21900001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Arizona Corporations Commission authorized an 11.5% rate increase at Tucson Electric Power Co., substantially lower than recommended last month by a commission hearing officer and barely half the rise sought by the utility.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21900002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The ruling follows a host of problems at Tucson Electric, including major write-downs, a 60% slash in the common stock dividend and the departure of former Chairman Einar Greve during a company investigation of his stock sales.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21900003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Arizona regulatory ruling calls for $42 million in added revenue yearly, compared with a $57 million boost proposed by the commission hearing officer.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21900004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company had sought increases totaling $80.3 million, or 22%.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21900005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The decision was announced after trading ended.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21900006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tucson Electric closed at $20.875 a share, down 25 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21900007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A Tucson Electric spokesman said the utility was disappointed by the commission's decision and "concerned about the financial integrity of the company.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21901001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Korean President Roh Tae Woo, brushing aside suggestions that the won be revalued again, said the currency's current level against the dollar is "appropriate."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21901002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His comments, made in response to reporters' questions at the National Press Club here, signaled that Seoul is resisting U.S. pressure for a further rise in the currency's value.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21901003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The U.S. wants a higher won to make South Korea's exports more expensive and help trim Seoul's trade surplus.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21901004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many South Korean business people want a devaluation instead, arguing that the won's recent gains already have weakened the country's export performance.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21901005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Roh also said South Korea is taking steps that would free the won to respond to market forces.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21901006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Seoul has pointed to its lack of a foreign exchange market as one reason the won's value remains heavily controlled.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21901007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Roh said a U.S. demand for the removal of South Korean import quotas on beef will be resolved "satisfactorily" but gave no hint when that will happen.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21901008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Speaking to a joint meeting of Congress earlier, he said South Korea can't move quickly on such agricultural trade issues "without causing political and social trauma.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21902001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Great American Bank said its board approved the formation of a holding company enabling the savings bank to pursue nontraditional banking activities under a new federal law.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21902002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The proposed holding company's primary purpose would be to allow Great American to continue engaging in real estate development activities, it said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21902003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Those activities generated $26.1 million in operating profit last year.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21902004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But according to Great American, such profits don't count toward meeting the San Diego savings bank's new capitalization requirements under 1989 federal law.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21902005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new real estate unit would have a separate capital structure to comply with the law.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21902006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The proposed holding company would also consolidate Great American Bank in San Diego and its Tucson, Ariz., savings bank into a single, federally chartered institution in San Diego.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21902007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The consolidation is expected to save $1 million a year in administrative costs, a Great American spokesman said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21903001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dale Lang, who this week completed the acquisition of the publisher of Ms. and Sassy, is candid about the challenge he is taking on.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21903002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang admits that Ms. is "in dire straits" and that Sassy needs big promotional dollars to keep it alive.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21903003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the 57-year-old publisher has moved quickly and boldly to deal with the magazines' problems.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21903004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last Friday, he told the staff of Ms. that the magazine in January would begin publishing without advertising.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21903005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang will do away with expensive circulation drives, not to mention sales staff, and attempt to publish the 17-year-old magazine supported by circulation revenue alone.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21903006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Any fool can publish a money-losing magazine.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21903007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I want to publish one that succeeds," said Mr. Lang.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21903008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"For Ms., it's time to publish for the reader, not the advertiser."@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21903009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As for Sassy, which competes directly with News Corp.'s Seventeen magazine, Mr. Lang says that in the next two years he will spend $6 million promoting and improving the magazine.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21903010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Though Sassy has grown quickly since its debut in March 1988, it has been the target of conservative lobbyists and skittish advertisers who bristled at its frank editorial matter on teen-age problems.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21903011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang said the former Australian owners of Sassy were "blind-sided by the Moral Majority. . . .@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21903012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Their reaction was to do nothing and ride it out."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21903013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said Sassy will keep its irreverent tone, but added, "We will keep a close watch on the editorial content of the magazine."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21903014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sassy already has recovered; circulation has quickly passed the 500,000 mark and advertising pages have stabilized this year at more than 300.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21903015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What's more, Mr. Lang says he has what all publishers wish for: a bona fide niche.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21903016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Seventeen is written more for mothers, not their daughters," said Mr. Lang.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21903017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"But Sassy has a different spirit.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21903018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It gets more mail in a month than McCall's got in a year, and it's not from mothers.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21903019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I feel about Sassy like I did about Working Woman 10 years ago."@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21903020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang took on Ms. and Sassy with the acquisition of Matilda Publications Inc. by his newly formed Lang Communications.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21903021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lang owns 70% of Matilda, while Citicorp owns the rest through its Citicorp Venture Capital Partners.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21903022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Two weeks ago, Citicorp and Mr. Lang pumped $800,000 into Matilda just to keep the doors open.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21903023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Industry observers have congratulated Mr. Lang on what some call his "courageous" handling of Ms., but his track record in magazine publishing in general has gotten mixed reviews.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21903024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Besides Ms. and Sassy, closely held Lang Communications includes Success, a magazine for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and Working Woman and Working Mother, two monthly magazines.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21903025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Working Woman, with circulation near one million, and Working Mother, with 625,000 circulation, are legitimate magazine success stories.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21903026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The magazine Success, however, was for years lackluster and unfocused.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21903027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Only recently has it been attractively redesigned and its editorial product improved.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21903028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Success is expected to gain at least because of the recent folding of rival Venture, another magazine for growing companies.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21903029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Working Woman and Working Mother have operated as part of Working Woman/McCall's Group, a less-than-successful joint venture between Mr. Lang and Time Warner Inc.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21903030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The joint venture is being undone, with McCall's magazine being sold last summer to the New York Times Co.'s Magazine Group for about $80 million, and Time Warner agreeing to sell back its 50% interest in Working Woman and Working Mother to Mr. Lang.@@@@1@44@@oe@2-2-2013
21903031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Executives at Time Inc. Magazine Co., a subsidiary of Time Warner, have said the joint venture with Mr. Lang wasn't a good one.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21903032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The venture, formed in 1986, was supposed to be Time's low-cost, safe entry into women's magazines.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21903033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang surprised Time soon after joining forces when he said he would negotiate rates individually with advertisers, a practice common in broadcasting but considered taboo by magazine publishers.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21903034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, McCall's put in a less than stellar performance.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21903035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Until a recent comeback, it saw steep losses in ad pages and circulation.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21903036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Time executives complained about the shoddy editorial quality, and in the end, one Time executive who asked not to be identified said, "Frankly, McCall's and the joint venture were an embarrassment."@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21903037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang feels that Time's priorities changed.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21903038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Their management changed right after {the venture was formed}, and I don't think they were comfortable getting into the competitive wars of women's service magazines."@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21903039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Today, Mr. Lang believes his magazines will offer what many women's magazines don't.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21903040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We write straight for women on their level," he said.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21903041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We don't have passive readers."@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21903042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang points out that even Success, in part, fits the company's image, since about 30% of its readership is female.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21903043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang has named Carol Taber, 43, as group publisher of New York-based Lang Communications.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21903044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She will oversee Working Woman, Working Mother and Success magazines, and retain her post as publisher of Working Woman.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21903045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The sale price of McCall's -- twice what Mr. Lang originally paid for it -- will finance Lang Communications' buy-back of Time Warner's 50% interest in Working Woman and Working Mother.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21903046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lang says he isn't scouting new acquisitions, at least for now.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21903047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We would have to go outside to banks to get the money and I am not ready to do that," he said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21903048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Besides, we have enough on our plate.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21903049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is plenty of work to be done on what we have.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21904001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Britain's Monopolies and Mergers Commission Wednesday cleared Rhone-Poulenc S.A.'s purchase of a specialty bulk-chemical unit from Monsanto Co., saying the purchase was unlikely to have any lasting impact on U.K. industrial consumers.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21904002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The commission, which was asked to study the deal by the Department of Trade and Industry after its announcement in February, said the diversity of global supply of chemicals used in making analgesic drugs was great enough to offset the dominant U.K. market share Rhone-Poulenc would gain through the acquisition.@@@@1@50@@oe@2-2-2013
