"When I was there I wanted to introduce a spiced rum, but they felt a spiced rum wasn't pure. 
Employees own 45% of the airline, the nation's seventh-largest. 
At the deposition, one said his daughter bought one of our Baby Joggers and after a couple of years of her putting it on a bike rack because it didn't fold, he decided that the public deserved better. 
The woman is unaware of the elephant as he removes one can of diet Coke and replaces it with a bag of peanuts and then swims away. 
A survey of 1,004 eight- to 12-year-olds by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance showed that while 90% of the children did some chores, they averaged only two jobs a day. 
Travel Ports expects to report earnings on July 27. 
-- Touring through Grand Teton National Park, some travelers see a vision of beauty: an outhouse with a wheelchair sign designating a handicapped-accessible facility. 
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 10 points in early trading, ended up 5.83 points to 3652.48. 
Look at the miniaturization of computers, which we forced on the computer industry in the 1960s to get a computer that would fit in the lunar module and the command module. 
The dominant figure at Justice, now that Mr. Hubbell has resigned, is Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who as a private attorney was involved in BCCI affairs in representing Clark Clifford and Robert Altman, who ran Washington's First American Bank when it was illegally owned by BCCI. 
TRANSCO ENERGY Co. (Houston) -- Patricia L. Higgins, group vice president of the NYNEX Manhatten Market Area, has been elected to the board of this natural gas pipeline concern. 
For added credibility, they say they used Carbide's name in marketing brochures. 
Strong earnings reports helped fuel some of the day's better performers. 
Jimmy Gao, CIA's assistant managing director, declined to discuss Royal Air Cambodge. 
Are we women who do too much? 
Anyone who wasn't was either a fool or didn't have any imagination. 
The main reason for reducing the logistics base is the expectation that future Saddam Husseins won't be so stupid as to allow the U.S. six months to build up huge mountains of supplies. 
The junior creditors have opposed the restructuring plan because it falls short of their demands. 
The plant has been shut down since a February 1991 explosion. 
"We had the worst ad recession in 35 years." 
The charges, filed late Monday, allege "fraud, use of fraud, swindling and corruption" over the way he allegedly used 740,000 French francs ($135,405) of Alcatel funds for work carried out on two personal properties in posh Paris suburbs. 
Petition drives were launched earlier this year in 10 states to put such initiatives to a popular vote. But the drives appear to have failed in eight of the states, according to a survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 
One is studying for her high-school equivalency test and applying for a summer job as a day-care worker. 
When rates hover in a middle range -- as they are now -- job growth, the state of the economy and consumer confidence are all more important, Mr. Hayre says. 
"We've really put programs into effect that we think will serve us well in the competitive environment in the longer term," he said, citing reductions in staff as well as operating and maintenance expenses, a corporate restructuring and the establishment of a new subsidiary to invest in unregulated power opportunities. 
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co. (Springfield, Mass.) -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Group raised its claims-paying ability ratings for Mass Mutual and its subsidiaries to triple-A from double-A-plus. 
They have won recognition -- albeit, few screen credits -- in the movie business and in television. 
Also, he has less moral support among his peers," said Prof. Hazard. 
-- American Consolidated Growth Corp. reached an agreement to acquire privately held Eleventh Hour Inc. for $7.5 million. 
The NYSE Composite Index was 246.54, up 0.03. 
Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service said the group would focus on issues such as data gathering, money laundering and the illicit drug trade. 
We do not stock guns, bricks, bats, brass knuckles, nor do we employ "goons." 
Spanish retail investors received a 3% discount on that subscription price. 
WASHINGTON -- Even the cola wars don't get as nasty as the advertising battle over health-care reform. 
Bonds: Lehman Brothers Treasury index 5144.77, up 20.50. 
The idea has been copied by the PRI-run national government for the coming presidential elections. 
Jonathan Heath, chief economist at Macro Asesoria Economica, a research firm here, says that if the ruling party wins and convinces people it won fairly, "everything will be OK." 
The largest of the Pentecostal churches is the Assemblies of God, out of which much of Pat Robertson's presidential campaign in 1988 was organized. 
When reporters asked at a GE briefing last month if these incidents had hurt his reputation, Mr. Welch simply pointed to the second-quarter profit GE expected to announce. 
Lac's management will have little choice but to endorse the bid if Lac's shareholders support it, Mr. Allan said. 
Soybeans and wheat fell sharply, with November soybeans finishing at $5.7975 a bushel, down 30 cents, and the December wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade closing at $3.29 a bushel, down five cents. 
Greater Bethlehem had five mosques in 1970; now there are close to 70. 
An 1864 British medical journal reported similar complaints from milkmaids and shoemakers. 
Business won some key victories in the Supreme Court term that ended last week. 
He stated, "Disney's America will offer an alternative approach to history that may have more affect on people than conventional history." 
Earlier this week, news of the strike prompted a rally that sent crude prices near 1994 highs on fears that Nigerian petroleum exports would be disrupted. 
Synergen Inc.'s stock price plummeted 49% after another set of disappointing test results forced the biotechnology company to cease development of its flagship drug as a possible treatment for sepsis, a deadly blood infection. 
Administration officials reject the term "ethanol mandate" to describe the action. 
"The declines in the last six months just about wiped out the gains in the prior six" for stock-fund shareholders, says A. Michael Lipper of Lipper Analytical Services Inc., which compiles the quarterly fund data. 
In June 1990, Dade County, Fla., picked EAI to help run a school in Miami Beach. 
Robert Markman of Markman Capital Management in Minneapolis, yells into the telephone. 
"The American bombs were not very destructive compared to the way money is now destroying the city. 
The Journal has had a great deal to do with creating the false impression that, as you put it, the ICC "has almost nothing to do since the deregulation of the trucking industry." 
Raytheon, amid a major restructuring and layoffs, recently lost an important competition to provide missiles to the U.S. Army. 
Speaking for Mike Demoulas, attorney Jerome Gotkin says: "Here's a man who took care of his brother's family as if it were his own and here he is rewarded with a lawsuit calling him all sorts of names. 
Telekom said its 1993 pretax profit was 7.6 billion marks, up from seven billion marks the year before. 
For the ambitious young men and women among us, these public tragedies are still reminders of what happens if we don't follow our moral maps. 
It isn't a course for beginners: The rugged terrain of the 5,433-yard links forces golfers to tee off into deep, narrow valleys, or toward greens perched high and out of sight. 
Other companies mentioned also declined comment. 
By late yesterday, though, the official media hadn't announced when or where the funeral would be held, nor who would attend. 
Neither conversation could be described as friendly, say some people familiar with the calls. 
Those three are among the LPGA's four designated major tournaments. 
In his book he acknowledges that humanism has much to its credit, including its emphasis on human dignity, tolerance and individual freedom. 
The government hasn't yet found a successor to take the helm at Pechiney, a debt-laden company many say is in need of financial and industrial restructuring. 
On last year's sales of 175 million schillings ($15.6 million), the company lost 100 million schillings -- and that didn't include all losses attributed to the luxurious "Mozart." 
At the time, Hubco and Jersey City, N.J.-based Statewide indicated they might file a petition seeking reconsideration of the transactions. 
Loblaw officials weren't available to comment on the impact of Mr. Nichol's departure. 
Boeing and McDonnell Douglas jointly won a $440 million contract from NASA to develop technologies for a next-generation supersonic jetliner. 
"Fish all look alike," he wrote in his diary, "and swim with the same desperate energy when they first hatch. 
Ms. Tetley says economic sluggishness in some banks' home countries may have contributed to a recent slowdown in Texas lending by foreign entities. 
The final crime bill probably will provide $9 billion over six years to hire 100,000 police officers and almost $9 billion each for prevention and prison construction programs, including nearly $2 billion to jail illegal aliens. 
By restricting the supply of those securities, Salomon drove up their price. 
But their message is likely to be seen as a boost for the White House and a setback for Republican efforts led by Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole. 
For Mr. Fischer, ever the Realo, entering the government like that would be the most satisfying end of his party's comeback. 
Mr. Riverso cites the example of Alitalia's recent alliance with Continental Airlines to jointly operate flights between Rome and Continental's hub in Newark, N.J. 
Farmers sometimes grow other plants next to their cotton in the belief that the other plants will lure away the worms. 
But with mortgage refinancings falling steeply in the second quarter, there are fewer home loans available today for bankers to reshape into securities. 
Earnings for Health Systems International Inc. could jump as much as 53% while Humana Inc. could double its earnings, Ms. Vignola said. 
The Harvard study highlights low- or no-cost ways to avert death that haven't been widely implemented or enforced, including screening people over 40 for colon cancer and mandating that motorcycle drivers keep their lights on. 
And the theme the brainy staffer stressed was making industry more efficient so that consumers would be better served. 
And Kevin Costner? 
The companies' shares are 25% to 30% below their 52-week highs and show no signs of turning around. 
Aided by a private detective, Northwest lawyers recently managed to track down a former American mathematician who a decade ago wrote formulas for American's system. 
Italy (sovereign) -- $4 billion of multi-currency global floating-rate notes due July 26, 1999. 
Amex also listed the Morgan Stanley Group Inc. equity-linked term notes, known as Performance Equity-Linked Redemption Quarterly Pay Securities, or PERQS, under the symbol IGS. 
The rate depends heavily on structural factors: Either the economy or the work force changes. 
"But they always get diverted -- to Beavis or Butt-head, to almost anything -- and then they lose sight of the big picture." 
Once again, Mr. Moore sharpens his deadpan and targets the odd, the pompous, the unjust and the just plain unexplainable. 
He added that he has slashed his estimate of earnings for fiscal 1995 to 55 cents a share from $1 a share because of the "transition risk," as the company changes its sales strategy. 
University Savings was Glendale Federal's only remaining non-California business. 
Some analysts suggest the Fed may be holding back on any interest-rate moves to see if any coordinated dollar-defending program is drafted during that meeting. 
The House Rules Committee had waived the three-day requirement in the interests of "efficiency." 
"Some people ask, `May I write you?' or `Will you write me?'" says Clifford James-El, a 42-year-old inmate serving a five-year sentence. 
Fees 2.625. 
Nynex plans a two-year college technical course for workers; managers must have varied skills, and workers must be ready to make more decisions on their own. 
Manpower representatives recently stopped by area teachers' lounges to drop off Pay Day candy bars and recruiting cards with the message, "Don't let this be your last pay day." 
Spectrum, a Manhasset, N.Y., developer of wireless communication products, said the agreement includes upfront fees, per-unit royalties and guaranteed royalties for two years. 
"That freeze came unexpectedly early" leaving roasters looking for an opportunity to add to their coffee futures holdings. 
The trio allegedly received inside information from Mr. Haddad concerning five companies that were takeover targets between March 1989 and December 1990. 
Currently the only dealers that are regulated are banking companies. 
Among the possibilities: a hall of presidential dental lore, an interactive-video display to show visitors how they would look with no teeth and perhaps even a giant walk-through mouth constructed inside the museum's entrance. 
Yet Mr. Neely sidesteps the question of welfare reform, saying that real change is politically impossible. 
The housing oversight office was created by Congress as an independent regulatory agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
Exaggerated claims were made about the rents that specific projects would be able to command. 
"I already get home at 7. 
Fees two. 
Revenue increased 65% to $158 million, from $96 million. 
Failure of a tiny strut in the valve has been blamed for more than 360 deaths. 
Economy also influenced SmithKline Beecham's decision. 
The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 1.62 points to 3704.28. 
Placing Mr. Chey in the spotlight, the administration thought, would inspire him to select bidders based on their commitment and expertise. 
Ms. Giordano says she has seen a strong increase in the price commercial users of gold are willing to pay for the commodity. 
"Immigrants not only take jobs, they create jobs," says Julian Simon, an immigration scholar at the University of Maryland and the Cato Institute. 
Kent Kresa, chairman of Northrop Grumman, said the company is strengthening its aircraft-subassemblies business, so it's a logical time to buy the rest of Vought and absorb its production of tail sections and other parts for Boeing Co. jetliners, the McDonnell Douglas C-17 military transport, the Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber and other planes. 
It's certainly exceptionally old, by Texas standards. 
"But that has clearly bottomed out and we see the market improving. 
in clinical psychology, completely accredited by the American Psychological Association. 
The SEC alleged that Mr. Greenberg and six other defendants, including Edward R. Downe Jr., the former husband of automobile heiress Charlotte Ford, illegally traded inside information between 1987 and 1989 as they socialized in Southampton, N.Y., and on a yacht in the Caribbean. 
Cantor, a 31-year-old U.S. citizen who was born and raised in Argentina, already has achieved celebrityhood. 
"And if interest rates continue to move upward, the transaction could become even more challenging. 
Revenue rose to a record $2.77 billion compared with $2.13 billion a year ago. 
New York-based Met Life will dispatch letters to 72,000 additional Texans over the coming month, giving them the same chance for restitution recently made to 3,700 other Texans. 
It's no coincidence. 
The road, meandering past the Bridge of the Dirty Faces and the Tire Repair Restaurant, plunges into one of the remotest parts of Mexico. 
The latest results exceeded analysts' expectations of 49 cents. 
KIEV is based in Glendale, Calif. 
Herman's said it acquired the store leases from Gold Medal Sporting Goods, a privately held chain based in Croydon, Pa. 
In composite New York Stock Exchange trading, Starter closed at $9.125 a share, down 62.5 cents, or 6.4%. 
"Takeovers will become a big theme in the second half of the year," says Mr. Hokanson. 
-- RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome are one and the same. 
Telmex supporters had hoped the number of rivals might be limited. 
"European interest rates have moved much higher than fundamentals justify: Inflation is low, and the economic recovery in continental Europe is just starting." 
We made a commitment to improve welfare, and didn't. 
After Judge Lopez canceled court for the day, Mike's daughter Caren dashed across the room, yelling at her still-dazed cousin, "You're an animal." 
Dow Jones industrials 3646.65, up 21.69; transportation 1610.47, up 14.79; utilities 178.16, up 0.99. 
Mr. Van Leeuwen said AK Steel's operating profit per ton leaped to $47.52 from $9.93. 
Deft and understated, "TV Nation" may become that rarest of species, a television program both funny and important. 
A president who promised to clean up politics has become the king of special-interest soft money. 
The Bullitt Foundation, with assets of $88.5 million, last year gave environmentalists $4.2 million, a hefty sum in the world of eco-funding. 
The University of Dallas has the largest number of M.B.A. graduates in the Southwest. 
Some firms launch "expensive diversity initiatives," she says, but have "no intention of doing the major work to change their structures." 
In the U.S., the Kelvinator brand is now marketed by AB Electrolux of Sweden. 
The four-door version of the Cavalier will be priced at $10,265. 
Settlement quickly ensued, including agreement by the HMO to pay for the disputed bone marrow transplant. 
As she sweeps, she worries aloud about her 15-year-old son, Jimmy. 
That weakness "raises liquidity risk going into the weak winter season later this year," S&P said. 
Since the 1980s, department stores have increasingly been forced to consolidate or die because of heavy debt loads as well as shifting shopping patterns and stiff competition from discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and specialty retailers such as Gap Inc.  The man who fought hard for Macy's independence, Myron E. Ullman III, Macy's chairman and chief executive officer, will be deputy chairman of the combined company, part of a triumvirate in a newly formed office of the chairman. 
CBS shares rose $50 to $313 while QVC shares gained $5.625 to $38. 
Except where expressly outlawed by individual states, anyone who owns a firearm -- be it a rifle or handgun -- is virtually free to sell it to whomever he wishes, without so much as demanding identification. 
Also at FCB Direct, John Penberthy, 42, who has overseen major accounts for the unit as group management director, has been named to the new post of managing director. 
The combination of the dollar's weakness and the neutral-to-bearish purchasing managers data could have sent yields higher, Mr. Sullivan said. 
The company will continue to renew policies of existing customers, but the ban on new business takes effect today. 
"Make sure you understand your partner. 
What we have today, due in large part to the president's self-inflicted vulnerability, is what could best be described as civilian subjugation, a condition in which the military calls its own shots to an unusual and unhealthy degree. 
British industrial conglomerate Tomkins PLC is expected to announce a sharp rise in its pretax profit when it reports its results for the year ended April, thanks to the first 12-month contribution from Rank Hovis McDougall, the food manufacturer it acquired in late 1992. 
With the need to introduce new words, dots and bits every day, he and his wife say they found themselves staying up often until 2 a.m. 
Pirelli SpA doesn't break out results for Pirelli Armstrong, but has said its North American operations showed an operating loss of $19 million last year on sales of $510 million. 
The weakened demand would mean that the U.S. would have to raise interest rates sharply in order to find enough buyers for its debt. 
At the bottom, Martin Bucksbaum, chairman and chief executive of Des Moines-based General Growth Properties, which went public in April 1993, received an annualized salary of $131,250. 
"With minimal economic growth, imports are booming," he adds. 
But she adds: "Naturally, I'd like to get that first victory, if only because I'm tired of being asked why I haven't got it." 
The FutureVision system, he said, "has the ability to turn every existing advertising spot on TV into an infomercial. 
The subtitle of Mr. Bloch's book -- "Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne" -- is more like it. 
Not all of the donors were disclosed, nor did the governor say specifically how the money was spent. 
Mr. Ullman will head up the Macy operation and may have other responsibilities as well. 
Mr. Kozinski, a federal judge in California, can be reached at internet address kozinski@mizar.usc.edu. 
Moreover, bond recipients are extremely unhappy at the undervaluation of properties in the payment of the bonds, which offer a 3% to 4% annual dividend over two years. 
(The ABC network goes off the air at midnight after "Nightline.") 
But Heinz also must contend with dozens of factories churning out counterfeit versions of its cereals, Mr. Chen says. 
Net losses in the first quarter of the current year narrowed to 182 billion lire from 209 billion lire in 1993. 
Since then, the company has sold its manufacturing operations, reorganized its Las Vegas operations, and is in the process of spinning off its chain of health clubs. 
A 1992 Justice Department investigation charged that Circa, then Bolar, conspired to fix the price of Dyazide in 1988. 
And the latest peace plan offered up by international mediators partitions the city into Serbian and Muslim-Croat zones of interest under United Nations administration. 
Both men blamed taunting fans. 
Parties of the right, hostile to taxes and inflation but afraid to touch the programs their opponents built, have found it harder to cope. 
Steepler's "Dendy," an eight-bit TV video game manufactured in Taiwan, now dominates the Russian market. 
"Who would vote for the PRI now?" 
Reebok and other sportswear companies won't reveal how much they pay individual players for wearing their shoes, but industry sources say $300,000 a year is about standard for world-class names in the primes of their careers. 
As a defense-industry engineer, Michael O'Hagan programmed computers to track Soviet submarines. 
Malaysia's fourth-largest commercial bank said its pretax profit more than doubled to 190.7 million Malaysian dollars (US$73.7 million) for the year ended Jan. 31 from M$77.3 million a year earlier. 
The diversified product line should make it easier for franchisees to place advertising and lease stores, Mr. Bruno says. 
Put option exercisable in March 1996 to yield Libor plus 28 basis points. 
Yields for reoffered bonds range from 4.3% in 1995 to 6.65% in 2021. 
The trust agreement says that, after all legal expenses are paid, any remaining cash will go to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton. 
Making matters worse, China's mills are widely suspected of hoarding the precious fiber. 
The deal calls for all CBS holders to receive a cash dividend of $175 a share and 0.4009 share of the merged company. 
Political pundits discuss the "World Cup effect" on the October presidential elections. 
Earnings for the first quarter included a $5.1 million charge related to the Artel merger. 
The market for the over-the-counter drugs "is a lot smaller than the patient population will indicate," partly due to side effects and patient hesitation to use the products, said industry analyst Hemant Shah of HKS & Co., Warren, N.J. 
The Oppenheimer fund, with $154.5 million in assets, had been considered one of the few pure biotech funds, devoted almost exclusively to the industry through its policy of holding at least 65% of assets (and more typically, 80%) in biotech. 
Wall Street traders said CS First Boston, under the direction of Keith Walsh -- a portfolio manager the firm recently fired -- improperly lengthened the maturities of some instruments underlying the derivatives contracts, which backfired amid this year's zigzagging currency and bond markets and led to the losses. 
U.S.-Vietnamese negotiations for a two-year cooperation plan in 1985 brought the largest number of remains since war's end: 33 of 38 from storage. 
New Hampshire's program, for instance, has reported only two companies to OSHA during the last decade. 
The seven-day simple yield on taxable funds increased to 3.70% from 3.64%. 
Intel said it has record orders for its third quarter, and continues to see a shift toward higher performance microprocessors. 
It's not all special factors." 
Leumi's Mr. Waxman attributed the dollar's turnaround to a short-covering rally as European markets dwindled to a close and traders sought to take profits. 
In Thailand, sales in the past four years have jumped from 50 million cartons to 1 billion. 
It also is a leader in a new design, called magneto-resistive technology, which can sharply boost a disk's capacity. 
The first homeowner case is scheduled for trial this October. 
And Vatican-sponsored Bethlehem University has become a microcosm of the emerging strains. 
For a more thorough examination of the matter, the supervisory board has chosen a different auditing company, C&L Treuarbeit AG Wirtschaftspruefungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft. 
The founder started a charity that still feeds and educates 92,000 underprivileged children, at a cost of $40 million a year. 
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- $100 million of 95th series construction bonds, via a Merrill Lynch group. 
Elsewhere, Treasury bonds extended their recent rally, as market sentiment continued to brighten. 
Mr. Blystone, 40 years old, succeeds Lucio Lussu who remains chairman of Nuovo Pignone and becomes GE's national representative for Italy with responsibility for all GE business development and government relations. 
Though the departure had been rumored for months, analysts still were puzzled by the abrupt announcement. 
Norwest Norwest's earnings were helped by a 14.8% increase in loans, declining expenses and improved margins. 
With a former lieutenant governor running for the GOP nomination, the Republicans were optimistic. 
NEIGHBORHOODS characterized as upwardly mobile and black disappeared in an analysis of housing figures by the marketing firm Claritas. 
"Consumption is slowing as we speak," she said last week. 
He says Texas Utilities is already priced to reflect a possible dividend cut. 
Mr. Moakes's favorite among the Class H shares, however, is Yizheng Chemical Fibre Co., China's largest producer of polyester. 
The Houston-based company, which owns 40% of Baltic International, a Latvian airline, has watched its stock plunge nearly 34% to $4.625 a share since it went public at $7 in late April. 
Separately, the Labor Department said last week's new claims for initial unemployment insurance were unchanged at 353,000. 
That's because economic-stimulus measures implemented during the current downturn mean Japan is already ahead of its 430 trillion yen pace. 
For tiny Omnipoint, however, the payment would equal 90% of the successful bid for the comparable license set aside by the FCC for small businesses. 
On Sept. 6, Ariel Capital Management will pay Calvert Group $4 million to take full control of two stock funds whose oversight the two firms had shared. 
U.S. costs for peacekeeping for fiscal 1995 are estimated at $300 million, but looking back at previous budgets, it surely will far exceed that. 
He said it was included at the request of the French officials, and didn't affect his decision to agree to changes in the royalty distributions. 
Combined with declining orange juice consumption in the United States, the strong supply situation and the generally thin activity in the orange juice futures market left investors reluctant to hold onto their positions, analysts said. 
The brokerage unit was also reprimanded for manipulating customer orders on Hong Kong's stock exchange. 
(Please, dear God, anything but another deposition!) 
That immediately put you four years behind. 
A growing school of thought -- which the administration denies -- has it that President Carlos Salinas de Gortari might even welcome a win by Mr. Fernandez, whose philosophy is so similar that he would be expected to continue Mr. Salinas's free-market policies. 
Venezuela's government established a new bank regulatory body invested with sweeping powers, effectively taking over those banks that the government doesn't already control. 
A banking consortium was forced to buy up the new shares of Sydbank, Denmark's sixth-largest bank, after failing to sell the deal in June. 
There's nothing we want to buy." 
On May 27, Commerce banned Kuwait from exporting bed sheets to the U.S. and imposed a new quota that will force Kuwait to slash by more than six million the number of shirts it may export to the U.S. On May 18, Commerce announced plans to impose quotas on mens' and women's coats from Oman. 
The U.S. wants China in GATT and the WTO, but on terms that it considers appropriate for a vigorous economy with an enormous export potential. 
"They didn't ask to be born white males." 
After part of the train fell off a bridge into a dark, foggy bayou, some survivors had trouble finding their way off the train and off the bridge. 
level. 
"It is a matter of urgency," said Laszlo Kovacs, the new foreign minister, "that we have good relations with the neighbors." 
J. Makowski, based in Boston, is a closely held developer of natural-gas-fired power generation plants. 
He says lower growth rates are to be expected, as part of the "law of diminishing returns." 
In that filing, the Chicago gambling and health-club company sought clearance to buy between 10% and 25% of the shares outstanding of rival Circus. 
Among institutional funds, the assets of 231 taxable money market fund assets rose by $89.2 million to $148.01 billion while assets of 56 tax-exempt funds slid $769.2 million to $22.45 billion. 
The slim profit margins didn't bother Columbia executives. 
But in the month before the EPA finalized its rule, Mr. Andreas, who has lately stepped up his and ADM's donations to Democrats, agreed to be co-chairman of the dinner for the Democratic National Committee. 
June's slump indicates that growth rate has slowed, underscoring a month-to-month drop in demand. 
Louis) -- Teresa E. McCaslin, 44 years old, was named to the new position of head of human resources, effective July 15, and the chemical company said it expects its board to name her a corporate vice president. 
Yesterday, SmithKline Beecham PLC won U.S. regulatory clearance for its new shingles drug, Famvir, several months earlier than expected. 
And the ICC imposed just one fine against an errant mover in that time. 
To cut costs, she has professional employees scrub toilets and mop floors, and she spends her evenings shopping for cheap supplies. 
Adds Derek Jones, a director of Prudential Equity Investors, New York: "Consumers are looking for high-quality restaurant products that also are great value. 
They all are targeting the world's multinational corporations, vying to provide them with increasingly sophisticated -- and lucrative -- communications services. 
Guesses run from almost $4 billion (based on assets) to more than $8 billion (if the whole company is valued at the estimated multiple for its tiny pharmaceuticals arm). 
There are only two things that bullies fear: (1) physical punishment and (2) public shame. 
The next step would be air strikes. 
Revenue-anticipation warrants are short-term securities issued in anticipation of revenue from specific sources. 
"Mexicans opened their economy to free enterprise, so presumably they want to compete," one U.S. energy analyst says. 
Some of Alaska Air's competitors between the Pacific Northwest and California don't offer first class. 
"The pieces were getting smaller and smaller, and his face was getting red," says Arthur, his cousin. 
"History is everywhere," reads the novel's opening sentence. 
Piper Jaffray Institutional Government Income Fund, which received a $10 million infusion from its manager, Piper Jaffray Cos., after losses from mortgage inverse-floaters this year, was the top-ranked short-term government fund in 1993 with a total return of 15.6%, when the average return on similar funds was only 6%, according to Lipper data. 
Like U.S. Steel, LTV said it promised customers last year that it would raise base prices only twice in 1994 -- once in January and again early this month, both of which were pushed through by the industry. 
Junk-bond trading was light with prices down 1/4 to 1/2 point. 
Three days later, she said, the leather wrinkled and the springs popped out. 
In active trading Friday on the Nasdaq Stock Market following the earnings announcement, the company's stock sank 29% to close at $9.625, off $3.875. 
On the whole, we've done a pretty good job for shareholders." 
In its suit, Philip Morris argued that "the imbalance in favor of the state is manifest." 
was of an old pink moss that I had found in 1955 on a venerable dairy farm in Medina, Wash. 
Crime soars elsewhere because of "illegitimacy, divorce and parental neglect." 
The naming of Ms. Jordan, co-chairman of Jordan, Edmiston Group Inc., a closely held investment banking firm in New York, expands the board's size to eight members. 
PARIS -- Well-known French businessman Pierre Suard, the chief executive officer of Alcatel-Alsthom SA, was taken into custody in Versailles and his house in Neuilly was searched. 
A Johnson & Johnson spokesman declined to comment, and a Glaxo spokesman said only that it "continues to examine ways to adapt to changes in the U.S. health-care scene. 
This agreement isn't directly affected by the project being scrapped. 
Jozsef Antall, who led the government until his death late last year, irritated neighboring states by remarking that he felt himself to be "prime minister of 15 million Hungarians," and not just the 10.5 million who are Hungarian citizens. 
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department sold $660 million of Series EE savings bonds in June, down 17% from a year earlier. 
Macy creditors will wind up with roughly 45 million new Federated shares, or 26% of the combined company. 
"Dahling," drawls her mother, "every troop didn't have to contain Yasmin LeBon. 
The charges were dropped, but only after the school board agreed to pay Mr. Shaw a partial salary for three years plus lifetime medical and life insurance benefits if he would resign. 
"We don't want the manners of a Turkish bazaar here," huffs the 36-year-old owner of two Berlin clothing stores. 
Several government agencies, including the commerce ministry, have tried to expand the availability of information by setting up a big electronic database on Mexican companies. 
The voters aren't stupid. 
ATLANTA -- Billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett seems to think there's plenty of fizz left in Coca-Cola Co. stock these days. 
Some off-price retailers, however, say suppliers already are plenty desperate to sell their goods. 
In the next few years, signs will emerge showing whether Mr. Lanier's plan is working. 
And if the October increase fails, the market would justify a January increase bigger than the one LTV announced, he added. 
But Germany's economic interests, and hence political interests, are increasingly developing outside the confines of the EU. 
At 18, Mr. Eason followed in his grandfather's footsteps and went to work on the docks in Savannah, Ga. 
DEMOCRATS WEIGHED health-reform compromises to lower costs for business. 
Investors Equity's futures, which were contracts to buy 30-year Treasury bonds at prearranged prices on specific future dates, saddled the company with the same risks as actually owning the bonds. 
Connecticut has much less transfer station capacity in private haulers' hands, although permits to build such facilities are being pursued there. 
"How about the home of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme? 
Recent volatility in the currency market gave way to a deadly lull, with the dollar's range of 98.34 yen to 98.65 yen robbing stock-market investors of one of their major incentives to buy stocks. 
Beijing has waged a two-year campaign to stop Gov. Patten's reform drive, and Beijing swiftly denounced the vote, reiterating China's pledge to undo any reforms not approved by the Chinese government. 
Some of these newer films have been hits: "Things Change -- My First Time" was a bestseller in the adult business last year, with more than 18,000 units sold; "Justine: Nothing to Hide 2," described as a "relationship piece" about a woman's simultaneous affairs with an older man and his son, garnered the top awards, including "Best Tease Performance" at this year's Adult Video News banquet in Las Vegas, the industry's raunchy answer to the Academy Awards. 
Integrating these former charity hospitals into regional Medical Centers of Excellence would greatly reduce costs while elevating the quality of patient care. 
Instead, the quality basic cable nets are seeing stagnant viewership and, hence, declining profitability. 
Early one morning as I walked from Grand Central Station to my office on Manhattan's West Side, I passed the McGraw-Hill building as one of its uniformed staff was putting up the American flag. 
In the end, Nan and Alex team up to expose the hypocrisy of her husband, a Republican of course. 
Visitors were required to enter by reclining on a simulated morgue drawer, which slid shut, symbolizing their death. 
A successor wasn't named, but the company is expected to bring in someone from outside. 
Also last year, Marzotto began a joint venture with a Tunisian yarn producer to manufacture linen yarn for export. 
Fidelity, based in Boston, disclosed the tightening of its personal-trading rules in a recent internal memorandum to employees, which said the change "will make it easier for us to modify and monitor our Code of Ethics in the future." 
"We see the channel continuing to grow and we see ourselves continuing to strengthen in the channel," said Mal D. Ransom, Packard Bell's marketing vice president. 
But the hybrid plan, one of several options under consideration, is an effort to reach out to moderates in both parties who want a more voluntary, albeit heavily subsidized, approach to expanding coverage. 
"We're starting to see a consensus that the earnings picture might be brightening," said PaineWebber's Ms. Farrell. 
