in California.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21824046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To get that money, states must go through an elaborate approval process, but officials expect red tape to be cut this time.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21824047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Keith Mulrooney, special assistant to Federal Highway Administrator Thomas Larson, also said that after the 1971 San Fernando earthquake in Southern California, the state set tougher standards for bridges, and with federal aid, began a program to retrofit highways and bridges for earthquake hazards.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
21824048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first phase of the program has been completed, but two other phases are continuing.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21824049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two major structures that failed Tuesday night, he said, were both built well before the 1971 earthquake -- the San Francisco Bay Bridge, completed in the 1930s, and the section of I-880, built in the 1950s.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21824050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The I-880 section had completed the first phase of the retrofitting.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21824051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Laurie McGinley contributed to this article.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21825001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FARMERS REAP abundant crops.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21825002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But how much will shoppers benefit?@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21825003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The harvest arrives in plenty after last year's drought-ravaged effort: The government estimates corn output at 7.45 billion bushels, up 51% from last fall.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21825004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Soybean production swells 24%.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21825005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As a result, prices paid to farmers for the commodities, which are used in products as diverse as bubble gum and chicken feed, plummet 20% to 33%.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21825006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But don't expect too much in the way of price breaks soon at the supermarket.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21825007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Economists expect consumer food prices to jump 5.5% this year to the highest level since 1980 and up from last year's 4.1% rise.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21825008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Next year may see a drop of one percentage point.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21825009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Beef prices, hovering near records since the drought, could drop in earnest this winter if ranchers expand herds.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21825010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lower feed prices may help animals eat more cheaply, but humans have to factor in an expensive middleman: the processor.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21825011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Food companies probably won't cut their prices much, blaming other costs.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21825012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Labor takes the biggest single chunk out of the `food dollar,'" says Frank Pankyo of the Food Institute.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21825013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Stokely says stores revive specials like three cans of peas for 99 cents.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21825014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two cans cost 89 cents during the drought.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21825015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IF IN VITRO fertilization works, it usually does so after only a few tries.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21825016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Costly infertility problems and procedures proliferate as aging baby boomers and others decide to have children -- now.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21825017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's estimated that one in six couples experiences infertility, and in 1987, Americans spent about $1 billion to fight the problem.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21825018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Only about five states now offer some form of insurance coverage, but more are expected.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21825019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A letter in the New England Journal of Medicine notes that while technology offers "almost endless hope . . . when to stop has become a difficult question. . . ."@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21825020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The authors, from Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, say that 84% of the 50 births they followed occurred after only two in vitro cycles.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21825021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It adds that births were "extremely unlikely" after the fourth cycle and concludes couples who don't achieve a pregnancy after four to six procedures should be advised that success is unlikely.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21825022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some couples continue to try.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21825023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Such determination may translate into extreme physical, emotional and financial costs," the letter warns.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21825024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MARKET MOVES, these managers don't.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21825025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Only three of the 25 corporate pension fund managers attending a Lowry Consulting Group client conference say they plan to change the asset allocation mix in their portfolios because of the market drop.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
21825026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WORLD ODDITIES come alive in a multimedia version of the Guinness Book of Records.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21825027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The $99 CD-ROM disk (it can only be played on an Apple Macintosh computer at the moment) combines animation, music and sound.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21825028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among the Guinness disk's wonders: the world's loudest recorded belch.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21825029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ARTY FAX from David Hockney begins a tongue-in-cheek exhibit today at New York's Andre Emmerich Gallery.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21825030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the artist's earliest Fax works was "Little Stanley Sleeping," a portrait of his dog.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21825031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PACS GIVE and receive in a debatable duet with employees' favored charities.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21825032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Federal Election Commission clears corporate plans to donate to an employee's chosen charity in exchange for the worker's gift to the company political action committee.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21825033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Latest approvals: Bell Atlantic's New Jersey Bell and General Dynamics.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21825034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Companies get more political clout plus a possible tax-deductible charitable donation -- so far no word from the IRS on deductibility.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21825035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Detroit Edison, the plan pioneer, generated $54,000 in matching funds this year, up from $39,000 in 1988.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21825036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the utility may not continue next year.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21825037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We're on a tight budget," says Detroit Edison's Carol Roskind.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21825038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two election commission members opposed the matching plans.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21825039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Scott E. Thomas says the plans give employees "a bonus in the form of charitable donations made from an employer's treasury" in exchange for the political donation.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21825040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The U.S. government could be, in effect, subsidizing political contributions to corporate PACs," he says.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21825041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Jersey Bell awaits state clearance.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21825042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite federal approval, General Dynamics says it decided it won't go ahead with the matching program.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21825043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS find a helping hand from some catalog companies.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21825044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Blunt Ellis & Loewi estimates direct mail catalog sales rose to $12 billion last year.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21825045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And while it's too soon to tell how sales will fare in the important 1989 Christmas season, some companies take steps to ease the usual 11th-hour crush.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21825046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Spiegel promises a "Guaranteed Christmas," with a pledge to deliver goods before Christmas if ordered by Dec. 20.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21825047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And, for an extra $6, Land's End will deliver orders within two days; customers can designate the day.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21825048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Spiegel, which also owns Eddie Bauer and Honeybee, says that since 1987, sales have doubled during the week before Christmas.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21825049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An L.L. Bean spokeswoman notes: "People are just used to living in a last-minute society."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21825050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Blunt Ellis, a Milwaukee brokerage firm, says part of the reason catalog sales grow in popularity is because consumers have more money but less time to spend it.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21825051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@L.L. Bean hires about 2,700 workers for the season rush, about 300 more than last year; Land's End hires 2,000.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21825052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BRIEFS:@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