21904003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The French chemical giant would hold an 80% share of the U.K. market for salicylic acid, methyl salicylate and bulk aspirin.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21904004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The commission found that if the British government attempted to block the merger, Rhone-Poulenc would likely respond by closing the salicylates plant Monsanto operates in Wales, removing the matter from U.K. jurisdiction.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21905001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Morrison Knudsen Corp. posted third-quarter net income of $7.9 million, or 69 cents a share, continuing a rebound from steep year-ago losses.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21905002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the third quarter a year-earlier, the construction and engineering concern posted a loss of $51.2 million, or $4.68 a share.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21905003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Revenue in the latest quarter rose 14% to $589 million from $515.1 million.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21905004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Morrison gained $2.25 to $44.125.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21905005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Morrison said the engineering and construction segment performed well, with the mining and MK-Ferguson operations making important contributions.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21905006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Boise, Idaho-based Morrison had losses totaling $186 million over the two years ended in December, but it has surged back to profitability as a result of cost-cutting and shedding of unprofitable operations.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21905007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the nine months, the company's net income was $21.5 million, or $1.88 a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $97.8 million, or $8.96 a share.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21905008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Revenue rose 17% to $1.62 billion from $1.39 billion.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21906001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The House Ethics Committee officially cited Rep. Jim Bates (D., Calif.) for sexually harassing two female employees, but didn't recommend formal disciplinary action.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21906002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Bates said he accepted the finding, but one of the victims, Dorena Bertussi, denounced the ethics panel's action as "absurd."@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21906003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Acting more than a year after Ms. Bertussi filed a complaint, the panel issued a "letter of reproval" saying Rep. Bates had admitted conduct that violated a House rule forbidding discrimination against employees on account of their sex.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21906004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It ordered Rep. Bates to write letters of apology to Ms. Bertussi and to a second complainant, Karen Dryden.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21906005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Bates said he would write the letters as ordered.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21906006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"I accept the resolution of the matter by the Ethics Committee," he said.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21906007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The panel also warned Rep. Bates that any further violations "may result in a recommendation that disciplinary action be considered."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21906008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Ms. Bertussi asked, "Who in their right mind is going to file another complaint with the Ethics Committee?"@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21906009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Bates has publicly begged for forgiveness from voters and was re-elected with 60% of the vote last November.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21907001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mesa Airlines said the takeover offer it received earlier this week from StatesWest Airlines is for a combination of cash and securities valued by StatesWest at $10 a Mesa share.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21907002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both companies are regional carriers in the Southwest.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21907003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When it made the offer, StatesWest declined to disclose details and asked Mesa to do the same.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21907004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Farmington, N.M.-based Mesa said the offer was for $7 in cash and unspecified StatesWest securities valued at $3 a share.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21907005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Based on the number of Mesa shares outstanding not already owned by StatesWest, the proposed takeover would have a value of about $15.3 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21907006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@StatesWest owns 7.25% of Mesa.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21907007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last week, Mesa rejected a general proposal from StatesWest that the two carriers combine.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21907008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In response to the specific offer, Gary Risley, Mesa vice president, said management will ask directors to employ a financial consultant to advise them.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21908001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hawker Siddeley Group PLC, a U.K. engineering company, reported a 16% jump in pretax profit for the six-month period ending June 30.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21908002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pretax profit rose to #93.2 million ($146.8 million) from #80.6 million ($127 million), matching analysts' expectations, which ranged from #90 million to #95 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21908003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Profit after taxes and minority interests increased 16% to #55.2 million from #47.6 million in the year-earlier period, while earnings per share rose 16% to 27.9 pence (44 cents) from 24.1 pence (38 cents).@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21908004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hawker Siddeley said its core electrical products division enjoyed strong growth, with a 20% rise in operating profit during the period.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21909001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fleet/Norstar Financial Group reported a 12% increase in net income in the third quarter, led by a 43% gain in its financial services group.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21909002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fleet's net was $96.4 million, or 86 cents a primary share, compared with $85.8 million, or 79 cents a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21909003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Providence, R.I., financial services group, which includes commercial-credit, leasing and mortgage-banking operations, contributed $30.6 million to net, up from last year's $21.3 million.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21909004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fleet also noted that, unlike other banking companies in the Northeast, it has been only marginally hurt by nonperforming loans that have resulted from the slumping regional real estate market.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21909005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fleet reported nine-month net of $279.0 million, or $2.51 a primary share, up from $248.2 million, or $2.28 a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21910001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Benj. Franklin Federal Savings & Loan Association said it expects to post a third-quarter net loss of about $8 million, or $1.04 a share, as a result of adding $11 million in loan-loss reserves.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21910002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Portland, Ore., thrift, which has $5.2 billion of assets, had net income in last year's third quarter of $1.8 million, or 23 cents a share.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21910003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Franklin said it expects to report earnings for the latest quarter next week.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21910004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The additional reserves relate to possible write-downs of certain assets held by Franklin and its subsidiaries and the default of a bond in its investment portfolio, the thrift said.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21910005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@According to a spokeswoman, they also relate to changes Franklin will have to make in its accounting procedures to comply with new federal capitalization requirements for thrifts.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21910006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company's shares closed yesterday at $4.25, off 25 cents, in national over-the-counter trading.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21911001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arkla Inc. said that as part of a program to improve profitability it will take a total of $189 million in after-tax charges by year end.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21911002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also announced an initial public offering of 18% of its gas exploration and production subsidiary.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21911003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Shreveport, La., natural gas company said the charges, though partially offset by a one-time gain from the offering, will result in a full-year after-tax loss.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21911004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last year, the company had net income of $117.3 million, or $1.30 a share.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21911005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arkla said it will report $179 milllion in one-time charges against continuing operations for the third quarter, reflecting settlement of certain natural gas contracts.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21911006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It said it will take a $10 million fourth-quarter charge against discontinued operations, reflecting certain write-downs and the planned sale of a unit.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21911007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arkla said its initial offering of 18% of Arkla Exploration Co. is expected to result in a net gain of about $90 million, which will be used to pay down Arkla debt.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21911008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arkla Exploration owns sizable gas and crude-oil reserves in the South and Southwest.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21912001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Africa negotiated a new debt agreement with its major foreign creditors for about $8 billion of its foreign debt outstanding, said Chris Stals, governor of the Reserve Bank and the country's chief debt negotiator.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21912002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The new agreement will last for 3 1/2 years starting July 1, 1990, when the current agreement expires.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21912003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The announcement coincides with the start of the Commonwealth Ministers Conference in Kuala Lumpur, where proposals for renewed sanctions against South Africa, including moves to block settling of a new debt agreement, were scheduled to be discussed.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21912004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As with the previous pact, the new agreement covers the country's debt "inside the net," which applies mainly to repayments due to overseas creditor banks by the private sector.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21912005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The agreement calls for South African debtors to make repayments in eight installments, starting in December of next year.