Paradise, almost." 
The survey also shows many investors are looking overseas for investment opportunities. 
The alleged problem was Carbide's diamond-based polishing technology. 
For motorists and people confined to wheelchairs, there are boxes with hydraulic doors that swing upward and stay open for 10 seconds. 
Under a "regulatory flexibility" act passed in 1980, agencies are required to assess the impact of regulations on small business and give those companies relief so long as the intent of the rules is preserved. 
One likely prospect: AirTouch Communications , the former cellular arm of Pacific Telesis Group, which some industry executives said was close to striking a deal earlier this year to buy Nynex's cellular unit. 
The manipulation of railroad stocks became one of the great parlor games of the Gilded Age, to the benefit of robber barons such as Jay Gould and the ruin of many ordinary citizens. 
"The checklist results determine whether the employer has to proceed with further evaluation," the draft says. 
Intermodal shipments surged 17.9%, as truckers found it cheaper to put more of their long-haul freight on the rails. 
The better margins came mainly from shedding some unprofitable waste sites in the U.S.  Operating profit from Laidlaw's passenger services division, mainly school buses, rose 9% to $40.4 million. 
"I was dragged to Washington as a kid and it was the worst weekend of my life," says Disney's chairman, Michael Eisner, who believes the park will bring history alive for those left cold by museums and textbooks. 
The corps had other ideas, however. 
just think of the long term consequences of creating, as a matter of deliberate social policy, a huge underclass of illiterate noncitizens who have no opportunity to learn English." 
Calling the new offering "a forerunner of an interactive service that well might have some sort of companionship with TV," Mr. Maggin added that it will allow ABC to develop new revenue streams. 
Furthermore, there's less of a difference between a great bond-fund manager and a poor one. 
The credit quality of new issues and outstanding junk bonds is slipping and some analysts worry that default rates could rise over the next year. 
Nonwhites tend to have higher unemployment rates than whites, so their increasing numbers are likely to push up the natural rate. 
Most sub-specialties average just under $2,000 a day. 
We feel we've really got a winner here." 
Some insiders believe that from the day he took over Gulf & Western Inc. 
The government's acreage survey was released before the opening of trading yesterday. 
"The longer the Fed takes and the more its credibility worsens, the greater the increase must be. 
-- Owens & Minor Inc. said it agreed to acquire most of the assets of Denver-based Emery Medical Supply Inc. for cash. 
At the same time, the manufacturer of health-care products said in a statement that it settled civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission which will result in an additional $311,308 payment. 
The agreement also resolves outstanding court appeals regarding two prior rate cases and allows the power company to write off $35 million for construction of a $640 million generating plant. 
An article Friday incorrectly said Ireland tied Italy, 1-1. 
But the forecasts of more chilly weather restored the bullish tone to a still-jittery market. 
Ltd., Singapore Technologies Ventures Pte. 
The station plans to start broadcasting later this year. 
Mr. Berlusconi, meanwhile, angrily asked Mr. Maroni to apologize, or resign. 
Alcan, a Montreal-based aluminum maker, has sought to focus on its smelting and rolling operations, while trimming investment in fabricating businesses. 
Also missed by customs are the many thousands of Russians who travel to countries such as China or Poland just to stuff their suitcases or cars with goods and bring them back, undeclared to anybody. 
In Tokyo, the 225-stock Nikkei index, which rose 177.63 points on Thursday, climbed 52.11 to 20770.15. 
Yet it is Pakistan that has consistently proposed initiative after initiative on regional nonproliferation and called for the creation of a nuclear-free zone in South Asia. 
But on Tuesday night, when asked whether Mr. Diller could still do some kind of a deal involving CBS, he said, "It hasn't been discussed. 
"I think at the end of the day, once the risks have been fleshed out and quantified, everybody will end up agreeing we all have more than enough capital for the risks that we're running," said Zachary Snow, a managing director at Salomon Brothers and chairman of the Securities Industry Association's off-exchange derivatives committee. 
It is the hold on educated urbanites that has struck fear into Mr. Kohl's coalition partners, the Free Democrats -- also known as the liberals -- who traditionally draw on that group. 
Yesterday, Kemper's stock closed at $58.625, down 37.5 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, a sharp disparity from the $67-a-share offer price that signals investors' fears that Conseco may not be able to raise the money for the deal. 
That is because U.S. investors try to avoid getting foreign-company stock, particularly if it isn't listed on U.S. exchanges, he adds. 
"Looking at goat, I'd say it's a good low-fat alternative," says Katherine Beich, a registered dietitian at Baylor University Medical Center. 
Since its founding in 1973, Sanofi has become the 12th largest drug company in Europe, a continent filled with drug powerhouses. 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A plan to repay BCCI depositors and creditors, who have claims exceeding $10 billion, has cleared a tortuous series of negotiations and is now ready for presentation to creditors and courts in three countries, according to people familiar with the situation. 
NEW YORK -- Afternoon short covering and a rally in technology issues gave small-company stocks a solid boost after earlier languishing at just moderately higher levels. 
Black & Decker, for the first time in its history, decided to simultaneously design and produce its product -- now a common industrial practice. 
Mr. Robinson has now gone back to writing for a living. 
That pact gives the combined company more than 1.7 million members in 11 states. 
Mr. Gerber continues as executive vice president and secretary of the holding company. 
But we did much more than that. 
You can have what you think is a conversation with them and five minutes later you realize they haven't heard a word you said. 
My Brooklyn banana republic responded with such rosematazz that even my mom in Seattle has admitted a few into her garden -- for the fun of the banana feed. 
The BBDO ads are to the tune of an American popular standard "Falling in Love Again" and show adult couples, as well as children, enjoying pizzas. 
James Bacciocco, a Kendall spokesman, said that as part of Tyco, Kendall "would have the opportunity to make acquisitions of a more significant nature than it has made up to now." 
Crestar Financial Corp., Richmond, Va., said net income rose 26% in the second quarter, aided by revenue growth and improved credit quality. 
Why? 
New orders, however, rose at a stronger pace than in May. 
He even instructs his secretary to call and read the full text of five letters of sympathy he received from people he had fired in the past. 
It might seem that this would not affect the high-powered money of a reserve-currency country like the U.S. Foreign central banks typically convert their dollar holdings in U.S. Treasury securities. 
Among the topics considered by the elite that was gathered at the NAACP summit, for example, was a critique of the state of South Carolina regarding the Confederate flag that flies above its statehouse. 
What the Metzenbaum bill says basically is that adoption agencies no longer can discriminate against prospective parents because of race. 
Using his bully pulpit to attack talk-show hosts only elevates them and diminishes him in the minds of many Americans. 
Together the two successfully spread the game to the Third World. 
The maker of specialty chemicals and engineered materials reported net income of $31.9 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with $28.5 million, or 29 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. 
But for Sprint, differentiation is critical, particularly when long-distance transmission is largely a commodity service and the shootout for midsize-business clients is escalating. 
Ms. Reno took the action just one day after Clinton signed legislation reviving the independent counsel statute, which had lapsed for 18 months. 
So doctors generally urged their overweight patients to go on diets and get more exercise. 
The Romanian's had to play without forward Florin Raducioiu, but the team showed its depth when Ilie Dumitrescu stepped in to provide the offensive firepower. 
The company gave him warnings about touching female employees, about delaying a flight so he could finish breakfast and over his failure to catch a maintenance worker's mistake. 
I want to tell my daughter about them, explain the turmoil of the times. 
Mr. Leuffer said that these numbers placed it third-highest among 16 competitors for reserve replacement and fourth-highest for finding costs. 
The only group to express interest so far was from Manchester, England. 
Discovery Zone's stock price jumped on the news of the Leaps & Bounds acquisition, closing yesterday in Nasdaq Stock Market trading at $20.25, up $3.625, or 22%. 
The purchase was funded by a combination of cash on hand and bank borrowings, the company said. 
Hyal said that the approved claims relate to the compositions and uses of hyaluronic acid, which can be used with a broad spectrum of therapeutic drugs to treat cancer, pain, vascular diseases, respiratory conditions, inflammation and infections. 
He believes he has come up with an alternative to U.N. Spam. 
But to get one, he risks alienating members of the Congressional Black Caucus, a core group of Democrats whose support he desperately needs to pass a health-care bill. 
Jack Shaffer, who as managing director of New York-based Sonnenblick-Goldman Co. has had extensive contact with Asian investors, said such investors consider New York a relatively safe alternative to high-risk, high-reward real estate deals in Hong Kong and China. 
Top officials from Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry said they received formal details during the past few days. 
Meanwhile, Japan's Research Institute for Publications says that two newly released health magazines helped lift overall sales of such periodicals to 1.9 million in May, up 27% from a year ago. 
Railroads "were hitting on all cylinders in the second quarter," said Scott Flower, an analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Co.  Graeme Lidgerwood-Dayton, an analyst at CS First Boston Corp., estimates that earnings for the group rose 15% to 20% from year-ago levels. 
Investment bankers expect Indosat to raise $500 million to $1 billion in its global offering, which is likely to take place toward year end. 
At one, the bank's eight vice presidents work, side by side. 
While NME has resolved most of the litigation it faced a year ago, it is still fighting two shareholder lawsuits whose allegations are similar in some ways to those in the SEC suit. 
Luckily I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the streets are paved with bananas. 
With Interpublic's backing and deep pockets, Ammirati & Puris would be able to expand internationally, something it couldn't do before with its own limited resources. 
Other department stores have already joined the cola wars. 
A. Michael Lipper, president of Lipper, laments that funds can buy and sell a derivative security between financial-statement dates, leaving no trace. 
In this column a bit more than a month ago, analysts such as Terrence McEvoy, at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia, asserted that Bombay's growth rate is still impressive and that "this is the first time . 
"It's clearly a stock picker's market. 
As a result, these securities have seen the largest increases through the latest rally. 
These new angles are often legally questionable, but so far the best telecommunications minds -- not to mention a host of regulators and legislators -- haven't been able to stop them. 
But Black & Decker Corp.'s development of a line of handy rechargeable screwdrivers and vacuum cleaners also demonstrates the distance from moon to department store. 
"I use it all the time," she says. 
"We as an organization feel that derivatives are a capital-market fact of life and will be for years to come," says Mr. O'Neill. 
Mark V. Heinz, president, said the plan had been adopted during a time of great merger and acquisition activity. 
Spazio partner Douglas Skene says that by better mimicking the sun, his company affects both the human body and the human psyche. 
"Children can't drink from it if their parents don't want them to," says Smile Tote's owner, Richard Green. 
Results included sales gains from late-night and college basketball programming. 
Mr. Palmer noted that Digital could bring in new cash from the sale of assets such as its disk-drive operation, which the company is negotiating to sell to Quantum Corp. for about $400 million. 
Now that his big deal with CBS Inc. has gone down the drain, the joke, according to one executive, is: "Barry's new job is going to be as president of Next Inc."  For the second time in six months, Mr. Diller's next move is up in the air, and his ambitious plans to build an entertainment powerhouse have been thwarted. 
A gabby, elfin man, Mr. Doman launched the school 19 years ago to show parents around the world how to make their children "intellectually, socially and physically splendid." 
And politicians themselves, of course, have fueled both the apathy of the many and the enraged cynicism of the few. 
"I was hollering and screaming. 
Mr. Dombroff, a 47-year-old member of Katten Muchin's executive committee, says he bills at a rate of about $210 an hour. 
Changing feelings about the "Hungarians abroad" may have played a role in the June elections that put Hungary's new government in office, but political observers say the new approach goes deeper than party politics and represents a reaction against the nationalist tendencies that emerged after communism fell. 
The company plans to produce a 64-seat turboprop aircraft in 1995, and to move into the development of a 100-seater thereafter. 
Mr. Murayama has found himself in bed with the political establishment he's criticized for 40 years. 
Many Russians never register as unemployed because it's a big bother and not much help. 
The transaction, announced after close of markets, is subject to Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department approvals. 
"He's always managed to land on his feet." 
He hopes his daughters, ages seven and 13, ultimately will go to college. 
The question is not whether anyone will exercise hegemony in Europe if the U.S. withdraws; it is only who? 
"He says, `Congress, help me,' but he won't say exactly what he wants." 
Measured against the period since 1971, Bretton Woods seems almost a golden age. 
In Milan, equities including those trading electronically dived 2.3% amid jitters that political divisions in Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government could lead to a vote of no confidence and delay a budget plan. 
Ann, a trained nurse, has virtually abandoned her own family to be with her friend. 
Oilfield equipment stocks were the top gainers in the Dow Jones World Industry Groups, closing at 108.78, up 2.49, or 2.3%, with Baker Hughes of the U.S. posting a 3.7% gain in its local currency. 
ASAP's plan calls for refocusing the Superfund program on its original public-health protection mission. 
But Mr. Damschroder hopes for an even bigger torrent of money from individual investors. 
The talks heated up several months ago and then cooled off, before becoming serious again recently, people close to the talks say. 
But some big mutual funds could take advantage of any quick burst of panic selling. 
The major imports for May continued to be led by electronics and components, which had a value of $248 million, a 10% increase from the previous month's $225 million. 
Pearl Gamble, a 49-year-old coding operator in Banc One's check-processing department, says she frequently listens to soap operas through the TV frequency on her personal radio. 
Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske declared that Clinton aides did nothing illegal when they discussed a politically sensitive probe into an Arkansas S&L. 
And because the funds mirror the moves of the market, investors never underperform the market. 
As it turns out, moreover, Josie has much in common with him: Long ago, her uncle was killed while engaged in an IRA operation. 
A statement Friday by government spokesman Giuliano Ferrara that the government will pack its bags if Parliament rejects the decree was interpreted by Italian commentators as a bargaining tool aimed at the League and the National Alliance. 
S&P says it erred in estimating the amount at more than $100 billion in yesterday's Credit Markets column. 
While separating feuding managers, the agreement will also diminish Price/Costco's stake in some ventures that analysts view as promising, notably some international prospects and the Quest Electronic Catalogue, which shoppers in stores can use to order items not kept in stock. 
-- Aircraft carriers also could lose their central role. 
"It happened to work in the lyric of the song," he said. 
The 70-year-old Sen. Dole, typically, tried to diffuse the emotion with humor. 
DETROIT -- Mazda Motor Corp. said the base price of the 1995-model 626 sedan will be $14,695, up 1.4%, or $200, from the current price. 
He became chief executive of Knight-Ridder in 1988, and chairman the following year. 
And since conservation won't be enough, geologists and engineers are exploring ways to reach into every nook and cranny of the area's Ogallala Aquifer for hidden pockets of water. 
After Gov. Cuomo's dozen years in the state house, it is New York that best fits his grim keynote description of Reagan's America: "more `A Tale of Two Cities' than it is a shining city on a hill." 
VIDEO TIP: After watching "Forrest Gump" borrow so openly from "Zelig," you might want to look at Mr. Allen's mock documentary about a make-believe '20s celebrity. 
Neither is there any reason people couldn't take advantage of price discounts negotiated by their employers or by voluntary cooperatives they might choose to join. 
Festering resentment culminated in heavy regulation of railroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission, while truckers operated without any real fetters until after World War II. 
Business groups haven't figured out that the political center of gravity has moved away from any health care mandate. 
Weak gilts, or British government bonds, dragged stocks down in morning trading, but the German central bank's announcement of a news conference to discuss money-supply targets lifted German and British bonds. 
Then he went hunting for a major partner. 
Can they support Republican candidates who disagree on "litmus test" issues such as abortion? 
While women today are less likely to learn sewing in high school or from their mothers, many of them -- and some men too -- pick it up when they start decorating their homes. 
But hate and anger have turned out to be deeply rooted, and deeply satisfying, things. 
"When you see people buying after a hit like this, it's a good signal," says Robert Gabele, president of CDA/Investnet, a service that monitors stock purchases and sales by corporate insiders. 
Meticulous U.S. research, passed on to Hanoi, shows that despite wartime confusion the Vietnamese went to great lengths to keep track of enemy personnel who came under their control. 
Four million dollars for the Summer Olympics. 
Also, the company said it hopes to cut its costs per package to $8 from $12 by the year 2000. 
That saved him a four-hour trip home and back. 
Only a fraction of these -- 197, by one count -- have been settled. 
Fees 0.3. 
The state's newspapers, which had refused his advertisements, gave the dispute pageone play. 
And the wife wants to say, `What am I -- chopped liver?'" says Dr. Medway, professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina. 
Urban sophisticates, notably in such sanctuaries as Manhattan, will roll their eyes and smirk at such sentiments, laughing for instance at the return of "Chastity 101." 
The gale seems bent on rearranging the very thoughts the papers contain. 
The farmers responded with a series of roadblocks that gave the country an anxious couple of days. 
In contrast to the Dominican Republic, Haiti seems to have something inherently wrong in its political culture that defies remedy. 
Some analysts play down the threat of foreign banks, which regulators still bar from setting up branch networks. 
All in all, he says, he had an enjoyable experience at MTV, which is included in "America's Top 100 Internships." 
We obviously take the issues of adolescent sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and childbearing very seriously or we would not devote so much of our time and resources to these issues. 
During the next two to three weeks, J. Paul Horne, chief international economist at Smith Barney Inc. in Paris, expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to slow the U.S. economy and Germany's Bundesbank to lower rates. 
"We had all the amenities here," Julie Klein, a Winter Park spokeswoman, says of the resort's lifts, hotel rooms, restaurants and bars. 
PITTSBURGH -- Westinghouse Electric Corp., gambling on gaining new business in Russia and Ukraine, agreed to help improve safety of potentially hazardous nuclear power plants there without indemnification from the U.S. government. 
Chemically, chlorpyrifos-methyl and chlorpyrifos-ethyl are siblings, said a spokesman for their manufacturer, Dow-Elanco, a joint venture of Dow Chemical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. 
The RTC and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have been investigating allegations that the firm, where Hillary Rodham Clinton was once a partner, had conflicts of interest when it represented regulators after the failure of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan in 1989. 
Anecdotal evidence suggests Canadians who visit the U.S. these days have a tighter grip on their wallets. 
Holders of CBS's one million preferred shares have the option to convert their shares into common shares and tender them, or continue to take their annual preferred dividend, which was $10 a share before the split. 
Both parties applaud the union. 
Joseph Liro, chief economist at S.G. Warburg & Co., said Mr. Greenspan should provide the bond investors with good news. 
Even the seemingly impressive Japanese trade numbers were something of a chimera, according to Ann Finaly, assistant vice president at Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. in New York. 
MEXICO CITY -- In the most important policy decision since deciding to proceed with the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mexican government agreed that Telefonos de Mexico SA needs lots more competition. 
To be sure, the July Fourth U.S.-Brazil game was viewed by a whopping 34 million people here. 
"You wouldn't believe how many people came in and said that it wasn't for them, they needed it for a bachelor party," he says. 
Federal budget law requires offsetting funds for new programs that increase the deficit. 
Explaining the decision to sell out, James Millar, Low's chairman, said: "This independent position was easy to adopt in the 1980s, a period of strong growth. 
In manufacturing, for instance, the weekly U.S. average is 37.7 hours and rising; in Germany it is 30 hours and has fallen steadily over recent decades. 
And a top official concedes that the number could be "far fewer" if the U.S. has to invade to remove Haiti's rulers. 
She is an expert in payments systems. 
Anna-Marie Cikankova labors up the incline of Moravska Street. 
Still, the combined weight of indirect and direct taxes that the middle class is called on to bear is very great. 
When the dump expanded, Mr. Ottum, who works out of his house, came undone. 
GTE Corp., continuing a streamlining effort, said it will sell its Spacenet satellite-communications operations to a rival, a unit of General Electric Co.'s GE Capital Corp.  Terms weren't disclosed. 
"It's a year-plus before NWN gets out, and it will be a long time before cellular data transmission has a national footprint," he said. 
It's so embarrassing to have them walk out on the deck and there's this gagging smell. 
Rep. Stark's plan also would affect Sallie Mae and Freddie Mac. 
The Dow Jones Utilities Average fell 0.86 to 180.86, 
"Some people think IBM has been through a big transition, says Steve Smith of PaineWebber, another pessimist, "but I say it's entering its biggest transition period ever." 
But Brian Cathcart, a principal with ICM Asset Management, a Spokane, Wash., money-management firm, expects the cloud of uncertainty hanging over rates, the dollar and inflation to linger. 
"Now the company is in play," said one senior company insider. 
That isn't his game. 
The new program is similar to, though smaller than, the Pentagon's oft-repeated attempts over more than a decade to move away from covering defense contractors' constantly rising project costs. 
The FTC alleged that World Wide misrepresented the investment potential of the stamps they sold to consumers and routinely raised its prices for stamps two to 10 times higher than going market rates. 
Wednesday, though, Italian eyes were smiling after Mr. Baggio's two goals -- in the 21st and 26th minutes -- produced a lead over the East European upstarts that an always-tough defense seemed sure to protect. 
But in April 1993, suffering from incoherent speech and hallucinations, Ms. Perryman checked into Griffin Memorial Hospital. 
Their business strategy was simple: Keep prices low and stores clean, shun debt and finance expansion with profits. 
"Do you know how many good Chinese managers you can get for the price of one German manager?" 
Nonetheless, the confused reaction to the president's address carries with it some political costs as the House and Senate Democratic leadership craft their own bills to take to the floor. 
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Clinton Gas Systems Inc. said it purchased working interests in 56 producing oil and gas wells from Unicorn Oil & Gas Co. of Jefferson, Ohio. 
In responding to the Mississippi lawsuit, the industry said a federal court will need to consider whether the state needed permission from the federal government and each Medicaid recipient before filing the suit in May; whether a class action is appropriate; whether punitive damages are allowed; and under what terms private attorneys can help the attorney general, who brought the suit. 
Monday's first-section volume dwindled to an estimated 220 million shares from 288.8 million shares in the previous session. 
For when it comes to the future of psychotherapy, home nursing, assisted living and other aspects of "soft" medicine, it is possible that those who want to guarantee every citizen a "complete package" of benefits may only be locking in place a monolithic and inefficient approach to medicine -- already in the process of being replaced at the grass-roots level. 
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., in a sign that others besides the French bank that owns it believe the studio can be turned around, said it arranged a $350 million revolving credit facility with a group led by Chemical Bank. 
"That was the hardest part," Mr. Parsons said. 
"These are very complex questions, and we need to proceed thoroughly." 
The court has since demanded not just that racial minorities be able to compete freely in politics but that they be elected in rough proportion to their population. 
The $7.2 billion estimate for its value includes a $2.9 billion dividend CBS would pay its shareholders. 
"It's hard to admit you're smoking," says one woman, whose parents don't know she smokes. 
This was illustrated by the Honda decision, which marked the first time that the court reversed a punitive-damages award on constitutional grounds. 
NEW YORK -- National Broadcasting Co. plans to provide video-on-demand and breaking stories to the computer screens of financial-services professionals, pushing TV news into the new world of on-line media. 
asks Robert Weiss, manager of human-resources development at Amerada Hess Corp., a New York oil company. 
There is likely to be a dramatic increase in the investment needs of emerging market economies. 
CBS expects Mr. Snyder's show would be "cleared" by a higher number of network affiliated stations. 
Casio said that beginning in November, Casio will supply its pagers to Bharti, which will then sell them to 15 paging service companies in India. 
He said 1994's first quarter was profitable because of a one-time extraordinary gain of $1.5 million. 
Each depositary share represents ownership of 0.001 share of 12.25% Series B preferred stock. 
On top of that, the Christian Coalition is reaching out to a broader audience on economic grounds. 
Midland, a retail securities broker, said the purchase will "take the cyclicality out of our earnings by increasing fee-based revenues." 
As an entrepreneur, he's using the same technology to track the voice of singer Mariah Carey and others. 
"They don't have a comprehensive water-management mentality at the local level," says Kenneth Wright, president of Wright Water Engineers Inc. in Denver and chairman of the water rights committee of the American Water Works Association. 
But that's just one of the ways they express their support for their team, which is heavily favored to end the U.S. team's Cup chances when they meet July 4.  If fan enthusiasm alone won the Cup, there's little doubt that Brazil would win hands -- and feet -- down. 
He added: "Every big team in the World Cup started their tradition somewhere. 
Some resorts have targeted the fast-growing sport's hard-core experts -- dirt-eating, boulder-jumping, macho riders -- by offering tortuous, steep and narrow "single-track" trails. 
Smucker won't break out its subsidiaries' sales, but Ms. Starr, the organic foods consultant, estimates that Knudsen's sales doubled between 1987 and 1990 and have surpassed $60 million. 
The homeowners can obtain fire and quake coverage through a state-run insurance program called the "fair" plan, but the coverage is more bare-bones than many homeowners prefer. 
Meanwhile, most international investors will spend the next few days tallying up their first half losses. 
In addition to Mr. Buch's base salary of $125,000, he received annual bonuses of $160,000 for 1991 and $230,000 for 1992, according to Leonard Pack, who handled Mr. Buch's case with Mr. Wechsler. 
Also, the biggest gainers are mid-size companies, in general, not start-ups. 
Spain's Industry Minister Juan Manuel Eguiagaray said the aid package doesn't conflict with Spanish and European Union norms on aid. 
Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, increased 20% from last June. 
Large effects from secondhand smoke on health outcomes are improbable, in any case, because the exposure levels are too low. 
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican banking group Grupo Financiero Serfin SA said it has purchased the Mexican government's remaining 5.76% position in the bank for 504 million new pesos ($148 million). 
And ironically, Mr. Lanier's fondness for road projects -- for fixing potholes and improving highways -- will make it easier for people to move farther and farther out of the city. 
But it is expected to push annual inflation to single digits, at least in the near term. 
Like much of the old money in the Northwest, the Bullitts' grew on trees, cultivated by the sisters' one-armed, cigar-smoking timberman grandfather, C.D. 
Strive to achieve your parents' hopes and dreams. 
Curiously, it is the only plant that can grow near a species called the Devil's Garden tree, which exudes a chemical preventing other plants from flourishing. 
Last week, the company reported preliminary earnings of $557 million, or $3.50 a share, for the fiscal year ended May 29, and $105.5 million, or 67 cents, for the fiscal fourth quarter. 
The Yanks were enjoying their best season in recent years and shooting for their first pennant since 1981. 
Tickets will go on sale in mid-spring 1995, first by mail and later by telephone. 
Tuesday's first-section volume was estimated at a thin 300 million shares, up from 210.5 million shares a day earlier. 
They said that Quantum, a fast-growing disk-drive maker based in Milpitas, Calif., has emerged as the most serious bidder. 
(Mr. Katz is also chief executive of Nationwide Cellular Service in Valley Stream, N.Y., which owns more than a third of Cellular Technical.) 
Violent strikes have long been blamed for the erosion of South Korea's industrial competitiveness and declining foreign investment in the country. 
These assertions were undoubtedly familiar to Andropov and, if not, could easily have been checked for accuracy. 
Also, he is put off by the fact that Cellular Technical "has not had dramatic sales growth." 
He filed 14 anonymous air-safety reports, including one about a flight attendant who didn't have up-to-date paperwork. 
Before the race he entertained the crowd with a round of the "Marseillaise" on his accordion. 
W. Allen Parks, Dual Drilling's executive vice president and chief financial officer, said the new loans push the company's total debt to about 50% of total capitalization from 40%. 
Harcourt's insurance units have assets of about $3 billion and revenue of about $550 million, with an emphasis on annuities. 
Most are running weeks, and some even months, behind schedule. 
Most global money managers abroad are unlikely to dump all of their Treasury holdings because the U.S. bond market is not what is called a "marginal investment." 
IBM's chief financial officer, Jerome York, had said he was ahead of schedule at the end of the first quarter, trimming the annual expense base by $900 million. 
They wanted the government to attack Microsoft's aggressive pricing strategy, its alleged tactic of hiding certain pieces of code that could help the performance of rivals' products and its penchant for announcing future products years in advance. 
One big problem, it seems, is taste. 
Would Steve Ross have merged his Warner Communications into Time Inc. if he hadn't received $193 million for his troubles? 
Meanwhile, Spectrum said it has retained a search firm to find a new chief executive within 90 days. 
THERE'S ONE OTHER unsettling force. 
Mr. Novak and Ms. Barnes assumed their posts during a company streamlining in 1992. 
Firms must help those workers find new employment, usually in jobs funded by the parent company. 
It now sits in Potosi's industrial park.  In the sliver of southwest Virginia known as the coalfield region, residents have won one state prison, and there are plans for three more prisons. 
He couldn't see getting friendly with farmers," says his mother, Betty Falitz. 
Shares of other big brokerage firms posted more modest declines. 
Lots of sales don't work out, and customers sometimes go away mad. 
The Prozac application has languished at the FDA ever since. 
He and other analysts expect the stock's incipient recovery will accelerate as India's economy grows more quickly and spurs a surge in demand for cement. 
Again, the idea was to use IMF guidance and financial support to bring these former communist countries into the global, free market economy as quickly as possible, before Russia in particular could suffer a relapse into hostile isolationism. 
At 31, he has just brought out his first novel, a trip into the darkness and disarray of the new Prague. 
Mr. Schraith's former post of executive vice president, sales and service, has not been immediately filled, AST said. 
And Hollywood is learning that making family movies is rocket science. 
Midland said earnings were $3.7 million, or 12 cents a share, down from $15.8 million, or 50 cents a share, a year earlier. 
In fairness, the government recently managed to reduce the number of income tax rates to just two, from five, and the top rate has been lowered to 30%, from 37%. 
However, an employer can't deny a job or discharge a worker based on past illegal drug use. 
With Communism's end, the families and those who speak for them began campaigning to reclaim what used to be theirs. 
Europe, including Austria, France, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, makes up 25.6% of the fund's assets. 
The increase is due, first, to the compounding cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, and second, to "double-dipping" -- I can count my years of military service on both my civil service and military pensions. 
Texas' Homestead protections are one of the most important individual liberties remaining to the people of Texas. 
Bally currently holds about 680,000 of Circus's 86 million shares outstanding. 
For the period, the per-share loss shrank to six cents a share from 22 cents a share. 
Mr. DeSantis said compensation was up 6% despite the falloff in revenue, and nonstaff expenses rose 13%. 
One analyst said the sell-off was due to dumping of the stock with the end of the quarter. 
U.S. rules currently allow companies to take as long as 40 years to deduct goodwill, although the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued a proposal for public comment that would adopt the IAS rules on goodwill for companies that plan to list their securities in the U.S.  The SEC won't say if or when it plans to adopt this proposal, but the proposal is an added incentive for foreign companies to speed up acquisitions in the U.S.  "The threat of leveling the goodwill playing field next year is spurring more acquisitions of U.S. companies by Swiss and other European acquirers," says Robert Willens, an accounting analyst for Lehman Brothers Inc. 
-- Tati Santiesteban: The former state legislator was arrested for possession of marijuana during a visit to the El Paso County Jail. 
Of that, Merrill Lynch earned a 6% selling commission and a 3% financial advisory fee. 
If that proves the case, the state will have to pay a higher interest rate on the securities. 
After a stint in the Navy, her youngest daughter is headed for Long Island University. 
The group of 86 items, ranging from his black leather briefcase to a burnt-orange rug from Azerbaijan, emblazoned with Lenin's profile, sold for #152,628 (over $238,000). 
The investigation involves tax officials allegedly bribed to avoid audits. 
In the same period, import and export tons at the Port of Freeport dropped 38%, while the Port of Brownsville lost 64% of its business, according to the American Association of Port Authorities in Alexandria, Va. 
Workers at J.C. Penney receive training of two to three days. 
The most political, and in some ways the most personal, is "The Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul" (Simon & Schuster, 251 pages, $22). 
The Florida plan provides for proportional racial and ethnic representation; that and other relevant facts, the court said, suggest that minority voters have adequate opportunity to participate in the political process and elect the candidates of their choice. 
Rocky Mountain also filed its own competing reorganization plan on July 18. 
Standing between Detroit and a cleaner EPA rating is ozone. 
The three traditional legs of the local economy -- energy, health care and aerospace -- are all increasingly wobbly. 
As America's involvement in Europe diminishes, clearly Russia sees its own role growing. 