21825053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Guarana Antarctica, a Brazilian soft drink, is brought to the U.S. by Amcap, Chevy Chase, Md.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21825054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Product News says the beverage "looks like ginger ale, tastes a little like cherries and smells like bubble gum." . . .@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21825055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Amenities" planned for Chicago's new Parkshore Tower apartments include an on-site investment counselor.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21826001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Four years ago, Pittsburgh was designated the most-livable U.S. city by Rand McNally's Places Rated Almanac, and the honor did wonders to improve Pittsburgh's soot-stained image.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21826002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"People asked, is it really true?" says Maury Kelley, vice president, marketing services, for Beecham Products USA, a maker of health and personal-care products that used the ranking in its recruiting brochure.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21826003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yuba City, Calif., meanwhile, ranked dead last among 329 metro areas.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21826004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unamused, residents burned Rand McNally books and wore T-shirts that said: "Kiss my Atlas."@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21826005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The almanac will be making new friends and enemies on Oct. 27, when an updated version will be released.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21826006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pittsburgh figures it will be dethroned but plans to accept its ouster graciously.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21826007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The city's Office of Promotion plans media events to welcome its successor.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21826008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We're encouraging a graceful transition," says Mary Kay Poppenberg, the organization's president.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21826009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Our attitude is that (the ranking) is like Miss America.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21826010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once you're Miss America, you're always Miss America."@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21826011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tell that to Atlanta, which Pittsburgh replaced as the most-livable city in 1985.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21826012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many Atlantans thought Pittsburgh was an unworthy heir.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21826013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A columnist in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution wrote: "Who did the research for this report?@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21826014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two guys from Gary, Ind.?"@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21826015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not so.@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21826016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Co-authors David Savageau and Richard Boyer, live in Gloucester, Mass., and Asheville, N.C., respectively.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21826017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Atlanta," Mr. Savageau sniffs, "has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21826018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new edition lists the top 10 metropolitan areas as Anaheim-Santa Ana, Calif.; Boston; Louisville, Ky.; Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y.; New York; Pittsburgh; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; and Washington.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21826019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Savageau says earthquake or not, San Francisco makes the list.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21826020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But attention also rivets on who finishes last, and Pine Bluff, Ark. -- which finished third to last in 1981 and second to last in 1985 -- is certainly in the running.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21826021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I hate to dignify the publication by commenting on the obscene rating," Mayor Carolyn Robinson says, adding that cities have no way to rebut the book.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21826022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's like fighting your way out of a fog.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21826023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You don't know which way to punch.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21827001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Northrop Corp.'s third-quarter net income fell 25% to $21.5 million, or 46 cents a share, while General Dynamics Corp. reported nearly flat earnings of $76.5 million, or $1.83 a share.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21827002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Los Angeles-based Northrop recorded an 8.2% decline in sales as B-2 Stealth bomber research-and-development revenue continued to ebb and high costs on some other programs cut into profit.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21827003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The aerospace concern earned $28.8 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21827004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales in the latest period were $1.25 billion, down from $1.36 billion in the 1988 quarter.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21827005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At St. Louis-based General Dynamics, sales rose 10% to $2.52 billion from $2.29 billion.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21827006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It earned $76.4 million, or $1.82 a share, in the 1988 quarter.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21827007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@General Dynamics credited significant earnings gains in its general aviation and material service segments, an earnings recovery in submarine operations, and higher military aircraft sales.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21827008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Northrop said sales fell because of the decline in B-2 development dollars from the government as the plane continues its initial production stage and because fewer F/A-18 fighter sections are being produced in its subcontract work with prime contractor McDonnell Douglas Corp.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
21827009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Northrop shares closed at $21.125, off 25 cents.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21827010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@General Dynamics closed at $54.875, up 50 cents.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21827011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Northrop, which since early 1988 has declined to accept fixed-price contracts for research and development, said earnings were hurt by excessive costs on a number of such contracts won years ago.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21827012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among them were the ALQ-135 electronic countermeasures system for the F-15 fighter.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21827013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Northrop's interest expense also soared to $35 million from $17 million a year ago.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21827014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It said debt remained at the $1.22 billion that has prevailed since early 1989, although that compared with $911 million at Sept. 30, 1988.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21827015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The backlog of undelivered orders at Northrop on Sept. 30 was $4.68 billion, down from $5.16 billion a year earlier.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21827016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the nine months, Northrop reported a net loss of $46.9 million, or $1 a share, compared with profit of $190.3 million, or $4.05 a share, in 1988.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21827017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales dipped 3.6% to $3.92 billion from $4.07 billion.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21827018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At General Dynamics, factors reducing earnings in the military aircraft segment included higher levels of cost-sharing in development of the Advanced Tactical Fighter, and the high cost of an advanced version of the F-16 fighter.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21827019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@F-16 deliveries also have fallen "slightly behind schedule," although a return to the previous schedule is expected in 1990, the company said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21827020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Backlog at General Dynamics rose to $16.5 billion from $15.8 billion.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21827021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Its interest expense surged to $21.5 million from $12.4 million.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21827022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the nine months, General Dynamics earned $210.3 million, or $5.03 a share, up marginally from $208.8 million, or $4.97 a share, on a 4.9% rise in sales to $7.41 billion from $7.06 billion.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21828001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lotus Development Corp. reported a surprisingly strong 51% increase in third-quarter net income on a 32% sales gain, buoyed by strong demand for a new version of its 1-2-3 computer spreadsheet.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21828002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The results topped analysts' expectations and the earnings growth of competitors, prompting traders to all but forget the product-launch delays that bogged down the company for much of the past two years.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21828003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday, in heavy, national over-the-counter trading, Lotus shares rose to $32.50, up $1.25 apiece, capping a threemonth run-up of more than 40%.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21828004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lotus said net rose to $23 million, or 54 cents a share, on sales of $153.9 million.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21828005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A year ago, net was $14.3 million, or 31 cents a share, on sales of $116.8 million.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21828006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the nine months, net of $38.5 million, or 92 cents a share, trailed the year earlier's $49.9 million, or $1.08 a share.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21828007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales rose to $406 million from $356 million the year earlier.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21828008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the first half, Lotus struggled to keep market share with costly promotions while customers awaited the launch of 1-2-3 Release 3, the upgraded spreadsheet software.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21828009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lotus's results were about 10% higher than analysts' average expectations and compared favorably with the 36% earnings rise reported a day earlier by rival Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21828010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said results were bolstered by upgrades to Release 3 by previous customers and improved profit margins, the result of manufacturing-cost controls.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21828011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rick Sherlund, a Goldman Sachs analyst, said Lotus had upgrade revenue of about $22 million in the quarter, twice what he had expected.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21828012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, he estimated unit shipments of 1-2-3 in all its forms were about 315,000, up 7% from 1988's quarterly average.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21828013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Demand for the new version was enabling Lotus to raise prices with distributors and to hold market share against Microsoft and other competitors that tried to exploit the earlier delays in Release 3's launch, Mr. Sherlund added.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21828014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He estimated that 1-2-3 outsold Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet by four-to-one in the quarter, and held a 70% or better share of the spreadsheet market.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21829001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Silicon Valley heaved a sigh of relief yesterday.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21829002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Though details were sketchy in the aftermath of the violent earthquake that shook the high-tech corridor along with the rest of the San Francisco Bay area, a spot check of computer makers turned up little, if any, potentially lingering damage to facilities or fabrication equipment.@@@@1@45@@oe@2-2-2013