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21912006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The redemption then would be at 1.5% of the total debt, increasing to 2.5% in February 1991, and to 3% at six-month intervals thereafter.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21912007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A revised provision would be included for the conversion of short-term claims inside the net to long-term loans outside the net.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21912008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These claims would be repayable over a 10-year period.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21912009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Foreign debt falling outside the net of affected indebtedness -- which Mr. Stahl estimated at $12 billion -- would remain not subject to the debt arrangements.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21913001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New York Times Co. said net income rose in the third quarter because of a one-time gain on the sale of the company's cable-TV system.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21913002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Net surged to $210.8 million, or $2.68 a share, from $26.7 million, or 33 cents a share, a year earlier.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21913003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The latest quarter included a gain of $193.3 million, or $2.46 a share, from the sale of New York Times Cable, completed in August.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21913004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Exclusive of the gain, operating profit declined 35% to $16.4 million, or 21 cents a share, from $25.2 million, or 31 cents a share.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21913005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The decline primarily reflected the dilution from acquiring McCall's, Golf World (U.S.) and Sailing World magazines; lower equity earnings from the forest-products group because of price discounting and an unfavorable exchange rate, and an 8.7% decline in advertising linage at the New York Times, the company's flagship newspaper.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
21913006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Advertising volume at the company's 35 regional newspapers decreased 1.1%.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21913007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said the negative factors are expected to continue into next year.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21913008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Revenue rose 6.4% to $415.3 million from $390.5 million.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21914001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Democrat Gene Taylor won a special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by the death of Republican Larkin Smith, taking back the GOP's lone redoubt in Mississippi's House delegation.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21914002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Taylor's overwhelming victory against Republican Tom Anderson reclaims a seat the Republicans had held for 17 years and gives the Democrats their fifth victory in the seven special House elections held this year.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21914003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Taylor, a 36-year-old state senator from Bay St. Louis, won 65% of the vote in a district that has voted Republican in the past five presidential elections and that was once represented by Republican U.S. Sen. Trent Lott.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
21914004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Taylor's victory was an embarrassment for both state and national Republicans.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21914005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Anderson, a former Lott aide, received campaign assistance from the senator and from President Bush, who visited the district last week.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21914006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Even so, Mr. Taylor carried all but one of the district's dozen counties.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21914007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Rep. Smith died in a plane crash on Aug. 13.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21915001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Wall Street Journal reporters called companies with headquarters or facilities in the Bay area in a bid to assess the damage to their operations caused by Tuesday's earthquake.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The calls reached many, but certainly not all, of the publicly held companies with operations in the area.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21915003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In most cases damage to company facilities and operations was minimal.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21915004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ADIA SERVICES INC., Menlo Park, temporary personnel agency, annual sales of $504 million, OTC, said all 30 offices in Bay area were working, but in various states of disarray.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21915005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Business was slow because many companies were closed yesterday.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21915006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC., Sunnyvale, integrated circuit maker, annual sales of $1.12 billion, NYSE, had only minor structural damage.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21915007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most of its 4,500 workers were at work yesterday, and no production slowdown was anticipated as long as electricity remains available.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21915008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@AMDAHL CORP., Sunnyvale, computer maker, annual sales of $1.8 billion, Amex, was closed yesterday and no damage estimates were available.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21915009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@AMERICAN BUILDING MAINTENANCE INDUSTRIES Inc., San Francisco, provider of maintenance services, annual revenue of $582 million, NYSE, had some damage to headquarters and lost phone service, but operations were moved to a branch office and are running smoothly thanks to a decentralized computer system the company had developed before the quake.@@@@1@51@@oe@2-2-2013
21915010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@AMERICAN PRESIDENT COS., Oakland, shipping concern, annual sales of $2.2 billion, NYSE, had little damage to the cranes, dock or rail track at its container-ship facility near the collapsed Route 880 overpass.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21915011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company expects to work a ship due in today with minimal delays, despite sporadic power.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21915012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ANACOMP INC., Indianapolis, NYSE, said its Xidex Corp. unit, a Sunnyvale maker of computer disks and microfilm with annual sales of $637 million, had only minor damage and is fully operational.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21915013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ANTHEM ELECTRONICS INC., San Jose, distributor of electronic parts, annual sales of about $300 million, NYSE, sustained very little damage, anticipated being "in 100% operating condition" by midday.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@APPLE COMPUTER CO., Cupertino, computer maker, annual sales of $4.07 billion, OTC, sustained some structural damage.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21915015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Offices were closed yesterday.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21915016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@APPLIED MATERIALS INC., Santa Clara, maker of computer-chip machine systems, annual sales of $490 million, OTC, had slight damage to headquarters, no damage to manufacturing plants.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21915017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Company, with 1,750 workers in area, is fully functional.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21915018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ATARI CORP., Sunnyvale, maker of personal computers and software, annual sales of $700 million, Amex, had minor damage and expects to be fully operational by tomorrow.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21915019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BANKAMERICA Corp., San Francisco, bank holding company, annual revenue of $10.2 billion, NYSE, yesterday had no power at its headquarters, 80 of its 433 Northern California branches were closed and 250 of 750 automatic teller machines were closed in the area.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
21915020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Securities trading was conducted in a backup facility in Concord.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21915021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BECHTEL CORP., San Francisco, engineering and construction concern, annual sales of $4 billion, had only minor structural damage at its three buildings in the city, but its computers were knocked out.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21915022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Backup computer tapes were hand-carried to an IBM office in Philadelphia, and the company expects its mainframe to be up in a few days.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21915023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Workers, except for senior management, were asked not to report for work yesterday.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21915024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BIO-RAD LABORATORIES INC., Hercules, biological research and clinical-products leader, $200 million in annual sales, Amex, said its Richmond warehouse north of San Francisco was closed because of debris and fallen shelves.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21915025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It expects to be fully operational by next week.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21915026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BORLAND INTERNATIONAL, Scotts Valley, personal computer and software designer, annual sales of $72 million, had heavy damage to its headquarters and was conducting business from its parking lot.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company doesn't expect any shipping delays.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21915028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BUSINESSLAND INC., San Jose, computer retail company, annual sales of $1.1 billion, NYSE, said all 16 corporate office and stores in the area were open with the exception of a retail center in San Francisco's business district.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21915029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That facility should reopen today.@@@@1@5@@oe@2-2-2013
21915030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CARTER HAWLEY HALE STORES Inc., Los Angeles, retailer, annual sales of $2.79 billion, NYSE, said nine of its 22 Emporium stores in the area were closed because of water damage, broken windows and fallen displays.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21915031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokesman said sales are expected to be hurt, but the losses are covered by insurance.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21915032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CHEVRON CORP., San Francisco, oil company, annual sales of $25.2 billion, NYSE, had minor damage to downtown headquarters, but structural damage closed two of its seven buildings in San Ramone industrial park.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21915033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Company expects to be fully operational by next week.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21915034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CLOROX Co., Oakland, consumer products, annual sales of $1.36 billion, NYSE, was closed yesterday but plans to reopen today or tomorrow.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21915035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, orders are being routed through Kingsford Products unit in Louisville, Ky., but computer problems mean they must be processed manually.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21915036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Expects to be fully operational early next week.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21915037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@COHERENT INC., Palo Alto, laser maker, annual sales of $159 million, was closed yesterday but expects to reopen today.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21915038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS INC., Menlo Park, trucking company, $2.69 billion in annual sales, NYSE, had structural damage to CF Motor Freight subsidiary's office in Palo Alto, no damage in Menlo Park.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21915039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@COOPER COMPANIES INC., Palo Alto, medical products maker, annual sales of $628 million, NYSE, had little damage and was in full operation yesterday.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21915040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DAYTON HUDSON CORP., Minneapolis, retailer, annual sales of $12.2 billion, NYSE, closed seven of its 13 Bay-area Target discount stores and nine of its 20 Mervyn's department stores because of pending reviews by structural engineers or requests from authorities, who were trying to keep shoppers off the freeways.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