It even released a 16-minute videotape, "Advertising During Times of Crisis" to over 3,000 ad executives. 
Marshall Carter, chairman and chief executive officer of State Street, said it benefited from increased international investment from the U.S.; that generates higher fees than U.S. custodial business. 
The fate of the Socialist-LDP axis, and indeed of Japanese politics generally, may rest with LDP mavericks such as power broker Ichiro Ozawa, who figured so mightily in the unraveling of the governing party and its replacement by reformers. 
It was a game of elimination a determined investor could learn how to play, because S&P was using widely known guidelines for its index. 
Now, he is heading for Greece. 
In announcing the agreement, the FTC said it settles charges that the acquisitions had "substantially lessened competition . 
Construction jobs also increased, although in the past few months growth has slowed due to rising interest rates. 
Intel faces competition on sales of clones of its earlier 486 chip from long-time rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and from International Business Machines Corp., Apple Computer Inc. and Motorola Inc., which are promoting the PowerPC chip. 
Japan's Sanyo Electric Co., a maker of consumer-electronics equipment, said unconsolidated pretax profit more than tripled, to 6.78 billion yen ($68.8 million), in the six-month period ended May 31 compared with year-earlier figures. 
LUND, Sweden -- Starting with a plot of farmland here and a prototype machine made from bicycle chains, the Rausing family of Sweden set off in the 1950s on a quixotic crusade to build a packaging empire. 
Then, last Friday, the group formed a joint venture with Mr. Trump, called Trump Empire State Partners, and transferred the deed for the building to the new partnership, the records show. 
The General Mills spokesman emphasized that while some tainted oats had been unwittingly manufactured into cereal, perhaps two-thirds of the known supply remains under its control in a government-mandated quarantine. 
However, the Dow industrials fell only 11 points, or 0.3%. 
Though workers who telecommute or run businesses from home rose 7% to 34.2 million in the past year, according to data released this week by Link Resources, New York, many communities still erect barriers. 
Lightning-fast reform in China's agricultural system a decade ago sowed the seeds of the current infestation. 
The Chicago savings and loan said it has begun negotiations with a third party for the sale of the company. 
Plaintiffs prevailed most often -- 59% of the time -- in injury claims against makers of industrial products, the survey found. 
When the recitation of a supposedly funny story falls flat, the teller is apt to resort to the line, "You had to be there to appreciate it." 
To Russia's military-chemical complex, the concepts are one and the same. 
Ammirati & Puris's current ads for MasterCard have been well-received. 
The Lockheed offer follows a similar proposal earlier this year by the company's rival in the fighter-jet business, McDonnell Douglas Corp., to sell F-15Es to the Air Force for about $50 million each. 
Now, he has got himself backed into a corner whose only escape route appears to be invasion. 
Here, where unemployment hovers at 20%, prisoners mean prosperity. 
Victor J. Riley Jr., KeyCorp's chairman and chief executive officer, said the proposed acquisition "further strengthens our franchise in central Indiana." 
Nonperforming assets were reduced by $46 million during the second quarter, to $127 million, the lowest level in nearly four years, the Washington, D.C., bank holding company said. 
Likewise, Panamerican Beverages Inc.'s Mexican soft-drink bottling unit, Grupo Azteca, used technology to help register a 14% increase in unit volume last year in a saturated market. 
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Applied Materials Inc. said it received an order from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for several semiconductor-manufacturing systems. 
All other Cubans I have met (excluding those who work directly with one of the ministries) uniformly expressed their hatred for a system that has sapped hope, privacy, freedom and practically any source of physical comfort out of an increasingly desperate population. 
"Discussions are going on to make it work for both sides of the river," says a spokesman for Enron Corp. in Houston. 
Now and then, more out of carelessness than conspiracy, a really first-rate book nearly dies of the reviewing community's neglect. 
He says they were hindered by constant political pressures. 
Despite the large purchases, most investors remain sidelined. 
Still, British Bio said it will try to hold down costs, and that this year the number of staff won't rise above 325. 
This corner of the mutual-fund universe -- which thrived before the 1929 stock-market crash, shriveled, and then enjoyed a rebirth in the 1980s -- is at record size. 
The people who run the university are happy with the attention he gets. 
"We have been thinking that there is potential for a devaluation of 10% to 25%," says Jesus Duarte, analyst for Montgomery Asset Management's Latin America portfolios. 
The company has guaranteed United only that it will gain such certification within two years of delivery, which begins in May 1995. 
Meanwhile, the ground fighting in Virginia has spilled over into Washington, just as the First Battle of Bull Run attracted picnickers from the capital. 
Jordanian and Israeli delegates ended two days of talks in Jordan by agreeing to start marathon negotiations next month in a bid to end their 46-year-long state of war. 
Under the Taiwanese contract, Raytheon will provide fire units, missiles, and related hardware. 
The European Union will start to use new powers it gained under the Maastricht treaty to fine members that refuse to implement EU laws. 
NEW YORK STATE lawmakers approve a bill allowing "limited-liability companies," which offer tax advantages of a partnership plus limited liability for members. 
It flies in the face of everything we do." 
The 30-year bond yielded 7.61% at the end of the quarter, compared with 7.40% at the start of the quarter and 6.34% at the end of last year. 
There is another side to the picture. 
In the United Kingdom, Times Co. would license the editorial content of its golf magazines to IPC for use in IPC's golf publications. 
He cites Tony Little and his one-on-one personal exercise training videotape as an example. 
It will guarantee the government will become no larger in real terms than it is today. 
Both CBS and NBC have been talking to the company, also known as Group W, about a strategic alliance. 
This is real reform, and ought to be seriously considered by Congress before time runs out this year to reauthorize the Superfund program. 
But mismanagement had left the Mexican economy in such bad shape in the early 1980s that when Mr. de la Madrid became president in 1982 he was no longer inclined to share power with the PRI's leftist or centrist wings. 
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer's confirmation hearings are expected to be mighty tame compared with those of Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork. 
This year, however, rates are still up about 2% to 3%, he said. 
All the work occurring between sessions predictably takes its toll on lawmakers, who are paid $7,200 a year plus $95 a day for expenses when they are in Austin. 
The British colony returns to Chinese rule in 1997. 
The catalyst behind the steep declines was the June employment report, which was much stronger than market forecasts. 
China, seeking to curtail a tradition of eating exotic wildlife, set penalties for illegally hunting and marketing protected animals or their parts. 
While such stellar earnings aren't likely to pull the stock market out of its doldrums, "they should certainly add some support," says Benjamin Zacks, executive vice president of the firm. 
Seen as a growth business until recently, the hazardous-waste-handling industry has been hit hard. 
Publisher William Morrow paid Cleveland entrepreneur George Fraser an advance in the "multiple hundred-thousand-dollar range" to write "Success Runs In Our Race," a guide to African-American networking due out this month, according to literary agent Barbara Lowenstein. 
He said the company expects to be profitable in the third quarter, but the second-quarter results and the noncash charges "make it almost impossible to be profitable for the year." 
I was raised a rose bigot. 
This country is in the West. 
Mr. Murayama, said a senior French official, "seemed very intimidated." 
"People get direct benefit from cars, so they're willing to tolerate more risk from auto accidents than from cancer caused by strange chemicals used by industry." 
But because the result of the merger will be fewer department stores to do business with, suppliers won't have much choice but to treat Macy as well as they treat Federated. 
by which nirvana can be approached through the medium of warmed Hawaiian sea water, pulsing against one's body." 
Brokers may move their clients' money away when the fund becomes noload. 
"No matter how you call it, you get complaints about favoritism. 
PARIS -- L'Oreal SA, the French cosmetics and pharmaceuticals company, said it boosted its stake in luxury group Lanvin Holdings SA to 66% from 50%. 
"Religion won't be a factor in who is chosen for the job," says Issa Karkah, a senior PLO official. 
Toyota used the exchange rate of 110 yen for the last fiscal year. 
The markets were still nervous about a potential increase in U.S. interest rates, a scenario underscored by the falling dollar, even though the better-than-expected U.S. producer-price data offered a tame picture of inflation. 
An attorney can help file the will, send the necessary notices and make sense of the paperwork, which Ms. Traber found both abundant and confusing. 
"The real event here is the double-digit growth in imports," said Mr. Barker. 
If Illinois Central simply bought the railroad for cash, Kansas City Southern would have had to pay a capital-gains tax on the transaction. 
That mightn't be so if more tourists shared the almost hallucinatory sensations that Mr. Bearss evokes while visiting Bull Run. 
The President's Council of Economic Advisers offers no number but says that "today's unemployment rate exceeds the natural rate by a significant amount." 
While month-to-month declines in the ratio may affect stock of big chip makers such as Intel Corp., Mr. Neff said the semiconductor market remains strong and the ratio's decline shouldn't have any long-term impact on semiconductor stocks. 
But Howard Schilit, an accounting professor at American University, says that EAI gives investors the impression that its business is much larger than it really is, by booking as revenue the entire sum it gets from Baltimore for managing the nine schools in its initial contract. 
Each of Rock's 920,577 shares will be exchanged for 1.85 shares of Valley common stock. 
Huge new trade-related projects are due for Hong Kong. 
The carrier said load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled, slipped to 72.6% from 73.6%. 
The Tennessee Medical Association, in fact, has sued the state over the program. 
In fact, the bravest votes were cast by Democrats in re-election battles -- such as California's Dianne Feinstein and Virginia's Chuck Robb -- who nevertheless defied a key constituency, the trial lawyers. 
The partnership, he added, "resulted in a great success that outpaced us" in terms of Mitsukoshi's capacity. 
He sees that happening in Mexico and Japan. 
Their pitching staff, if not generally outstanding, is at least good, and one of its parts -- 1993 free-agent lefty Jimmy Key -- has been excellent. 
The computers also track how much coffee each of the farmers is growing, so that, for the first time, they can increase their bargaining power by selling their coffee as a group. 
Before Mr. Rostenkowski was indicted, he reimbursed the government for more than $82,000 in stationery store purchases since 1988. 
Diego Maradona was suspended by the international soccer federation, which alleged that the soccer star, captain of Argentina's World Cup team, took five banned drugs. 
"The future isn't all about our competition in Canada. 
The videotape, Mr. Harrington says, has grossed $55 million to date. 
The Baby Bells' filing was supported by nearly 50 affidavits, including some from paid consultants to the Bells, which largely suggested the Bells' entry into those forbidden markets would spur competition and result in lower prices for consumers. 
But this time the prince, persuaded that his earlier sojourn at court was a dream, decides to be gentle and kind to people lest he find himself back in confinement. 
As for me, surely the game's maker, the Virtuality Group, or one of the X-rated virtual-reality systems has engineered a virtual hug, or some other facsimile of close bodily contact. 
"This," adds Brazilian midfielder Mazinho, "is a battle of big dogs." 
So far, it's taken in about $74 million. 
Indeed, based on the first five months of the year, China's airlines continue to see increases in passenger and cargo loads, up about 20% from year earlier. 
An attorney for the Teamsters said the strike proved that UPS "should deal with the union on vital issues like worker safety, rather than litigating." 
Mitsubishi Corp. Finance PLC (Japanese parent) -- 30 billion yen of 3.5% Eurobonds due Nov. 7, 1997, at issue and reoffer price 100.3 
"Over the long run immigration for California has not been a problem but always has been a solution to our problems," says Kevin Starr, who has written several histories of California. 
Earlier in the year, UNC, of Annapolis, Md., had been in talks with Aviall, but withdrew in late March. 
Among its most important recommendations, which must be approved by Congress: Consumers won't be allowed to disarm technical schemes aimed at insuring that only those who pay for an item like an electronic book actually get to read it. 
Other charges against him were dropped, according to his attorney, Richard Lubin. 
Institutional investors had cast their votes by cutting back on Italian bonds and shares in their international portfolios, which left them with relatively little to sell Monday. 
David Gutterman, an Evanston, Ill., marriage therapist, says listening is often the key. 
In addition, variable annuities also have annual insurance-company charges that average 1.25%, according to Morningstar. 
Revenue rose 4% to $158 million from $151 million. 
As joint-venture partners, Motorola and IBM have put about $200 million into Ardis, which links 400 metropolitan areas. 
"I tried that kind of work, and it is just too hard," says the boy. 
"The line-up is orderly and pretty well in place," a spokesman said. 
A lot of good, possibly. 
The mills produce a total of about 320 million board-feet of lumber a year. 
Sales for the year were $34 million. 
The current fund-raising effort is "better designed" and strictly for Edison, he said. 
Separately, China said it would build at least 30 "civilized" prisons a year in this decade in response to Western accusations of human-rights abuses in its jails. 
Mr. Solberg, 48 years old, is the first Ford official to run the factory since it opened in 1987. 
Higher rates would attract foreign investors, thus strengthening the dollar. 
Its decision follows similar ones by other big insurers. 
One flaw in Mr. Snyder's business-is-conflict philosophy is that he created much of the conflict -- and unhappiness -- himself, with ultimately self-destructive consequences. 
The rules, Mr. Hundt says, are "not affirmative action but affirmative opportunity." 
Analysts said the 1993 loss was in line with market expectations and are projecting that Thomson-CSF will swing back to a profit of around one billion francs in 1994 on the assumption that Credit Lyonnais will make a negative contribution to group earnings in 1994 of around 800 million francs. 
CHICAGO -- Keith Crandell is a high-tech Johnny Appleseed, cultivating research institutions for ideas that could grow into big money makers. 
"You can't build a community around retirees alone," he says, noting, for instance, that the trend could put a strain on medical facilities. 
Under him, CBS was the least active of the networks in the international arena, declining to make major strategic investments overseas. 
I hope Mr. Hunt is merely misinformed and uneducated in the finer points of Christian doctrine. 
The holdings were distributed throughout several mutual funds. 
Such deductions don't apply to the nationwide plan. 
PRAGUE -- Hubertus von Gruenberg may run one of Germany's leading companies, but in central Europe, he is an economic refugee. 
In Taipei, shares ended lower in heavy volume, after an early jump succumbed to a tug of war between bullish sentiment and profit-taking. 
They argue that Houston is losing its competitive edge to other cities willing to commit vast public sums to major transportation and entertainment projects. 
Mr. Babbitt also at times has supported the aggressive suppression of wildland fires, and it appears that the deadly Colorado blaze was fought from the outset. 
Now that President and Mrs. Clinton have established their Legal Expense Trust, I'm thinking about writing a check for $500. 
The Treasury's benchmark 30-year gained more than 3/8 point, or more than $3.75 for each $1,000 face amount, to yield 7.50%. 
Estimates by traders of the coming corn harvest range from 8.6 billion bushels to nine billion bushels. 
The schools EAI manages are cleaner and better-supplied than they were before it arrived. 
depending on whether the rifles were new, used or a combination of new and used parts. 
These decisions aren't likely to have the desired effect. 
putting me at ease," Mr. Solem says. 
It offers a modest but sorely needed production boost at the company's Fort Worth, Texas, fighter plant. 
Though all sides are firing plenty of shots now, there is little doubt who is winning the ad wars. 
"They are big, scary, safely dead and they are real," she says, adding: "I think the idea that something like this once actually walked the earth is really fascinating to people." 
"The investment climate is getting better and better," says E. Neville Isdell, who oversees Coca-Cola Co.'s operations in Russia. 
They tried to portray it as a simple transfer," said Mr. Kyl, "but without funding it, that money for peacekeeping would have had to have come out of some unit's operations budget." 
The news raises questions about the once high-flying company's viability as an independent concern. 
These FOIA requests had been made to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), which is supposed to be an independent agency. 
I am frankly puzzled by the protests of Richard Geiger and Rick Gentry ("Letters to the Editor," July 13). 
The project, scheduled to start construction late next year and expected to be completed by late 1997, is a joint venture of Union Carbide Corp. and a subsidiary of Kuwait's state-owned petroleum company. 
Those factors include four states expected to legalize gambling soon; Nevada and Atlantic City casinos ordering the company's new bill-accepting slot machines; and its new machines selling for about $900 more than its old models. 
After the tax was increased, they report, the percentage of legal sales decreased. 
Met Ed had received permission last year from the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission to help recover the cost of closing down a damaged Unit 2 nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island location, near Harrisburg, Pa. 
Among the major defendants are International Business Machines Corp., AT&T Corp. and Eastman Kodak Co.  So far, the weak scientific links are proving to be a major hurdle for plaintiffs. 
Over the past three years, McCormick has been acquiring overseas companies and entering joint ventures abroad. 
Punitive damages are meant to punish egregious misconduct, but they rarely are awarded in the absence of compensatory damages, which cover actual economic injury. 
That makes Russia's recent 8% monthly inflation look mighty attractive. 
Plagued by a reputation for poor service, frequent delays, cancellations and strikes, the Italian state airline is also amid its worst financial crisis. 
South Korean banks "are really facing the music on their bad debt this year" by taking big write-offs, says William Ebsworth, Hong Kong-based managing director of Fidelity Investments in Southeast Asia. 
Torch Energy is a unit of Torchmark Corp., of Birmingham, Ala. 
Sales for the quarter ended July 2 jumped 72% to $308.1 million from $179.5 million for the year-earlier period. 
The federation's chairman, ironically, is Sunkyong's Mr. Chey. 
A neighbor speeds by in a car with a goat in the back seat. 
In effect, Elektra may have extended an additional $10.5 million in short-term credit to Impulsora. 
With the capital injection, Prudential Insurance's net investment in its brokerage unit now totals $987 million, after $380 million in dividends received from Prudential Securities. 
Information for employers is available at the same number. 
ARMONK, N.Y. -- International Business Machines Corp. and Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd. announced they have signed a contract to test a video-on-demand system in Hong Kong beginning this fall. 
"That will never change." 
The board also affirmed the panel findings following a contested hearing that Stuart Travis, Las Vegas, a former broker, engaged in sales-practice misconduct in the account of a customer. 
Both in presentation and at the polls, it has been a remarkable turnaround for a party that nearly died from ideological infighting four years ago. 
Enrique Iglesias, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, said he has talked this week with other development officials about dusting off reconstruction plans that were prepared last fall, when the U.S. thought it had negotiated for President Aristide's return. 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno asked a federal appeals court to appoint Robert Fiske as an independent counsel to continue his investigation of the Whitewater affair. 
Both rumors were wrong. 
Earnings for Weyerhaeuser's real estate and financial services segments fell 67% in the second quarter to $4 million from $12.2 million a year ago. 
What's more, "China could lose about 1.5 million metric tons to flooding, and South Korea will see its crop cut by an undisclosed amount thanks to drought," said William Biederman, vice-president of research at Allendale Inc. in Crystal Lake, Ill. 
Indeed, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.), chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, is planning legislation that would require the SEC to regulate the derivatives businesses run by securities firms and insurance companies. 
The company is believed to be considering selling the property, located in lower Manhattan, for under $20 million. 
Gone are the old polemics. 
However, even most conservative scholars acknowledge that the Eighth Amendment incorporates some elasticity, since the phrase "cruel and unusual" is more ambiguous than, say, the Contract Clause, and may properly reflect changing mores. 
Mr. Walton personally blitzed the state by car, attending as many as six meetings a day, and leaving voter guides at churches and taverns alike. 
And 10 others expect the passing along of costs will occur more broadly beginning next year. 
Lawyers on both sides declined to comment. 
The two companies are getting ready to start shipping samples. 
The state attorney general's office said it is looking into launching a suit under the new law. 
Rwandan rebels closed in on a garrison town not far from Gisenyi, where the Hutuled government has taken refuge. 
Then file quarterly federal forms for the nanny's Social Security and income taxes. 
Other buyers included Tyrone E. Riegel, executive vice president, (14,500 shares); Controller Terry J. Braden (5,400) and Gregory C. Kowert, chief financial officer (4,500). 
It was a significant accomplishment in their announced effort to discredit EAI. 
The odds for a big rebound in U.S. grain production were bolstered by National Weather Service forecasts for normal precipitation across much of the Midwest farm belt this summer. 
ASCAP also sends listeners out in vans to monitor radio stations around the country. 
Devised in 1985, it was the brainchild of Alexei Pazhitnov, 39 years old, an applied-mathematics expert and something of a legend here. 
Speaker of the House James E. "Pete" Laney, a Democrat from Hale Center, in contrast, gives more autonomy to his committee chairs, and is more willing to let issues be hashed out by contending factions on the House floor. 
There are several lessons here. 
"We're in the process of transferring the management of the funds." 
Mike Espy spoke from the floor in favor of a federal program that facilitated resident management and homeownership, he was literally booed by a number of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. 
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen invoked the Brady doctrine by stating the administration position that the "independent" Fed doesn't need to raise interest rates now. 
Though the paper's editorial policy often opposed Kremlin policy, the House Unamerican Activities Committee perceived it as a Communist organ; Belfrage was called before HUAC in 1953, twice took the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify whether he was a Communist, was arrested without charge, and was imprisoned on Ellis Island. 
Many of them could be corrected easily by the computer companies, and some companies are fixing some of them. 
Would Mr. Guarino ever let his daughter watch his films? 
"It was scary." 
Police gang-intelligence officers in Aurora, Colo., and San Antonio say the easy purchase of guns through private sales has caused a fundamental change in the way gangs acquire weapons. 
For example, he has cast Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen, Harry's superficially mousy wife who secretly wishes her nice stable husband were a little more exciting. 
Mr. Fiske may choose to pursue only indictable offenses. 
In this respect, we are more free than the U.S.A."  It took a dozen years, after shucking dictatorship in the mid-1970s, before Portugal got its pass key to the European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 
It does so in part by selling colorful and intricate pottery crafted by people in the jungle. 
Besides being an existentialist, Mr. Malval says he is a romantic who believes in human progress. 
There was a huge gap between "The Lion King" and its nearest competitor. 
Mr. Riggins candidly says the additional fees are there for their profit potential. 
For now, however, many of them counsel caution. 
"We want to all work under the same conditions." 
Mr. Eason and his colleagues at MFS hope assets will top $100 million by year end. 
"I think Simon & Schuster is the greatest publishing company ever put together," Mr. Snyder says proudly. 
Strictly rationed government supplies are all that's available. 
The U.S. cereal wars have claimed another victim. 
The religious right is a thundercloud hovering over the bright Republican political hopes for this year and beyond. 
The Accounts Business Unit will be headed by Vincenzo Damiani, also 53, who remains president of Digital's European operations. 
Final terms will be set in a definitive pact, the two companies said, to be signed after First Bank completes an in-depth examination of Metropolitan's books. 
TWA is trying to slash budgets by 10%, or more than $100 million, because its revenue so far this year has failed to meet internal projections. 
The move seems plausible, because Mr. Knight has said he wants to establish a business promoting entertainment events, in a way that would also promote Nike's brand name. 
The company said the rail-car reserve primarily was related to delays in testing and delivery of new transit cars under its contract with New York's Metro North. 
He probably would stay on only two years, he said. 
Eli Lilly & Co. made a $4 million investment in Shaman. 
Robert Champigny, president of Kanzaki Specialty Papers, a unit of New Oji Paper Co. of Japan, said, "We regret this has occurred, but we came forward to accept responsibility, and cooperated fully" with Canada's antitrust department. 
Mr. Solloway of Argus contends that the stock market can go higher because interest rates still aren't dangerously high and economic fundamentals, including earnings, remain solid. 
The agreement gives Luxembourg-based CLT the option of acquiring an interest. 
It may be better, Mr. Gohlke suggests, to have a fund set risk boundaries and provide shareholders with information on how well the fund has met those parameters over time. 
"Then the isopod reared its ugly little head," recalls Ronald Flanary, a board member of the Coalfield Economic Development Authority. 
By comparison, United's current cost on its short-haul routes is 10.05 cents per mile, but the company expects that to drop to 7.4 cents for U2. 
Analysts had expected 23 cents in the latest period. 
That same year, the company lost $185 million -- the first of a string of nearly five years in the red. 
"I'd love the opening of a flagship store to be in a year," he said, adding that the company is looking for "the perfect location." 
That critical mass would make the partnership a nationwide player and could eclipse the potential customer base of No. 1 rival McCaw, which is being acquired by AT&T Corp.  Some observers think the Bell Atlantic-Nynex deal undercuts the Bells' arguments against the pending AT&T-McCaw transaction. 
This year's decline hit Ukraine's engineering and metallurgy sectors the hardest. 
The annual expense ratio of the fund is 1.35%. 
ATLANTA -- Peanut farmers in Georgia and Alabama may incur losses of $150 million this week, from flooding that has damaged an estimated one-fifth of their crop, according to the Peanut Advisory Board, a trade group. 
The earnings were basically in line with analysts' expectations. 
Nuclearcontrol agreement on Wednesday in Moscow, it said. 
Shares of the four companies were each converted into rights to receive new Coram common stock on the following basis: 0.63 Coram shares for each T2 share; 0.333 shares for each Curaflex share; 0.447 shares for each HealthInfusion share, and 0.243 shares for each Medisys share. 
Mr. Cooper, who is running for the Senate, is moving to the right himself now, attempting to strike an alliance with conservative sponsors of a more incremental reform plan akin to Mr. Dole's. 
"They are one of the few big companies that's seen the health-food industry for what it is instead of pooh-poohing it," says Kim Nilsen, marketing director at After the Fall. 
The decision rejected a challenge by blacks to a rural county's unusual consolidation of all legislative and executive power in a single commissioner. 
You can't believe how sensitive some people are," he says. 
Over the third quarter, Kemper managers and analysts expect the market to post a "small negative capital return and a slight increase in yields." 
The patients in both studies also cut down on their calories, which clearly played a role in any weight loss. 
Analysts had expected the forest-products company to earn 72 cents a share, according to the Institutional Brokers Estimate System. 
"On the flip side, the economy is paying less for low skills." 
Analysts said Vons has aggressively reduced prices in an attempt to win back customers. 
If a compromise can't be found, the administration figures that the strong desire of politicians in an election year to show they are combating crime will push the bill through the House. 
In 1983, with the parties' agreement, the judge issued a consent decree dividing students into nine racial and ethnic groups: "Spanish-surnamed, Other White, Black, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, American Indian, and Other Non-White." 
Indeed, it seems the authorities, with the Dutch -- who have advised the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the police and World Cup security officials -- in a leading role, have taken most of the sting out of soccer hooliganism. 
Although economic growth remains solid, with such indicators as consumer confidence and working hours indicating little likelihood of a downturn anytime soon, the stock market has been waffling in a narrow trading range for months now. 
Mr. Berlusconi's comments late Monday suggested he was open to altering the decree; after the market closed yesterday, the government averted a crisis by withdrawing the emergency measure and agreeing to propose legislation on civil liberties. 
Mr. Garel also wrote a note to Northwest Co-Chairman Wilson stating: "Attached is a list of American's `best' managers. 
The noncallable issue was priced at a spread of two basis points above Treasurys. 
Both sides agree that Mr. Rogers initiated the split, seeking more control over the funds. 
The environmental contractor said it restructured its existing revolving credit lines with CVD Financial Corp. and Integra Bank, Pittsburgh, a unit of Pittsburgh-based Integra Financial Corp. The move will make Pasadena, Calif.-based CVD Financial the company's sole working capital lender, PDG said. 
As many as three patients each week come into Dr. Eaton's office wrongly convinced that they have carpal tunnel, he says: "They'll point on the back of their wrist to just the opposite place" from where the median nerve is. 
BankAmerica said the latest move will have a $30 million after-tax cost to the company. 
A decade-long frenzy of network-modernization and massive buying by Western European phone companies is cooling off; just last week Deutsche Bundespost Telekom scaled back its planned equipment purchases for 1995. 
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Bausch & Lomb Inc. said it received a product license to market its ReNu/Triple Purpose solution for contact lenses in the United Kingdom. 
Trade, says Mr. Yurkov, may be a third larger than his agency reports. 
Burke County Development Authority, Ga. -- $175 million of 1994 series 6 pollution control variable-rate demand bonds for Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle Project, via a J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. group. 
American Express spun off its Lehman stock to shareholders earlier this year. 
President Clinton and Agriculture Secretary Espy will tour flood-damaged areas today. 
via Nomura International PLC. 
A flood of Hutu refugees crossed over into Zaire from Rwanda, and relief officials said the exodus was the largest they had ever seen. 
This doesn't change the overall picture of a good Republican year in 1994, but the religious right may hurt senatorial or gubernatorial prospects in Virginia, Texas and Minnesota. 
Federal ministers appeared at the meeting. 
Efforts in 1992 by President Bush and Dan Quayle to make a campaign issue out of the high cost of litigation also affected how juries perceive not only injured plaintiffs but lawyers in general, attorneys say. 
to close this transaction," said Mark Rosenbloom, AT&T vice president of law and public policy. 
It sets out a specific framework in which management can take place." 
Peter Chernin, chairman of Twentieth Century Fox, said the new division would be more like Gramercy, or "the upper end of Miramax," than the true "art-house" distributors which aim more narrowly. 
Today he is the night manager for the Riverside Sunoco service station in Westport, Conn., where he pumps gas, handles billing for car repairs and dispatches a tow truck. 
The two families worshiped, celebrated and picnicked together. 
Following the announcement of the postponement, South Korea said it is ready to reschedule the meeting. 
Some abortion-rights groups worry about the administration's commitment to abortion coverage in a health bill. 
Fears of higher interest rates, which could put a damper on the industrial growth fueling the demand for copper, appear to have been reduced by recent price data and yesterday's weekly unemployment claims, which analysts said showed a surprising surge in the number of people seeking jobless benefits. 
Mr. Murdoch's News Corp. controls the New York City tabloid paper, whose lively brand of journalism is frequently a target of critics. 
Parallan Computer, also a software developer, fell 1 3/8, or 24%, to 4 3/8. 
Occasionally it hangs limp and furled in driving rain. 
"Capped floaters" -- securities on which interest isn't paid when market rates move above a certain level. 
The case of Lisa O'Connell and the disappearing diskette isn't unique, American says. 
This year, to mark the 125th anniversary of the first festival, choirs sang sacred music performed as long ago as 1869 and that was long banned by the Soviets. 
"I think they've done well but not great," says analyst Eric Philo of Goldman Sachs & Co., which vied to manage a sale of K-III stock last fall before KKR vetoed the idea. 
Separately, UAL's second-quarter results were fairly strong, but the company continues to weather declining yields in the face of competition from low-cost rivals. 
Doctors said if the tumor is confirmed to be malignant, Mr. Batten will begin radiation treatment within the next few weeks. 
But now critiques of that philosophy seem to be spreading among scientists as well. 
Greyhound has repeatedly slashed its ticket prices in recent months in a bid to lure passengers away from low-cost regional airlines that have proliferated in the past two years, but that strategy has apparently failed. 
It said it filed registration statements for the offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the British Columbia Securities Commission that haven't become effective. 
Now that Dime and Anchor are combining, Mr. Parsons will concentrate on strategic planning and external relations for the new company that will retain the Dime name, becoming chairman and chief executive of the combined company. 
Both figures were after preferred dividends, and the year-ago loss included an after-tax restructuring charge of five cents a share. 
Cable reregulation also led to a dramatic rebound in the fortunes of HBO, since premium cable channels, offering so-called "a la carte" services, remain unregulated. 
Featured were big names such as Gene Krupa (who could do anything on the drums except swing), each doing a swift, showboating turn. 
Nasdaq total volume rose to 263.1 million shares, compared with Tuesday's 200.1 million. 
The defense made much of Mike's trustworthiness and character. 
Knowing how unpopular the Clinton plan is, Democratic leaders gave different Members a pass on different difficult votes, so long as they kept a 20-vote majority on all key issues. 
For one thing, some NGOs are perceived as antigovernment groups. 
In many cities, it is below 50%. 
The Labatt deal is a blow for Philip Morris Cos.' Miller Brewing Co. unit, which already controls a 7.9% stake in Femsa and wants a stronger presence in Mexico. 
By this time, those rates usually begin to erode. 
Nonperforming assets outstanding fell 23% from the first quarter to $1.46 billion. 
The Swedish joint venture, Texaco Marketing AB, operates retail service stations and manufactures and markets lubricants in Sweden under the Texaco trademark. 