21829003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Analysts and corporate officials said they expected practically no long-term disruption in shipments from the Valley of either hardware or software goods.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21829004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and National Semiconductor Corp. were all up and running yesterday, though many workers were forced to stay home because of damaged roadways; others elected to take the day off.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21829005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"These systems are more rugged than many people would believe," said Thomas Kurlak, who tracks the computer industry for Merrill Lynch Research.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21829006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's not the end of the world if you shake them up a little bit."@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21829007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other companies, including International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., completely idled their operations because of Tuesday evening's temblor, which registered 6.9 on the Richter scale.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21829008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Personnel spent the morning inspecting buildings for structural weaknesses, mopping up water from broken pipes and clearing ceiling tiles and other debris from factory floors.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21829009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, many were confident that "in a day or two, everything should be back to normal," according to a spokeswoman for the Semiconductor Industry Association, based in Cupertino.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21829010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IBM, for instance, said it anticipates returning to a normal work schedule by the weekend at its San Jose plant, which puts out disk drives for the 3090 family of mainframes.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21829011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Hewlett-Packard spokeswoman said that, while "things are a big mess," some 18,000 Valley employees have been called back to work today.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21829012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Apple Computer added that it was being "cautiously optimistic," despite not yet closely eyeballing all of its 50 buildings in the region.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21829013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even the carefully calibrated machinery in its giant Fremont plant, to the north of the Valley, was believed to be undamaged.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21829014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sun Microsystems Inc. and Tandem Computers Inc. also signaled that they should recover quickly.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21829015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Digital Equipment Corp., with major facilities in Santa Clara, Cupertino, Palo Alto and Mountain View, said that all of its engineering and manufacturing sites had reported to corporate headquarters in Maynard, Mass., Tuesday night.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21829016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@None sustained "significant" damage, a spokesman said, adding that "the delicate manufacturing process machines were checked and were all found to be operating normally."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21829017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For many companies, of course, there is still a slew of nagging problems to grapple with, some of which have the potential to become quite serious.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21829018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, a spokesman for Advanced Micro Devices said the Sunnyvale chip maker is worried about blackouts.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21829019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A sudden surge or drop in electric power could ruin integrated circuits being built.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21829020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But, given what might have happened to the fragile parts that are at the heart of the microelectronics business, the bulk of Valley companies seemed to be just about shouting hosannas.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21829021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Several factors apparently spared the Valley -- a sprawling suburban stretch from San Jose to Palo Alto -- from the kind of impact felt in San Francisco, an hour's drive north.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21829022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For one thing, buildings there tend to be newer and, thus, in step with the latest safety codes.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21829023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, the soil in the Valley is solid, unlike the landfill of San Francisco's downtown Marina District, which was hit with fires and vast destruction.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21829024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, some microelectronics companies said they were prepared for tremulous conditions like Tuesday's.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21829025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Their machine tools are even bolted to the shop floor.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21829026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Intel said that over the past decade, it has installed computer sensors and shutoff valves, sensitive to the shake of an earthquake, in the pipes that snake through its plants.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21829027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like other large Valley companies, Intel also noted that it has factories in several parts of the nation, so that a breakdown at one location shouldn't leave customers in a total pinch.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21829028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's certainly good news for such companies as Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, which has only a four-day supply of microprocessors from the Valley on hand because of a just-in-time manufacturing approach that limits the buildup of inventory.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21829029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Compaq said it foresees no difficulties in obtaining parts in the immediate future.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21829030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Computer makers were scrambling to help customers recover from the disaster.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21829031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Digital Equipment has set up disaster-recovery response centers in Dallas, Atlanta and Colorado Springs, Colo.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21829032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These units were handling calls both from people in the San Francisco area and from computers themselves, which are set to dial Digital automatically when trouble arises.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21829033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They then run remotely controlled self-diagnostic programs.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21829034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Digital also said it has dispatched teams of technicians to California.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21829035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, several other major installations around the Valley -- America's center of high-tech -- said they, too, fared as well as could be expected.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21829036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the Energy Department tests and conducts research on nuclear weapons, had only "superficial damage," a spokesman said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21829037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At Lockheed Corp.'s missiles and space systems group in Sunnyvale, about 40 miles south of San Francisco, workers were asked to head to work yesterday after it was realized that "there were no show-stoppers" in the 150-plus buildings on its one-square-mile campus.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
21829038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Several engineering and research offices needed closer scrutiny to make sure they weren't in danger of crumbling, but "the bulk of the place is in pretty good shape," an official said.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21829039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of Lockheed's most lucrative sectors -- accounting for more than half the aerospace company's $10.59 billion in sales in 1988 -- the missiles and space group is the prime Pentagon contractor on the Trident II ballistic missile.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21829040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also generates pieces of the missile shield called the Strategic Defense Initiative.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21829041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fortunately, the Hubble Space Telescope -- set to be launched on the shuttle next year in a search for distant solar systems and light emitted 14 billion years ago from the farthest reaches of the universe -- was moved from Sunnyvale to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at the beginning of October.@@@@1@53@@oe@2-2-2013
21829042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@John R. Wilke contribued to this article.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21830001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michael Maynard offered the world a faster way to break eggs.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21830002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As thanks, the egg industry tried to break him.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21830003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And the egg producers have done a pretty good job.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21830004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They tried to put Mr. Maynard out of business by an act of Congress.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21830005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Egg-industry lobbying helped persuade six states to ban Mr. Maynard's automatic egg-breaking machine because of fears over salmonella.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21830006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His company, Misa Manufacturing Inc., was forced to seek protection from creditors under federal bankruptcy law in 1987 and has since been liquidated.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21830007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Monthly sales of his Egg King machine -- which he now is marketing through a new company -- have sunk to about half a dozen from a peak of 75, says the 46-year-old businessman.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21830008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard isn't the first entrepreneur to bump up against entrenched interests.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21830009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But his case is notable both for the scale of the fight -- it isn't often that a congressional hearing is held to determine whether one small businessman is a threat to the republic -- and for what it tells about the pitfalls of marketing a new product.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