21915041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company expects to reopen three Target stores and all but two Mervyn's today or tomorrow.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21915042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DIASONICS INC., South San Francisco, maker of magnetic resonance imaging equipment, annual sales of $281 million, Amex, had minor damage, mostly in a stockroom.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21915043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company plans to be fully operational today.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21915044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP., Maynard, Mass., computer maker, annual sales of $12.7 billion, NYSE, had structural damage at its San Francisco sales office but no appreciable damage elsewhere in the area, including its Cupertino plant.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21915045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DREYER'S GRAND ICE CREAM INC., Oakland, ice cream maker, annual sales of $225 million, OTC, said it is delivering ice cream wherever roads are passable.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21915046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@EVEREX SYSTEMS INC., Fremont, maker of personal computers and peripherals, annual sales of $377 million, OTC, had minor damage and was almost fully operational yesterday.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21915047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@EXXON Corp., New York, oil company, NYSE, said its refinery northeast of San Francisco was operating at a slightly reduced rate as a precaution in case of aftershocks.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FORD MOTOR CO., Dearborn, Mich., auto maker, annual sales of $92.4 billion, NYSE, said its three Ford Aerospace unit facilities in the Bay area, including a satellite-assembly operation in Palo Alto, had no major damage.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21915049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GAP Inc., San Bruno, clothing retailer, annual sales of $1.25 billion, NYSE, expects most of its stores to return to full operation and all 2,500 of its Bay-area workers to be back at work by today.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21915050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GENENTECH INC., South San Francisco, biotechnology company, annual sales of $334.8 million, NYSE, sustained no major damage and expects to be fully operational today.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21915051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Fairfield, Conn., consumer, industrial products and broadcasting concern, annual sales of $50 billion, NYSE, said its GE Nuclear Energy unit, with 1,600 Bay-area employees, had only minor damage at its San Jose headquarters.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21915052@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Business wasn't disrupted.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
21915053@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GENERAL MOTORS CORP., Detroit, auto maker, annual sales of $123.6 billion, NYSE, sustained about 10 injuries to workers and some ruptured water mains at its New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. facility in Fremont, a joint venture with Toyota Motor Corp.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21915054@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There was limited production of some models yesterday, but it wasn't clear when the normal 750-car-a-day pace will resume.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21915055@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Plant officials are still assessing damage to parts suppliers and Port of Oakland facilities that handle shipments to the plant.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21915056@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GOLDEN WEST FINANCIAL CORP., Oakland, savings and loan, annual revenue of $1.4 billion, NYSE, had only minor damage to a few branches and no injured employees.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21915057@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HEWLETT-PACKARD Co., Palo Alto, personal computer and electronic equipment maker, annual sales of $9.8 billion, NYSE, said there will be a "minimal suspension" of manufacturing for an undefined period.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21915058@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The computer system was operating, so orders could be taken.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21915059@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company has 18,000 employees and more than 70 buildings in the Bay area.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21915060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One building in Palo Alto may be damaged beyond repair.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21915061@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Others had lesser damage and there were no injuries among workers.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21915062@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Damage will be "easily in the millions," the company said.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21915063@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HEXCEL Corp., Dublin, manufacturer of engineered parts, annual sales of $399 million, NYSE, had little damage beyond some phone trouble.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21915064@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HOMESTAKE MINING CO., San Francisco, gold and general miner, annual sales of $432.6 million, NYSE, said its headquarters was closed yesterday because of power failures and lack of water, but that it may reopen today.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21915065@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It expects any impact on its business to be slight.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21915066@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HOMESTEAD FINANCIAL CORP., Millbrae, financial services concern, annual revenue of $562 million, OTC, said three of its 17 Bay-area branches were closed yesterday.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21915067@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company expects all branches to reopen today.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21915068@unknown@formal@none@1@S@INMAC CORP., Santa Clara, maker of computer accessories, annual sales of $250 million, OTC, said telephones were out at its headquarters but service should be restored by today.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915069@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company said it was doing a brisk business in computer power-surge protectors, cables and uninterruptable power sources.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21915070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@INTEL Corp., Santa Clara, semiconductor maker, annual sales of $2.87 billion, OTC, had some damage and few people were at work yesterday.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21915071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp, Armonk, N.Y., maker of business machines, NYSE, said flooding caused by broken water pipes closed its San Jose plant, which makes high-end data-storage devices.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The plant and its 8,500 employees gradually will resume operations over the next several days, the company said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21915073@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also closed yesterday were the company's Santa Teresa software-development lab and the Almaden research center.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21915074@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The concern's National Service Division opened a center for emergency service in Walnut Creek as part of its disaster-recovery plan.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21915075@unknown@formal@none@1@S@KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL, Oakland, metal and chemical maker, annual sales of $2.22 billion, had slight structural damage to its 28-story headquarters building and employees stayed home yesterday to allow crews to clean up.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21915076@unknown@formal@none@1@S@LOCKHEED CORP., Calabasas, aerospace and defense concern, annual sales of $10.59 billion, NYSE, said its Lockheed Missiles & Space division closed its Santa Cruz test facility because of power outages and landslides.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21915077@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The closing, affecting 266 employees, will continue at least until roads are cleared.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21915078@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It wasn't known to what extent, if any, the facility was damaged.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21915079@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also wasn't known what the impact will be on the division's work, which includes the Navy's Trident submarine-based missile program and the Air Force's Strategic Defense Initiative.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The division had only minor damage at its Sunnyvale headquarters and plant in Palo Altos, and no delays in deliveries are expected.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21915081@unknown@formal@none@1@S@LONGS DRUG STORES INC., Walnut Creek, drugstore chain, annual sales of $1.9 billion, NYSE, had only minor damage and only four of its 75 Bay-area stores, all in the Santa Cruz area, were closed.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21915082@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All are expected to reopen soon.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21915083@unknown@formal@none@1@S@LSI LOGIC CORP., Milpitas, maker of customized integrated circuits, annual sales of $550 million, NYSE, has halted manufacturing at its three plants in the area while they are inspected for structural damage.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21915084@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company expects to resume full operations by today.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21915085@unknown@formal@none@1@S@R.H. MACY & Co., New York, retailer, annual sales of $7 billion, said there was minor damage to its 24 Macy stores and nine I. Magnin stores in the Bay area.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21915086@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MEASUREX CORP., Cupertino, maker of computer integrated manufacturing processes, annual sales of $265 million, NYSE, had only minor damage but workers spent most of yesterday cleaning up.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21915087@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORP., Santa Clara, semiconductor maker, annual sales of $1.65 billion, NYSE, said it had no major structural damage at its 30 Bay-area buildings, but two workers were injured.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21915088@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Production resumed yesterday.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
21915089@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Piping in a waste-treatment plant needed immediate repairs.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21915090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@NORDSTROM INC., Seattle, retailer, annual sales $2.33 billion, OTC, five of this 59-store chain's nine stores in the Bay Area were closed yesterday, damage appears primarily cosmetic, hopes to reopen four of the stores by today and the fifth by Saturday.@@@@1@41@@oe@2-2-2013
21915091@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ORACLE SYSTEMS CORP., Belmont, provider of computer programming and software services, annual sales $584 million, four of 12 offices and buildings in the Belmont and San Mateo areas were closed, 95% of computer and telephone systems are operating, expects to be back to full operation by the end of the week.@@@@1@51@@oe@2-2-2013
21915092@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., San Francisco, electric, gas and water supplier, annual sales $7.6 billion, some minor damage to headquarters, undetermined damage to four nearby substations, severe structural damage to a major power plant at Moss Landing, extensive damage to gas lines and electric lines, 400,000 residences without electricity and 69,000 without gas, cannot reconnect electricity until it is certain there are no gas leaks, no predictions on when this will happen.@@@@1@73@@oe@2-2-2013
21915093@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PACIFIC TELESIS GROUP, San Francisco, telecommunications holding company, annual sales of $9.5 billion, no damage to headquarters, but no power, the power failure has caused a delay in the release of the company's earnings report, major concern is subsidiaries, Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis Cellular, both of which sustained damage to buildings, structural damage to several cellular sites in Santa Cruz, volume of calls on cellular phones 10 times the usual, causing a big slowdown.@@@@1@75@@oe@2-2-2013
21915094@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., Cincinnati-based company's Folgers Coffee plant in South San Francisco was closed following the earthquake, no injuries or major damage, other plants around country can make up for any lost production.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21915095@unknown@formal@none@1@S@QUANTUM CORP., Milpitas, manufactures rigid disc drives for small business computers, word processors, annual sales $120.8 million, OTC, open for business, minor structural damage.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21915096@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RAYCHEM CORP., Menlo Park, plastics manufacturer, annual sales $1 billion, no major damage and no production slowdown is anticipated.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21915097@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ROSS STORES INC., Newark, discount apparel chain, annual sales $576 million, two of 28 stores in Bay Area closed, both could open as early as today.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21915098@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SAFEWAY STORES INC., Oakland, retail food chain, annual sales of $13.6 billion, some structural damage to headquarters and no power; major problems transporting products to those stores that remained open; no numbers on how many stores closed.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21915099@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., San Francisco, discount brokerage firm, annual sales of $392 million, had only minor damage to headquarters building and was up and running for yesterday's market open.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21915100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Firm will not, however, resume 24-hour service until power in city is restored.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21915101@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Office closed yesterday at 4:30 p.m. EDT.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21915102@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, Scotts Valley, maker of hard disk drives for computers, annual sales of $1.37 billion, OTC, closed to assess what appeared to be minor damage to some of its 20 buildings.