Separately, a majority of small and medium-sized Swiss companies said they expect sales and orders in the current quarter to rise from the year-earlier period, according to a survey by Dun & Bradstreet AG, Zurich. 
Standing beneath a portrait of himself by Van Cao, he says, "I have no favorite painting. 
"It's not as big as greyhound racing -- or as fast," he says, "but it's getting very popular." 
Mr. Kebich and his cohorts seem so sure of reunification that they have retired to the back burner such nationalist chores as introducing the new national anthem, the one Mr. Kebich can't remember. 
Mr. Diller, he said, "is one of the most brilliant people in broadcasting today. 
But that may not turn out to be his only claim to fame. 
LIMA -- For more than a decade, Peru was stuck in a nightmare from which it could not seem to awaken. 
WASHINGTON -- Money-market mutual fund assets soared $7.49 billion to $592.94 billion from a revised $585.45 billion in the week ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said. 
Working students, however, insist their jobs provide a valuable jolt of reality, and some gently mock classmates who do "nonstop homework." 
Auto and engine producers, including joint ventures with foreign makers, would have to assemble 150,000 cars annually, more than 100,000 small trucks and 50,000 small buses and at least 10,000 large trucks. 
Don't bother me." 
Messrs. Salzman and Young are general partners of Canaan Partners, a venture capital firm that has invested in Uniquest. 
Assets of 251 retail tax-exempt funds decreased by $839.8 million to $91.05 billion. 
Mr. Connell sent the format last month to a handful of law firms and asked them to begin implementing the system. 
He credits the extra week in last year's quarter for an eight-cent contribution to earnings. 
Mr. Clinton's scorching criticism only undercut the efforts of White House Communications Director Mark Gearan to woo radio hosts at their convention here. 
And visitors aren't allowed to use cameras for fear that clumsy photographers will bash things while backing up to take pictures. 
The company has been involved in numerous investigations in recent years. 
Ironically, social smokers are often stridently antismoking, disdaining the habit and the tobacco industry. 
In any case, the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2) makes it clear that they intended for congressional regulation (such as the Voting Rights Act) to supersede the election laws of the several states. 
That support also was evident at a celebration last month to mark the ICC's 107th birthday. 
Cantor moved to the Los Angeles area as a teenager with his parents, both physicians. 
In an attempt at damage control, a senior economic official was dispatched to the press room to counter the impression given by the president. 
"It mandates recordkeeping of everything you're doing, even if you're not lobbying, to make sure that you can prove you weren't lobbying." 
Advanced Logic stock gained 37.5 cents yesterday to close at $5.125 a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market. 
Mr. Barro, a contributing editor of the Journal, is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 
Despite Mr. Redstone's remarks, the company, with $10 billion of debt, faces constraints on its flexibility, observers note. 
BRUSSELS -- With a new president finally chosen for its executive commission, the European Union now turns its attention from personalities to institutions. 
Previously in the case, the SEC reached a $1.6 million settlement with Martin E. Revson, former chairman of Del Laboratories Inc., and a $58,000 settlement with Fred Sullivan, former chief executive officer of Kidde. 
He decided to institute early retirements and other costcutting. 
The dominant player was still Lee Memorial Hospital, a 602-bed facility on the city's main drag and a local institution since 1916. 
Meanwhile, Wellcome is defending its antiviral lead by grooming a new herpes drug, called Valtrex, as a successor to Zovirax, which loses U.S. patent protection in 1997. 
Frugality is the dominant theme at Sino Land's offices, which sit above a maze of shopping arcades in Kowloon. 
Anchor, a small-capitalization issue, eased 7/16 to 15 1/2 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. 
They managed, but now the western outreaches of the city, laden with new residential and business development, are beginning to sag as well. 
But Mr. Harkins envisions slick nationwide spots featuring celebrities talking up the IRS and the patriotism of filing. 
But Janet Baker, Dragon's president, said "we're very happy with their valuation of the company." 
And EAI's freedom from some of the lease payments is in doubt; the bank holding the mortgage in Eagan claims the lease wasn't transferable, and it still deems EAI liable for rent, EAI says in SEC filings. 
I don't associate with people. 
And Perotians are strongest in New England, the Midwest and West, where the religious right is weakest. 
CEPA, which builds and operates electricpower plants, was spun off from Hong Kong's Hopewell Holdings Ltd. last year. 
Sprint also is offering simpler pricing. 
It allows you to lose yourself in what you're doing." 
Only about 225,000 goats were slaughtered for their meat in the U.S. in 1991, and that was nearly double the number in 1980, thanks to immigration from goat-eating regions. 
Many Liberal Democrats, for instance, have favored a greater military role for Japan, which the Socialists staunchly oppose. 
But Alitalia's problems go far deeper than a cyclical downturn in air travel. 
The Panji No. 3 mine is setting up ancillary companies in nearby buildings and towns to maintain equipment, arrange transport and provide services for which the mine now contracts other companies. 
In good measure, Mr. Clinton's efforts were motivated by a realization that the media would portray the trade initiative as a failure, U.S. officials said. 
Both HealthTrust and Holy Cross, a nonprofit organization sponsored by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Notre Dame, Ind., operate hospitals in the Salt Lake City area. 
Bond prices rose. 
THE PENSION BUNGLE: Don't botch the document for getting a share of your ex-spouse's pension. 
FIFA President Joao Havelange was a close associate of Adidas founder Adi Dassler. 
Though it has been shown that opening access to these union-controlled jobs could provide more than 750,000 new employment opportunities for low-income laborers, the Davis Bacon barrier has been most ardently defended by black elected officials. 
The government has enjoyed the fruits of this idealistic, self-sacrificing, dedicated employee for more than 30 years. 
But the OECD attached heavy conditions, especially for Europe, and Germany in particular. 
"They kept cranking it and cranking it," says the suspect. 
Normally, the increase in rates boosts the banks' own borrowing costs, squeezing profit margins. 
Credit-rating officials have myriad concerns, but at the top of the list is the state's expectation of about $3.5 billion in federal aid over fiscal 1995 and 1996 to cover the cost of incarceration and health services for illegal immigrants. 
In resolving both the AT&T and the Microsoft cases, the antitrust division signaled that it's not opposed to technological giants, as long as they don't choke off competition. 
Citizens Financial Group Inc. said its Citizens Bank unit acquired all deposits and some loans of Old Stone Federal Savings Bank from the Resolution Trust Corp. for a premium of $133.6 million. 
Chicken is $1 a pound. 
Since the 1980s, Korean industry has been hobbled by rising financing and labor costs, which have led to a declining share of world export markets. 
This is a painting. 
The committee met again last week and the Fed indicated that it decided to leave interest rates unchanged for the moment. 
Cable & Wireless said a supply contract has been signed with the French company Alcatel-Alsthom SA, but it didn't give financial details.  It said the cables are expected to be ready for laying in early 1995, with commercial service to begin in September 1995. 
Of course, the new laws may have deterred some would-be felons. 
The biggest decline was in bond funds. 
Mr. Taylor will remain a director after he retires. 
Bored, he jumped at the chance for a major life change for himself: a job as a securities analyst in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and the Philippines for W.I. 
Three people familiar with the deal said that Mr. Trump and the investment group are equal partners. 
I'm also told he vowed to speak out more on the issues of cultural decline that he largely avoided in 1992. 
State and federal government officials have been hesitant to place dollar figures on the total impact of the disaster, which has spilled over into several rural counties of Alabama and Florida as well. 
If the deceased owned property in another state, not only will there be an additional state tax return to file, but probate proceedings will be required in that state as well. 
The decision is a clear signal that Prudential's partnership headaches aren't over -- even for cases the firm already has settled. 
Mr. Soter estimates that cards accounted for 40% to 50% of the bank's net income during the quarter. 
Although shipments of grain fell 14%, due to weak export demand, shipments of most industrial goods improved, with automobiles increasing 7.8%, metals 13.7%, chemicals 6.8%, paper 7.5% and lumber 15.5%. 
Under the agreement, Armco will contribute an additional $17.5 million by July 15 to its current pension plan for hourly workers. 
"But what they are selling turns women into objects, then puts them on sale. 
He also met with governors of the three states and flew over some of the flooded farms and residential areas to survey the damage. 
And without an absolutely precise measurement, it is impossible to predict with certainty how that thing will behave in the future. 
Every game that a major league team wins increases its revenues by $349,000. 
As part of the Thursday evening lesson plan, the groups were also supposed to take 10-minute breaks for reflective discussion. 
Merck & Co. sealed a $1 million deal with Costa Rica's National Institute of Biodiversity to screen plants, insects and micro-organisms for medicinal compounds. 
Second question: If your child wanted a career in business, would you recommend going to business school? 
Ms. Trei covers the Baltics for The Wall Street Journal Europe. 
His research shows that what he calls "junky adolescent jobs" disengage students from school and breed cynicism about work in general -- effects that reverse themselves when kids quit working. 
The court decision came only two days ahead of France's July 14 independence day celebrations, during which German troops, for the first time since World War II, will parade down the Champs-Elysees in Paris as part of the new Eurocorps, a fledgling military grouping of France, Germany and the Benelux countries. 
Underwriters would have to file with treasurers within 45 days of bond sales -- in "affidavit form" -- an accounting for all bonds sold, commissions earned and "any other compensation paid or earned in connection with such sales." 
China's legislature approved prison terms and stiffer fines for copyright violators, responding to a key U.S. demand five days after Washington threatened sanctions. 
COCA-COLA FACES a price war in Japan, and the enemy is itself. 
"If this expected freeze is confined only to the southern part of the growing region, as some forecasters expect, it can't do much more damage to trees that are already dead after the last two frosts," said Sandra Kaul, senior analyst at Smith Barney Inc. in New York. 
In 1993, the company had a loss of $9 million, or 99 cents a share, on revenue of $4.6 million. 
Mr. Pederson admitted accepting thousands of dollars in cash, cars and other gifts from Honda and Acura dealers. 
The statement also said Ukraine "could gain access" to more than $4 billion of international financing -- but only if the nation undertook serious economic reform efforts. 
Some complain about Guangzhou Shipyard International Co.'s dabbling in real estate, or Beiren Printing Machinery Holdings Ltd.'s loans to property developers in Beijing. 
In a telephone interview, Mr. Craib said: "I would assume he probably saw that his chances for occupying one of the top two positions in the management structure were somewhat limited." 
"We look to baseball as a secular replacement, a unifying force." 
"We are positive about the stock," said Jeff Choudhry, a portfolio manager at Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London. 
Reputable financial broadcasters say they are alarmed. 
S&P's rating puts California even with Louisiana and just above New York, which holds the agency's lowest rating. 
But other members use personal or campaign funds to reimburse the store for the smallest decorative expenditures, such as congressional tie-tacks. 
Price controls were imposed in 1971 by a government that had been protesting its horror at the idea for almost three years. 
That was the socialist dream, wasn't it? 
Revenue at Russell Reynolds is up more than 10% from a year earlier, he adds. 
"At this point, we are attempting to sort it all out." 
Meanwhile, scientists were also finding that serotonin played a crucial role in regulating mood. 
Textron, which has interests in aerospace, is based in Providence, R.I. 
The coalition's complaint with the FCC is a first for the station, which received no significant complaints from viewers about the shopping program, she said. 
He recently helped prosecute a Los Angeles scam in which 1,500 investors lost $30 million after hearing second mortgages fraudulently touted on a local radio show. 
Volt is a technical services, human resources, computer systems and electronics manufacturing company. 
In each district, these groups' share of loans was very low in proportion to the number of minority- and women-owned businesses. 
According to QVC's latest proxy statement, the initial exercise price was $30.43, but it increased by 13% last year and is set to rise by a similar rate this year. 
But not completely: Delaware formally retained the punishment until 1973. 
This is an election year in Germany, and politicians are listening. 
As R. Howard Bloch shows in "God's Plagiarist" (University of Chicago Press, 162 pages, $24.95), a highly amusing inquiry into the career of the abbot Jacques-Paul Migne, this tireless impresario for the church was the opposite of shy. 
"We really didn't do a scientific study. 
The session opened a week of landmark meetings that will culminate on Monday when Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Rabin hold a summit in Washington. 
-- Welbilt Corp. said it agreed to acquire Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., a manufacturer of cooking equipment and supplies, for about $51 million. 
Her conclusion: Overeaters -- like some drinkers and drug users -- were groping for a way to lift their depressed moods. 
The regulations are effective for the tax years beginning after September. 
Says Mr. Mertens: "It's not often that you do a piece of art and give someone a club and ask them to beat on it." 
JT is forced to buy Japan's entire domestic leaf tobacco crop, he says, at about three times the world price. 
Laura Ashley Holdings PLC said Graham Searle was appointed managing director. 
While some truckers refer to mileage charts or tables, many actually spell out rates for carrying each product to each destination city from each origin city, as well as specifying the discount for each customer. 
This is exactly the kind of ballet that, because it has a portentous literary theme, is taken in some quarters as a serious work of art. 
"When people read this," he says, "I guarantee I'll get zillions of nasty messages." 
In 1990, the New Jersey businessman won control of Bally after scooping up a 5.4% stake in the then-troubled gambling, manufacturing and healthclub company and ousting most of the old management. 
Now, prices for many items are comparable, and Canadian customers account for 15% to 20% of sales, he figures, down from 50% in the early days. 
Yesterday's Corporate Focus article incorrectly stated that BizMart is owned by Intelligent Electronics Inc. 
Currently, the most common way of treating OME is with antibiotics, said Philip Lee, HHS assistant secretary for health and director of the U.S. Public Health Service. 
Joel E. Smilow, chairman and chief executive of Playtex, said the acquisition will increase Playtex's earnings by about 8 cents a share. 
For the greens, "prescribed natural fire" is essential for the "natural regulation" of ecosystems. 
The company said it hopes to achieve these goals by taking advantage of low-cost design capability and project-performance strength in China. 
The consensus estimate by analysts was 43 cents a share. 
There are plenty of legitimate investment-talk shows on radio where investment professionals regularly dispense helpful advice to listeners. 
At the same time, Mr. Kaneko said NEC should boost overseas sales to 40% of total consolidated sales by 1999, nearly double the 24% of consolidated sales represented by overseas sales currently. 
MANILA, Philippines -- San Miguel Corp., a Philippine food and packaging conglomerate, has obtained a 500 million peso ($19.3 million) loan from Philippine Commercial International Bank to finance its modernization and expansion projects. 
Inflation is, of course, a monetary phenomenon, so central bank actions can either diminish or exaggerate the problem of rising commodity prices. 
Eventually both of Sally's parents were deported and repatriated to England, leaving the 18-year-old Sally to make her own life. 
The contracts are to run for two years each, with a third-year option based on performance. 
product, such as a tennis racquet." 
Shalikashvili and Powell assert that all is well; but their vantage point may not be all that much different than the president's. 
That upgrade has something to do with the nature of coffee, and a lot to do with the nature of Starbucks. 
James D. Shiffer, president and chief executive officer of PG&E Enterprises -- the unit involved in the acquisition -- said, "PG&E believes there is a fundamental change occurring in the electric industry and that by expanding our already successful investment in independent power, we are positioning ourselves to not only adapt, but also to profit in the increasingly competitive electricity market." 
A sunny, loquacious woman, Ms. Brady is an enviably brave one as well: At 54 years of age, she offers to public view a handsome face entirely innocent of makeup. 
MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines' trade deficit narrowed in May from June due to stronger exports, the National Statistics Office reported. 
During its first week at the Met, the RB presented three performances of a triple-bill consisting of "The Judas Tree," the last work MacMillan completed before his death in 1992 (his unfortunate choreography for the "Carousel" production now at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center was finished by other hands); "Tombeaux," an abstract -- not to say featureless -- ballet created in 1993 by David Bintley; and Ashton's "The Dream," of 1964. 
Your July 11 article "Mexico's Polls Offer Array of Results, All Very Unreliable" states that the results of all electoral polls conducted in Mexico are unreliable basically because they differ considerably. 
By contrast, the health-food business is full of freewheeling, risk-taking entrepreneurs rooted in '60s counterculture, many of whom call Smucker "the suits." 
Though the government hopes to discontinue helping enterprises adapt to market demands, officials said the system for credit approvals and repayments is a big step forward. 
The FCC is studying the low-priced systems to see if they should be required to reduce rates. 
exclaimed the stunned employee. 
A public bond sale to finance the purchases was discussed by county officials. 
Keep the gold and gems, Bishop Vikentios Malamatenios, dean of St. Irene's Church, implored the thieves in dozens of media interviews. 
Later, when the governor tried to convene a meeting of lawyers to sort out the selection process, one prominent invited guest, plaintiffs' attorney William Prickett, not-so-respectfully declined the invitation. 
Mr. O'Leary says that up until now, packaged goods haven't been fodder for infomercials because it's difficult to engage consumers with products they consider to be "old reliables" readily available on supermarket shelves. 
The other was to create a model for similar talks with other big emerging nations before relations with them grow testy. 
Mr. Ferri said Nasdaq is in the first year of a three- to five-year software and hardware upgrade expected to cost $175 million. 
NEW YORK -- The Justice Department launched an antitrust investigation focusing on how Sony Corp. and Philips Electronics NV jointly charge dozens of companies patent-licensing fees to make and market compact disks. 
In Atlanta, Federated's Rich's stores compete with Macy's department stores, while in the New York City area, Macy's competes with Federated's Bloomingdale's, Stern's, and Abraham & Straus. 
People familiar with the situation say several directors and executives believe that Mr. Katzenberg, as a "creative" executive, is too similar to Mr. Eisner, and that his absence from running day-to-day studio operations would create succession problems in Disney's film and TV divisions. 
Thus Ms. Turner's morning calls: She's trying to identify the new porn lines to block them. 
It is a high price to pay for feel-good justice. 
These results, which were in line with analysts' expectations, compare with net income of $48 million, or 22 cents a share, a year earlier. 
"I dare say it's the most difficult athletic sport that exists," says Teake T. Bult, a mailman and retired ljepper who handles the commentary at fierljeppen events. 
TOKYO -- Japan's new Socialist prime minister is bringing his party into the political mainstream, a move some say will extend the life of his unlikely alliance of conservatives and leftists. 
He sold the guns to Mr. Miller and his twin brother, Carl, and to others, who then resold them privately at flea markets. 
The Birmingham, Ala.-based company has 29.4 million shares outstanding; compared with 21.4 million a year ago. 
"We will come in and say it doesn't have enough detail about well-known high-risk jobs like operators of sewing machines," said Eric Frumin, health and safety director for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in New York. 
The supermarkets, named either Demoulas or Market Basket, are often sandwiched between department stores and drugstores. 
At growing rival Best Buy Co., comparable-store sales increased 14% for June 1994. 
A bottle of local beer is $1. 
Eisenhower and Reagan, both Republicans. 
The derivatives hit, which has resulted in a $40 million write-off before taxes for CS First Boston so far this year, was uncovered by the CS Holding unit through its internal-compliance department, the people said. 
The "off-road" vehicles, which are smaller than Chrysler Corp.'s Jeep Cherokee, are better suited for tight parking spaces in big cities such as Tokyo. 
That would help stanch the flow of Canadian grain into the U.S., which has been a growing sore point between the two trade partners. 
But now doubts are eroding this secular faith. 
(They, in turn, have lobbied for laws barring physician ownership of hospitals, a key Columbia strategy.) 
The changes, proposed by the National Association of Securities Dealers, make it harder for funds to claim being the "No. 
Mrs. Clark works at least 44 hours a week, including evening shifts and frequent Saturdays and Sundays. 
He has, for example, positioned it at the forefront of China's efforts to build a legal framework for a market economy. 
By contrast, Ford's car sales improved only 2.9%, despite dramatic gains in sales made by the company's Mustang sports car and Escort subcompact. 
In the first half of 1993, Mannesmann had a net loss of 467 million marks ($297 million). 
He said he expects to break ground on the first few buildings within eight months. 
Oats used to make the cereals had been sprayed with the wrong pesticide since May 1993, investigators said. 
An initial offering of 13 million American depositary shares was priced at $15.248 each as part of the Italian government's privatization of the company. 
The percentage rates are calculated on a 360-day year, while the coupon equivalent yield is based on a 365-day year. 
EAI has been reporting growing revenues and steeply growing profits ($1.9 million, or 24 cents a share, in its latest nine months). 
But it may not matter. 
NEW YORK -- Another daily newspaper will soon die. 
But Mr. Heiligbrodt is puzzled by the resistance so far. 
The regional aviation industry is being driven by economics, not safety and sound judgment. 
When they quit, they left the books balanced. 
The board now has nine members. 
While saying that he backed many of this week's decrees expanding government control of the institutions, he complained that he had been restrained from taking as active a role in resolving the crisis as he had hoped. 
"I am sorry for being so dirty. 
She strips to scanty underwear -- black of course -- and performs her idea of an erotic dance. 
With villagers now thinking of building factories here, the pressures of economic development soon could obliterate what charm is left. 
The firm is also reportedly seeking an American partner. 
NEW YORK -- Program trading for the week ended July 1 accounted for 14.8%, or an average 37.7 million daily shares, of New York Stock Exchange volume. 
Produced by Peter Kuttner, Cyndi Moran and Eric Scholl, "Nightstick" is a clearly flawed program, relying heavily as it does on the handouts and political set-pieces of community activists, and much less on firsthand interviews. 
According to figures from Statistical Research, an audience-measurement company, 96.4% of the U.S. population listened to radio last year, the second-highest listenership since 1973, when it was 96.7%. 
They point out that profits in Pepsi's soft-drink business are expected to be slightly disappointing. 
Like mutual funds, they buy groups of stocks, so small investors don't have to bother on their own. 
Mr. Malval also keeps in touch with Haiti's shifting realities, sifting rumors and reports of military plots and feuds, trying to discern patterns and permutations in political currents. 
Services grew to 27% of revenue in the quarter, while mainframes, with gross margins of almost 50%, have been at about 22% of revenue, according to analysts. 
That is the lowest one-day level since May 27, the day before the Memorial Day weekend. 
That left Sunkyong to take care of GTE, which for months had suggested it would file a $100 million breach-of-contract suit against Sunkyong if it wasn't restored as the lead foreign partner. 
The 15-minute route will have 13 stops, including the Ming dynasty emperors' tombs, a popular tourist attraction. 
The strong yen, which makes Korean cars cheaper relative to their Japanese rivals, has helped fuel Hyundai's comeback. 
In public telephone switches, according to Idate, Alcatel ranked second after Germany's Siemens AG; but over the years it has installed more lines of digital telephone exchanges -- 90 million, or 19% of the world market -- than any other company. 
By these standards, it would appear Mr. Angell has been conscientious. 
Most producers already are sold out through the third quarter, and they are allocating steel to customers. 
Corporate defendants complained that punitive damages, designed to punish harmful conduct, are "out of control." 
The Fort Worth, Texas, oil concern said Overseas is a U.S. government agency that provides financing and political risk insurance for American investments in developing countries. 
It didn't specifically mention the dollar's impact on Europe, where its collapse has been more recent. 
During the second quarter, the company repurchased 7.7 million shares for $386 million. 
Summer business seems to balance out at other locations, too. 
But supermarket companies that continue to wrangle with new store development programs or tangle with difficult regional economies won't fare as well. 
When Justice Felix Frankfurter tried to mount a behind-the-scenes campaign for him 12 years later, it was too late: Hand was past 70, and just six years earlier President Roosevelt had castigated the court's "nine old men" and their obstruction of his New Deal. 
As a result, he thinks securities maturing in five years or less offer attractive yields. 
In the third quarter just ended, the bank had an annualized return on equity of 17.96% and return on average assets of 2.67%. 
Next summer, under the Clean Air Act, motorists in half the country will be required to fill their tanks with it. 
Crime, Mr. Neely argues, does not spring from the availability of guns or the lack of spending on police or even from poverty. 
UAL recently renegotiated the terms of the buyout agreement, offering to give shareholders the proceeds from the offering rather than the securities themselves. 
"You can teach school on this chart," he asserts, pointing out a price formation known as a "reverse head and shoulders" -- a very bullish omen to the chartists. 
(A metric ton is 2,204.6 
Which is one reason why the Irish Republic is cautious about embracing it: The present cost of Northern Ireland to London is about a third of the annual tax revenue of the Irish Republic. 
That index fell to 693.79 at its worst point. 
"The Australian market is not large enough to warrant the investment that would be necessary to set up our own operations there, nor is the average Australian consumer aware of Lands' End," said William O'Neill, vice president/international. 
"None of these guys think they can be replaced," says Mortimer Feinberg, chairman of BFS Psychological Associates, a New York management consulting firm. 
And under the Southern Baptist Church's "True Love Waits" program, more than 100,000 teens have signed pledges vowing to remain chaste until they are married. 
It went to an anonymous American telephone bidder. 
A single man and an only child, he says he loves every minute of it. 
Decision-making can be much faster this way," said Arvind Desai, senior analyst with healthcare investment advisers Mehta & Isaly. 
Chinese Premier Li Peng told German industrialists that his country is particularly interested in investments that will build up not only his country's infrastructure but also its heavy industries. 
The unusual about-face raised eyebrows in the publishing industry, which was equally surprised by the announcement that Ms. Penney would leave to take a new corporate post as director of media development. 
Soon Illias, the shaman, appears and Drs. 
The company was struggling with decreased earnings," said Paul Brayton, a former member of the Steelcase board. 
There are undercurrents of rivalry among the women, and when a gorgeous ex-boyfriend of Ruth's materializes to adore her even in her sadly diminished state, the women are jealous though they know they shouldn't be. 
"Jack's a real operator, he's a real politician," says one person familiar with Mr. Hennessy. 
In response to that report, EAI said that its accountant, Arthur Andersen, had reviewed its policies and that Anderson and the company are satisfied that the policies comply with generally accepted accounting principles. 
to someone standing on a soapbox," says Tony Rutkowski, executive director of the Internet Society in Reston, Va. 
Assets of 251 retail tax-exempt funds increased by $2.83 billion to $93.86 billion. 
The notes have a 4.75% coupon and are priced to yield 4.2% Aug. 11, 1995. 
"It was designed by artists, not engineers," Mr. Zehfus tells visitors. 
PROBLEMS NAG Clinton on GATT, even as he praises the trade pact abroad. 
And there's something slightly sad about laughs at the expense of characters staggering around with perpetual hangovers. 
Earlier this year Guido Tognani, spokesman for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer's governing politburo, told the Scripps-Howard News Service this: "We are going to have an invasion of the United States -- but 500 years too late. 
The trigger "represents a surrendering of sovereignty," Mr. Davis says. 
A California couple tied the knot yesterday at a pit stop on the information highway. 
In a news release, MicroAge said its revenue "continues at record levels." 
On the advice of her lawyer, she refused, but did provide two letters from psychiatrists who treated her. 
The dilemma facing the PLO is that Islamic groups perform essential functions that the financially strapped Palestinian authority can't afford to duplicate, and yet use the services as a way of building political clout and, ultimately, siphoning away support for the government. 
Trading tactics also point to further dollar-selling, analysts say. 
You can take the later date only if it actually lowers estate taxes. 
Oppenheimer insists that it won't throw fuel on the fire by liquidating its biotech holdings rapidly. 
When one teacher left abruptly earlier this year to take a temporary job at General Motors for $13 an hour, painful ripples spread through the center. 
Teenagers with grand ambitions now see that behavior that they were taught was indecent, illegal, can be engaged in without consequence. 
His empire, headquartered in Tewksbury, Mass., includes 51 supermarkets (with $1 billion in annual revenue), 47 shopping malls, a resort hotel and a golf course, trial records show. 
The industrial management company's pretax profit for the year ended April 30 jumped 50% to #257.1 million ($398.2 million) from a year earlier. 
It was Brazil, in the years just after World War II, that loosed free-flowing "samba" soccer, or jogo bonito, for "beautiful game," upon the world. 
My last one was in 1981. 
Under the arrangement, which is not a merger, Hildebrandt will refer clients to New Yorkbased Ernst & Young for work on issues such as compensation, benefits and litigation support. 
The American colony has two newspapers, a radio station, and a restaurant that makes blueberry cheesecake and banana daiquiris. 
But, he adds, "He's ignited a spark which, with careful cultivation, will take the next 20 years to turn into a flame." 
"Once it becomes clear that things are slowing down, that should push the bond market lower, which, in turn will help trigger a move back up in stock prices." 
The company's results were released after the close of the market. 
COFFEE: Coffee prices rose another 5.6% on the back of Monday's 25% gain, as investors continued to worry about frost damage to Brazil's key coffee-growing regions of Minas Gerais and Parana. 
Motorola said the Envoy, based on General Magic Inc.'s Magic Cap communicating applications platform and Telescript communications language, will feature three types of communications links. 
This is Landmark Chevrolet, where the stuff of American dreams is on sale for $10,987, plus tax, freight, document fee, a $395 fabric-protection package and your $1,500 down payment, if you're ready to buy tonight, because with a price like that, this vehicle probably won't be here tomorrow. 
Jonathan Chiel, chief of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney's office in Boston, said an investigation of illegal lobbying practices by legislators and lobbyists for Hancock and other businesses "is ongoing." 
It aims to invalidate the company's so-called poison pill provision adopted in 1990 to discourage unwelcome takeover bids and cancel a pact for the merger partners to purchase up to 15% of each others' shares. 
The deal is expected to close late this year. 
"I can't believe they did it," said S. Robert Levine, Cabletron's chief executive. 
Maybe that rock right there was thrown by someone. 
As previously reported, the company plans further reductions this year. 
Fees 0.15. 
Nasdaq volume exploded to its highest level since April 13. 
VARITY Corp. (Buffalo, N.Y.) -- William N. White, 52 years old, formerly vice president of operations and strategic planning/acquisitions for Monroe Auto Equipment, a unit of Tenneco Inc., was named president of this company's Dayton Walther unit. 
Holders of full Merc memberships can trade any of the exchange's agricultural, currency, interest-rate or equity-index futures or options. 
"If the market isn't trading well when it comes out, prices will fall off" as shares in other companies are sold to raise money, says Mr. Fawcett of Indosuez. 
"He is a large contributor to both parties and many worthwhile philanthropic and educational institutions. 
Last October and November, at the peak of a stock-market frenzy over media assets, K-III asked for proposals for an initial public offering of 15% to 20% of K-III's stock. 
The administration forecasts a slowdown in growth in the second half of this year. 
The fields are silent and empty, except for oncoming tourists. 
Atop the list: Establish a routine for discussing job and family issues. 
At a State Department briefing yesterday, Mr. Gray acknowleged the momentum for military action, saying, "I think the prospect of intervention grows as the coup leadership refuses to recognize that the world community has clearly called upon them to step down and allow democracy to be restored." 
OAKLAND, Calif. -- First the better tomato. 
As part of a license, some companies must also agree to follow detailed design specifications imposed by Sony and Philips, dictating the exact size, thickness and other factors for a disk. 
Ms. Lehman, 29 years old, an assistant professor of computer arts at San Jose State University, wore her grandmother's white, tea-length lace wedding dress with a veil. 
The price of the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond fell nearly 3/8 point, or nearly $3.75 for a bond with $1,000 face value, to 82 29/32. 
Citicasters operates 14 radio and six television stations. 
"I already know where it's all going." 
But at midmorning, the bottom fell out of the market in response to new data suggesting burgeoning inflation pressures and solid economic growth. 
The show reflects "a trend toward new talk shows that address the 1990s job market," says Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, a trade journal. 
Because they froze or limited the budgets of their in-house legal departments, the companies apparently ended up relying more extensively on the much more expensive services of their outside law firms. 
The second hole, for instance, is an uphill 347-yard par-four with a rugged fairway and a green that is little more than a tiny ledge cut into a thickly wooded hillside. 
beat out seven other competitors with an aggressive bid for the Tennessee Valley Authority's $500 million issue yesterday, but there still are bonds to be had, market participants say. 
For one thing, Federated-Macy will have a great deal of latitude in reorganizing its balance sheet on the way out of bankruptcy court. 
Leaps & Bounds was McDonald's only venture outside the food business in the U.S. and marks the end to what some executives hoped would be an extension of the chain's restaurant franchise. 