21830010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now one might ask why people who sell eggs would fight someone who is trying to make it easier to crack them.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21830011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Part of the answer lies in the nature of the industry.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21830012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many larger egg producers are also egg processors, who crack, inspect, and sanitize billions of eggs, turning them into powdered, liquified or frozen egg products.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21830013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, dozens of bakers, restaurant chefs and other food preparers who flocked to Mr. Maynard's defense say that products ranging from egg bread to eclairs lose some zip when the eggs come in 30-pound cans instead of shells.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21830014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But for companies that use hundreds of eggs a day, breaking them by hand can get, well, out of hand.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21830015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The idea behind the Egg King is pretty simple: put the eggs into a cylinder that contains perforated baskets, spin them at a high speed to break the shells and strain the edible part through the baskets.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21830016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One Egg King -- which at just under four feet tall and two feet wide has been likened to the robot R2-D2 -- can crack about 20,000 eggs an hour.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21830017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Because fresh eggs are less expensive than processed ones, a big egg user can recover the Egg King's $3,390 cost in a few months, says Mr. Maynard.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21830018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such centrifugal egg breakers have been around since the 1890s.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21830019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But when Mr. Maynard came forward with his machine in the early 1970s nobody else was offering them in the U.S.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The main reason: salmonella.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21830021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chickens carry this bacteria, which can cause upset stomachs and, in rare cases, death among people.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21830022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hens sometimes pass salmonella to the eggs, and it can also be found on unclean shells.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21830023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thus, any machine that breaks large amounts of eggs at once has the potential to spread salmonella if a bad egg gets in with the good ones.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21830024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard claims this is a manageable problem.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21830025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Egg King carries written instructions to break only high-grade eggs that have been properly sanitized and, as an added precaution, to use the eggs only in products that will be cooked enough to kill bacteria.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21830026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With nearly 4,000 machines in use, there have been no salmonella problems as long as instructions were followed, Mr. Maynard boasts.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He says the handful of salmonella cases involving products that may have used eggs broken by an Egg King stemmed from a failure to adequately cook the products.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21830028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But he says that's no more a reason for banning Egg Kings than bad drivers are a reason for banning cars.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Opponents don't buy such arguments.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21830030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Human nature being what it is, people don't always follow instructions," says Jack Guzewich, chief of food protection for the New York state Health Department.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21830031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Leading the assault against the Egg King has been United Egg Producers.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21830032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Decatur, Ga., trade group has issued a "briefing book" that claims the machine is "a health hazard" and that Mr. Maynard is trying "to make a fast buck at the expense of the nation's egg producers."@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21830033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The UEP declines to comment, but the group's attorney, Alfred Frawley, says the group's actions are motivated solely by "health concerns."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An early battleground was the U.S. Department of Agriculture.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21830035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard initially won approval for his machine to be used at egg-processing facilities regulated by the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21830036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unfortunately for Mr. Maynard, another branch of the USDA, the Agricultural Marketing Service, was in charge of eggs.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21830037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After receiving complaints from egg producers, this branch got the other branch to rescind its approval, thus limiting the machine's potential market to bakeries and restaurants and other establishments that aren't regulated by the USDA.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21830038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The egg producers also lobbied the Food and Drug Administration.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21830039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the FDA in a 1985 letter to the United Egg Producers said that there was "little likelihood" of a health problem as long as instructions were followed.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21830040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So the producers went to Capitol Hill, where a congressman from Georgia introduced a measure to ban centrifugal egg-breaking machines.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21830041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard, whose company at the time was based in Santa Ana, Calif., enlisted his local congressman, and the battle was joined.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21830042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard's forces finally defeated the measure, though it took a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives to do it.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21830043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even then, opponents managed to get a congressional hearing to examine what one congressman called an "unscrupulous" method for breaking eggs.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Foiled in their effort to get a national ban, the egg producers turned their attention to the states.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21830045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So far, New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, Georgia, Michigan and Minnesota have outlawed Mr. Maynard's device, citing health concerns.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21830046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@An antitrust suit that Mr. Maynard's company filed in Los Angeles federal court against the United Egg Producers and others only added to the entrepreneur's woes.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21830047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The judge dismissed the suit and ordered Mr. Maynard's company to pay over $100,000 in legal fees to the defendants' lawyers.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard says the ruling pushed his company into bankruptcy court.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21830049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now he has moved to Oklahoma where costs are lower, and started a new company, Adsi Inc., to market his machine.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21830050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But, so far, the change of scenery hasn't ended his string of bad breaks.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21830051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Maynard recently fell from a horse and fractured his arm.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21831001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Michelle Pfeiffer can't chew gum and sing at the same time.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21831002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But on the evidence of "The Fabulous Baker Boys," that may be the only thing she can't do, at least when she's acting in movies.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21831003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As the tough, slinky lounge chanteuse in "The Fabulous Baker Boys," Ms. Pfeiffer sings for herself, and more than passably well.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21831004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Her Susie Diamond handles a song the way the greats do, like she's hearing the way it should sound inside her head and she's concentrating on matching that internal tone.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21831005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet her intensity stops and starts with the music.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21831006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When she isn't performing for an audience, she prepares for a song by removing the wad of gum from her mouth, and indicates that she's finished by sticking the gum back in.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21831007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like almost everything in this wonderfully romantic and edgy movie, Ms. Pfeiffer's Susie seems like someone you've seen before, in numerous show-biz stories (even her name, Susie Diamond, sounds like a character Marilyn Monroe must have played).@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21831008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet nothing about "Baker Boys," and certainly nothing about Ms. Pfeiffer, really is like something from the video vault.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21831009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Steve Kloves, the young writer and director (he isn't yet 30), has only one produced picture to his credit; he wrote the screenplay for "Racing With the Moon," a lovely coming-of-age picture set in the '40s.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21831010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both movies are infused with the nostalgic sensibility of someone much older, someone who doesn't dismiss dreams, but who also has enough experience to see his limits.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21831011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, Mr. Kloves directs his own material without sentimentality and at its own eccentric pace; "Baker Boys" is both bluesy and funny.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21831012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He's put a fresh spin on material that could come off terribly cliched; for example, the way Susie wows an audience the first time she sings with the Baker Boys.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21831013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of course, it doesn't hurt that Mr. Kloves has made up for his lack of experience behind the camera with technicians who know exactly what they're doing.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21831014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Much of the picture's sensuality emerges from cinematographer Michael Ballhaus's slyly seductive lens work.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21831015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After working for years with Werner Rainer Fassbinder, the late German director, and more recently with Martin Scorsese ("After Hours," "The Color of Money," "The Last Temptation of Christ"), Mr. Ballhaus has developed a distinctively fluid style.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21831016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And Dave Grusin's witty score embraces the banal requirements of banquet-hall musicianship ("Feelings" is a must) without condescension.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21831017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Though Ms. Pfeiffer has the flashy part -- she gets the best comic bits and to wear glamorous dresses and spiked heelsthe boys are pretty great, too.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21831018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What seemed like a good idea, to cast the Bridges brothers (Jeff and Beau) as the Baker brothers, actually turned out to be a good idea.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21831019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Anyone who's tried to appear "natural" in front of a camera knows that it's much more natural to end up looking like a stiff.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21831020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So it's quite possible that the terrific play between the brothers isn't natural at all, that Jeff and Beau had to work like crazy to make their brotherly love -- and resentment and frustration and rage -- seem so very real.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