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21915103@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO., San Francisco, railroad, annual sales of $2.41 billion, had only minor damage to headquarters and tracks, and expects to be fully operational tomorrow.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21915104@unknown@formal@none@1@S@St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. unit halted all service Tuesday night but has since restored some freight lines and limited commuter service between San Francisco and San Jose.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915105@unknown@formal@none@1@S@SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC., Mountain View, maker of desktop computers, annual sales $1.77 billion, OTC, no injured employees and very little damage to buildings.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21915106@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Closed yesterday due to power difficulties.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21915107@unknown@formal@none@1@S@TANDEM COMPUTERS INC., Cupertino, computer maker, annual sales of $1.6 billion, NYSE, said it had no significant damage and should be fully operational within a week.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21915108@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many employees stayed home yesterday, but customer service was being maintained.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21915109@unknown@formal@none@1@S@TRANSAMERICA CORP., San Francisco, financial services and insurance company, annual sales of $7.9 billion, NYSE, said its headquarters, the well-known downtown pyramid-shaped building, was intact but closed yesterday.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@VARIAN ASSOCIATES INC., Palo Alto, instrumentation and semiconductor equipment company, annual sales of $1.3 billion, had only minor damage and no slowdowns were anticipated.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21915111@unknown@formal@none@1@S@VLSI TECHNOLOGY INC., San Jose, maker of semiconductor products, annual sales $171.9 million, OTC, minimal damage to facilities, no injuries, expected operations to return to normal late yesterday.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21915112@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WATKINS-JOHNSON CO., defense-oriented electronics manufacturer, annual sales $292 million, NYSE, minor damage to headquarters and plant in Palo Alto, no damage to San Jose plant, "still assessing" damage at Scotts Valley plant, where main product is furnaces for semiconductor production.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21915113@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WELLS FARGO & CO., San Francisco, bank holding company, annual revenue $4.9 billion, NYSE, minor damage at headquarters, 12 branches out of 170 in Northern California sustained structural damage that will preclude them from opening in the near future, 45 locations with at least one automatic teller machine inoperable, central computer systems are operating, no injuries.@@@@1@56@@oe@2-2-2013
21915114@unknown@formal@none@1@S@WYSE TECHNOLOGY INC., San Jose, maker of video display terminals and workstations and IBM/PC compatible computers, annual sales of $452 million, slight structural damage at headquarters, no injuries, expects to be back to full operation today.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21915115@unknown@formal@none@1@S@3COM CORP., Santa Clara, maker of computer communications systems, annual sales of $386 million, OTC, slight structural damage to headquarters, communications systems already fully operational.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21916001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Could the collapse of I-880 have been prevented?@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21916002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That was the question structural engineers and California transportation officials were asking themselves yesterday as rescue workers began the gruesome task of trying to extract as many as 250 victims from beneath the concrete slabs of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway in Oakland that caved in during Tuesday's temblor.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
21916003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After touring the area, California Gov. George Deukmejian late yesterday called for an inquiry into the freeway's collapse, blaming the disaster on substandard construction, the Associated Press reported.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21916004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The impact of the destruction of this 2.5-mile stretch of highway was tragically measured in lost lives.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21916005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But there are other long-term effects that raise serious questions about the ability of California's infrastructure to withstand a major temblor.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21916006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It could easily be two years before the well-traveled artery that helps connect Oakland with San Francisco is reopened, and the cost to build a new stretch of highway could soar to more than $250 million, said Charles J. O'Connell, deputy district director in Los Angeles of the California Department of Transportation, nicknamed Caltrans.@@@@1@54@@oe@2-2-2013
21916007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans in Sacramento said total damage from the collapsed highway is estimated at around $500 million.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21916008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The aftershocks of the highway tragedy are reverberating in Los Angeles as well, as local politicians spoke yesterday against plans to bring double-decking to Los Angeles freeways by 1994.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21916009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans plans to add a second deck for buses and car pools above the median of a 2.5-mile stretch of the Harbor Freeway just south of Los Angeles, near the Memorial Coliseum.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21916010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn yesterday vowed to fight the introduction of double-decking in the area.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21916011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans abandoned double-decking in the early 1970s, following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake that destroyed freeway sections just north of Los Angeles, Mr. O'Connell explained.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21916012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That temblor measured 6.1 on the Richter scale; Tuesday's was@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21916013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So why even consider stacking freeways now?@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21916014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We've run out of places to build freeways in L.A., and the only place to go is up," Mr. O'Connell said, although he acknowledges there are many obstacles, including cost.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21916015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But as for safety, he says double-deck freeways built today with the heavily reinforced concrete and thicker columns required after the Sylmar quake should withstand a calamitous temblor of 7.5 to 8 on the Richter scale.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21916016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Reasons for the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway were sketchy yesterday.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21916017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But most structural engineers attributed the destruction to improper reinforcement of the columns that supported the decks, and the fact that the ground beneath the highway is largely landfill and can become unstable, or "liquefy," in a major quake.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
21916018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The two-story roadway, designed in the mid-1940s and completed in 1957, was supported by columns that apparently lacked the kind of steel reinforcement used in highways today.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21916019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While the pillars did have long metal bars running vertically through them for reinforcement, they apparently lacked an adequate number of metal "ties" that run horizontally through the column, said Leo Parker, a structural engineer in Los Angeles.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21916020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans today uses a variation of the design Mr. Parker describes, with spiraling steel rods inside.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21916021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But in the case of the Nimitz Freeway, the lack of such support caused the core of the columns to crumble and buckle under the weight of the second deck, crushing motorists who were lined up in bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic on the lower deck nearly 15 feet below.@@@@1@48@@oe@2-2-2013
21916022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Officials of the state agency didn't have any immediate explanation why the reinforcement didn't hold up.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21916023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans reinforced the highway in 1977 as part of a $55 million statewide project, using steel cables to tie the decks of the freeway to the columns and prevent the structure from swaying in a quake.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21916024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans spokesman Jim Drago in Sacramento declined to identify the engineering firm that did the reinforcement work.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21916025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Liability in the bridge and road collapses will revolve around whether government took "reasonable care" to build and maintain the structures, says John Messina, a Tacoma, Wash., personal-injury attorney who specializes in highway design and maintenance cases.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21916026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The firm brought in to strengthen the structure could be liable as well.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21916027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The results of the quake certainly raise questions about whether reasonable care was taken, Mr. Messina says.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21916028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Given the seismic history of the Bay Area, "it seems to me that a 6.9 earthquake is a foreseeable event."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21916029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Caltrans' Mr. Drago defended the agency's work on the Nimitz Freeway.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21916030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The work was done properly," he said.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21916031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Basically, we had a severe earthquake of significant duration and it was just something the structure couldn't withstand."@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21916032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ironically, Caltrans this year began working on a second round of seismic reinforcements of freeways around the state, this time wrapping freeway columns in "steel blankets" to reinforce them.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21916033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But only bridges supported with single rows of columns were top priority, and the Nimitz Freeway, supported by double rows, was left out, Mr. Drago explained.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21916034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The reason is that the technology is such that we're not able to retrofit multi-column structures," he said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21916035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Charles McCoy in San Francisco and John R. Emshwiller in Los Angeles contributed to this article.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21917001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lionel Corp.'s board unanimously rejected a tender offer of $8 a share, or $95.4 million, for as much as 90% of Lionel by a group with a 9.9% stake in the toy retailer.@@@@1@33@@oe@2-2-2013