The spouse who's been shouldering the housework and parenting wants to be taken to dinner or given a present. 
Oil, for instance, was $40 per barrel in 1981, compared with $19 today. 
With the 1996 Olympics scheduled to open two years from Tuesday, the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games -- the private, nonprofit group charged with staging the 17-day event -- says its massive preparations are right on schedule. 
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AUTHORITY will redeem, on Aug. 1, 1994, $530,000 principal amount of its revenue bonds, 9.25% series A, due Aug. 1, 2000. 
In the first half, Bombay shares fell nearly 58% to $12.625 from $30 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, adjusted for a 3-for-2 split in January. 
MIDLAND, Texas -- Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co. emerged as the apparent victor in a three-week bidding war for Australia's Bridge Oil Ltd.  A spokesman for Parker & Parsley said he expected Bridge Oil shareholders to accept the energy company's sweetened bid of about $268.5 million, or 66 cents a share. 
The Better Baby program was born, incorporating Mr. Doman's belief that stimulating an infant's senses in a variety of unusual ways will expand the brain's auditory and visual pathways. 
Instead, the plan went down in flames, and Mr. Clinton and his aides blamed the French alone. 
The three Bells that aren't part of the new effort -- Pacific Telesis Group, U S West Inc. and Ameritech Corp. -- declined to join the group assault on the consent decree because they are pursuing narrower deregulation requests of their own. 
In the just-ended fiscal first quarter, Mr. Perham said the company should meet its prediction of topping its results in the fourth quarter ended April 3, when IDT reported earnings of 45 cents a share on sales of $92 million. 
In Milan, prices were flat in thin trading; investors were disappointed after the Italian government delayed discussion of budgetary matters until next week because Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was away for the G-7 summit in Naples. 
Since I retired in 1973, I have received more than $1.2 million from the government. 
"We weren't advised of the change." 
They want the best gizmo they can get, at the best price. 
Burlington Northern is strong in coal traffic, which rose 13% at that railroad during April and May, while Santa Fe Pacific is strong in intermodal shipments, which were up 14% on that line during the same two month period, according to Michael Lloyd, an analyst at NatWest Securities Corp.  A Burlington Northern spokesman said the company expects to exceed last year's second-quarter earnings of 74 cents a share, but noted that higher than usual derailment costs and other factors "have put pressure on earnings." 
A spokesman for Casio said that although market share figures aren't yet clear, Casio plans to supply about 60,000 pagers to Bharti during the first year of the tie-up. 
So he returned the game to the store. 
Among his favorites: Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Intel and Motorola, as well as Chrysler and Ford. 
Another striking aspect of the decisions was a lengthy dissent in which Justice Clarence Thomas urged a dramatic withdrawal of the federal judiciary from disputes over voting rights. 
Justices Kennedy and O'Connor frequently appear to be torn between the conservative theory of Justice Scalia, who wants to radically reduce judicial authority, and their own aspiration to be statesman-like figures who seek reasonable solutions to controversies. 
Philip Morris Cos., which led the charge last year with a second-quarter promotional price cut for Marlboro, is expected to report a 17% improvement in second-quarter earnings. 
"It's a cheap source of money." 
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Amgen Inc. posted considerably better-than-expected second-quarter net income of $107.5 million, or 77 cents a share, on strong sales of its two biotechnology drugs. 
Similarly, Minnesota is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health providers to join together in "integrated service networks." 
Most of Snake River's members are family farmers who work 100 to 200 acres each, according to Rich Turner, executive secretary of the Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers Association in eastern Oregon. 
Relenting, the king lets the prince come to court and taste power, which he proceeds ferociously to abuse -- he hurls a servant out the window, duels haughtily with a rival prince, and attacks the first beautiful woman he sees. 
Bonds with an S&P rating below triple-B-minus or a Moody's rating below Baa3 are considered speculative, or junk bonds. 
NEW YORK -- The dollar fell to a record low against the yen yesterday on fears that the latest political convulsions in Japan have left U.S. efforts to conclude a trade agreement with that nation in disarray. 
But lately, the market has grown saturated and price competition is mounting. 
To help folks envision how a metal chair can fit into a living-room setting, Pier 1 mixes metal furniture with wicker and wood pieces in model rooms featured in its print ads. 
But with about 135,000 visitors tromping through Fallingwater each year, the curators of the museum, which is run by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, are in a constant battle to keep it looking the way most people imagine it should. 
Fifty years ago some of the world's best-known economists assembled at Bretton Woods in northern New Hampshire to put into final form an international financial system. 
Eventually, the foundation may wind up with some $200 million. 
They were fined $250 and sentenced to three years' probation. 
Its yield was 6.72%, down from 6.76% in the previous session. 
For one thing, they're cheap. 
Mr. Murayama himself said last week that tax cuts and increases needn't be legislated simultaneously. 
Among them are an easing of interest rates, further declines in the value of the dollar, and an upsurge of buying interest from Europe and Asia. 
Meanwhile, European bond markets gyrated amid continued nervousness over the dollar's prospects and the Fed's plans for interest rates. 
But "generally, we had a positive term," Mr. Bokat says. 
And those representatives have made it clear they object to bills like one that would give the FDA jurisdiction over tobacco. 
And Hal Fox, a retired engineer in Salt Lake City, publishes at his own expense a monthly newsletter, Fusion Facts, on the subject. 
Last month, the charges zoomed to $4,000. 
He had been vice president-finance and chief financial officer. 
Among such a people, de Tocqueville wrote, all labor is honorable. 
Angie Clark and Andreas Drauschke work comparable jobs for comparable pay at department stores in Berlin and suburban Washington, D.C. 
And in a letter to Northwest, American's general counsel suggested that American might sue over the personnel raids. 
At another juncture, Judge Breyer took the initiative to counter suggestions that some of his past investments in the Lloyd's of London insurance market may have created a conflict of interest in certain cases he decided as a federal appellate judge in Boston. 
The Dow Jones industrials rose 13.92 to 3688.42. 
The anticipated third-quarter net is an improvement from the net income of $33.8 million, or 70 cents a share, reported for the year-earlier fiscal third quarter. 
How was this achieved? 
Dow Jones industrials 3624.96, off 42.09; transportation 1595.68, off 9.93; utilities 177.17, off 0.99. 
Hi, Mom, welcome to the cyberworld. 
NAPLES, Italy -- He came. 
The company, which had estimated a $75 million inventory imbalance, said it reduced that discrepancy to about $45 million by the end of June. 
And despite something of a backlash against a perceived political correctness, this new literary style, perhaps most widely recognized in Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove," is thriving. 
Under the alternative, large subsidies would be needed to fill the gap and make insurance affordable in the near term for poor and working-class families with children. 
Most important, they said, the market hasn't convinced them that it can rally. 
Officials said a presidential decree will for the first time regulate aid to private and state firms. 
Boasting of her 3 1/2-year-old daughter's ability to read 200 words, play the piano and hum Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, she praises Mr. Doman for permitting her to offer her child "everything that is wonderful in humanity, instead of just Bozo the Clown." 
Mr. Roche heads an institution that stopped accepting students receiving federal aid after the Supreme Court ruled that the practice would subject it to a panoply of federal regulation. 
Dr. Rempel, a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, recently finished a study on the subject. 
As directors, they succeed Harry L. Anthony IV, 46, and Richard F. Clement Jr., 50, who will remain employees of the company. 
"The end of this year will be a critical test for us," he said, hinting at the timing of the cash injection. 
S&P downgraded its rating on the state's $18.4 billion of long-term general obligation debt to single-A from single-A-plus while Moody's downgraded it from double-A to single-A1. 
The university technology office denied jumping the gun on investments, and a university audit committee cleared Mr. Wootten of all conflict-of-interest charges in January. 
Their political senses were shaped by the 1992 election, the most exciting political event they have experienced. 
They have put the U.S. at the bottom of their shopping lists, and that could mean higher interest rates in the U.S. down the line. 
A $40 million lawsuit filed by the Church of Scientology against WPP Group's J. Walter Thompson and Hill & Knowlton units; Martin Sorrell, WPP's chief executive officer; and Eli Lilly & Co. was quietly settled this past Wednesday, according to individuals from both sides. 
At the same time, the government presented a restructuring plan to scale back the size the airline's fleet and the number of routes. 
When the doorbell rings in Japan, it is often the "takuhaibin" (home delivery) company, a force keeping this cramped society rolling. 
On Tuesday between noon and 3 p.m. for example, NBC was watched by 5.4% of U.S. homes with television sets, according to overnight ratings from 30 major cities compiled by A.C. Nielsen. 
No longer will Americans spend anything like 5.4 billion man-hours figuring their taxes each year, as they do now, and legions of lawyers and accountants will need to find other work. 
NEW YORK -- Wall Street is looking for mixed earnings from tobacco companies in the second quarter, partly reflecting their varying stages of participation in last year's domestic cigarette price war. 
"I use ordinary aquariums and some thermometers that I bought from Edmund Scientific," he says, referring to a mail-order firm near Philadelphia that is popular with amateur scientists. 
A Japanese real-estate company known in English as "Grandy" was declared insolvent with outstanding liabilities of 104.0 billion yen ($1.05 billion). 
Heftel Broadcasting Corp. -- initial four million shares, via Alex Brown & Sons Inc.  Industrie Natuzzi SPA -- 2.8 million American depositary shares, via CS First Boston. 
But some business groups are pressing for the Legislature to take a second look at the employer-mandate issue. 
"I will firmly maintain the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty." 
Those savings over traditional insurance costs sometimes can exceed 20%, making many employers eager to use HMOs for their medical coverage. 
He stressed that the fraud allegations against him come only from one investigating magistrate, who -- Mr. Suard and his colleagues said -- has been refused support by the state prosecutor. 
AgResource's corn harvest estimate is climbing to about 8.8 billion bushels from 8.5 billion bushels. 
Federated, on the other hand, has expressed dissatisfaction with its own approach, known as team buying. 
Some insisted that the soles of his shoes, which often rested atop his desk, were always so spotless because he was driven everywhere. 
Last year, NBC, a unit of General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn., bought and revamped the pan-European NBC Super Channel, and two months ago, it formed a joint venture with TV Azteca, a unit of Mexico's Grupo Azteca. 
Fletcher Challenge Canada is a Vancouver, British Columbia, forest-products company. 
Does his boss know he went to the game? 
In other words, by the end of 1994 there should be tens of thousands more acres of wetlands than there were at the beginning. 
As a result, most of the executives, including John Ford, former Ecolab senior vice president, are restricted for varying lengths of time from contacting their previous Ecolab clients. 
These costs rose 0.4% in June, one of the biggest jumps in any category, and have risen about 4.6% for the past 12 months. 
By 1990 48.9% of state prisoners and 31.4% of federal prisoners were black. 
"After dinner I walk through my rose garden" -- a 450-bush rosery -- "smoking my favorite cigar, Punch Double Corona. 
"Japan, it's just like Italy," said Mr. de Paola. 
France: That is what I feel. 
The two longtime U.S. rivals have agreed to team up in the research to avoid costly duplication of effort. 
"Their strength is Europe and that's where we're the weakest." 
Dave Lundstedt, First Brands' vice president, sales, automotive division, will serve as president of Prestone. 
DETROIT -- The 10 U.S. auto makers estimated vehicle production for the week of July 4 at 39,755 cars and trucks, down 79.1% from 190,446 vehicles built in the year-earlier week. 
Since the stock-offering proposals were made in October and November, the media-stock frenzy has subsided, the entire stock market has cooled off, and stocks of three companies that the investment banks deem comparable have declined by 7% to 33%. 
At issue is the imposition of payroll taxes on nonwage, nonsalary income. 
"I don't know how long I'm going to wait around this time" before returning to work for the company. 
Mr. Galpern said Macfadden and Boston Ventures aren't expected to make a second, higher offer. 
For the year, total average daily volume is around 300 million, although it has been lower lately in lackluster markets. 
The proceeds will be used to redeem C$650 million of maturing government bonds and for general government purposes. 
No one who worked with him or for him at the nation's largest publishing company is likely to forget. 
For the first time, Sanofi will be able to gear up its own U.S. marketing staff to sell its own drugs. 
Crushed, she is now bracing herself for the return of her old habits, and her old weight. 
Neither network would comment specifically on the Disney ads. 
"Most people feel that not much is going to come out of those meetings," MCM's Mr. Thin said. 
"It's a sneaker business. 
Labor problems caused the New Delhi-based concern to lose the top position in the year that ended in June 1993, but Kelvinator believes it regained the No. 1 spot in its latest fiscal year, with sales of about $120 million. 
Another subpoena in the probe went out to DiscoVision Associates, which holds about two dozen patents for compact-disk technology. 
In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide victory in Sunday's runoff elections. 
It also highlights the divergent, shifting interests of QVC's three major holders. 
The decision was made "in view of current market conditions," the companies said. 
But Japan and France are balking. 
Why should I pay premiums for the sneaker business?" 
Brazilian debt prices had risen much of last week in advance of the final match against Italy Sunday. 
Activity isn't expected to pick up before tomorrow's release of June employment figures. 
Mr. Luther also said Bertelsmann is equally interested in expanding its operations in the film industry, where small, independent studios in the U.S. have caught the group's attention. 
He won't comment on specific drug applications, but says: "There are many that are under development, and our hope is that we would be able to get such agents to add to our armamentarium." 
However, the payment is contingent on bank financing and changing the restrictions on the company's debt agreements. 
Though advocacy groups have campaigned to get parents to pay more for child care, parents resist. 
But listen to some of them and one can almost hear the old thoughtworld dying and a new world -- less confident, less certain of itself -- being born. 
Before World War II, a family called Klepetar owned the Zahradni Street house, and ran it as a bathhouse-hotel. 
THE U.S. TOOK STEPS to increase the pressure on Haiti's military rulers. 
Conseco is considering selling three insurance holdings to raise more than $1 billion, partly to pay down debt from its acquisition of Kemper. 
But she hired tutors, immersed herself in telecommunications and other areas she didn't know enough about, and impressed many with her mastery of complex concepts in the division's investigations. 
"You have to talk to too many people and do many things at one time," he says. 
Some analysts note that Elektra's business will face more competition as retailers sweep Mexico. 
The move follows Pepsi's forecast in early June that second-quarter earnings will be flat due to pricing pressures in its beverage operations, as well as a slowdown in restaurant sales. 
Smaller stocks recovered from their lows as the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's policy-making body, ended its two-day meeting without tightening credit. 
Medical treatments sometimes cost surprisingly little in the study's analysis because they are used on a small target group-sick people. 
But in the early 1980s it was decided that the IMF was becoming a bit too much of a global central bank. 
"Tech stocks are always the ones that investors pick on," he says. 
Dow Jones futures index 161.14, up 2.16; spot index 150.99, up 1.56. 
-- Color coding task files. 
I like to watch the numbers." 
Nevertheless, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, in a statement after the ITC meeting Friday, said the administration will "pursue all alternatives to restrain imports and seek remedies to the unfair practices of the Canadian Wheat Board." 
"We thought we'd get maybe a couple of hundred entries," says Kristine Levesque, the dog track's marketing director. 
On large-denomination "jumbo" CDs, which typically require deposits of $95,000 and more, the average yield on a six-month certificate rose to 4.19% from 4.14%. 
But she added, "It will be interesting to see if the vultures that will circle them want to cherry-pick them" by hiring away Synergen scientists or offering to buy only some assets. 
Some mutual-fund companies including Fidelity Investments go out of their way to explain their derivatives holdings, but others gloss over the subject. 
"United is a survivor," said Robert Hickey, a portfolio manager at Van Kampen Merritt Management, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., who participated in the bond issue. 
The subsidiary, launched only a year ago, is a complete distribution system, which the company says provides security for dispensing biotech or other sophisticated drugs, particularly those that can be abused or for which demand outstrips supply. 
This is how a credit squeeze begins. 
"The homeowners marketplace will soon be difficult," worries Marjorie Berte, the governor's insurance adviser. 
Previously, Mr. Bergsten had called for the dollar to trade at between 90 and 100 yen to force Japan to narrow its trade surplus against the U.S. Those comments had helped trigger previous falls in the dollar -- prompting Clinton administration officials to try to distance themselves from Mr. Bergsten's views. 
That was best symbolized by its recently opened HealthPark campus, south of downtown. 
The NASD's withdrawal of the proposal "shows it just wasn't workable," says David Robbins, a New York lawyer and former arbitration chief at the American Stock Exchange. 
The post-fascist National Alliance said it would support the decree only if a key amendment is introduced in Parliament. 
Execs who shun vacations fearing they will lose their jobs are often the first to be replaced, warns consultant Andrew Sherwood. 
Mr. Marshall also practices a kind of "information dominance," knowing more about more than other players. 
Chipcom rocketed 7 1/4, or 18.4%, to 46 3/4. 
In an interview with French financial daily La Tribune Desfosses, Mr. Luther said the joint venture would pool the new pay-TV activities of the two companies. 
Recognizing major life changes is a priority for the 49-year-old stock picker, who manages the $937.5 million Warburg Pincus International Equity fund. 
Washington Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, who has close ties to Fannie Mae Vice Chairman Franklin Raines, doesn't support the Fannie Mae taxation idea, saying it sends a negative message to business and could encourage "out-migration." 
The 10th, from U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington, doesn't make any excuses. 
"I think it's fun. 
She grew up south of here, and spent four months of the war in a Nazi prison. 
But the IRS is moving to electronic funds transfers, so many corporate payroll officers will have to move faster. 
But the judge in the same order tweaked the Baby Bells, particularly BellSouth, the most vocal opponent of the AT&T-McCaw combination. 
Cyrix this year signed a manufacturing agreement with International Business Machines Corp., which will produce chips for Cyrix and may also sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own label. 
Arafat, who arrived in the other autonomous area of Gaza on Friday, was to fly to Jericho from Gaza early today. 
GENEVA -- The International Energy Agency said it expects world oil demand in the fourth quarter to be even higher than it had previously forecast. 
Mr. Magnus conceded that the greenback might rebound a little early this week, but said: "The dollar will keep falling, longer-term." 
TIME WARNER Inc. (New York) -- Don Morrison, 47 years old, was named to the new position of editor of Time magazine's weekly Asian edition, based in Hong Kong. 
It is caused by biochemical changes in the brain, and while these are poorly understood they are treatable. 
Combining such venerable chains as Bloomingdale's, Bullock's, and Rich's, the company will have tremendous power to demand better prices and terms from its legions of suppliers. 
As the Fairy of Generosity in the prologue of "The Sleeping Beauty" and as Diamond in the third act of the same ballet, she succeeds in irradiating the entire performance. 
Last year the company's apparel sales slid 25%, despite healthy exports to the U.S. and the U.K., Mr. Marzotto says. 
Friday's 201.9 million shares traded was Nasdaq's lowest total since May 27. 
At the briefing, the administration again asserted that its deficit-reduction plan helped launch the economic recovery. 
That's because this is a labor-bargaining year in the game, and history has it that the players and owners do not settle their differences amicably. 
After the 1990 census, lawmakers in many states invoked the section to redraw district lines to give minority voters greater political muscle; as a result, minorites were elected in record numbers to federal and state offices in 1992. 
Germany was less than overwhelming in its first two outings on this shore, a 1-0 win over Bolivia and 1-1 tie with Spain. 
That means his illness -- and his few days in the fast lane -- shouldn't spoil his humble, regular-guy image. 
And the Department of Commerce is seeking to modify licensing requirements set out in the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, the law that fostered the current technology-transfer system by lifting the government's ban on licensing federally funded research. 
Carr Indonesia. 
Instead, Hamlet-like, he thrice reinforced his reputation for irresolution by voicing his thoughts on the disproportionate severity of the sentence, pondering aloud whether to request the American business community "to lean on" the Singapore government, and questioning the voluntary nature of Mr. Fay's confession, without any obvious follow-up action. 
The nontechnical answer as to why prices have risen nearly fourfold since 1971 is that the (mutated) financial system has absorbed (monetized) over $2 trillion in Treasury debt since then. 
After the sale, which is expected to close later this summer, Vestar Capital will hold a majority stake in the Prestone business, to be named Prestone Products Corp.  First Brands manufactures a range of consumer products including its Glad line of plastic wrap and bag products, Scoop Away cat litter, Siminiz automotive polish and STP engine additive products, and has annual sales approaching $1 billion. 
Coupon payments in Swiss francs. 
CHICAGO -- Information Resources Inc. said it will stop providing comparative product sales data to The Wall Street Journal for use in the newspaper's Marketscan column. 
Because fees take a bite out of fund performance, smart investors use cost as one of several factors in choosing a fund. 
This provoked howls of derision, and Disney quickly pulled back. 
Three nuclear plants supply a third of the island's electricity. 
We are in the process . 
This provider of pay-per-view movie systems to the hotel industry is in a transition year. 
Liberals more than most should heed Justice Thomas, because he is describing exactly what is happening to Democrats. 
Less diplomatically, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), mocked the very notion of a "bomber industrial base." 
So the total purchase price is $13,682, for a vehicle Landmark acquired for less than $12,000, although Landmark won't say exactly. 
Even bulls on the stock are losing a bit of sleep over what IBM may report next week. 
SHENNONGJIA, China -- China has 1.2 billion people; Hu Zhenlin is looking for the ones with size-48 feet. 
But also from New York this week comes some good news. 
Mr. Cook, for his part, says the firm's asset-management group made progress. 
Mr. Moser formerly served as senior vice president and director of corporate marketing for West One Bancorp., Boise Idaho. 
The commonwealth of Massachusetts was seeking back taxes on a $1 million stock sale made three years earlier. 
Furr's/Bishop's said that as part of an effort to focus on its core cafeteria business, it is discussing the sale of its El Paso Bar-B-Que Co. unit to a private investment group being formed by Mr. Prather. 
Even if a divorce decree clearly says you get part of your former mate's 401(k), pension or other "qualified plan," the plan administrator isn't required to pay you your share unless you get a qualified domestic relations order, or QDRO, from the courts. 
Wellfleet said the companies plan to develop networking products based on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system and Wellfleet's routers-devices that dispatch messages through computer networks. 
At the Grijpskerk competition, fans pay $1.50 to enter the fierljepbaan, or vaulting area, which is crowded with ljeppers, sponsors' billboards and the Frisian, Dutch and league flags. 
Per-capita incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, a major target area for IMF-World Bank aid, are lower now than they were in the 1970s. 
But the end result in each case was the same: "civilization." 
He succeeds Robert C. Salipante, 38, who becomes senior vice president, strategic marketing and technology, in a management reshuffle. 
Indeed, friends saw his appearance in a dinosaur costume as a good sign, indicating that he feels confident enough to return to some of his legendary antics, such as riding a horse up the Capitol steps. 
More than two-thirds cost less than $500; 89% cost less than $1,000. 
The successor states to the empire received 40% of the company's fleet and three-quarters of its real-estate assets -- which lay outside the borders of the new Austrian state. 
Allan Muchin, co-managing partner of the firm, says about its rates that "the billing rates Mr. Dombroff gets from an insurance-defense practice are quite a bit reduced from traditional clients," which "made the practice incompatible" with a traditional corporate law firm. 
Jamesway, a discount department-store operator that has been operating under bankruptcy-court protection since July 1993, said it is offering creditors two alternatives. 
"Through November, we've forecast occupancies in the high 90% range, and we're exceeding the forecast," Mr. Grossman says. 
For all Boeing's work, though, some tough critics and important decision makers are unswayed. 
However, much of the Sandinistas' power structure was retained, through control of the army, the police, and a good deal of the bureaucratic infrastructure, which has squandered hundreds of millions of U.S. aid dollars since 1990. 
John Pomerantz, Leslie Fay's chairman and chief executive, wasn't offered a new contract. 
Nature, once viewed as inherently orderly, is coming to be viewed by many (although certainly not all) scientists as inherently disorderly. 
Mr. Aguiar, who died in 1991 at the age of 86, had other unconventional management theories, most of which are still adhered to. 
The two-door version of the Chevrolet Cavalier, GM's most popular small car, will sell for $10,060, 13.7% more than the year-earlier $8,970. 
In a battery of unusually abusive ground tests, the initial Pratt and GE-90 engines have been raced to a scream, shaken violently and fed briefcase-size chunks of ice, torrents of water and eight-pound bird carcasses. 
Stock prices were mixed. 
Analysts said technology stocks surged when strong earnings reports began trickling into the market early in the session. 
At the last quoting, an SDR was worth just over $1.44. 
How this all came to pass is the subject of a controversial new book by Clark University philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers. 
The Fidelity funds thus will have made 30% on average by holding Macy debt, according to internal calculations at Fidelity. 
The unit of Toronto-based Onex Corp. plans to move its $1.5 million annual cleaning contract to Diversey from Ecolab. 
But the tensions between him and the White House are clear -- and all the more striking coming from the new chief of staff who, as a congressman from California, worked with Mr. Dole closely on agriculture and budget issues. 
"In terms of a strategic fit," Metropolitan's franchise will be "almost like hand in glove" with First Bank's current operations, said Piper Jaffray Inc. analyst Steven Schroll. 
He had trained by running up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with a tray of drinks throughout the year. 
Most spouse abusers receive lenient treatment. 
Net income rose to $48.5 million, or 31 cents a share, from $10.4 million, or eight cents a share, a year ago. 
With the possibility of parole, he will escape with only a short sentence for $9 billion in larceny, instead of the 35-year maximum cited on his arraignment. 
However, he said "I think you'll see that Schwab has done better than a host of other folks." 
Tomorrow, the Bundesbank's interest-rate-setting council is scheduled to meet, followed by the three-day meeting in Naples, Italy, of G-7 leaders, beginning Friday. 
Amerada is expected to narrow its loss to 15 cents a share from a 59-cent loss a year ago, but analysts said the company's complicated inventory accounting methods make earnings predictions difficult. 
Keeping in touch: TVs in the hotel press room for reporters covering Clinton's trip to Poland were tuned to live coverage of the O.J. 
As a result, some European companies can afford to pay more than their American competitors to acquire U.S. companies. 
Factory operations edged down to 82.8% of capacity from 82.9%. 
Addressing shareholders, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone hailed the "new Viacom" as an "entertainment colossus" and "a massive global media company." 
In the past few months, potential players in the post-Deng leadership have been bolstering their positions. 
In documents filed with the court, Ms. Erickson has said she didn't know in advance about the sellers' deceit and that she was "merely a conduit of information from the owners to the buyers." 
Branching into Europe hasn't proved trouble-free. 
Additionally, Res-Care said it expanded its bank credit facility for Louisville-based Home Care Affiliates Inc., of which Res-Care owns 68%. 
Newly released transcripts show Greenspan saying at his first Fed meeting on Aug. 17, 1987, "No one even mentioned the stock market." 
Ms. Rhone has over the years developed close ties to Doug Morris, the former co-chairman of Time Warner's Atlantic Group who last week was named president and chief operating officer of Warner Music-U.S. 
She added that the agency is still in talks with Public Key Partners, a limited partnership in Sunnyvale, Calif., that holds several related patents. 
In a tone one of his advisers described as alternating "between despair and rage," President Clinton had just used a St. Louis call-in program to launch a bitter attack against Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk-show hosts. 
NEW YORK -- A group of Asian and European investors has purchased the Empire State Building, the world famous but aging Manhattan skyscraper, for about $42 million, and brought in Donald Trump as an equity partner. 
Having served 40 years as a metaphor for slavery in the eyes of the free world, the whole republic needs a vacation. 
Thomas Poor, managing director at fund manager Scudder, Stevens & Clark Inc., says investors should ask: "What is the risk of these securities if interest rates go up two percentage points? 
Gene Burns, who is on 150 stations, told Mr. Gearan the president's attack on talk radio "made me blow my top." 
Before this crisis, a fair yield premium was considered to be 340 to 400 basis points. 
One study on domestic violence, for example, didn't differentiate between assault and minor physical contact such as grabbing someone's arm as she starts to leave a room; women who reported both were classified equally as victims of domestic violence. 
By year end, world cotton reserves will amount to just a third of world demand, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warns. 
The earlier governments agreed with Japan's tightfisted Finance Ministry that the nation should legislate a comprehensive tax-reform package by the end of this year that includes higher sales taxes as well as a permanent reduction in income taxes. 
"We have a great customer base, but we have to transform our business by selling more products." 
WARSAW -- Honoring a request by President Clinton, the Group of Seven will hold a telecommunications conference this fall aimed at opening markets and deploying new technology to spur economic growth world-wide. 
The plastic electrical and construction products producer also expects to report a profit for the second half, Mr. Schulze said. 
For much the same reason, natural gas monopolies have broken down at the big-user level, and despite the Gore FCC, telecommunications inevitably will become a complete free-for-all. 
In the U S West deal, reported yesterday in USA Today, payment in stock is a key factor, because Robert Bass and his partners wanted to avoid what would be a substantial tax hit on the properties, Wometco Cable and 80%-owned Georgia Cable Television. 
Louis, Mo.) -- Eugene F. Smith, 61-year-old executive vice president and chief financial officer of this furniture and shoe concern, will retire effective Sept. 1, the company said. 
Without fanfare, foreign banks have dramatically increased their Texas presence in recent years, seizing a significant share of the lending market. 
PCA has a total of 482,000 members in Florida, Texas, and Georgia. 
All these tasks, as Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. observed, were interrelated. 
"If I were GM, I would have raised prices more," said Ronald A. Glantz, auto analyst for Dean Witter Discover. 
It said cities "may not have translated the advantageous tax-exempt markets into higher levels of capital spending, but rather into budgetary savings." 
By law, one million shares, placed in a special industrial investment account, can't be sold. 
To succeed, Fuji would have to relax its tight corporate culture and take more risks when dealing with Silicon Valley, according to one official at Apple Computer. 
Sometimes, investment-talk-show hosts have turned out to be former brokers who have been disciplined by regulators. 
After leaving American for Northwest, Mr. Garel jotted in a memo: "UAL United Airlines and American-key targets. 
"What we see is the dumbing-down of the curriculum," argues Ms. Gordon. 
In trying to win federal support for allowing AT&T to re-enter the cellular service it invented more than 30 years ago, AT&T has agreed to limit contact between McCaw and its equipment-making arm, AT&T Network Systems. 
In the wake of a frost in Brazil, which may have damaged a significant percentage of that country's 1995 crop, coffee futures prices jumped 33% to about $1.93 a pound from about $1.45 only two weeks ago. 
In recent weeks gold has meandered between $365 and $385 an ounce, leaping higher only for a day, when the dollar first slipped below 100 yen. 
Grant Gregory, a financial consultant to George Demoulas's family, estimates the supermarket division's 1993 net income at $50 million to $70 million. 
LOS ANGELES -- Atlantic Richfield Co., continuing to reduce personnel and exploration budgets after a year of nearly steady reorganization, said it will take a $150 million restructuring charge in the second quarter. 
But another category of import has loomed large here in recent years that you might not have heard as much about: real foreign banks like Banque Paribas of France and Fuji Bank Ltd. of Japan. 
So far, the couple has spent more than $10,000 in legal fees fighting the action. 
He commanded the last mission to the moon, Apollo 17 (1972). 
In addition, the law provides certain exclusions and exemptions from the disallowance rule, including a de minimis exception, for certain "in-house" lobbying expenses of $2,000 or less, and costs incurred in connection with lobbying at the local (county or municipal) level. 
Hemlo was unchanged at 8 7/8 Friday on the American Stock Exchange. 
The additional reserves could put Prudential in a financial pickle. 
Perhaps the toughest part of being an executor comes with the distribution of assets. 
He proposes a "massive advertising campaign" to educate the public about the catastrophic consequences of most divorces and illegitimate births. 
Financial terms weren't disclosed. 
Andrea Gerlin contributed to this column. 
SALT LAKE CITY -- Gull Laboratories Inc. said Fresenius AG, a pharmaceutical company based in Bad Homburg, Germany, completed the previously announced acquisition of a 53% stake in Gull, a medical products company, from Myron Wentz, Gull's chairman. 