21831021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When the movie opens the Baker brothers are doing what they've done for 15 years professionally, and twice as long as that for themselves: They're playing proficient piano, face-to-face, on twin pianos.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21831022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They're small time in the small time-hotels (not the best ones) and restaurants in Seattle.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21831023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet they don't disparage their audiences by disparaging their act.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21831024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They wear tuxedos most nights, unless circumstances (a regular gig at a "tropical" lounge, for example) require them to wear special costumes, like Hawaiian shirts.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21831025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Plump Beau, looking eager to please with his arched eyebrows and round face, plays the older brother, Frank.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21831026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frank plans the program, takes care of business, and approaches the work like any other job.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21831027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He's even able to think of a job that takes him out of the house 300 nights a week as an ordinary job.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21831028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He's got a wife and two kids and a house in the suburbs; the audience sees only the house, and only near the end of the movie.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21831029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frank grovels a little for the bookers, probably no more or less than he would have to if he worked for a big corporation.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21831030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On his off-hours he wears cardigan sweaters.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21831031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Jeff Bridges is the younger brother, Jack, who fancies himself the rebellious artist; he lives in a loft with his sick dog and the occasional visit from the little girl upstairs, who climbs down the fire escape.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21831032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet Jack's the one who can remember every dive they ever played, and when, and he dutifully shows up for work night after night (he consoles himself with booze and by showing up at the last minute).@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21831033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Looking leaner than he has in a while, the younger Mr. Bridges's Jack is sexy and cynical and a far sadder case than Frank, who's managed to chisel his dreams to fit reality without feeling too cheated.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21831034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He can live with little pleasures.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21831035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Kloves has put together some priceless moments.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21831036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These include Jennifer Tilly's audition to be the Baker Boys' girl singer.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21831037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ms. Tilly of the tweety-bird voice showed great comic promise during her stint as the mobster's girlfriend on the television show, "Hill Street Blues."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21831038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here she delivers, especially during her enthusiastically awful rendition of the "Candy Man," which she sings while prancing around in a little cotton candy pink angora sweater that couldn't be more perfect.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21831039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(It matches her voice.)@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21831040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And Ms. Pfeiffer's particular version of "Making Whoopee" -- and the way Mr. Ballhaus photographs her, from the tips of her red high heels right up her clingy red velvet dress -- might make you think of Marilyn Monroe if Ms. Pfeiffer hadn't gone and become a star in her own right.@@@@1@52@@oe@2-2-2013
21831041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@VIDEO TIP:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21831042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you'd like to see the first time Michelle Pfeiffer sang on screen, and you have a lot of patience, take a look at "Grease 2."@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21831043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You'll find her there.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21831044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Better yet, check out the emergence of her comic persona in "Married to the Mob," Jonathan Demme's delightful Mafia comedy.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21832001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@International Proteins Corp. definitively agreed to pay $49 million and 2,850,000 of its shares for Hanson PLC's Ground Round restaurant subsidiary.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21832002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Shareholders of International Proteins, a food and agriproducts company, will vote on the transaction at a meeting late next month.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21832003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hanson is a London producer of consumer and other goods.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21832004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@International Proteins shares didn't trade yesterday on the American Stock Exchange.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21832005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They closed Tuesday in composite trading at $13.625, down 37.5 cents, giving the stock portion of the transaction an indicated value of $38.8 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21833001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Control Data Corp. agreed to sell its idle supercomputer manufacturing plant here to Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for $5.8 million.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21833002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tentative agreement calls for 3M to use the 115,000-square-foot plant and 19 acres of land for research laboratories.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21833003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Control Data has been seeking a buyer for the facility since it folded its ETA Systems Inc. supercomputer unit this past April.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21834001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@General Dynamics Corp. was awarded contracts totaling $589 million for one Navy Trident submarine and for Air Force research on the National Aerospace plane.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21834002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Grumman Corp. won a $58.9 million Navy contract for 12 F-14 aircraft.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21834003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Raytheon Co. was issued a $19.2 million Air Force contract for support of the Milstar communications satellite.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21834004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@McDonnell Douglas Corp. got a $12.5 million Air Force contract for support work on the National Aerospace plane.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21835001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Denis C. Smith was named to the new post of vice president of world-wide advanced materials operations for this chemicals concern.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21835002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Smith, 50 years old, was formerly responsible for advanced materials, which include plastic composites and alloys, in North America only.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21835003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Himont is 81%-owned by Montedison S.p.A. of Milan, Italy.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21836001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Galveston-Houston Co. said it will redeem all 3,950 shares of its privately held 6.5% convertible Series C preferred stock Nov. 8.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21836002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Holders can either convert each share into 421 shares of the company's common stock, or surrender their shares at the per-share price of $1,000, plus accumulated dividends of $6.71 a share.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21836003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Galveston-Houston makes and markets products for the construction, mining and energy industries.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21837001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bank Building & Equipment Corp. of America, which previously said accounting discrepancies its auditors uncovered would hurt earnings and require restatement of earlier results, increased its projections of the negative fiscal impact, and said it was exploring the company's sale.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21837002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bank Building, which builds and equips banks, had announced it would restate the first-three quarters of this fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21837003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Oct. 5, the company estimated after-tax effects on the year's earnings would be "at least" $1.3 million.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21837004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yesterday, the company said the negative after-tax effect on earnings for the year will be about $3.3 million.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21837005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the nine months ended July 31, Bank Building had a net loss of $1 million, on revenue of $66.5 million.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21837006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bank Building, which expects to report a fourth-quarter loss, said it engaged advisers to "explore financial alternatives for the company including the possible sale of the company or one or more of its units."@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21837007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Company auditors are continuing their review, and final restated figures aren't yet available.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21837008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bank Building earlier said the restatement is necessitated by "certain errors in recording receivables and payables" at its Loughman Cabinet division.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21837009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That division's manager has been fired.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21837010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In American Stock Exchange composite trading, Bank Building closed at $4 a share, down 62.5 cents.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21838001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gen. Paul X. Kelley, retired commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, was elected a director of this plastics, specialty materials and aerospace concern, succeeding Jewel Lafontant, who resigned to accept a government position.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
21839001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D., Ohio) at last week's hearings on irregularities in programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development:@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21839002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I don't want to feel guilty representing my constituents.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21839003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And if I think that some people {on HUD Secretary Jack Kemp's} staff are off base in terms in which they're evaluating certain things affecting my hometown, I have to tell you something -- I'm not going to take it.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21839004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I think that I'm elected to represent the people that sent me here.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21839005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And one of our charges is to be an ombudsman for our area.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21839006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And if we're not ombudsman for our area, we ought to be thrown out of office.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21839007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the other hand, if we're asking for something unreasonable or unethical and so on, then that's a whole different story.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21839008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But if I feel that there are situations where I'm trying to get housing for our area -- whatever it happens to be -- and I have to feel that I can't even ask a question, I've got to tell you, I think that's outrageous. .@@@@1@46@@oe@2-2-2013