21917002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lionel also urged holders of its stock and debt not to tender their securities, saying it wants to remain independent to pursue its business strategy.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21917003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lionel also said the offer by Robert I. Toussie Limited Partnership is inadequate, and full of conditions that leave it "subject to substantial uncertainty."@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21917004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In addition, Lionel began a lawsuit in federal District Court in New York seeking to enjoin the offer, alleging, among other things, violations of federal securities law and fraudulent manipulation of the market for Lionel's securities.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21917005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Robert I. Toussie, general partner of the investment group, said the Lionel response reflected management's entrenched position, saying officials had failed to come up with a better alternative to his group's offer.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21917006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Toussie said he would respond to Lionel's suit after his lawyers review it.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21918001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Efforts by a federal mediator to reignite talks between Boeing Co. and the Machinists union apparently failed, and no further meetings are scheduled.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21918002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Company officials and union representatives didn't meet face to face, but the mediator shuttled between the two groups.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21918003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a statement issued after the meeting, the aerospace giant said it won't increase its offer although adjustments within the proposed pay-and-benefit mix are possible.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21918004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Machinists already have rejected a proposal that called for a 4% pay increase and 8% bonus in the first year.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21918005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the second year, workers would receive a 3% wage boost and a 3% bonus, followed by a 3% increase without a bonus in the third year.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21918006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The company will not budge on anything," said a spokesman for the union.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21918007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As the strike enters its 15th day today, some members are getting nervous, the spokesman conceded, but the majority of the 55,000 Machinists are prepared to "wait it out as long as it takes.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21919001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@United Merchants & Manufacturers Inc. said its president, Uzi Ruskin, withdrew his proposal to acquire control of the New York textile and clothing company.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21919002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last month, Mr. Ruskin proposed, among other things, to buy 3.5 million shares, or 38%, for $4 apiece.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21919003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coupled with his current 1.2 million shares and 4% held by an associate, the stake would have given him control of 55% of the concern.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21919004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Mr. Ruskin had said that holders of the other 45% of United Merchants would receive one-half share of a new preferred stock for each of their shares.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21919005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A special committee of United Merchants directors said that in view of uncertainties regarding various legal and financial considerations, it couldn't recommend the plan to the full board.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21919006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The company is exploring, with a major financial institution, the development of a plan to boost the value of the company for its holders, Mr. Ruskin said.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21919007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In a separate SEC filing, Albert Safer, who holds 6.46% of United Merchants, said he retained investment bank Lazard Freres & Co. for advice as he evaluates the possibility of making a bid for the textile maker.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21919008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Friday, Mr. Safer, a Newark, N.J., textile businessman, signed a confidentiality agreement under which United Merchants would provide him with nonpublic information.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21920001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The White House is making sure nobody will accuse it of taking this crisis lightly.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21920002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the aftermath of the California earthquake, President Bush and his aides flew into a whirlwind of earthquake-related activity yesterday morning.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21920003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of it was necessary to get federal help flowing to victims, but some seemed designed mostly to project an image of a White House in action.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21920004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush and his aides were accused of responding too slowly after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker split open in Alaskan waters and Hurricane Hugo struck the Carolina coast, and they clearly don't want a repeat of those charges now.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21920005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So the White House announced that Mr. Bush got his first earthquake briefing of the day at 6:30 a.m. from chief of staff John Sununu.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21920006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By noon, Mr. Bush had taken two phone calls from Vice President Dan Quayle, who was in California; made a televised statement of concern; signed a disaster proclamation; received a written report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and visited FEMA headquarters.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
21920007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bush himself essentially acknowledged that he and his aides were trying to head off criticism.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21920008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On his FEMA visit, Mr. Bush said that he hoped there would be "less carping" about the emergency office's performance this time, adding that the agency "took a hit" for its reaction to Hurricane Hugo.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21920009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The White House already is talking of Mr. Bush visiting the California earthquake site this weekend.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21920010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He visited the Hugo devastation but not until after local leaders urged him to do so.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21921001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Beazer PLC, a major British building materials and construction concern, reported a 24% jump in pretax profit for its latest financial year, helped largely by contributions from its U.S. unit, Koppers Co.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21921002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Pretax profit for the year to June 30 rose to #142.5 million ($224.5 million) from #114.7 million ($180.7 million), broadly matching analysts' expectations.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21921003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Profit after taxes and minority interests but before extraordinary items increased 22% to #92.6 million from #75.6 million a year earlier, while fully diluted earnings per share rose to 29.90 pence (47 cents) from 24.68 pence (39 cents).@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21922001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The lethal shudders that wracked the San Francisco Bay Area -- rated a 6.9 on the Richter scale -- didn't match the great earthquake of 1906, rated at 8.25.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21922002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The difference of just 1.35 points on the scale, designed by Charles Richter of CalTech in the 1930s, means the older quake was "10 to 20 times stronger," says Lane Johnson, director of the University of California Berkeley Seismographic Station.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21922003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The ground ruptured along a 20-to-30-mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault on Tuesday, Mr. Johnson added.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21922004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In 1906, the rupture was 300 miles long and a couple feet wide.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21922005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Though the epicenter of Tuesday's temblor was located 10 miles north of the town of Santa Cruz, and 50 miles south of San Francisco, its havoc hopscotched up the coast in seemingly random fashion.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21922006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the greatest damage was visited on buildings and roadways perched upon landfill, as were the Marina District of San Francisco and the Bay Bridge -- two areas of maximum devastation.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21922007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"Landfill -- loose and unconsolidated earth -- may feel like rock but it behaves like liquid when you shake it," said Douglas Segar, professor of geosciences at San Francisco State University in a televised interview.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21922008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"It liquefies in a patchwork quilt pattern.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21922009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Our quake behaved much like the Mexico City earthquake, where great damage was miles from the epicenter."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21922010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Johnson, of the Berkeley seismographic station, said: "Landfill can be done if it's properly compacted.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21922011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can drive piles on it and build on it."@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21922012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He cited the example of San Francisco's financial district, where many new glass towers survived almost unscathed.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21922013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But the public policy issues raised by earthquake damage will be difficult to address, Mr. Johnson predicted.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21922014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The attention span of the public is short," he said.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21922015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We've known for years and years we've got lots of old {pre-1950s} unreinforced brick and masonry buildings."@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21922016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One old building, the Golden State Bank Building on Front Street, had its yellow brick facade sheared off by the shock of the quake, leaving a wedge of its third floor open to the air, while piles of dusty bricks tumbled to the street below narrowly missing rush-hour pedestrians and cars.@@@@1@51@@oe@2-2-2013
21922017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Reinforcing such old building stock, Mr. Johnson said, "comes down to money.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21922018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It's a danger.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
21922019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We know it's there.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21922020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And sooner or later, we have to do something about it."@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21922021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The urgency is heightened because this week's earthquake -- while major and followed by hundreds of aftershocks -- didn't release enough pent-up energy tension along the faultlines to preclude more and bigger quakes soon.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21922022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The big one is still due," Mr. Johnson predicted in an interview.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21922023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The Bay Area has three very dangerous faults, the San Andreas, the Hayward fault and the Calaveras fault.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21922024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It {Tuesday's quake} hasn't solved our problem.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21922025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In California, this is the reality.@@@@1@6@@oe@2-2-2013
21923001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coca-Cola Co. may be about to intensify the cola wars.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21923002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke said it will test market a caffeine-free version of its flagship brand, Coca-Cola Classic, beginning next week in Charlotte, N.C.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21923003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other, as yet unnamed, cities will follow.@@@@1@7@@oe@2-2-2013
21923004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If all goes well, the product will be rolled out for national sales sometime next year, a Coke spokesman said.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21923005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After the confusion surrounding the change of the Coke formula in 1985, Coca-Cola was reluctant to clutter the Classic name with a brand extension.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21923006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But now, the soft-drink giant appears willing to take the risk.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21923007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"The name Classic Coke has tremendous value, and they haven't merchandised that name before," says Jesse Meyers, publisher of the trade journal Beverage Digest.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21923008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Coke spokesman said a caffeine-free Classic should help increase volume of the original brand.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21923009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, analysts have said that the absence of new products, among other factors, has limited sales growth throughout the industry.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21923010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke now leads Pepsi in market share in caffeine-free diet colas but trails Pepsi in sales of caffeine-free sugared colas, according to Beverage Digest.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21923011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke introduced a caffeine-free sugared cola based on its original formula in 1983.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21923012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It switched to a caffeine-free formula using its new Coke in 1985.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21923013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Coke has been studying the possibility of introducing a caffeine-free Classic for a year, a company spokesman said.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21923014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He said large increases in sales of other non-caffeine soft drinks make the timing right now.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21924001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@CALIFORNIA STRUGGLED with the aftermath of a Bay area earthquake.