Given the high prices such companies are commanding, selling a stake might give Merck a huge cash infusion to possibly invest elsewhere. 
IBM, in particular, has been unable to meet demand for its popular ThinkPad notebook computers because of a shortage of 10.4 inch color screens. 
They didn't. 
Some exports also seem to go uncounted. 
"They were common people who lived here all their lives," she says. 
They also allowed the state's most powerful interests to curry favor with the governor. 
The company's previous quarterly records were set in the first quarter, with net income of $617 million on revenue of $2.66 billion. 
in Singapore, a subsidiary of Regional Container Lines Public Co. in Thailand, Mistubishi Industries said. 
"Gravy-Train is getting its promotional value before the movie even opens," says Ira Mayer, publisher of Entertainment Marketing Letter in Brooklyn, N.Y. "The key is to build a promotion that stands on its own no matter what the movie does." 
"My husband and I have a comfortable home and three cars," she says. 
Guarantor S.G. Warburg Group PLC. 
Instead, they have engaged in wishful thinking -- and some fantasy accounting. 
Deficits, debts and crushing interests costs ensue. 
Mr. Larrahona would, instead, be required to go back to college and get his degree in three years. 
And, in response to patient complaints that they were so doped up they couldn't ask to leave, hospitals can't force them to take psychoactive medication without a court order. 
Sondra, who will study to be an art therapist at the University of California at Santa Barbara next year, says her job gives her insight into the lives of her mostly Hispanic, inner-city co-workers, who help her with her Spanish. 
The child remains in the classroom until all appeals are exhausted. 
It served as a makeshift hospital, where the Union wounded faced amputation with unsterilized saws and little anesthesia. 
Our solution to this problem is simple: Impose some variant of the "English rule," under which the loser of a suit would have to pay the winner's legal fees. 
Mr. Grubbs of Simmons Sporting Goods says his store now charges $149.95 for a basic SKS, up $50. 
It unfortunately illustrates the difficulty in attempting to do government and commercial work in the same facility." 
The alleged public execution, endorsed by the younger Mr. Kim, took place before 1,000 residents and party officials at an elite officers training school. 
For the second quarter ended June 26, Hasbro reported earnings of $1.6 million, or two cents a share, down from $27.1 million, or 30 cents a share a year ago. 
In 1992, the company sought to swap a 22% stake to acquire Olin Corp.'s ordnance operations, but that effort was quashed by opposition from federal antitrust authorities. 
As of March 31, the company had total assets of $2.5 billion, while Union Planters had total assets of $6.7 billion. 
He switches the scoop to autopilot, lets go of the joystick and eases back in his chair. 
While meeting with area journalists, Mr. Hussey emphasized his local commitment by noting that he was a big buyer of Girl Scout cookies. 
Today, he says, his library includes not only that Nobelist but a more obscure, if no less esteemed free-market thinker, Karl Popper. 
The rumored sale probably had such a large effect on the market because not much else was happening, said one trader, adding that the sale consisted of $300 million in mortgage-backed securities with floating interest rates and $200 million in mortgage-backed securities whose interest rates fluctuate in the opposite direction of the prevailing Treasury rate. 
NEW YORK -- Stocks ended a lackluster session marginally higher, and traders said the marginal gains posted by the major indexes belie any real underlying trends. 
Mr. Savaiko noted that copper traded on the Commodity Exchange lost its long-standing premium to the price of London Metal Exchange-traded copper futures. 
The former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, who was instrumental in increasing the use of mediation and arbitration in the state, will join a private firm that specializes in these alternatives to litigation. 
Others say the relationship soured over time. 
Mr. Clinton is equally animated. 
GE said nine of its 12 businesses reported improved operating profits on a comparable basis. 
As portfolio manager at the United High Income Fund, in Shawnee Mission, Kan., 
He confirmed the airline was interested in twin-engine Boeing 777 jetliners and midsize 757 jets to meet its needs through the year 2000. 
She is afraid that Jimmy, the youngest of her five children and her only son, will be drawn into the violence that occurs so frequently in her neighborhood. 
Before moving to Fairfield, Conn., in 1989, Ivan de la Brena, 41, was a civil engineer and navy officer in Lima, Peru, responsible for a department of 25 people who designed buildings for the navy. 
Most supermarket retailers will be reporting earnings for the second or fourth quarters ended in mid-June or early July. 
Now, nearly four months after the assassination, many analysts said the government seemed to be testing the political waters with Mr. Montes's statements, so that they could move forward with the election, consolidate economic plans and repair the sagging image of Mr. Salinas as he leaves office Dec. 1. 
Partners often allow themselves to get too busy and forget to tell each other what's going on in their lives. 
"Companies have pursued a strategy of controlling fixed costs, staying as lean as they can in their law departments, and then outsourcing their legal services," Mr. Bower said. 
They still remember Mr. Kim's inauguration speech last year, in which he declared that "no foreign ally can be equal in importance to our ethnic brethren" in the North. 
It was precisely half the molecule of Pondimin, the drug that worked so well in the Weintraub study. 
However, they didn't match Wednesday's 2.0 rating for Michael Fay, the youth who was caned in Singapore. 
Natural Wonders Inc., Union City, Calif., said its net loss in the fiscal second quarter ending July 31 will be wider than the approximately $1.9 million, or 25 cents a share, analysts had estimated. 
Under the realignment, Mr. Krasnow would have reported to Mr. Morris. 
But before the court entered judgment, EIS and Digital Systems settled. 
Inmates who are chosen for the jobs have to have good phone manners. 
But the feeling lingers among analysts and drug-industry executives that Lilly may have paid too much to seal the megadeal. 
Ms. Forte, 40 years old, was senior vice president of home, sports and entertainment products at QVC Inc., the home shopping network. 
"We have to transition them to do business in a different way," he said. 
At least two have raised investment funds with the sole intention of buying shopping centers and industrial sites with asbestos-laced walls, benzine- and PCB-tainted soil and other environmental nightmares. 
In the second quarter, Banacci's operating income fell to 596 million pesos ($175.4 million) in unadjusted terms compared with 634 million pesos a year earlier. 
He adds, "We're in regular communication with all the major manufacturers because we do contract with them." 
During the 13 months of misuse, at least 11 General Mills cereals -- including its best-selling Cheerios brands -- were made with oats sprayed while in storage with chlorpyrifos-ethyl, according to authorities at the Environmental Protection Agency, which is investigating the matter with the FDA. 
As a result of these and other operations, Credit Lyonnais showed a net loss in 1993 of 6.9 billion francs ($1.28 billion) and required a 40 billion franc statebacked balance-sheet purge to relieve it of much of its portfolio of real-estate loans. 
A company representative said Goodyear will fund the consolidation through a restructuring reserve and does not expect to take a charge. 
Now, each would like to prove that its list of the 10 best stocks is . 
"In truth, we are not inventing our future. 
On New York's Commodity Exchange, the September copper contract ended at $1.1020 a pound, down 1.15 cents, after trading as low as $1.0790. 
Margaritas are served by peppy young staffers in the chain's trademark peppermint-stripe shirts. 
But in the meantime, he hopes to start a Chinese daily newspaper in Hong Kong, joining about 15 in general circulation. 
During the day or night, the Spazio systems vary the amount, color and direction of the light. 
The Vancouver holding company said the purchase price is nominal, but it has agreed to extend a $12 million loan to Zellstoff after the acquisition. 
Telefonica de Espana's decision earlier this month to become a full member of Unisource NV, the pan-European consortium formed by PTT Telecom Netherlands, Swiss Telecom PTT and Telia AB of Sweden, automatically converts the company into a member of AT&T Corp.'s WorldPartners. 
Billings rose 32% from $2.03 billion a year earlier. 
(The familiarity of this point does not make it less compelling.) 
The Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group, surveys help-wanted advertising volume in 51 major newspapers every month. 
The breakthrough was "Spider," an original spreadsheet program designed for use with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. 
First Virginia has 32.4 million shares outstanding. 
To his relief, Mr. Conrad realized that the consultants considered his commitment more critical than their deadlines. 
LONDON -- British merchant bank Schroders PLC confirmed its agreement to buy the 50% voting stake that it doesn't already own in Wertheim Schroder & Co. from the Wall Street brokerage firm's roughly 45 managing directors for $68 million. 
More important, "if there are quick changes, bigger conflicts could arise which could affect economic and social stability," says Mr. Ruan. 
In early June, according to Agriculture Department figures released yesterday, 2.36 billion bushels of corn had to last U.S. livestock producers, food companies and exporters until the autumn harvest -- an amount down 36% from the same 1993 date. 
Calvin Klein Inc. said it reached a definitive agreement to sell its jeanswear division to a group including Rio Sportswear Inc., a closely held jeanswear maker that had a tentative deal to buy the business earlier this year. 
She calls the gap between employers' needs and applicants' qualifications "a potential catastrophe." 
Analysts who claim Lilly overpaid for PCS note that the purchase price was about 130 times fiscal 1994 net income of $30.6 million; PCS revenue was about $180 million for the same period. 
But after sharp protest from Milan's popular magistrates, Mr. Berlusconi's main coalition partners withdrew their support for the legislation. 
It's working. 
Further, one person familiar with the transaction said News Corp. has since acquired additional shares that will boost its stake to more than 2% of John Fairfax and take the investment to around A$42 million. 
But Mr. Marshall's most significant contribution may well be his work on wars of the next century. 
Even companies that have already made a big acquisition, such as Merck, might return to the trough. 
Yet he doesn't intend to quit. 
The report defines the East Asian region as China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and Association of Southeast Asian Nations members: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. 
Even a more modest proposal, to add a regular session in even-numbered years dedicated to budget matters, can't get a hearing. 
Asked if he was concerned about the falling dollar, Chancellor Kohl told reporters that the subject wasn't on the agenda for his talks with Mr. Clinton yesterday. 
Yields for the $25.7 million of Series 1994-C bonds, which are refunding securities, range from 4.75% in 1997 to 5.75% in 2004. 
But, too often, these little glitches are hard for users to articulate and don't make it onto companies' priority lists. 
Ending two days of meetings in Paris, Arafat said he soon would convene in Gaza the Palestinians' parliament-in-exile to repeal parts of a PLO charter calling for the elimination of Israel. 
Repeated attempts to contact Mr. Roggy yesterday were unsuccessful. 
That move came after the fund was forced to sell some investments at a loss to meet heavy withdrawals by departing shareholders. 
FOXBORO, Mass. -- After three weeks of the World Cup, it's beginning to sink in. 
Ms. Gamble says she has been wearing headphones every day at work for the past two years because her check-processing job puts everyone in their "own little world." 
A possible alternative would be to sell them as animal feed, perhaps to horses. 
The Dallas energy company said it is acquiring the assets owned by Smith Offshore Exploration Co. II, the Harvard affiliate, with 4.5 million newly issued shares, subject to certain adjustments. 
Toyota Motor Corp., also fleeing the effects of the strong yen, recently completed a doubling of its vehicle-making capacity in Kentucky. 
They won't tip into the sea for a long while yet," she murmurs. 
The expected recovery for Philip Morris, which has moved its second-quarter reporting date up one week to Tuesday, is particularly evident in its domestic tobacco unit. 
Mr. Merrill added that the market also appears to be looking ahead to a period of tightening supply and steady demand, based on the performance of longer-term futures contracts. 
The Lac assets themselves are not the issue. 
Forty years after Brown v. Board of Education, American children are still being locked out of public schools on account of race. 
"Juggling two careers requires lots of flexibility, compromising and negotiating," says Marolyn Knight, an Indianapolis marriage therapist, "and there's not really a road map for that for many couples whose own parents had traditional marriages where dad worked and mom stayed at home." 
As of Aug. 1, Ulrich Woehr will take over responsibility for the finance branch. 
If it does, an Ozone Action Day is called. 
He adds: "If prices no longer move up, instead of having 30% to 40% profit margins, developers will only have 10% margins." 
An overwhelming consensus has formed around the belief that if we have any hope of solving the problems of poverty, welfare and crime, we must somehow keep children from having children. 
Divergences among us. 
President Clinton cited such things as the leaders' emphasis on jobs, support for Ukraine, and an agreement to hold a telecommunications conference this fall. 
Initially, it plans to resell the cellular services of other companies throughout California, probably starting with San Francisco and Los Angeles. 
Mr. Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants, will produce the show and had the final word on who would get the slot that follows "Late Night." 
Meanwhile, Trident Group Inc. of Orlando, Fla., the local distributor for Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack division, will soon open its second Moscow store. 
But Sen. Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.), a staunch GATT supporter, responded with a speech noting that the new agreement is "the culmination of 60 years of U.S. trade policy." 
In court cases in many states, such arguments often lead to extensions of statutes of limitations. 
Revenue fell about 4% to $3.79 billion from $3.93 billion. 
It's like the house Jack built. 
One of the friends so publicly named, a New Yorker, announced, from his vacation house in the Hamptons, that he was "thrilled" to have been mentioned on O.J.'s list -- and there is every reason to believe him. 
He agrees: "You have to be very, very aggressive to get what you want." 
In fact, revenue has declined steadily at the unit. 
The Domans argue that recognizing words is a critical step toward reading and that children don't need to sound words out phonetically to read. 
Kuhlman Corp. and Communication Cable Inc. said they agreed to merge Communication Cable into a Kuhlman unit in a transaction valued at $37.5 million. 
It should be ratified. 
Under the agreement, GE Capital, a unit of General Electric Co., would acquire all of the insurance businesses of Harcourt General Insurance Cos., including Federal Home Life Insurance Co., PHF Life Insurance Co. and Harvest Life Insurance Co. In addition to annuities, the company sells life, health, credit and accident policies. 
A spokesman for National Bank & Trust said the restructuring would eliminate about 60 positions through layoffs and attrition, and would include pay and hiring freezes. 
FCC Commissioner Andrew Barrett, after an appeals court reverses an agency rule he pushed, remarks: "I was wrong, and that's something that self-important people in Washington like me usually don't admit." 
Indeed, the railroads' top executives stressed this feature of the combination. 
While he wouldn't bless analysts' projections of $2.43 a share in earnings for 1995, Mr. Morcott did predict in an interview that "1995 will be better than 1994." 
Mr. Diller has always had to work for someone else -- former chief executive officer Martin Davis at Paramount Communications and Rupert Murdoch at Fox -- and he doesn't always like it. 
At the end of April, derivatives accounted for 59% of the fund. 
Citicorp and Chemical were both hurt by a fall in revenue from trading securities and currencies and generally sluggish revenue growth. 
A third is that when a major American corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, underwrites "learning" without paying attention to content, all of us suffer; union members, women, employers and, indeed, children. 
Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts expect firms with big bond operations and large mortgage-backed securities businesses to be most affected by the recent decline in financial markets. 
Instead of simply paying her $200,000 in a tax-free settlement, they agree in writing that he will pay her a lump sum of $300,000 to cover her share and the taxes she will owe on the alimony, and he never has to make any other alimony payments. 
FRUIT OF THE LOOM Inc. (Chicago) -- This apparel maker named R. Patrick Burns, 50 years old, as president of its casualwear division. 
As children of a recession, students here are all too conversant with corporate downsizing, early-retirement packages and "overqualified" middle-aged fathers in search of work. 
The specific negotiations that produced the current agreement were launched by President Reagan, a Republican, and were concluded under President Clinton, a Democrat, Sen. Moynihan added. 
The World Cup final is being billed by some as a battle of the superstars: Romario vs. Roberto Baggio. 
Arco closed at $105.25, up 62.4 cents. 
Five years later, cold fusion remains a pariah in the scientific establishment. 
BOSTON -- Continental Cablevision Inc. said it signed a joint venture agreement to build and manage acable communications system for Singapore. 
Moreover, a bondholder's effective yield is boosted because he can sell the warrant to another investor, thus increasing the overall return. 
Please reboot your system. 
In both cases, financial analysts noted, a scandal over Mr. Suard won't help the company's political prospects of acquiring shares. 
"We've been doing guest relations and customer visits throughout the whole tournament," says Gregory Fuchs, Philips's world-wide sponsorship coordinator. 
Perhaps even more disturbing, in some of the school's most important courses jargon and psychobabble crowd out serious analysis. 
Mr. Jager, a native of the Netherlands, would be the company's first chairman and chief executive born and raised outside the U.S.  Directors hope to avert a disruptive clash. 
"We have none of that business today, so it's all incremental," Mr. Scott, the chief executive, says with a shrug. 
The increasingly partisan divisions over health reform were dramatized yesterday when key panels took opposite positions on the issue of whether employers should be required to help pay for workers' insurance. 
Mr. Silver says Bally's decided to change the name of its facilities after "extensive consumer research" that told the company "what people wanted out of a health club." 
After a two-year slowdown, the country's export-driven economy is recovering rapidly, largely because of the cheaper dollar to which the local currency is closely tied. 
It's much more important than that." 
"The growth rates of the fourth quarter and first quarter are not over the long term sustainable," said Laura Tyson, White House chief economist. 
They said that if such laws had existed before, the public "would have known nothing of the serious judicial matters involving our political and business leaders." 
Mr. Couperthwaite, who was dismissed, has filed a lawsuit against the company in the Judicial District Court of Harris County, seeking recision of a merger agreement between N-Viro and CDR Environmental, a Houston waste handling firm of which Mr. Couperthwaite was the sole shareholder. 
The then-governor also recused himself from a pre-FOMC meeting in January and made certain that information concerning district bank requests was no longer sent to him in the three weeks before his departure. 
But with regard to Haiti, we would either install Mr. Aristide and promptly leave -- in which case he would soon find himself involved in grave difficulties (probably requiring another intervention) -- or we would have to stay on for a long time. 
On Feb. 12, 1868, fire broke out in the Ateliers. 
The company offered workers jobs in Scranton, but some of them, for family or other reasons, chose not to go and now are unemployed or partially employed. 
"The level of trust that people hold in the authority of the administration has dropped somewhat," the paper said in an editorial. 
Mr. Ono and others are beginning to switch jobs in return for better pay, greater opportunity and a chance to participate in a different management style. 
Under Super 301 the U.S. designates "priority" countries for trade investigations that could lead to broad trade sanctions. 
Osterreichische Kontrollbank AG (Austrian agency) -- 200 billion Italian lire of 10% Eurobonds due Aug. 10, 1999, at issue price 101.125 via Swiss Bank Corp. Bonds yield 10.2% after fees of 1.875. 
But his aides also hope that a major byproduct will be to bolster his shaky standing as commander-in-chief of his own military. 
"You just don't know about it." 
"We joke about that being the largest recall of skulls in the U.S.," says Charles Wise, the company's longtime chief executive. 
Costs varied widely. 
Russian software designers, industry insiders say, are among the world's most gifted. 
OHIO will redeem, on Aug. 1, 1994 $25,000 of its 5.9% water development revenue bonds, 1977, due Aug. 1, 2002. 
FourGen hired 20 software developers to complete the project. 
Besides, short-term Treasurys aren't such a bad deal. 
The polls vary so much in Mexico largely because of history. 
There is another advantage: A consultant won't tattle to OSHA enforcers unless an employer refuses to fix a dire danger. 
He told her that obesity isn't a failure of will or behavior but a chronic medical condition, just like diabetes or hypertension. 
In a statement, Alexander said it has appointed four new board members, all of whom are former officers or directors of American. 
-- Martin Marietta Corp., active in electronics, information and space. 
While their work reflects the French training, their ability to combine Western and Asian techniques has been a strong influence on younger artists. 
Piper officials deny that municipal investors were misled. 
Now that the Kenyan textile industry is starting to export, Commerce appears hellbent on smothering the infant industry in the crib. 
For crimes of violence, the mean sentence for whites was 110 months vs. 116 months for blacks, while the mean time in confinement differed by only four months (33 months for whites vs. 37 months for blacks). 
For New Yorkers, the gain could be even greater; indeed, the whole Northeast stands to feel much cost relief. 
The technology group's performance was the bright spot in a mostly flat overall market. 
Mr. Aldrin flew aboard Apollo 11 and was the second man to walk on the moon. 
Express Scripts Inc., a pharmacy-benefits manager in St. Louis, says its sales soared to about $120 million in 1993 from about $27 million in 1990. 
PITTSBURGH -- Pitt-Des Moines Inc. said it intends to buy the bridge-fabricating assets of Phoenix Steel Inc., Eau Claire, Wis. 
Hot-rolled steel is selling for $380 a ton now, well below the 1988-1989 peak of $450 a ton. 
Second-quarter results were aided by a reduction in the effective tax rate to 34% from 40%. 
The tally came in lower than most expectations by at least a few votes. 
The only car he can afford, an aged Volkswagen van, can't even make it to the top of the hill where the school is located. 
By 1992, when Mr. Capps became chairman of Dominion, Mr. Rhodes, who by now was president of Virginia Power, was leery. 
"Probably." 
He had been drunk at the time of the beating. 
Several large travel agencies also plan to use the machines, and two airlines, USAir Group Inc. and AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, plan to deliver tickets through the machines, he said. 
Small, growing businesses are priming the spending pump. 
Among small carriers, Merrill's Mr. Rockel said J.B. Hunt Transport Services won't do as well as in the last quarter because it will record only half as many gains from equipment sales as it did a year earlier. 
A third agreement was signed between Spectrum Technologies and three Indian companies to supply advanced U.S. coal-washing technology to India's highash coal mines. 
The bill recently passed in the House by an overwhelming majority but now faces a big fight in the Senate, where some say it has a slim chance of emerging without substantial changes. 
The uncertainty has led some doctors and judges to compare many of the routine repetitive-motion injuries to the aches and pains people experience when they exercise too much. 
Ford said the 1995 base Ford Taurus sedan will cost $17,585, up 8.9% from $16,140 at the beginning of the 1994 model year. 
The earnings were "not as bad as people thought," said Josephine Esquivel, a Lehman Brothers analyst. 
Wages will be lifted for Rochester Telephone employees who already have "leading edge" engineering and customerrelations skills. 
In the primary, "she ran the best organized campaign I've seen in this state in years," says Mr. Smith, the state GOP chairman. 
Dealers dominated trading yesterday. 
France is positioning itself for future business deals in Baghdad, and Russia would like to resume arms sales. 
The protocol specifies that drafting of a production-sharing contract for the long-delayed project will begin this week in Houston. 
Child: "My teacher tells us to just say no. 
In a gusty, 10-foot-high tunnel of Panji No. 3 mine here, 2,100 feet under Anhui's rolling farmland, grimy-faced miners say life has improved sharply. 
Jonathan Schoolar, helmsman of the AIM Weingarten Fund in Houston, still holds some cyclicals-Caterpillar, Deere and some auto stocks. 
"We've completed a review of the industry, and we've seen only a small portion of the total assets out there in this stuff," says Sanford Bragg, an S&P managing director. 
"I don't foresee we will make any decision to buy aircraft this year," said an official at Beijing-based Air China, the country's largest international carrier, adding that it does plan a big order in 1995 to see it through the year 2000. 
Deutsche Bank Finance NV, Curacao (German parent) -- 200 billion Italian lire of 10.25% Eurobonds due Aug. 9, 1999, at issue price 101.395 
"Inverse floaters and leveraged floaters" -- securities whose interest-rate reset provisions "are based on a formula that magnifies changes in interest rates." 
Although she helped Fox land National Football League telecast rights previously held by CBS Inc., Ms. Salhany clashed repeatedly with News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Chase Carey, the Fox Inc. chief operating officer who is now effectively succeeding her. 
"We're seeing the worst of it right now, but it would be wrong to anticipate a dramatic turnaround," says Mr. Miller. 
"For them to tighten now would make people believe the Fed is seeing something that not a lot of other folks are seeing." 
In coming weeks, analysts expect other large Wall Street firms to post losses or be marginally profitable in the second quarter, among them General Electric Co.'s Kidder Peabody Group Inc., Bear Stearns Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Both Kidder and Bear Stearns have been hit hard by the downturn in the mortgage-backed securities market. 
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. -- $100 million of first mortgage bonds due July 15, 2004, priced as 7.7s at 99.729 to yield 7.739%, according to MCM CorporateWatch. 
Further, some experts warn that as short-term interest rates edge up, Home Depot's sales could slip. 
Moreover, JT's home market is getting tougher. 
There essentially are three ways to assure universal coverage: require individuals to obtain it, require employers to provide it, establish a government program, or some combination. 
I had many conversations with Tom Gilmartin and Ralph Hartline, also an ex-Well Surveys employee, about the development of nuclear well logging and Pontecorvo's role in that development. 
She suggests some shows might spotlight a major music tour, with interviews and a backstage look at how the tour is staged. 
near the intraday low of 2044.81. 
NEW YORK -- Yields on certificates of deposit at major banks and brokerage firms generally rose in the week ended yesterday. 
And the staffers are busier than five years ago, before the recession, when Mrs. Clark had 38 salespeople instead of the current 28. 
Lesson: Three-hour-plus movies usually don't work in the summer, when people want a quick flick between dips in the pool. 
The product, best known to Western consumers as the juice carton usually found in Junior's lunch box with a straw attached, holds everything from milk and water to wine and maple syrup. 
The site of the rebellion is now a McDonald's restaurant in Bethel Park, Pa. 
Translation: no fear or favor for Beijing. 
And in Michigan, Matthew Prentice is turning Unique into a casualdining empire of restaurants, delis and taverns. 
Products as diverse as Procter & Gamble's Secret deodorant, Stouffer Foods' Lean Cuisine, Neutrogena, AT&T, Volkswagen of America and Harman International's Harman/Kardon stereo systems have all been advertised recently in black and white. 
"We can laugh," she said, ". 
"At the moment, the overall quality is fairly low. 
SEOUL, South Korea -- Government officials and diplomats are searching for clues that would explain why North Korea, effectively leaderless since the death 10 days ago of president Kim Il Sung, has postponed his funeral until Tuesday. 
On the economic front, Russia's official statistics still show declining industrial production and gross domestic product. 
In 1984 I bought Rosa rugosa by mail. 
Neil Maidment, executive director for the Asia-Pacific region, will take over Africa and the Middle East as well, becoming chief of Glaxo's combined operations in developing countries. 
Commerce ministry officials have added impetus to the interest in information, partly through jawboning and partly through an extensive spending program that attempted to set a good example. 
"Does anyone know how it goes?" 
"We are not in support of either plan, but close to being able to support either plan." 
Pressuring the bond market, along with the ailing dollar, was the release of the Purchasing Management Association of Chicago's index of area activity, which showed a sharp gain in the prices-paid component to 69.7% in June from 63.3% in May. 
If so, they can add to it freely. 
That caused the principal-only bonds to drop in price, as the likelihood of prepayment faded. 
The Fed issued a two-sentence statement yesterday afternoon, saying only that the FOMC meeting had concluded and that there would be no further announcement. 
Bank of New York has said it is "highly confident" that it can syndicate a $1 billion loan, and Lazard Freres & Co. has said it can raise an additional $200 million in subordinated debt. 
The agency may also issue a checklist identifying particular risk factors, such as performance of similar motions every few seconds for more than two hours at a time, use of vibrating tools for more than two hours and tasks requiring two hours of kneeling or bending one's wrists. 
Congress assumed and the administration said that private vaccine companies would distribute the government-supplied vaccine. 
"When it became clear they were wrong, they began unwinding positions." 
Having long pursued Utopia, the American academy will finally be required to learn some lessons from life. 
"The Socialists are trying to accommodate their `outlying' policies to more realistic ones," said Shigenori Okazaki, political analyst at SBCI Securities in Tokyo. 
The biggest chunk would come from higher tobacco taxes, about $65 billion over five years. 
The sale will reduce Pirelli Armstrong's manufacturing work force by 40%, to 1,150 from 1,900, and eliminate 26% of its annual tire production capacity of 9.4 million units. 
A third R.R.M. 
It was also about the courage millions of Americans showed raising their families during a period of severe economic hardship. 
ACOG needs $104 million to reach its budgeted revenue figure of $555.5 million for broadcast rights. 
In Belarus, the new president will be Alexander Lukashenko, a onetime farmer whose appeal rested on calls to "defeat the mafia, which like an all-devouring octopus has ensnared all government organs with its tentacles." 
"Now it's 1-1," President Clinton told his advisers. 
But with no restrictions on pumping, farmers have had little incentive to invest in advanced irrigation technology. 
The state's Division of Nonpublic and Private School Services has inspected it only twice in the school's 19-year history. 
In recent months, Mr. Wilson spent much time visiting employee groups, giving speeches and trying to raise morale. 
What are some signs of ADD? 
The Naples summit offered an insight into how the IMF has changed since it was created by the Allied Powers at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, exactly a half century ago this month. 
Another official of the bank, Vivien Levy-Garoua, said the Cooper Neff purchase will reinforce the bank's derivatives business around the world, and help it double its capabilities in the business. 
Tony Coelho, managing director of Wertheim Schroder & Co. and a Circus board member, said the board discussed a "phaseout" of Mr. Bennett's activities at Circus, and said the board is "proceeding in that process." 
"I'm glad I speak a little English, otherwise it would be almost impossible." 
Right now, Foster's is trading at 12 times anticipated 1994 earnings, compared with 14 times earnings for similar companies. 
Mr. Keehner added that he is "very comfortable leaving" the brokerage division "in the strong hands of Mark Sutton." 
Mothers have to be more casual than that. 
"In order to get the contract in Baltimore, they spent their own money to fund bricks and mortar," says Dan Winter, a PaineWebber broker who has clients who have sold EAI stock short. 
In 1980, Mr. Olson served as Southern California finance chairman for then-Sen. 
Fees 0.35. 
and time constraints on this project would make an independent investigation very difficult." 
And then the bond market got hit on Thursday by a number of reports showing economic strength. 
All prices and yields will be determined at today's noon EDT sale. 
AT&T: AT&T is expected to award its $40 million assignment for 1996 Olympics sponsorship to Ayer, one of its roster of ad agencies. 
The police dogs, shields and clubs deter rowdies; the Utrecht soccer police have never had to draw guns. 
Why? 
Under terms of the letter of intent, Alliant will pay $365 million in cash, and issue 3.5 million shares. 
"I don't want to be a Pollyanna but I'm happy every single day that we were fortunate enough to be the ones taken out." 
Stimson, who later went into real estate and multiplied his fortune. 
Gore publicly stresses areas of agreement on a United Nations population-conference report that the pope dubs as both pro-abortion and antifamily. 
In a statement, Teledyne called the latest allegations of export violations unwarranted, and said it would "vigorously defend itself against the charges." 
If U.S. laws turn out that way, other nations could once again follow the American example, bringing a rash of laws and litigation and disrupting trade flows on a major scale. 
Mr. Daley, for example, says ANB avoided a loss by spreading out its purchases over time, includingsome after the stock had fallen. 
Mr. Camdessus said he doesn't believe the current weakness in the dollar will undermine the recoveries under way in Europe and Japan. 
Just what this new investment group plans to do with the building is still not known. 
"It's a very big market, with very low capital-expense requirements," says Mike Allen, analyst at Barclays de Zoete Wedd Securities in Japan. 
Ranking officials are still abroad for the roadshow of the IPO. 
But given the small size of the sample, Jury Verdict said it was unable to determine the reliability of the settlement data. 
Stimson, who later went into real estate and multiplied his fortune. 
But in a style that seems distinctly British, "AbFab" goes over the top -- vaults over the top, in fact -- in its search for laughs. 
The cause of Mound's distress is derivatives, the arcane and difficult-to-understand financial instruments whose value is linked to, or derived from, securities, currencies or other assets. 
In the meantime, President Carter abolished the Civil Service Entrance Exam for College Graduates along with the formula that starts B.A. 
A further boost, analysts said, may come if the company succeeds in finding a buyer for its defense-electronics business, the last of its "non-core" units that it has been shedding since Sir Colin took control of Thorn six years ago. 
Volume totaled 265.8 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange, where 1,155 issues rose and 912 fell. 
But because most families aren't so lucky, Mr. Neely believes Uncle Sam should gently nudge Americans to avoid divorce and out-of-wedlock birth. 
The acquisition "is accretive to earnings and will generate strong cash flow," said Hayne Hipp, president of Greenville, S.C.-based Liberty. 