21839009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I think these regulations that would prohibit well-operated programs in areas across this country would be wrong to change. . . .@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21839010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I don't want to see some guidelines change that's going to inhibit my city's opportunity to use its money.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21840001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Chicago Mercantile Exchange said it fined Capcom Futures Inc. $500,000 and accepted its withdrawal from membership as part of a settlement of disciplinary actions against the firm.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21840002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Capcom Futures is a Chicago subsidiary of Capcom Financial Services Ltd., a London financial firm that was implicated last year in a scheme to launder drug money.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21840003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The case is pending.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21840004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The firm was indicted in Tampa, Fla., on money-laundering charges.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21840005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In June, the Chicago Board of Trade said it suspended Capcom Financial.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21840006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Capcom Futures unit withdrew from Board of Trade membership voluntarily in August, a Board of Trade spokesman said.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21840007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Capcom Futures, while neither admitting nor denying the Merc charges, said in a statement that the Merc charges were "technical in nature" and that "no customers were hurt" as a result of the violations cited by the Merc.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21840008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Merc alleged that, among other things, from April 1987 through October 1988 Capcom Futures failed to document trades between Capcom Futures and people or entities directly or indirectly controlled by Capcom Futures shareholders.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21841001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frederick W. Lang, 65 years old, the founder of this software services concern, was elected to the new post of chairman.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21841002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Formerly president and treasurer, Mr. Lang remains chief executive officer.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21841003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Victor C. Benda, 58, formerly executive vice president, succeeds Mr. Lang as president and becomes chief operating officer, a new post.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21842001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Maurice Warren, 56-year-old group managing director, was named chief executive officer of this food and agriculture group.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21842002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The post of chief executive has been vacant since July when Terry Pryce, 55, left the company.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21843001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Money-market mutual fund assets grew at nearly three times their usual rate in the latest week, as investors opted for safety instead of the stock market.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21843002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Money-fund assets soared $4.5 billion in the week ended Tuesday, to a record $348.4 billion, according to IBC/Donoghue's Money Fund Report, a Holliston, Mass.-based newsletter.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21843003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We were expecting it, following the fall of the Dow Friday," said Brenda Malizia Negus, editor of Money Fund Report.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21843004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It's the proverbial flight to safety."@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21843005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Despite recent declines in interest rates, money funds continue to offer better yields than other comparable investments.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21843006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average seven-day compound yield on the 400 taxable funds tracked by IBC/Donoghue's was 8.55% in the latest week, down from 8.60%.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21843007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Compound yields assume reinvestment of dividends and that current yields continue for a year.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21843008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most short-term certificates of deposit are yielding about 8% or less at major banks, and the yields on Treasury bills sold at Monday's auction fell to 7.61% for three months and 7.82% for six months.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21843009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Money-fund assets have been rising at an average rate of $1.6 billion a week in recent months, Ms. Negus said, reflecting the relatively high yields.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21843010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the latest week, funds open to institutions alone grew by $1.8 billion.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21843011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some fund managers say inflows could increase in coming days as a result of stock selling in the wake of Friday's 190.58point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21843012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"If you're selling equities, you don't start getting proceeds for five to seven days," said Frank Rachwalski, who manages the Kemper Money Market Fund.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21843013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Neal Litvack, marketing vice president for Fidelity Investments, said inflows Friday into Fidelity's Spartan and Cash Reserves money-market funds were about twice normal levels, with about half coming from equity and junk-bond funds.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
21843014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Monday and Tuesday "were lackluster in comparison," he said.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21843015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"People aren't necessarily running scared," Mr. Litvack said.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21843016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"They're maintaining their attitude toward investing, which has leaned toward the conservative recently."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21843017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Money-fund yields tend to lag interestrate trends as portfolio managers adjust the maturities of their investments -- short-term Treasury securities, commercial paper and the like -- to capture the highest yields.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21843018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Maturities usually are shorter when rates are rising and longer when they are falling.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21843019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average maturity of the funds tracked by IBC/Donoghue's remained at 38 days for the third consecutive week.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21843020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was as short as 29 days at the start of this year, when rates were marching steadily upward, and hit 42 days in August.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21843021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average seven-day simple yield of the funds fell to 8.21% this week from 8.26%.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21843022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The average 30-day simple yield was 8.26%, compared with 8.27% the week before, and the 30-day compound yield slid to 8.60% from 8.61%.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21843023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some funds are posting yields far higher than the average.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21843024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The highest yielding taxable fund this week was Harbor Money Market Fund, with a seven-day compound yield of 12.75%.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21843025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That included capital gains that were passed along to customers.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21843026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Among the other high-yielding funds, Fidelity's Spartan Fund had a seven-day compound yield of 9.33% in the latest week.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21843027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The seven-day compound yield of the Dreyfus Worldwide Dollar Fund was 9.51%.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21844001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@whose Della Femina McNamee WCRS agency created liar Joe Isuzu, among others -- announced a massive restructuring that largely removes it from the advertising business and includes selling the majority of its advertising unit to Paris-based Eurocom.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21844002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The complex restructuring, which was long expected, transforms London-based WCRS from primarily a creator of advertising into one of Europe's largest buyers of advertising time and space.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21844003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also creates a newly merged world-wide ad agency controlled by Eurocom and headed jointly by New York ad man Jerry Della Femina and two top WCRS executives.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21844004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The merged agency's admittedly ambitious goal: to become one of the world's 10 largest agencies, while attracting more multinational clients than the agencies were able to attract alone.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21844005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WCRS's restructuring reflects the growing importance of media buying in Europe, where the only way to get a good price on advertising time and space is to buy it in bulk.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21844006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Eurocom, meanwhile, the move gives it a strong U.S. foothold in Della Femina, and more than quadruples the size of its ad agency business world-wide.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21844007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also gives the outspoken Mr. Della Femina -- who often generates as much publicity for himself as for his clients -- an international platform that he most certainly won't be loath to use.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21844008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to terms, WCRS will pay 2.02 billion French francs ($318.6 million) for the 50% it doesn't already own of Carat Holding S.A., one of Europe's largest media buyers.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21844009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, Eurocom, which had held 20% of WCRS's ad unit, will pay #43.5 million ($68.5 million) to raise its stake to 60%.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21844010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That price also covers Eurocom raising to 60% its 51% stake in Europe's Belier Group, a joint venture ad agency network it owns with WCRS.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21844011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Eurocom will also have the right to buy the remaining 40% of the merged ad agency group in six years.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21844012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The transaction places the three executives squarely at the helm of a major agency with the rather unwieldy name of Eurocom WCRS Della Femina Ball Ltd., or EWDB.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21844013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The merged agency will include Della Femina McNamee based in New York, Eurocom's various agencies in France, the Belier Group in Europe and WCRS's other advertising and direct marketing operations.