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21924002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As aftershocks shook the San Francisco Bay area, rescuers searched through rubble for survivors of Tuesday's temblor, and residents picked their way through glass-strewn streets.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21924003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In Oakland, hopes faded for finding any more survivors within the concrete and steel from the collapse of an interstate highway.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21924004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At least 270 people were reported killed and 1,400 injured in the rush-hour tremor that caused billions of dollars of damage along 100 miles of the San Andreas fault.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21924005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bush declared the region a major disaster area and the military was mobilized to prevent looting.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21924006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The baseball commissioner said the third game of the World Series between the Giants and the Athletics would be played Tuesday in Candlestick Park.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21924007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HONECKER WAS OUSTED as leader of East Germany amid growing unrest.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21924008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 77-year-old official, who oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall, was removed during a meeting of the 163-member Communist Party Central Committee in East Berlin.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21924009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Honecker, who was reported ill following gall-bladder surgery in August, said he was resigning for health reasons.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21924010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He was succeeded by internal-security chief Egon Krenz, 52, a hard-liner who quickly ruled out any sharing of power with pro-democracy groups.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21924011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Honecker's departure came after weeks of street protests and an exodus to the West of East Germans who had become disenchanted with his rule.@@@@1@24@@oe@2-2-2013
21924012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@HUNGARY ADOPTED constitutional changes to form a democratic system.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21924013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At a nationally televised legislative session in Budapest, the Parliament overwhelmingly approved changes formally ending one-party domination in the country, regulating free elections by next summer and establishing the office of state president to replace a 21-member council.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21924014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The country was renamed the Republic of Hungary.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21924015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like other Soviet bloc nations, it had been known as a "people's republic" since@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21924016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The voting for new laws followed dissolution of Hungary's Communist Party this month and its replacement by a Western-style Socialist Party.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21924017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The space shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and its crew of five astronauts launched the nuclear-powered Galileo space probe on a flight to the planet Jupiter.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21924018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The $1.4 billion robot spacecraft's exploratory mission is to take six years.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21924019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The shuttle is slated to return Monday to California.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21924020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South Korea's President Roh addressed a joint House-Senate meeting and urged patience over U.S. demands for the opening of Seoul's markets to more American goods, saying trade issues would be "resolved to mutual satisfaction."@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21924021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He also said tragic results could follow any "hint of weakening" of the U.S. defense commitment to Seoul.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21924022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Census Bureau reported that 13.1% of the U.S. population, or 31.9 million people, were living in poverty in 1988.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21924023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Last year's figure was down from 13.4% in 1987 and marked the fifth consecutive annual decline in the poverty rate.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21924024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Per capita income rose 1.7% to $13,120, but median family income fell 0.2%.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21924025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Bush administration accused Israeli Prime Minister Shamir of hindering peace efforts in the Mideast with "unhelpful" and disappointing statements.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21924026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Shamir said Tuesday that he was prepared to risk a policy conflict with the U.S. over an Egyptian plan to hold direct Israeli-Palestinian talks, which the premier's Likud bloc opposes.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21924027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cuba was elected to the U.N. Security Council for the first time since its Castro-led revolution 30 years ago.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21924028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The election was by secret ballot in the General Assembly.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21924029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The U.S. didn't openly oppose Cuba's seating as the Latin American council delegate.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21924030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Britain's Prime Minister Thatcher told a Commonwealth summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that sanctions against South Africa were "utterly irresponsible," officials said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21924031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But other nations at the opening of the 49-nation meeting of Britain and its former colonies pressed for continued or stronger embargoes in an effort to end apartheid.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21924032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Arab officials in Saudi Arabia said three-week-old talks by Lebanese lawmakers aimed at ending Lebanon's civil war appeared about to collapse.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21924033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Christian legislators are insisting on a Syrian troop pullout from Lebanon before agreeing to political changes giving the nation's Moslems a greater role in Beirut's government.@@@@1@26@@oe@2-2-2013
21924034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Colombia's judges launched a 72-hour strike to press security demands following Tuesday's murder of a High Court justice in Medellin.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21924035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The country's narcotics traffickers claimed responsibility for the slaying.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21924036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Most of the country's 20,000 judges and judicial employees joined the work stoppage.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21925001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Charles S. Mitchell, a vice president with Homart Development Co., the real estate development subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck & Co., was named president of Figgie Properties, a real estate development unit.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21925002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He succeeds William Kohut, who resigned earlier this year.@@@@1@9@@oe@2-2-2013
21925003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, Richard A. Barkley, a former marketing executive with FMC Corp., was appointed president of Continental Container Systems, a producer of can closing machinery that Figgie acquired late last year.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21925004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Figgie is a fire protection, electronics and industrial products concern.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21926001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow Chemical Co. said third-quarter net income slipped 6.8% from a record year-ago quarter.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21926002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The decline broke a streak of 10 quarters in which Dow posted earnings increases.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21926003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow's third-quarter net fell to $589 million, or $3.29 a share, from $632 million, or $3.36 a share, a year ago.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21926004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales in the latest quarter rose 2% to $4.25 billion from $4.15 billion a year earlier.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21926005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow closed at $94.625 a share, up 75 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21926006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A spokeswoman said Dow is comfortable with Wall Street expectations that full-year earnings will total about $14.60 a share, compared with last year's record net of $2.4 billion, or $12.76 a share.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21926007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But that signal on full-year profit casts doubt on whether Dow will improve on its year-ago fourth-quarter net of $3.44 a share, or $635 million.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21926008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow would earn $14.85 a share for the year if it equaled that year-ago fourth-quarter performance.@@@@1@16@@oe@2-2-2013
21926009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow officials were signaling that the company would earn less than $15 a share this year even before they announced in July a plan to acquire 67% of Marion Laboratories Inc.@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21926010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That acquisition could further dilute earnings per share this year, the company spokeswoman said.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21926011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow hasn't said exactly what impact the Marion acquisition will have on 1989 earnings.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21926012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dow blamed the third-quarter earnings drop on several factors, including softer prices for polyethylene and other basic chemicals, a slower U.S. economy and a stronger dollar, which made Dow's exports from the U.S. more expensive to overseas customers.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21926013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another problem was a 7% increase in operating costs at a time when revenue was rising by only 2%.@@@@1@19@@oe@2-2-2013
21926014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the first nine months of the year, Dow earned $2.06 billion, or $11.41 a share, up 17% from $1.76 billion, or $9.32 a share, a year ago.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21926015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sales for the latest nine months rose 7.7% to $13.34 billion from $12.38 billion in the year-ago period.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21927001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Whether or not "great cases make bad-law" -- as Justice Holmes asserted -- who can doubt that when great confirmation hearings turn on the nominee's response to these great cases they make bad judicial history?@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21927002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ethan Bronner's "Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America" (Norton, 399 pages, $22.50) is a spirited narrative of the nastiest of these hearings, done with journalistic verve, but with a flawed legal philosophy.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21927003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While the book amply justifies its subtitle, the title itself is dubious.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21927004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What shook America was not a battle for justice but for naked power, in which an army of judicial activists rolled over a judge they had demonized.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21927005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In its basic structure and style the book is novelistic, with piquant character portrayal, hard-wire action and devious intrigue of the sort more likely to be encountered in a Washington docudrama than in a constitutional history.@@@@1@36@@oe@2-2-2013
21927006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bronner seems to believe that the hearings could have gone either way.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21927007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I doubt that.@@@@1@3@@oe@2-2-2013
21927008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Given Democratic frustration with the Reagan victories and Court appointments, the contingency plans in place, and Mr. Bork's paper trail of vulnerable writings, it was pretty clear that Judge Bork never stood much chance of being confirmed.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21927009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As Mr. Bronner himself says, the smell of "raw meat" was in the air.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21927010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps because they won, Mr. Bork's attackers come through more vividly than his defenders.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21927011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ralph Neas was the organizing genius, whipping a conglomerate of pressure groups into an irresistible attacking force.@@@@1@17@@oe@2-2-2013