Robert Fiske, the Whitewater special counsel, looked at these contacts between regulators and the White House and concluded that "the evidence is insufficient" to prove that anyone "acted with the intent to corruptly influence" an investigation into Whitewater. 
The hot outlook helped lift corn prices yesterday. 
But this is a criminal standard, designed to weigh whether someone should be sent to jail. 
But it didn't turn out that way, Temple charges in its suit against Carbide and related parties in a state court in New York City. 
Mr. Shilling believes there's an 80% chance there will be a recession before the next presidential election and a 50% chance it will occur before the end of 1995. 
-- Metropolitan Life: Texas authorities gave new meaning to the phrase "get Met," levying a record $1.2 million fine against the insurer for deceptive sales practices. 
Operating profit in the division rose to #24.5 million from #13.3 million. 
What's Left Without PCS, most of McKesson's revenue will come from a low-growth, low-margin business that distributes a wide variety of health-care products, mostly to drug stores. 
Or when Ted Kennedy described Robert Bork's America as "a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids." 
But in disputes with investors over limited partnerships gone sour, brokerage firms have found that courts in New York (where the broker firms insist the cases must be heard) have been more willing than those in other states to enforce a controversial industry rule favorable to securities firms. 
The average bequest is likely to be about $40,000. 
Dumping refers to the practice of selling imported goods at "unfair" prices, often below the cost of production, in an effort to win market share from the domestic industry. 
Italy: Let's conclude. 
"This decision was made in recognition of the potentially significant amount at risk and the disruptive force of long-term litigation. 
(The Arthritis Foundation Pain Relievers packages carry a general disclosure.) 
The U.S. and the international community must choose between two options: we can abandon the embargo as a failure and deal with the military dictators, or we can aggressively pursue our long stated goal of restoring Haiti's democratically elected President Aristide. 
In December, Fox outbid CBS for the right to air National Football League games, a franchise that CBS had held for 38 years and that helped define the network. 
Throughout the 1980s, Schroders resisted building its brokerage operations the way many European rivals did. 
With Jusco, it plans to sell accessories at about 500 stores across Japan. 
In its year-earlier fiscal year, Flowers reported net income of $31.2 million, or $1.07 a share, on sales of $962.1 million. 
What the law "is supposed to do, seen as a whole," he continued, "is allow people -- all people -- to live together in a society where they have so many different views . 
Mr. Diller was attending an investors' conference yesterday in Sun Valley, Idaho, sponsored by QVC's investment adviser, Allen & Co.  Whether expressions of interest in QVC turn into real bids is unclear, however. 
"You can't really ask your co-worker to eat a large steak and choke for you." 
"The share price reflects very large expectations for the growth of this company's earnings," says Andrew Shapiro of Lawndale Capital in San Francisco. 
But our generals have told the U.S. that Novocheboksarsk is turning out another substance known as VX, which is also found in American chemical weapon stockpiles. 
The planners presumably realized the vast size of the task that would be handed to the IMF and the World Bank. 
Royal chinook haven't been seen here for 50 years. 
The company didn't say when it might release second-quarter results. 
George's children always greeted their uncle warmly with a hug and a kiss, but Uncle Mike "was stern and an authority figure," Fotene recalls. 
They will be dated July 28 and will mature July 27, 1995. 
International Controls Corp. -- $265 million of debt in two parts, via Alex. Brown & Sons. 
Revenue climbed 11% to $258.2 million from $232.4 million a year earlier. 
"In five years," says museum executive Jeff Weir, "maybe we would think of doing it again." 
Those increases compensate in part for a tailspin in April, when retail sales dropped a seasonal and calendar-adjusted real 6% on the month and 10% from a year earlier. 
Nevertheless, the government could not (nor, in fairness, did it try to) prevent me from hearing the people's complaints about the system. 
"If someone smokes at the beach when it's hot out, it's a signal that they smoke," he says. 
Mr. Kim suddenly found himself having to intervene to avoid appearing to intervene. 
Mr. Mancuso said the two credit lines will "allow us to meet all of our requirements for the forseeable future." 
American Brands Inc., Old Greenwhich, Conn., said it sold its retail optical unit, Dollond & Aitchison Group PLC, to a management group led by London's CVC Capital Partners Ltd. for about $146 million. 
Recruiting posters are up in libraries, banks and other places that will take them. 
Her treasures stand, however, in their authentic context -- in the narrow animated streets that trace the axis of the Greek and Roman decumanus; in the teeming Quartieri above the port; and in countless outcroppings of decayed magnificence that punctuate the town. 
AT&T, he said, accomplished its main goal: It received approval to offer service on the nation's largest cellular network in conjunction with AT&T long-distance services. 
But even Mr. Oldman says not all busywork is bad. 
"Growth is easier for the smaller companies," says Lucille Palermo, gold portfolio manager at Van Eck Associates, in New York. 
Among those sectors shifting into the buy side in recent weeks were specialty retailers and oil-service companies. 
Among those indicted were 12 black officers arrested last December in a federal sting operation for making deals to use their badges to protect undercover FBI agents posing as drug kingpins. 
Last year, GM sold 17,400 vehicles here, at least half of them made in Germany by GM's Opel unit. 
The spring snafu left him with doubts about "management's internal controls in being able to keep their finger on the pulse of the industry." 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Kemper stock rose 12.5 cents, or 0.2%, to close at $59.625, while Kansas City Southern stock fell $2.50, or 5.8%, to close at $40.50. 
Consolidated sales rose by 9% to 6.38 billion francs. 
Drawing on her reading of their letters and journals, Ms. Bainbridge delves into the minds of those five men: from Scott, a driven and emotional leader who writes off his blunders as bad luck, to the heroically chipper Birdie Bowers, who risks death for a ludicrous mission to collect penguin eggs, because "there was something splendid, sublime even, in pitting oneself against the odds." 
PEARL RIVER, N.Y. -- Orange & Rockland Utilities Inc., dividing the duties of its top officers, named a Wisconsin utilities executive as vice chairman and chief executive officer. 
IDB posted 1993 earnings of $12.2 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenue of $310.7 million. 
Section 22 doesn't clearly spell out what makes for interference. 
President Caldera meanwhile took steps to ease concerns that the economic controls and constitutional suspensions were pre-emptive strikes against a military coup. 
The race now tilts to the incumbent. 
Two of the new units would run TV operations, the third would operate the radio network, and the fourth would handle engineering and production. 
The doctor notes that the soft spot on the front of the child's head hasn't closed properly, and his head is large. 
Mr. Pinkerton is working on "What Comes Next," a book scheduled to be published by Hyperion next year. 
Consultants often give employers 30 days to correct most hazards but extend the deadline for those that try hard. 
Since last year, Germany has been at odds with the rest of the EU over the disease, whose scientific name is bovine spongiform encephalopathy. 
After slashing the U.S. deal's size by one-fourth and whittling the price, Goldman and underwriters sold 4.2 million American Depositary Shares of Desc at $24 each. 
Zan Hale, managing editor of Corporate Legal Times, a magazine for in-house legal departments, said that many of the general counsels who responded to the survey believe that their companies had focused too much on in-house budgets. 
The Federal Reserve Board gave Fleet Financial Group Inc., Providence, R.I., approval to acquire Sterling Bancshares Corp. and Sterling Bank of Waltham, Mass. 
I asked him to stop. 
Mr. Birringer would have called Los Angeles-based Activision for help but balked when he saw the number wasn't toll free. 
But the immigrant work ethic has always been a little more secular than that. 
This evidence of New York youngsters' hardening antidrug attitudes bucks the national trend. 
Rated single-A-3 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. and single-A-minus by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs & Co.  Federal Home Loan Bank System -- $207.5 million of notes due July 25, 1997, priced at par to yield 6.44%, according to MCM CorporateWatch. 
The market continued to wait for cues from overseas markets and the U.S. central bank's reaction to an unsupported dollar in the wake of the G-7 meeting. 
Yet according to public filings, the amiable 81-year-old owns more than $100 million of stock in Keystone International Inc., a Houston industrial-valve maker. 
Some executives, including a few who had predicted a record weekend, indicated that they were disappointed that the total gross wasn't higher. 
"There's not much flexibility between the left and the right," says Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who has pushed hard for state health reform since 1991. 
"We expect to see their price move higher," Mr. Smith says. 
The products of the conference were two massive institutions, the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, better known as the World Bank. 
The slogan "Virginia Is for Lovers" first appeared in an ad in Modern Bride magazine 25 years ago, when you could barely say "pregnant" on TV. 
Cultural conservatives like William Bennett now recognize that antipoverty programs have stifled self-reliance among the poor. 
Yet fierljeppen owes its importance less to artists and writers than to the kievit, or lapwing. 
Gibson Greetings will restate 1993 profit, reducing it by 20%, after discovering a unit overstated inventory. 
Antoine Riboud, speaking at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting where stockholders approved the name change, said that Danone's revenue at the end of May was slightly above year-earlier levels. 
"It puts Alcoa in a better position to move around the world," he said. 
"A Letter From a Pensioner" told the story of my ballooning federal pension, and how I felt younger taxpayers were being had by retirees on the collecting end, like me. 
In Berlin, Clinton said the expulsion order should prod the international community to take steps to restore Haiti's constitutional government. 
In addition, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the government body now running the base, has managed to pull in some manufacturing plants, Federal Express Corp. and a few hotels, among other businesses. 
Assets of 670 retail money-market mutual funds shot up $6.54 billion to $421.8 billion, the trade group said. 
Taken at Gunpoint On Dec. 23, 1991, the icon was taken from the church at gunpoint by four robbers. 
The purchase price includes the costs of capital improvements at the complexes, located in Raleigh, N.C., and Fort Worth and Euless, Texas. 
If approved, the default on 473 billion yen of bad property-related debt would effectively be Japan's third-largest bankruptcy in its postwar history. 
Some traders speculate Mr. Tisch might actually welcome such an offer. 
It's worth remembering how CETA worked, because there's no evidence Washington knows any better today than it did then how to move someone from a public sector job into productive private employment. 
"My father is working seven days a week and is still losing his business," one boy says. 
Crowds for Saturday matches often reach 1,000. 
It isn't terrible at all, just . 
Reebok's two other superstar players -- Dennis Bergkamp of the Netherlands and Martin Dahlin of Sweden -- remain in the tournament as of today. 
He also predicts that any resumption in the bull market will be preceded by a recovery in gold. 
Gillian Murphy, a cell biologist at the Strangeways Research Laboratory in Cambridge, England, said MT-MMP might be important in metastasis, but might be only one of several mechanisms involved. 
The student body at Pierce elementary school did sing "America the Beautiful" -- but the last verse had been changed. 
Still, Mr. Eberling expects the underwriting business to be stronger than expected and for Morgan to profit from a continued rebound in corporate mergers. 
Next." 
The NRC also alleged that a Northeast engineer who questioned the design of the system and suggested that it be taken out of service was later bypassed for previously promised promotion, the spokesman added. 
A major thrust has been weighing the possibility of new standards for lawyer ads, which opinion polls have long shown to be a source of public disillusionment with the bar. 
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said it expects to report that second-quarter net income rose 15% to 19% from a year earlier. 
O.J. 
But even there, Disney is meeting some resistance: Executives say some affiliates, including the KNBC station in Los Angeles, won't run the ad during newscasts for fear of confusion. 
For those reasons, Mr. Bergsten back in May was predicting the dollar would trade between 90 and 100 yen. 
But Mr. Carty, one of two officers immediately below Robert L. Crandall, chairman of American's parent, AMR Corp., turned it down. 
And they don't take no for an answer." 
Promoting abstinence until marriage to the exclusion of information about other pregnancy and disease prevention methods is an unsuccessful, narrow approach to teenage sexuality, and really no choice at all. 
"I'm afraid they will focus on the bad news and ignore the good." 
In Nasdaq Stock Market trading yesterday, Comverse closed at $8.813 up 43.75 cents. 
Shaban al-Natcheh, 29 years old, now heads a family of 13 children since his father was killed in the Hebron massacre in March by a Jewish settler. 
Two more major achievements took place in 1990 and 1991. 
Judge Breyer could also provide the court's mushy middle with some badly needed leadership. 
Supposedly a simple-minded conservative, Justice Thomas pulls a trick on liberals by reading them. 
The government considers the project essential to Taiwan's economic development. 
American Consolidated said it will retire about $4.05 million of Eleventh Hour's outstanding debt as part of the accord. 
The researchers said 31 million Americans suffer from low back pain at one time or another. 
In April, Glendale Federal announced the sale of its 60-branch Florida banking system to Barnett Banks Inc. for $243.5 million. 
Diagnostek expressed disappointment at the early termination, which the company said stemmed from an "inability to resolve contractual differences" with Philadelphia-based Cigna. 
People like Mr. Murad see something more desperate in Brazil's World Cup frenzy: a collective search for self-esteem. 
Under the Federated plan, senior bondholders owed $379 million would receive securities valued at 74.9 cents on the dollar, about twice the price before Federated appeared. 
Almost every state is raising salaries for its employees in fiscal 1995, with an average raise of 4.0%, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. 
Most of the investigations she has initiated are still in the pipeline, and she received the extra resources and manpower she requested to help rebuild the division, which was practically wiped out during the Reagan years. 
Indeed, the group is still trying to find a flattering name that would counter the stereotypical and unappetizing image of goats as bearded creatures that eat aluminum cans and other inedible things. 
This index fund has a minimum investment requirement of $100,000, which helps keep expenses low. 
The executive hopes the PCA contract will be the first of many like it that Salick will sign soon. 
Kagome Corp., a major Japanese food company, says carrot-juice sales rose 50% in the year ended March 31, and it expects another 50% rise this year. 
Chairman Isao Nakauchi appears to be looking at bigger turf: Following recent relaxations in investment restrictions in China, he's among the first to apply to open operations nationwide. 
RENT-TO-OWN: The rent-to-own industry asked the U.S. Tax Court to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from classifying rental-purchase transactions as credit sales for federal income tax purposes. 
Currently, Pfizer and other companies have been blindly screening thousands of chemicals to see if one can repair mutated p53. 
But the road to market isn't without obstacles. 
Panting and perspiring in 90-degree heat, the 20 or so who reached the finish line without breaking anything had to pop the champagne cork and pour out a glass with minimum spillage before a panel of about half-a-dozen judges. 
The welfare state is collapsing about our ears, bankrupting the Treasury and corrupting the character of the people. 
But Mr. Bennett has said in an interview and at the annual meeting that he remains in charge. 
"It's the last frontier for Japanese retailers." 
During recent surveillance of a gun show, a joint force of Aurora and Denver police reported spotting known gang members browsing the aisles. 
In addition, about 180 of First Brands' staff are expected to join Prestone. 
Over the next 15 months, Minnesota plans to offer similar subsidies to adults without children. 
He argues that a $200,000 to $300,000 salary, bolstered by a bonus tied to performance, is reasonable. 
From 1879 to 1913, when the U.S. and most other major nations shared the gold standard, U.S. consumer prices ranged only 17% in 34 years. 
With the average pool running about $20,000, many customers are willing to pay thousands more for extras like fountains, waterfalls, rock work and fiber-optic lighting. 
Mr. Maertens's experience demonstrates that consumers can reap big benefits from the EU's single market. 
As with the Wizard of Oz, his aura is enhanced by the fact that he operates behind a curtain. 
"It's a World Cup bonus," Mr. Clinton said, sending Mr. Yeltsin into a fit of laughter. 
"One of the assets is that Barry will come in as chief executive. 
Officials of Petron said it will issue a statement later. 
"Prices in the first part of the second quarter were still very weak," Mr. Steward said. 
Ogden said the new 12,000-seat sports and entertainment arena is scheduled to open in September 1996. 
But the company has other options, including entering into partnerships or selling other assets, such as the sale some of its advanced chip-making capacity to semiconductor makers. 
Bonds of Digital Equipment Corp. fell after it announced a restructuring plan; its bond rating was lowered to junk from investment grade. 
"Because the floods are impacting a part of the state that hasn't seen much prosperity, it'll be that much harder to recover," said Mark Vitner, an economist with First Union Corp. in Charlotte, N.C.  President Clinton yesterday pledged $60 million in federal aid for affected areas, including funds for debris removal, highway repair and loan programs. 
Some investors strongly criticize the current takeover craze, arguing that companies are overpaying for the acquisitions. 
The question is how deeply the Peruvian taxpayer should be made to dig into his pocket to foot the cost. 
Elated investors in blue chips sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 22.02 points to 3674.50. 
The Hubble Space Telescope has given scientists what may be their first glimpse of the gas that produced galaxies in the early universe. 
Prime Minister Berlusconi averted a government crisis in Italy when he backed off from a decree that would have diminished the power of magistrates fighting corruption. 
"The poor can find food and a place to sleep, but where can they go for a haircut?" 
"We can't sit still and run the kind of basic phone service we've run," said Richard D. McCormick, chairman and chief executive officer of U S West. 
But the judge criticized Mobil's handling of Mr. Mehlman's discharge and said he would uphold the punitive-damage award. 
With Mr. Fay's appeal dismissed, the voluntary character of his confession under police custody inevitably rose to prominence, lent impetus by President Clinton's public musings that it was probably coerced. 
All the Lipper figures are total returns, which are the combined effect of the price changes plus dividends paid to bond-fund shareholders. 
In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, NationsBank stock rose 62.5 cents, or 1.1%, to close at $55.125; Chase stock closed at $38.75, unchanged; KeyCorp fell 37.5 cents, or 1.2%, to $31.375; Norwest rose 12.5 cents, or 0.5%, to $26.125; and First Fidelity climbed 37.5 cents a share, or 0.8%, to $47.375. 
We know the Fed cannot follow such a procedure. 
China said it would spend $23 billion in the 1990s, including $3.23 billion this year, to clean up its deteriorating environment, cut pollution, conduct research and develop protective systems. 
In addition, some participants hoped that the German Bundesbank would announce a fixed-rate tender on its securities repurchase agreements and steer short-term German rates lower. 
The vouchers, issued to 148 million Russians in 1992, officially expired June 30, but privatization chief Anatoly Chubais said the government wants to give the four million people who missed the bidding deadline a chance to use their vouchers. 
"We need to catch one!" 
This improves the children's mental as well as physical prowess, Mr. Doman says. 
His United We Stand America group this week endorsed Rowland-Bilirakis, the main bipartisan alternative to Mr. Clinton's German-style health plan. 
With its new name and hot pink packaging, the product "is a fairly radical departure," says Edward T. Fogarty, Tambrands' recently installed president and chief executive officer. 
A good example of the latter course was the experience of the 1970s, when strong global demand met a weak-kneed Federal Reserve. 
"We were expecting a slight increase in profits," said Rafael Escobar, a securities analyst at Mexican broker Vector. 
As part of the process, homes were appraised as many as three times. 
The pity is that in this ballet such excellent dancers as William Trevitt, Stuart Cassidy and Christopher Saunders had to cope with choreography that, even by MacMillan's own standards, is excessively violent and banal. 
Cow Creek wasn't much, as streams go. 
Similarly, Dr. Rempel says he isn't aware of any "study in the literature to document that keyboard wrist rests reduce tendinitis or carpal tunnel, and yet they're passed out like candy." 
The entrance and exit ramps are so expertly camouflaged with wrought iron and magnolias that they are virtually hidden except from the road at street level. 
One reason for the recruiting successes: hefty salary increases. 
The other disappointing news was from rising expenses. 
"We'd like to open at least one or two additional Asian stores outside of Japan" annually, Mr. Chaney said. 
The price of the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond rose less than 1/8 point, or less than $1.25 for a bond with $1,000 face value, to 84 4/32. 
For the six months ended June 30, American Barrick reported a profit of $122.8 million on revenue of $394.8 million, compared with a profit of $103.2 million on revenue of $319.3 million a year earlier. 
SAN ANTONIO -- Billy Blues Food Corp., a restaurant company, acquired Marco's Mexican Restaurants Inc. from Houston restaurateur Ghulam Bombaywala for $25.2 million of stock. 
And what about all the special rate breaks for some users? 
The fourth is Dennis R. Williamson, president of Creative Resources Inc., Danbury, Conn., a public holding company whose principal operating subsidiaries distribute medical products and provide medical services. 
Both tranches are rated Baa-3 by Moody's and double-B by S&P. 
Once the two countries have exchanged ambassadors, Hanoi won't have any incentive to cooperate, and it might be tempted to destroy embarrassing evidence. 
-- Idaho Rep. Larry LaRocco's seat was held by a Republican for more than a quarter-century before 1990. 
Kevin Duffy, U.S. District judge in Manhattan, ruled that the case, brought by the NBA and its 27 franchises days before a collective-bargaining agreement expired last month, was subject to federal labor laws, not antitrust statutes as the players' union had contended. 
WHO'S NEWS: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a 300-lawyer firm based in San Francisco, has added seven lawyers from Baker & McKenzie's New York real-estate finance group. 
All American, which has a record division in addition to its television operations, had 1993 revenue of $70.6 million. 
All Italy applauded prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro when he questioned a slew of politicians during the first corruption trial, broadcast on national television last winter. 
Wrong. 
"I've watched a lot more World Cup than I ever dreamed," he says. 
World soccer authorities said the legendary midfielder -- who was once suspended from the game for cocaine use -- was withdrawn from the World Cup for taking five banned substances. 
These include true "multi-tasking," the capability for a PC to do two things at once without delaying either, such as printing a document while connecting to an on-line service. 
Paolo Berlusconi denies any wrongdoing. 
The earnings of GE Capital Services, which includes Kidder Peabody, rose 12% to $463 million in the quarter. 
On Monday, Eunetcom SA, a Franco-German joint venture, connected its first customer, International Business Machines Corp., to its network. 
"I've seen people decide that their jobs weren't palatable and they want to change their job requirements, so they say they have job-related depression," GM's Mr. Gasiewicz says. 
The drink-box design isn't patented and is vulnerable to knockoffs. 
Funds with exposure there include Tweedy Browne Global Value and T. Rowe Price International Discovery. 
This will be a real war against a resolute, proficient enemy, not a turkey shoot against an inept, dispirited, cowardly foe like the Iraqis. 
Mr. Ng's father, Ng Teng Fong, started out developing property in Singapore in the 1960s. 
For many U.S. investors, the brightest part of investing abroad was the sinking dollar. 
ADM even drew radio commentator Paul Harvey into the battle. 
Fees undisclosed. 
The administration fears it is being painted to the left in the health-care debate, and in the process is losing control of the precious middle ground in Congress. 
Instead, blame should be placed upon the adults. 
He insists I eat his portion of that night's meal: mashed sweet potato with some precious cheese. 
His operation began as a rehabilitation center for brain-injured children. 
Starting next year, new international accounting rules will force these foreign companies to deduct from profits the value of goodwill, as is required of U.S. companies here. 
Yet '94 Cup Daily, boosted by the success of the tournament in the U.S., evolved into a paper with circulation of 250,000 and a major national advertising base, the 27-year-old founders say. 
-- Primark Corp. said its Datastream International Inc. subsidiary acquired Vestek Systems Inc., a San Francisco investment-services firm, for $6.9 million. 
China unveiled a policy that aims to make its auto industry an internationally competitive auto exporter. 
Together, PCS, Medco and Diversified Pharmaceuticals represent 80% to 90% of the actively managed drug-benefit market, according to Hemant Shah, an independent drug analyst. 
With total coffee stocks covering more than six months consumption, the market's near-term outlook heavily depends on how fast those inventories are released, dealers say. 
"Other Whites" and several other groups could qualify with a 59. 
And the committee's approval of a tax to penalize insurance companies for high-cost health plans proved less valuable than first projected. 
"He's not completely certain what his future will be," the secretary said. 
Mr. Hevesi's office, on the other hand, has called for the selection of both Public Resources Advisory Group and Philadelphia-based P.G. 
At the Trapper Inn in Jackson, the couple's handicap room has a bed that is too high for the 62-year-old Mr. Jeynes to transfer onto with a sliding board. 
Until yesterday, EastWest was a unit of Warner's Atlantic record label. 
It's that time: Newly minted business-school graduates from every corner of the state are scrambling to find jobs. 
But juggling-products veterans such as David Finnigan say popularizing their wares is as tricky as tossing knives and flaming torches. 
With average temperatures six degrees above normal, last month was among the warmest Junes on record, says the National Weather Service. 
Those requests for guidance have climbed as more aspects of the law took effect, including provisions gradually expanding its jurisdiction to smaller companies. 
I believe a whole people must have the humility to nurture the Earth and the pride to go to Mars. 
Launched off European medium-term note program. 
Average shares increased to 29.4 million in the latest quarter from 10.4 million a year earlier, reflecting the merger last summer of Kasler Corp. and WCG Holdings Inc. In the latest quarter, revenue more than doubled to $63.7 million from $29.5 million. 
The carpet is threadbare, the furniture mismatched, and even Robert Ng shares a cramped office with two other people. 
On New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange yesterday coffee for September delivery fell 9.25 cents, or about 4%, to $2.3560 a pound. 
Jannock, a Toronto building-products company, had proposed to acquire Isenhour for Jannock shares; the number wasn't disclosed. 
Mr. Daws, 49 years old, and Mr. Stewart, 41, were hired by Zale just over a year ago. 
Royal Oak Mines launched a $1.4 billion takeover bid for much bigger rival Lac Minerals. 
The thing we object to is that these guns are being dumped onto our market at prices far below what anyone could manufacture them for." 
And this will become another foreign policy debacle," says Rep. Major Owens, a New York Democrat who heads the Black Caucus's task force on Haiti. 
The old Soviet Union promoted the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) years ago to try to wean Western Europe out from under America's wing. 
Just yesterday, Kidder acknowledged that it will take a $10 million pretax write-down in the second quarter after firing an options trader the firm alleges hid trading losses of $6 million. 
CLARK COUNTY, OHIO, will redeem, on Aug. 1, 1994, $40,000 of its 5.9% industrial development revenue bonds, 1977, due Aug. 1, 2002. 
The Navy, especially, is thinking about cheaper logistics and support functions. 
Under its agreement with Pfizer, Nabisco will have exclusive use of Salatrim for five years in North America, but only in cookies, crackers, salty snacks and margarine. 
He later indicated that the Japanese companies are reluctant to commit their latest technology to the venture. 
Do not attach any meanings to the following words, whether written, sung or heard." 
Buildings are constructed for cash, and financing is scarce and expensive-short-term interest rates are at 16.5%. 
The industry group said Canadian mills operated at 94% of capacity in May, down from 98% a year earlier. 
Elektra is the household goods retailer controlled by the Salinas family. 
Unlike a spouse, however, the child is not a voluntary, well-informed participant in a contract and would be unable to express an aversion to the parent's smoking in terms of some kind of future promise to pay. 
of the president's strong commitment to renewable fuels." 
"This coming weekend we're in the period that has traditionally seen the worst freezing weather, the peak of the cold snap," said Sandra Kaul, senior analyst with Smith Barney in New York. 
For the 1993 fourth quarter, Atmos had a loss of $2.3 million, or 31 cents a share, on revenue of $62.7 million. 
only fractionally below the intraday high of 3005.9. 
Hot temperatures increase the moisture demand of crops, and can disrupt pollination. 
Basically, this is how it would work:  Congress would establish a national standardized package of health benefits. 
The OAS countries do not like the precedent of military coups, so they support some form of U.S. military intervention. 
Mr. Falitz "was a city boy. 
Curiously, it's the low end of the scale that worries veteran REIT investors and analysts. 
In Colorado, U S West offers two ways to block calls. 
Consider Britain, which has no foreign ownership requirements. 
Both companies claim their products make it easier to return bags to a recycling center or to save them at home for lining trash cans or collecting kitty litter. 
"We are convinced that the June quarter shortfall that caused the distress was truly an aberration," says Daniel F. O'Sullivan, the chief executive. 
She says Disney was responsive to her concerns; and soon after, at the park's public unveiling, Disney creative director Bob Weis said: "This is not a Pollyanna view of America . 
METEOROLOGISTS PREDICT Japan is in for a sweltering summer this year. 
Neither Mr. Babcock nor Mr. Levine could be reached for comment. 
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Commerce Department agency has agreed to pay royalties to a Massachussetts Institute of Technology computer scientist for two patents related to the Clinton administration's controversial encoding plans. 
The supercomputer maker, which was rocked by an accounting scandal that resulted in charges and the ousting of top management, said it would lay off 80 of its 280 employees, including 60 at its Waltham headquarters. 
The Dutch fans who have made it across the Atlantic for the games largely are a well-educated, affluent lot, many of them traveling with their families. 
Don't give up." 
It was just public negotiating, they assured. 
All numbers are adjusted for seasonal variations. 
IDT is looking at sites in several Western states and talking to potential partners to help finance construction. 
Eventually, the foundation may wind up with some $200 million. 
asks Bill Wilkinson, the lawyer for the Pauls Valley school district. 
RICHMOND, Va. 
Merrill Lynch declined comment, saying it had not yet seen the suit. 
Although productivity-improvement efforts of big corporations don't create a lot of jobs, Mr. Gagliardi is counting on such efforts to create demand for his new generation of software. 
Chung Se Yung, furious with his staff, was forced to concede the lucrative enterprise to Hyundai Precision. 
Others worried about the firm's lack of publishing experience. 
In Sydney, prices fell in quiet trading as investors remained cautious about U.S. interest rates. 
But others are less than confident of such a scenario. 
The Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index added 0.17 to 446.37 and the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.17 to 246.51. 
William Hussey, president of Columbia's West Florida division, hasn't forgotten that setback or the way regional competitors backed the FTC. 
But the industry has its own stake in screaming "uncle" as loudly as possible. 
The book jackets declare that in the old West, "One turns to gun, one turns to run." 
To help cover the local-service expenses, the Office of Telecommunications, known as Oftel, ruled earlier that as BT's competitors grow they must start paying "access deficit contributions" to BT. 
Junk-bond prices closed up about 1/4 point as traders took direction from an improving Treasury market, traders say. 
CLINTON HOPES to subtly steer the G-7 toward "real people" concerns. 
HARD HATS OFF: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently ruled that employers aren't liable if a worker doesn't wear a hard hat for religious reasons. 
In early trading, the stock had fallen as much as $2. 
Car makers are slashing prices in Japan to keep up with foreign competition, notably from the U.S. Low-priced competitors include such hits as the Jeep Cherokee and the Ford Mustang. 
The situation has been particularly delicate for Mr. Katzenberg, associates say, because he doesn't want Mr. Eisner to think he's lobbying for the job. 
"The very type of stereotyping we fought against on the civil-rights lines is now the basis of her educational policy," he says. 
Some experts question whether the banks' unusual arrangement, first reported by California Lawyer magazine, might raise antitrust issues. 
The acquisition includes Access Telecommunications Interconnect, a relatively new phone company that links business customers to long-distance lines, bypassing the local Bell. 
This would be, basically, Bretton Woods minus dollar reserves. 
The announcement triggered a wave of speculation among South Korean and diplomatic officials, who until Friday had generally agreed that Kim Jong Il had managed a surprisingly smooth transition. 
Top attorneys at O'Melveny were sufficiently impressed with Mr. Seidman and his idea that they advised him on how to incorporate and commissioned a research project. 
Will this strategy work? 
Paul dreams of becoming an actor -- work he says he would trade for a million-dollar salary. 
In its request to Judge Harold Greene, who oversees the 1982 consent decree, the Justice Department said it needs until Monday at the latest "to state its views" on the proposed transaction. 
While total orders for so called client/server systems -- PCs networked to larger computers -- showed growth, overall that business hasn't yet met expectations, Unisys said. 
(Film rights, by the way, have been optioned.) 
But Ken Wittry, a manager for Iowa Prison Industries, which operates the program, says hiring is also based on the ability to articulate and communicate effectively. 
He worked at Merrill Lynch for 25 years before suddenly retiring in March 1992, amid what Merrill called an "extensive internal investigation" of its junkbond sales and trading desk. 
Cellular Technical's small size, lack of a current profit, negative cash flow and dependence on a few big customers all worry him. 
Johnson & Johnson is said to be interested in U.S. Healthcare Inc., said an investment banker who has worked on health care deals. 