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21844014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Della Femina will be joint chairman with former WCRS executive Robin Wight.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21844015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both will report to Tim Breene, a former WCRS executive who will be chief executive officer at the new agency.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21844016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In an interview in New York, Mr. Breene, fresh from a Concorde flight from Paris where executives had worked through most of the night, outlined big plans for the new agency.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21844017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Our goal is to develop quite rapidly to a top-10 position . . . by the end of three years from now.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21844018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It implies very dramatic growth," he said.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21844019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He added that Eurocom and WCRS had agreed to provide a development fund of #100 million for acquisitions.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21844020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new agency group is already in discussions about a possible purchase in Spain, while Mr. Breene said it also plans to make acquisitions in Scandinavia, Germany and elsewhere.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21844021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cracking the top 10 within three years will be difficult at best.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21844022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Della Femina had billings of just $660 million last year and ranked as the U.S.'s 24th-largest ad agency.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21844023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The merged company that it now becomes part of will have billings of just more than $2.6 billion -- most of that in Europe -- bringing it to about 14th world-wide.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21844024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To make it to top-10 status, it would have to leapfrog over such formidable forces as Grey Advertising, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and Omnicom's DDB Needham.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21844025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The merged agency's game plan to attract multinational packaged-goods advertisers may prove equally difficult.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21844026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When WCRS created Della Femina McNamee out of the merger of three smaller agency units in 1988, it said it did so in order to attract larger clients, especially packaged-goods companies.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21844027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since then, Della Femina won Pan Am as an international client and also does work for a few packaged-goods clients, including Dow Chemical Co.'s Saran Wrap.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21844028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But major packaged-goods players of the world -- such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever -- have steadfastly eluded the agency.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21844029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Three of our favorite names," Mr. Della Femina calls that roster, adding hopefully, "We're a much more attractive agency to large multinationals today than we were yesterday."@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21844030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, the restructuring could create one of the most powerful alliances between advertising and media-buying firms that Europe has seen.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21844031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As part of the restructuring, WCRS and Eurocom said they will look for ways to combine their media buying across Europe.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21844032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What's more, both Eurocom and brothers Francis and Gilbert Gross, who founded Carat, will acquire 14.99% stakes in WCRS Group, creating a powerful link between Eurocom and Carat.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21844033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Carat will receive its WCRS stake as part of payment for the 50% Carat stake that WCRS is buying, while Eurocom said it expects to pay about #32 million for its WCRS stake.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
21844034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Della Femina says he plans to remain heavily involved in the creative product at the world-wide agency, serving as a sort of "creative conscience."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21844035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Louise McNamee, Della Femina's president, will continue running the U.S. agency day-to-day.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21844036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They and other top executives signed long-term employment contracts and Mr. Della Femina will receive an additional multimillion-dollar sum, which some industry executives pegged at about $10 million.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21844037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WCRS Group, for its part, will now be able to follow its longstanding plan of becoming "a holding company for a series of media-related businesses," said Peter Scott, the firm's chief executive.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21844038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition to Carat, WCRS will hold onto its public relations, TV programming and other businesses.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21844039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WCRS says its debt will be cut to #24 million from #66 million as a result of the transaction.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21844040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Carat, meanwhile, the alliance with Eurocom and WCRS is intended to strengthen its own push outside France.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21844041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Carat's Gross brothers invented the idea of large-scale buying of media space.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21844042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By buying the space in bulk, they obtain discounts as high as 50%, which they can pass on to customers.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21844043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They thus have won the French space-buying business of such advertising giants as Coca-Cola Co., Fiat S.p.A., Gillette and Kodak.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21844044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But now, other agencies are getting into the business with their own competing media-buying groups -- and Carat wants to expand to the rest of Europe.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21844045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To help finance the Carat purchase, WCRS said it plans an issue of Euroconvertible preferred shares once the market settles down.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21844046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But WCRS added that "in the light of the current uncertainty in the equity markets," it has arranged medium-term debt financing, which would be underwritten by Samuel Montagu & Co. Ltd.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21844047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Earthquake's Damage@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21844048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tuesday's earthquake brought the San Francisco ad scene to a screeching halt yesterday, with only a few staffers showing up at their offices, mainly to survey the damage or to wring their hands about imminent new-business presentations.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21844049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While no agencies reported injuries to employees, the quake damaged the offices of J. Walter Thompson, Chiat/Day/Mojo and DDB Needham, among others, spokesmen for those agencies said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21844050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Staffers at Thompson, whose offices are in the ultramodern Embarcadero Center, watched pictures drop from the walls and then felt the skyscraper sway seven to eight feet, according to a spokeswoman.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21844051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Plaster fell and windows were broken at Chiat/Day/Mojo, a spokesman for that agency said.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21844052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Late yesterday afternoon, DDB Needham executives were scrambling to figure out what to do about a new business presentation that had been scheduled for today, a spokesman said.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21844053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DDB Needham's office building may have sustained structural damage, the spokesman added.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21844054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"All operations have stopped," he said.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21844055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A number of agencies, including Thompson and Foote, Cone & Belding, said some employees who live outside of San Francisco, fearful that they wouldn't be able to get home, spent the night at the agency.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21844056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ad Notes. . . .@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21844057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NEW ACCOUNT:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21844058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Chesebrough-Pond's Inc., Greenwich, Conn., awarded its Faberge hair care accounts to J. Walter Thompson, New York.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21844059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thompson, a unit of WPP Group, will handle Faberge Organic shampoo and conditioner and Aqua Net hairspray.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21844060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The accounts, which billed about $7 million last year, according to Leading National Advertisers, were previously handled at Bozell, New York.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21844061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WHO'S NEWS:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21844062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@William Morrissey, 44, was named executive vice president, world-wide director of McCann Direct, the direct marketing unit of Interpublic Group's McCann-Erickson agency.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21844063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He had been president and chief operating officer of Ogilvy & Mather Direct.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21844064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BOZELL:@@@@1@1@@oe@2-2-2013