21927012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Harvard's Laurence Tribe was the constitutional heavy, laying out legal strategies for the senators and witnesses to follow.@@@@1@18@@oe@2-2-2013
21927013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it was Ted Kennedy who scored most effectively with his searing portrayal of "Robert Bork's America" -- the parade of imaginary horribles that would follow logically, he claimed, from the positions Mr. Bork had taken over the space of two decades.@@@@1@42@@oe@2-2-2013
21927014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sen. Kennedy, never mind his dubious credentials for the moral high ground, emoted brilliantly.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21927015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I add two others.@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21927016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania engaged the nominee in a verbal contest aimed at showing that Mr. Bork was willing to stretch the Constitution in one area (free speech) while remaining rigid in all the others.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21927017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It achieved a good media play, and enabled Sen. Specter and others to vote against Mr. Bork out of "conscience."@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21927018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Further ammunition came from left legal theorist Ronald Dworkin, who in the New York Review of Books painted a picture of a constitutional zombie willfully reading his personal prejudices into the Constitution, particularly in the area of "original intent."@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
21927019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The charge of being "outside the mainstream" of legal thought gravely undercut Mr. Bork's scholarly standing, leaving him bleeding on the platform.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21927020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The nomination still might have been salvaged if a number of Democratic moderates in the South and Southwest had broken party lines.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21927021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But Democratic Sen. Bennett Johnson of Louisiana reminded the little band that anti-Bork blacks and women could furnish the margin to punish them in their next Senate elections.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21927022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Demographics converged with "mainstream" and demonizing to seal Robert Bork's fate.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21927023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The upshot?@@@@1@2@@oe@2-2-2013
21927024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Bork's opponents chose the battlefield, held it and kept it.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21927025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Yet with the smooth confirmation of Anthony Kennedy, an "80 percenter" only slightly less supportive of judicial restraint than Mr. Bork, the Democrats may have won the battle but lost the war.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21927026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Another upshot, however, was the chilling message the Bork hearings sent into the judicial culture from which the Supreme Court draws its talent.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21927027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The word went forth to every law school that those with federal court ambitions must travel a safe constitutional journey, with no paper trail and no bite to their tongue or pen.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21927028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unfortunately, the author simply doesn't supply the philosophical frame to sustain his reportorial talents.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21927029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He has too readily swallowed the case for the activist law school culture.@@@@1@13@@oe@2-2-2013
21927030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Probing more deeply into the doctrine of "judicial restraint," he would have found a long history going back to the great decisions of Justice Holmes.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21927031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@He would discover it also in Alexander Bickel, a subtle constitutional scholar, Mr. Bork's closest friend at Yale, whose influence on the judge goes well beyond Mr. Bronner's reporting.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21927032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Still, the long view of Robert Bork as constitutional thinker must be a spotty one.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21927033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@His strength lies in his majoritarian doctrine, which keeps the Court clear of transient group pressures and leaves most decisions in a democracy to elected legislatures and executives.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21927034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Unfortunately, Mr. Bork failed to distinguish between such pressures and the emergence of great issues critical to a society that must be settled judicially if it is to cohere.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21927035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The question of segregated schools, in Brown vs. Board of Education, was such an issue.@@@@1@15@@oe@2-2-2013
21927036@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In our time abortion has become another, best left to a line of Supreme Court decisions rather than to the chaos of 50 state legislatures.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21927037@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A reflective and growing consensus of Americans clearly wishes to apply the right to privacy in contraceptive matters (decided in the Griswold case) to abortion as well.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21927038@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One can understand Mr. Bork's fear that the new right to privacy will become intolerably stretched, though a Supreme Court composed of men and women with realism, guts and a sense of limits should be able to manage it.@@@@1@39@@oe@2-2-2013
21927039@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What is certain is that if Americans allow another happening like the degrading Bork confirmation circus, it will be at their peril.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21927040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Lerner is a writer and historian living in New York.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21928001@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sotheby's Inc., the world's biggest auction house, is taking a huge Wall Street-style risk on the outcome of the sale of art from the estate of John T. Dorrance Jr., the Campbell Soup Co. heir.@@@@1@35@@oe@2-2-2013
21928002@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Financial Services division has guaranteed the Dorrance family that it will receive a minimum of $100 million for the collection, regardless of what the bids for the art works total, people close to the transaction say.@@@@1@37@@oe@2-2-2013
21928003@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The collection, which includes two early Picassos, a van Gogh, a Monet, other paintings, furniture and porcelains, went on sale last night in the first of six auctions.@@@@1@28@@oe@2-2-2013
21928004@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What Sotheby's is doing closely resembles an underwriting by an investment bank.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21928005@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A corporation that wants to sell stock or bonds goes to a Wall Street firm, which purchases the securities outright, accepting the financial risk of finding buyers.@@@@1@27@@oe@2-2-2013
21928006@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If the investment bank can sell the securities at a higher price than it paid the issuer, it makes a profit.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21928007@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the initial sale last night, for example -- the sale featuring the Impressionists masters -- bids totaled $116 million.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21928008@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That was slightly above Sotheby's presale estimate of $111 million.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21928009@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Normally, Sotheby's would have earned 20% of the total in commissions.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21928010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Instead, people familiar with the transaction said, the auction house opted to forgo that percentage in order to obtain the collection and in exchange for taking a bigger chunk of proceeds exceeding $100 million.@@@@1@34@@oe@2-2-2013
21928011@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Art dealers say that while auction houses occasionally guarantee the seller of a highly desirable work of art a minimum price, a financial commitment of this size is unprecedented.@@@@1@29@@oe@2-2-2013
21928012@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Diana D. Brooks, president of Sotheby's North America division, vehemently denies it offered the Dorrance heirs a money-back guarantee, calling such reports "inaccurate."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21928013@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Buried in the glossy hardbound catalog for the sale, however, appears the statement, "Sotheby's has an interest in the property in this catalog."@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21928014@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Explains a Sotheby's spokeswoman, the statement "means exactly what it says.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21928015@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We have some level of financial interest" in the collection.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013
21928016@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"We don't disclose specifics."@@@@1@4@@oe@2-2-2013
21928017@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Frank Mirabello, a lawyer for the Dorrance estate with the Philadelphia law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, declines to comment on the financial arrangements.@@@@1@25@@oe@2-2-2013
21928018@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sotheby's made the $100 million guarantee to keep the Dorrance collection away from its archrival, auction house Christie's International PLC; Christie's has handled smaller sales for the Dorrance family over the years.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21928019@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When Christie's officials asked why the firm wasn't picked to sell the Dorrance collection, representatives of the Dorrance family "told us it was a question of financial considerations," said Michael Findlay, Christie's head of impressionist and modern paintings.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21928020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Collectors who have made their money on Wall Street have become an increasingly important part of the art business and their money has helped fuel the art boom, but recently it appears Sotheby's has been returning the compliment.@@@@1@38@@oe@2-2-2013
21928021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In November 1987, Sotheby's essentially offered a Wall Street-style "bridge loan" of about $27 million to Australian businessman Alan Bond to enable him to purchase Vincent van Gogh's "Irises" for $53.9 million.@@@@1@32@@oe@2-2-2013
21928022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was the highest bid in history for a work of art.@@@@1@12@@oe@2-2-2013
21928023@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But two weeks ago, Sotheby's said that it has the painting under lock and key because the loan had not been fully repaid.@@@@1@23@@oe@2-2-2013
21928024@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sotheby's is offering such deals because it's an art sellers' market, at least where the best works are concerned, says Ralph Lerner, an attorney and author of the book "Art Law."@@@@1@31@@oe@2-2-2013
21928025@unknown@formal@none@1@S@"There seems to be a lot of art for sale, but there's more competition.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21928026@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The competition gives the seller the ability to cut a better deal," he says.@@@@1@14@@oe@2-2-2013
21928027@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Dorrance family will still receive a substantial portion of the auction proceeds above $100 million, people familiar with the transaction said.@@@@1@22@@oe@2-2-2013
21928028@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it's likely that Sotheby's will take a higher than usual commission, called an override, on the amount exceeding the guarantee.@@@@1@21@@oe@2-2-2013
21928029@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sotheby's has been aggressively promoting the Dorrance sale.@@@@1@8@@oe@2-2-2013
21928030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At a news conference last May announcing plans for the auction, Sotheby's estimated its value in excess of $100 million.@@@@1@20@@oe@2-2-2013
21928031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More recently, Sotheby's has predicted the collection will fetch $140 million.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21928032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That's the highest estimate for a single collection in auction history.@@@@1@11@@oe@2-2-2013
21928033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The decision to put the entire collection on the block stunned many, since Mr. Dorrance had served as chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and it had been assumed many of the works would be donated to the institution.@@@@1@40@@oe@2-2-2013
21928034@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At last night's sale, 13 of 44 works that sold were purchased by Aska International Gallery, the art-acquisition unit of Aichi Financial, a Japanese conglomerate that owns 7.5% of Christie's.@@@@1@30@@oe@2-2-2013
21928035@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Meanwhile, Sotheby's guarantee is raising eyebrows in the art world.@@@@1@10@@oe@2-2-2013