21844065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Los Angeles will be the site of a new entertainment division for the ad agency.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21844066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The division will be headed by Dick Porter, who returns to Bozell after being vice president of media at MGM.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21844067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@AC&R ADVERTISING:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21844068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agency's three California offices, previously called AC&R/CCL Advertising, will now be called AC&R Advertising to match the name of its New York office.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21844069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@AC&R Advertising is a unit of Saatchi & Saatchi Co.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21844070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NEW BEER:@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21844071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sibra Products Inc., Greenwich, Conn., awarded its Cardinal Amber Light beer account to Heidelberg & Associates, New York.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21844072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Budget is set at $1.5 million.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21844073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new beer, introduced this week at a liquor industry convention, is imported from Switzerland's Cardinal brewery.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21844074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Heidelberg's first ads for the brand, which Sibra says will compete with imported light beer leader Amstel Light, feature the line "The best tasting light beer you've ever seen.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21845001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Diamond-Star Motors Corp., a joint venture of Chrysler Corp. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said it will begin shipping Mitsubishi Eclipse cars to Japan next week, emulating other Japanese auto ventures shipping U.S.-built vehicles back to Japan.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21845002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Diamond-Star said it will export about 1,500 Eclipse cars to Japan by year's end.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21845003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Honda Motor Co., the first Japanese auto maker to ship cars to Japan from the U.S., is now exporting more than 5,000 Accord Coupes a year from its Marysville, Ohio, factory.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21846001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the most remarkable features of the forced marches of the ethnic Turks out of Bulgaria over the past five months has been the lack of international attention.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21846002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The deportation of more than 315,000 men, women and children by the Bulgarian regime adds up to one of the largest migrations seen in the postwar years.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21846003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet some people are advancing a chilling casuistry: that what we are seeing is somehow the understandable result of the historical sins committed by the Turks in the 16th century.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21846004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Today's Turks in Bulgaria, in other words, deserve what is coming to them four centuries later.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21846005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As if this weren't enough, the Senate Judiciary Committee is getting into the act.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21846006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Tuesday it approved Senator Bob Dole's proposed commemorative resolution designating April 24, 1990, as the "National Day of Remembrance of the 75th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923," suffered at the hands of the warring Ottoman Empire.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
21846007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There can be no quibbling that the Armenians endured terrible suffering, but one has to wonder what possible good such a resolution will achieve.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21846008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It puts great strain on a longstanding U.S. friendship with Turkey, a country that has been one of America's strongest allies in NATO.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21846009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The resolution also comes at a time when Turkey has been seeking help from the United States in resolving its Bulgarian emigration controversy and pursuing democratic reforms that may lead to membership in the European Community.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21846010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Turkey has been fighting its past for years, and thus far has been only partially successful.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21846011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Must it now accept that one of its strongest allies blames it for the genocide of another people?@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21846012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Such sentiment only encourages the adverse feelings toward Turkey that surfaced when Turkey asked for assistance in dealing with its Bulgarian emigration crisis.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21846013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Dole's odd effort notwithstanding, most of Turkey's political problems lie with the Europeans.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21846014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Part of the problem some Europeans have with Turkey seems to stem from its location -- Turkey isn't really part of Europe.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21846015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Why, they wonder, should it belong to the EC?@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21846016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another anti-Turkish hook is the Islamic faith of the majority of the Turkish people: Turkey, we are told, is not a Christian nation; its people simply won't fit in with the Western European Judeo-Christian tradition.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21846017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's when these rationalizations fall on deaf ears that the old standby of retribution for treatment at the hands of the Ottoman Empire comes to the fore.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21846018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No one has to accept the sins of the Ottoman Empire to reject that argument.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21846019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Turkey in any event is long past it.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21846020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The country has in recent years accepted more than 500,000 refugees from at least four bordering nations.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21846021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Kurds, suffering what many people consider to be a current extermination campaign at the hands of Syria, Iran and Iraq have inundated eastern Turkey.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21846022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now it is their fellow Turks arriving as refugees from Bulgaria.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21846023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Turkish refugee tragedy and the ongoing crisis cannot be ignored and shuttled off to that notorious dustbin of history that has become so convenient recently.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21846024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Surely, the past suffering of any people at any time cannot be simply filed away and forgotten.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21846025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But what the Senate Judiciary Committee has done in supporting the strongly worded Armenian resolution achieves no useful end; it merely produces more controversy and embittered memories.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21846026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Congress has enough difficulty dealing with the realities of the world as it currently exists.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21846027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bulgaria's government has been behaving beyond the pale for months, and the U.S. does its values no credit by ignoring that while casting its votes into the past.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21847001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many in Washington say President Bush will have to raise taxes to pay for his war on drugs.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21847002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We have a better idea: Dismantle HUD to pay for the war on drugs.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21847003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Housing and Urban Development's budget is $17 billion.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21847004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@From what we and the nation have been reading, the money isn't being spent very well.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21847005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The single most important contribution the government could make now to help the poor is to get the specter of drugs out of their neighborhoods.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21847006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If that takes money, take it away from this discredited federal department.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21847007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But of course the Democrats pillorying HUD in hearings and in the press have no such solution in mind.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21847008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, they're scrambling to protect the very programs at the heart of the HUD scandal.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21847009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This month, HUD Secretary Jack Kemp unveiled a series of proposed reforms to improve management at HUD.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21847010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No doubt many of his ideas are worthy, but ultimately he is proposing to make fundamentally flawed programs work slightly more fairly and efficiently.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21847011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Congress is unlikely to go even that far.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21847012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last week, Secretary Kemp ran into a buzzsaw of criticism from House Banking Committee members.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21847013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They were appalled, for instance, that he wanted to target more of the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program to low-income projects and zero out the notorious "discretionary" funds that have allowed HUD officials to steer contracts to political cronies.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
21847014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These development grants mainly enrich developers who want to put up shopping centers and parking garages.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21847015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They also give those in Congress political credit for bringing home the pork, and so they are popular with such Members as Mary Rose Oakar.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21847016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Oakar, a Democrat from Cleveland, wants a $6.9 million grant so Cleveland can build an 18-story Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21847017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She says it'd create 600 jobs and bring Cleveland tourist revenue.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21847018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HUD says the project doesn't qualify, and Mr. Kemp says that rock 'n' roll musicians and the music industry ought to put up the money.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21847019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the hearing, Rep. Oakar started wailing about "phoney baloney regulations" that would stand between her and "housing for downtown Cleveland."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21847020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Chalmers Wylie, an Ohio Republican, rallied to the cause: "I think the gentlelady is making an important statement.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21847021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The implication that if a congressman calls about a project in his district there's something wrong, I think is most unfortunate."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21847022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We're sure some theologian can explain the difference between what the Republican consultants have been doing with HUD and what these gentleladies and gentlemen want to do with HUD.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21847023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Our view is that given Congress's attitude toward HUD, the place probably is beyond reform.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21847024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For more than 50 years the federal government has tried various ways to provide housing for the poor and revive cities.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21847025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the process HUD has wasted untold billions, created slums and invited corruption.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21847026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Much of HUD's spending actually is disguised welfare for developers or the middle class.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013