"The boom-bust pattern of 1992-1993 will not be repeated," she said, likening the economy now to "starting a car engine on a cold morning." 
In the past two months, Mazda also has added 350 engineers to its design engineering analysis department, which is seeking to cut the number of parts and eliminate inefficiencies. 
"Odum gave the impression that nature was `love thy neighbor,'" says Dr. Worster. 
In general, broad-based companies that sell hospital supplies such as gowns and syringes will post softer results than firms such as Target Therapeutics Inc. and Heart Technology Inc., which have narrow product lines that are leaders in the market for a particular type of treatment. 
Many companies aren't prepared. 
Comcast's proposal remained clouded by questions about the plans of QVC's three other major shareholders -- TeleCommunications Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Malone, Time Warner Inc. and Mr. Diller, who together own 43% of QVC. 
In another sign of strength, Nike reported that its gross profit margins for the fourth quarter jumped to 40.2% from 39.5% last year. 
They don't need to further alienate customers." 
Barry King was one of the 113. 
Thomas V. Powderly, chairman, president and chief executive of Fidelity, said the derivatives charge, which he called "strictly an accounting treatment," had nothing to do with the merger. 
But Northwest says the new elements in its system were well known in the industry and were under consideration even before the American documents reached Northwest. 
"There has to be an effort to move into normalcy." 
There's one mutual fund aimed at Muslims that invests according to Islamic principles, avoiding casinos and distillery investments." 
To oversee the company, Hicks Muse would install as chief executive William J. Turner of Turner & Partners, a Naples, Fla., management-services firm that works only for Hicks Muse. 
Have we forgotten that our forefathers fled the old country to get away from tyranny, oppression and futbol? 
The company has recently faced scrutiny from the Federal Reserve Board over its ties to Arkansas's powerful Stephens family, which owns Stephens Inc., a Little Rock investment firm, as well as a minority stake in Worthen. 
Sprint is launching a new long-distance service for midsize companies that will offer planning assistance from EDS consultants, the first public indication that Sprint and EDS are continuing to work together since the collapse of their proposed merger. 
The younger Mr. Parks says his father had investigated Clinton indiscretions and that his files were stolen shortly before his killing. 
But in politics, power vacuums do not last long. 
At American Chili's Grill & Bar nearby, the packed house of patrons munches on stuffed jalapenos and buffalo wings among potted plants and Wild West knickknacks. 
The certificates have an average life of 4.18 years and a legal maturity of Oct. 15, 2001. 
It applies mostly to banks that have assets of less than $100 million and are "noncomplex" institutions that don't engage in exotic banking or investment ventures more typically tackled by larger institutions. 
U.S. cents). 
London stocks rallied 1.5%, fueled by stronger British bonds, smart early gains on Wall Street and a firmer dollar. 
In Bucky Showalter, a blond, bland workaholic, they have a manager who could be the first to complete three full, consecutive seasons in the Steinbrenner era. 
Money-center banks, on the other hand, are expected to have risen a much more modest 5.3%. 
The administration is also threatening to impose tariffs on Canadian wheat under the current GATT. 
"That's been the area where they've surprised us all year long," said Douglas Rockel of Merrill Lynch. 
But the bulk of the witness list got the go-ahead from Mr. Fiske, including the requested appearances of former Clinton aide Betsey Wright and Jack Palladino, a private investigator. 
Some question the production schedule the company has imposed on itself to get programs ready before Christmas. 
He said the Highland Park, Mich., company is "pretty sure" the problems are isolated, and that the problems "have been corrected in production and in the field." 
"I think the third quarter is going to be just as bad as the second quarter." 
Well, pretty much the way Russians have been doing things for years, by suggesting that ignoring them could be dangerous. 
"What this anecdote shows is that we have a totally different opinion of what the risks and benefits of working in Peru are," he said. 
The bank attributed the weak trading results to moderate losses in trading for the bank's own account. 
Ricardo showed that the most beneficial social organization is one in which each member performs the task that he does best. 
With its ultralow boiling point, Halon is effective at temperatures ranging from minus-65 degrees Fahrenheit to more than 250 degrees. 
Two Palestinians were killed and at least 90 others, including some Israelis, were wounded in the worst outbreak of violence since the May accord on limited Palestinian autonomy. 
Such drugs promise to kill tumor cells with fewer side effects than currently used anticancer drugs. 
William Carley's review of Pavel and Anatoli Sudoplatov's book "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- a Soviet Spymaster" conveys an aura of skepticism and sensationalism about its content (Leisure & Arts, May 10). 
Analysts at Merrill Lynch and Wertheim Schroder upgraded the stock. 
Sanofi also will sell two minor U.S. perfume brands, Geoffrey Beene and Perry Ellis, although Chairman Jean-Francois Dehecq says he will keep the main beauty and fashion business, Yves Saint Laurent, which Sanofi acquired just a year ago. 
Ultimately, Mr. Eason found about 400 such companies. 
The Armed Services Committee report accompanying the Senate bill attributes the legislation's hodgepodge approach to the lack of guidance from the Pentagon. 
In a statement last night resembling a letter of resignation, the Milan team asked to be moved to other positions without "a harsh contrast between what our conscience calls for and what the law imposes." 
Kohler's 1.6 gallon gravity toilets start at $150, and its pressure models begin at $361; its pump toilets cost $940. 
Azteca is the only private broadcast alternative to Grupo Televisa SA. 
In proposing the government securities exemption, the Fed cited enactment of the 1993 Government Securities Act Amendments, which gave the Treasury Department permanent rule-making authority over the market and created a comprehensive regulatory scheme for government securities. 
Mr. Berlusconi, a media mogul, told Mr. Clinton that he and Mr. Valenti, the high-paid movie-industry lobbyist, "have been allies" on the international debate over restrictions on film exports. 
Kroger undoubtedly wanted to provide a public service, but the forces of political correctness took Kroger's money and then filled in the blanks as they saw fit. 
Varity has other businesses in automotive components, farm and industrial machinery and diesel engines. 
Reduced consumption will cut the small-bore smuggling across borders by consumers. 
This turn of events seems to have produced in him a fear even greater than that of going to jail -- namely, the fear that he wouldn't be able to keep up with his car payments and that his Trans Am might be repossessed. 
It will just exacerbate an already volatile situation. 
We did end up with a recession, but recessions are a common part of our economic history, and the 1974-75 recession was not much worse than our average. 
"Why knock on my own door?" he says. 
Mr. Tanaka currently is president of AT&T Global Information Solution, Japan. 
-- Home furnishings retailer Heilig-Meyers Co. said sales for June rose 34% to $77.2 million from a year earlier, while sales for stores open more than a year rose 8.1%. 
Members of Congress always say that if voters only knew more about what they do, their opinion of the institution would improve. 
He was no spy. 
"With inventories making a turn in the right direction -- and that's down -- it looks like there's reason to believe the fundamentals of the industry are turning for the better," said Thomas M. Van Leeuwen, an analyst with CS First Boston Corp. "Better pricing and profitability lie ahead." 
The rest of the equity was to be held by the Cambodian government and private Cambodian investors. 
"We worked our tails off for her" in the primary, he says. 
That cash will eventually make its way back into small-cap issues." 
Send them to me by regular mail or by electronic mail at this address: mossberg@wsj.com. 
Most blue-chip Japanese exporters declined, but Tokyo equities were saved from big drops by dollar-buying inspired by the North Korean leader's death. 
President Clinton's second pick for the high court took a deliberate, sometimes professorial approach to answering questions on topics ranging from the constitutional limits on land-use regulation to the separation of church and state. 
The idea is for HSN, which sells a new product every 10 minutes, to reap some of the financial rewards for launching products. 
"Right," the friend replied. 
-- Menswear retailer S&K Famous Brands Inc. said sales rose 21% to $9.9 million for the five weeks ended Saturday, while sales for stores open for more than a year dropped 1%. 
Getting there: Coming from the direction of the Metropole Hotel or the Government Guest House, the Cafe Lam is a block and a half north of Cathay Pacific's office on Pho Ly Thai To, a main avenue that continues into Nguyen Huu Huan. 
ConAgra Inc. said a strong showing by its prepared foods businesses boosted its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings by nearly 28% on a 9.5% increase in sales. 
Profit at the company's 68%-owned packaging arm, publicly traded Pechiney International, plunged to 294 million francs from 1.97 billion francs. 
The closely held Brookfield, Wis., company handled about 1,000 cases in South Carolina last year, generating $200,000 in revenue. 
That speaks volumes of who will be calling the shots at the merged agencies. 
In Nasdaq Stock Market trading, MicroAge shares rose $2, or more than 12%, to $17.75. 
The New York developer was brought in as an equity partner, although he didn't have to invest any money. 
Other utility issues also sagged. 
The loss of power, combined with a changing world, is gnawing away at the very roots of the G-7 as an institution. 
Mr. Schiller said one juror expressed a willingness to be interviewed. 
Messrs. Diamond and van de Velde promptly wrote their own paper for Northwest, "Demand Forecasting: Summary of Existing Techniques." 
Food is cheap and plentiful. 
He next notified ATF's Milwaukee office that Mr. Pleau seemed to be selling guns routinely. 
Burlington Northern Inc. agreed to acquire Santa Fe Pacific Corp. for $2.7 billion in stock to create the nation's largest railroad. 
Problems have continued into 1994. 
CARACAS -- Foreign investment in Venezuela was up $62.8 million, or 60%, in the first six months of the year, to $168.1 million, compared with $105.3 million in the first six months of last year, according to figures from the Superintendency of Foreign Investment. 
First Financial, an information services company, said the purchase of Genex, a provider of workers' compensation programs, will add a key component to its integrated health-care services. 
Nickolas Davatzes, the chief executive officer of Arts & Entertainment (a highbrow cable network carried in more than 56 million homes in 1992), complains that "the unintended victims of the FCC {rate-regulation} action are the cable programmers." 
Pelikan, based in Zug, Switzerland, makes office and printing supplies. 
The temptation to talk about monetary neutrality in terms of growth is strong. 
That's true; Mr. Acuff's wife of 23 years is named Michael, a detail overlooked in the literature. 
A recent meeting with neighbors who share his attorney, Mr. Cowell says, degenerated into bickering over who gets the worst odors. 
ADD is a syndrome characterized by distractibility, short attention span, underachievement and poor impulse control. 
"If a relatively smaller company can execute a business plan and acquire scale or mass, they may be able to survive." 
"How desperate? 
In Paris, the market rallied 1.5%, scoring its fifth gain in a row, though volume was seasonally thin. 
In Milan, equities slipped, after recovering deeper earlier losses; activity was dominated by technical trading geared to today's expiration of options contracts and Friday's close of the July trading account, and investors also awaited evaluations of the Italian government's budget plan. 
Ludwig says he rebuffed the request. 
In Frankfurt, the DAX 30-stock index gained 17.88 points to 2054.40. 
The value of the sale hadn't been previously disclosed. 
To ensure this, we have introduced legislation calling for a Haiti policy that stresses: the imposition of a complete trade and commercial embargo with Haiti with the exception of food and medicine; the severance of all air links with Haiti; the freezing of all military officers' assets; imposition of strong sanctions against all countries violating these agreements; deployment of a multinational border patrol between Haiti and the Dominican Republic to halt underground trade; and halting the interdiction and repatriation of Haitian refugees. 
In a bid to simplify matters, Compaq, the No. 1 server manufacturer, already has incorporated basic operating-system software into its servers, and now is moving a step further by offering customers the ability to order Oracle database software modified for Compaq machines. 
"Operationally, everything went right for the company," Mr. Van Leeuwen said. 
If China agrees to a 15% return plus a bonus for completing the project early, CEPA may yet build four plants in Shenzhen, Mr. Wu. 
Hosiden Corp. (Japan) -- 150 million Swiss francs of privately placed convertible 0.125% notes due Sept. 30, 1998, at par and repayable in yen, via Daiwa Bank (Switzerland). 
Come back next winter," says Mr. Hu. 
Fees 0.1. 
Instead, soaring prices have coincided with a steady decline in the number of investors who appear to be willing to participate in the increasingly volatile coffee market. 
"It's like selling doughnuts. 
Researchers, including Dr. Milham, have reported unusually high levels of leukemia and non-Hodgin's lymphoma in a number of workers exposed to EMF on the job. 
When leaks were discovered in the Richard Lloyd Jones house in Tulsa, Okla., 
It may trigger sharp cuts because the state's two-year budget outlook assumes $3 billion in aid from the federal government to compensate California for spending on illegal immigrants. 
It was signed just as police began picking up several tax officials and businessmen, based on investigators' allegations that the executives paid off tax officials to avoid audits. 
But Hamilton was hit by a massive sell-off Friday in the wake of news that New York Bancorp offered about $133 million for the thrift, which has assets of about $740 million and about four million shares outstanding. 
In reaction to Robert J. Barro's June 3 editorial-page commentary "Send Regulations Up in Smoke":  Unfortunately, Mr. Barro has overlooked the many Americans who suffer from asthma and other chronic breathing disorders and whose health is adversely affected by environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). 
"Are you going to walk away as an affiliate when Barry Diller is about to come on board?" 
Thus, the figures in the table exclude the ups and downs of fund performance, and also exclude the impact of dividends. 
Mr. Large has won praise for reducing the thrift's expense base. 
As the recent upsurge of global bond yields will testify, reducing the federal deficit by itself will not ensure an adequate level of savings and investment in the U.S. economy. 
Largely because of the state's budget deficit, which Moody's estimates at $3.8 billion, California will have to sell a massive $7 billion of short-term notes during the next two weeks. 
I was just checking up. 
In the past four months alone, there have been seven changes to the index, says Elliott Shurgin, vice president of index products and services at S&P. 
The big Pittsburgh bank's results were in line with analysts' expectations. 
The wish list included new parks and pedestrian walkways, a downtown transportation hub fitted for rapid-rail service and grants to some 15 dilapidated neighborhoods adjacent to Olympic sporting venues. 
Copies were released in Washington. 
Earnings for the first half of 1994 included a one-time, after-tax charge of $3 million, or three cents a share, from an accounting change for post-employment benefits. 
Speaking at the conclusion of the G-7 summit in Italy, Yeltsin also demanded that Western countries lift their Cold War-era trade restrictions against his country. 
Clinton's problems increase if the international force can't be put together soon. 
As the prison population increased during the 1980s, the percentage of blacks changed little. 
Southwood J. Morcott, chairman and chief executive officer of the Toledo, Ohio, automotive supplier, said the company's profit margins are improving due to cost cutting and productivity improvements. 
"Among the senior managers there was no shyness about expressing our growing concern. 
Some 40 or so preliminary bids on the historic facility were submitted on June 28. 
They also urged construction of a wall between Microsoft's operating systems and applications divisions, so the company's applications developers couldn't gain a head start. 
The head of Kellogg's flagship North American cereal business resigned in a management shuffle. 
Since the Azzurri were beaten by Ireland, 1-0, at Giants Stadium in the first round's marquee game, its fans here and at home have been distinctly surly. 
We Yanks aren't immune. 
The bondholders are owed $1.3 billion of Macy's total $6 billion in debt. 
The European Court of First Instance rejected the complaint, however, ruling that Matra-Hachette didn't provide sufficient proof of its claim. 
However, deputies of the Bosnian Serbs' parliament, who debated the proposal for two days, indicated they would set conditions for full acceptance rather than give a straight yes or no answer, as demanded by Western nations and Russia. 
Hubco, based in Union City, N.J., said it will take a $650,000 charge in the second quarter to reflect its costs from the proposed transaction. 
But Mr. Golle says that "we have not put a nickel into South Pointe" and further, "We not only have not lost money on it, we have made money on it." 
"They need to broaden their menu," he says. 
But throughout the long corruption investigations, the team of public prosecutors remained heroic in public opinion. 
Among institutional funds, the assets of 231 taxable money-market funds grew $1.77 billion to $149.08 billion. 
Desc SA de CV -- initial 5,625,000 American depositary shares, via Goldman, Sachs & Co.  Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. -- $1.5 billion of fiveyear global debt via Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers Inc. 
All of which adds up to a lively half-hour. 
Salov has cut prices in an effort to grab market share from Unilever Group's Bertolli USA unit, the category leader. 
ET TU, PPI? 
Japanese officials insisted Mr. Garten's pessimism is unwarranted, though they agreed that reaching a broad trade agreement will take some time. 
Courts have provided broad guidelines for when an agent can be held liable in such cases. 
In April, the companies declined to comment on a Wall Street Journal report that they were negotiating the agreement. 
Damaged roads and bridges have cut off access to many of the affected areas, and the waters continue to rise in many of the region's southernmost communities. 
Whether the tax would achieve its goal is open to question. 
Based on IDB's current market price of $9.875 a share, it would seem that LDDS would have to offer at least $700 million for the company. 
That $176 billion would represent a 5.2% jump, adjusted for inflation, over 1993 Georgia production, and the flood is expected to reduce that figure to only slightly under 5%, Mr. Vitner added. 
We're going to reinvest in that business quite significantly." 
The spread of liberal economic ideas has expanded the number of countries now able to attract foreign investment. 
A tournament produces excellence of one sort: one winner, many losers. 
If this sounds like something from some seedy banana republic or third-rate dictatorship, the sad truth is that it's going on right here in the United States. 
Apartment Investment & Management Co. -- initial 8.9 million shares, via Smith Barney Shearson Inc.  Citicorp -- $100 million of adjustable-rate cumulative preferred shares, via Merrill Lynch & Co.  Columbus Realty Trust -- 2.5 million shares, via Prudential Securities Inc. 
Since 1987 I've had to endure double Medicare deductions from both my civil service salary and the full Social Security deductions from the salary earned from my second job. 
The whole episode consumed about 20 minutes of a generally calm afternoon of questions and answers on a wide range of legal issues. 
The Fremont, Calif., maker of medical and dental lasers didn't specify the amount of the loss. 
Sterling was trading at $1.5722, up from $1.5494. 
"I'd certainly be prepared to fly on it," he says. 
Frankfurt shares advanced in light trading. 
Comcast, one of QVC's founders and largest shareholders, is, in its view, moving aggressively to protect its strategic investment in the programming business. 
As for experience, that would be nice. 
"It's taking a lot longer than the market expected for them to roll out their new satellite-based product," she says. 
But looming in the background is the biggest obstacle, West Virgina Senator Robert Byrd, who sits as the king of pork on his Appropriations Committee throne. 
There is, however, a melancholy aspect to these writings: Most of them date from his last three decades -- a period when, despite his unceasing quest for a unified theory of physics, he was scientifically washed up. 
He also is on the outs with controversial President Jean Bertrand Aristide, who appointed him to the job and with whom he has not spoken since Mr. Malval resigned the position in December. 
"For once, I would say that the market hasn't overreacted," said Lorenzo Stanca, an economist with Credito Italiano International in London. 
But afternoon short-covering -- buying shares to replace those previously borrowed for a short sale -- bolstered prices in the group, paving the way for a broad-based rally. 
The Denver company cited higher crude oil prices and a tight crude-oil supply. 
He is expected to overhaul the scheduling department and also bring in a Gergen-type communication hand, moving aside communications chief Mark Gearan. 
NEC Corp. is studying the feasibility of building a $1 billion production plant in the U.S. or Britain within the next few years, company officials said. 
In addition, the U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board to back off. 
The foundation normally charges a $20 annual fee. 
Kerry Packer, Australia's richest person and biggest magazine publisher, controls about 15% of John Fairfax and is widely believed to have long-term designs on the company. 
Andy Balbirer , NutraSweet's vice president of table-top products, notes that Equal's sales recently have grown stronger in warehouse stores and price clubs, sales not counted in the above figures. 
While some companies raise capital through ADR offerings, others use ADRs as a way to list their securities in the U.S. Thirty-seven companies listed their stock in the U.S. in the form of ADRs during the first half, up from 27 a year earlier. 
Any published accounting typically wasn't very helpful, either, at least to non-Mexican eyes. 
A New Jersey judge threw out $3.5 million in compensatory damages against Mobil Oil Corp. in a wrongful-discharge suit, but left standing $3.5 million in punitive damages. 
She said about the only thing that would push the stock price up is a takeover. 
Mr. Malval, who studied at the University of Miami in his youth, still bears a small scar above an eye where he was hit by a stone during a civil-rights demonstration in Selma, Ala. 
Her discussion of the importance of community in American life updates observations first made by Tocqueville. 
CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT: 3.83% one month; 3.94% two months; 4.10% three months; 4.53% six months; 5.02% one year. 
Mr. Horwitz is a Virginia-based reporter for the Journal. 
And taxes in gobs. 
The Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to change a 1992 regulation that allows factories and businesses to change how much they dirty the air without notifying the public or getting a new permit. 
Helping U.S. companies win sales and contracts overseas has become an essential part of a diplomat's daily job, and doing it well is one key to career success. 
The crowd groans. 
Dominique D'Ermo started the race to publicize his restaurant, Dominique. 
The lieutenant governor has charged the Senate Health and Human Services committee to study ways to restructure the state's Medicaid program beginning in 1996. 
KNOX COUNTY, OHIO, will redeem, on Aug. 1, 1994, $40,000 of its 5.9% industrial development revenue bonds, 1977, due Aug. 1, 2002. 
He said institutional investors are increasingly coming to the view that last Tuesday's 20-month low of 1.5165 marks might have been the 1994 bottom. 
WICHITA FALLS -- In medieval times, Herbert R. Smith, George Moody and John Ford could have used spit, chicken blood and crows feet to divine the future. 
But Rep. Stark said the city's financial straits demand that new revenue sources be seriously explored. 
"It's useless to recommend anything to your clients." 
"More than two-thirds of the states, for example, are calling for reforms in the small-employer insurance market." 
At least one or two such oases of relief will be available this week -- good news for minds and spirits burdened by the growing fear, however irrational, that instead of finally fading the Simpson story will be with us, always. 
In the small front room, she eases into a chair. 
But investors were skeptical that Germany would lower its interest rates this week. 
Net income for the French beverage company totaled 252 million francs ($46.6 million), up from 202 million a year earlier. 
Sen. Bumpers unveiled an audit of the Vaccines for Children program that criticized the government's plans to distribute millions of doses of free vaccine. 
The heavier the girl was at the age of 16, the lower her earnings at 23, Mr. Blanchflower said. 
George Baker, head of an Oakland, Calif., energy-consulting firm, Baker & Associates, says that just to meet pollution-control goals, Pemex will need slightly more than 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas a day for power plants alone in the year 2005. 
Kim Jong Il and his technocrat handlers mistrust both the military and his half-brother, Kim Pyong Il. 
An SEC spokesman said the agency would have no comment on Markey's bill. 
Playthings magazine editor Frank Raisin says an astutely marketed juggling kit has the potential to become "a traditional evergreen toy like Monopoly." 
FourGen had revenue of $15 million last year. 
The news sent the company's stock price skidding 9%, or about $3 a share. 
His staff is preparing a position paper on the various alternatives under consideration in Washington, and Mr. Kincaid says the office can play a role in advising consumers of the benefits and disadvantages of, say, a single-payer plan as opposed to a system of managed care. 
The authors find that the spouse of someone who smokes at low or moderate levels has a 30% lower probability of lung cancer than the spouse of a nonsmoker, whereas the spouse of someone who smokes at a high level has a 30% higher probability. 
There remains the clear risk, however, that black and white photography in ads will become, well, overexposed. 
Bosnian Serb leaders criticized the plan. 
Other options include cutting Comcast's stake in Nextel Communications, a wireless-communication company. 
It was the trucking industry, however, that delivered the coup de grace to the railroads, whose bread and butter was freight. 
Digital has said it might sell off some assets as part of a sweeping restructuring intended to transform the loss-plagued computer maker into a smaller enterprise focused on fewer markets. 
And IDC expects the industry to grow 26% a year for the next five years. 
ZALE Corp. (Dallas) -- This jewelry retailer named Mary Forte president of its Gordon's Jewelry division, a new position. 
The company's products are used by a variety of processing industries, including chemical, waste-water treatment, pharmaceutical, oil and gas recovery, pulp and paper, food and mining. 
Then the federal attorney general arrested a PAN state prosecutor for alleged narcotics ties. 
Now Mr. Kincaid, who went into solo practice in 1992 representing a broad array of consumer interests, sees the Supreme Court tilting in favor of insurers. 
This year's defeat of the product-liability bill in the Senate is noteworthy mainly because the voting on it didn't break neatly along party lines. 
It can say, though, that in 1994 the U.S. will put a total of some $300 billion into pensioner households, about one-fifth of which enjoy incomes of $30,000 or more. 
While the company doesn't intend to issue any new stock, it wants to strengthen its ability to raise money by "enhancing its international recognition and credibility." 
It's easy to see why, says Uli Mensing at Euregio, an EU information office by the Dutch border in Gronau, in northern Germany. 
It hasn't released its restated earnings. 
At Northern Michigan, which blocks 900-number calls, the tactic has worked. 
On the other hand, in assessing the Time-Warner combination earlier, the same court found that the separate companies, rather than changing hands, were forming a strategic alliance to improve their competitiveness in the marketplace. 
Senator Rockefeller and other backers of government-managed health care realize they've failed to sell the idea to voters, but they also know this may be their last chance to pass it before voters have a say this November. 
Before closing the sale in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, early this month, Mr. Maertens did lots of legwork: He compared prices, acquainted himself with EU rules and made sure that the Land Rover's guarantee would be respected in Belgium. 
"If the demographics don't stay the same," the official adds, "then we'll probably have to pull out of daytime and move into evening programming." 
Mr. Reed, a shrewd political student with a doctorate in American history from Emory University, understands what needs to be done, saying "it will take a generation to complete." 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, GE stock rose $1 to $48.875 a share. 
It was forced to cut its 1993 dividend by 50% to 4.3 pence (6.6 cents) a share after plunging to a pretax profit of #1 million ($1.54 million) in 1993 from #123.6 million a year earlier. 
Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes in a June 9 editorial-page article ("Ulster Proves Statecraft's Limits") that "you may see it argued in pro-IRA sheets in Boston and New York that the Protestants have no right to live in Ulster because their ancestors did not live there 500 years earlier." 
But without an employer mandate, officials fear that the president could find himself committed to a burdensome system of public subsidies that fail to achieve his initial goal. 
Congress would be taking a first step out of the wilds of Budgetland if it can summon the courage to approve this single measure. 
He seems to believe it is like the Ogallalla Aquifer in the High Plains, which appears to be irreversibly lowering because it does not easily recharge like the Edwards. 
It urged respect for the ways of more than one million non-Muslims among Iraq's 17 million people. 
He told his sister he was "battling depression," considered consulting a psychiatrist and had started taking an antidepressant. 
Armco, based in Pittsburgh, has diverse operations that include steel, construction products and oil-field equipment. 
When Home Depot announced its entry into the Canadian market this year, Molson sold most of Aikenhead's to the U.S. company rather than face the competition. 
The German sociologist Max Weber cited the "Protestant ethic" as a driving force behind capitalism in 1904. 
Herald-Journal, that "almost every game so far has held fans on the edge of their seats"? 
Students are now responsible for reading the article. 
After all, gorillas were mythical creatures for 300 years before Western scientists finally captured one. 
But several defense attorneys, business executives and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro have accused the magistrates of illegally using preventive detention to force confessions from the accused. 
Florida officials are preparing to file a suit seeking about $1.5 billion under the law, which took effect this month. 
Imports were up 9.9% to $8.28 billion from $7.53 billion. 
Mark Robichaux contributed to this article. 
The environmental movement, the feminist movement, the rise of alternative medicine, the explosion of street gangs -- each represents a hunger for something beyond scientific rationalism, beyond material progress. 
Product liability reform also would spare companies from paying up if injuries are attributable to the use of alcohol or illegal drugs -- not to any inherent defect in the product. 
While the company, which owns Burberrys and Scotch House stores and also is involved in financial services and property, could still make such a move, analysts say it likely won't happen now for at least six months. 
That includes savings from improved margins from ticket sales, rationalization of services by merging the company's regional service ATI with Alitalia, improving organizational efficency and cutting material and service costs. 
In addition, the administration plans to raise $3 billion by speeding up the time uncashed food stamps and Social Security checks are declared invalid. 
Mr. Frum is a 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School and the author of "Dead Right," an analysis of contemporary conservative politics (New Republic Books). 
One surprise impediment to a job-cutting binge is IBM's mainframe business, which is humming along better than expected. 
It is only work that truly satisfies." 
Yet some say Mexico City "is the toughest city in the world to make a real-estate deal," says Cushman & Wakefield's Mr. Robertson. 
To do so, your child has to have earnings of his or her own for the year that she declares on a tax return. 
MACY AGREED to merge with Federated, ending its fight to remain independent. 
Mr. Bergsten attributes the yen's rise to "a very simple economic fundamental: Japan has had a huge and growing trade surplus." 
Still, he expects other bids to emerge. 
"Cigarettes have always flourished when associated with taking chances and risks," he says. 
Unprofitable and troubled by bad loans, the bank was an embarrassment to Mr. Williams during the governor's race. 
The international community originally hoped the embargo would cramp the lifestyle of Haiti's wealthy elite, who would then convince the military dictatorship to relinquish its power. 
"They've been very, very tough on contractors," says Richard Monteilh, MAOGA's executive director. 
The PBGC contended that because both Reserve Mining and First Taconite were Armco alter egos, under a separate but related federal court ruling, Armco is liable for the unfunded benefits in the Reserve Mining pension plan. 
Growing companies such as Sega Enterprises Ltd., which has ballooned to 3,000 employees from 500 over the past five years, have used foreign headhunters to fill positions. 
"What you are seeing is a contraction of the market multiple for this stock," says Mark Jordan, an analyst with A.G. Edwards & Sons. 
Through Aug. 22. 
It would not be a "rational" means of advancing national security to allow a North Korean to own 25% of the local telephone company. 
Senators John Breaux (D., La.) and Bob Packwood (R., Ore.) have a better way: They would allow virtually unfettered competition in telecom after one year. 
"Yes," he says, eyeing a fluoridation display in the basement of the University of Maryland dental school, where a tiny version of the museum now resides, "it's a dull story, but one that has to be told." 
Her early childhood was shaped by World War II and the hail of bombs that fell on Liverpool. 
Terms called for holders of each of American Natural's 3.8 million common shares to receive 1.62 shares of Alexander. 
Mr. Bernbach also said he has been approached by other agencies recently about defecting. 
In an increasingly commercial city, the house of Lam is one of the last places you can glimpse old Hanoi and bask in the romance and somnolence of an age that is all but gone. 
Also, he said he will limit his purchases to the more generic 7% to 8% coupon securities. 
Still, Mr. Halbert politely brushes aside comparisons with the much bigger operation. 
But on Wednesday the dollar continued to drop, and the market didn't react much. 
But now the strategy is backfiring. 
But to reacquire a 49% stake in what will be a heavily indebted company, it will have to put up only $73 million. 
Some people are prone to cancer if they inherit a p53 gene in damaged form, while most other cancers occur if p53 in just one cell becomes damaged as a result of exposure to some environmental agent or from a random mishap during cell division. 
I have to holler the same for everybody." 
The justices struck down as too broad, however, parts of the judicial order that also applied to the 36-foot buffer area to adjoining private property and that barred protesters from approaching clinic patients or employees in a 300-foot zone around the clinic. 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading, U S West shares fell $1.25 apiece, or 3%, to $40.625. 
In 1994, the company will publish between 80 and 100 such short traditional novels-up from only 60 a couple of years ago, says Gary Goldstein, senior editor at Putnam. 
But since the Yellowstone fires, a fairly elaborate system of choices has evolved under pressure from environmentalist forces. 
The Smucker family holds tight control over its stock and favors slow, long-term growth and low debt. 
The result, the newspaper editorialized, would be for these kids to "become a seedbed for increased graffiti, drive-by shootings, gang activity and other youth related crimes that stalk California cities . 
Other biologists said they weren't convinced of the link between MT-MMP and metastasis. 
Mr. Altman was acquitted and Mr. Clifford never tried for reasons of health in criminal proceedings in BCCI. 
Beginning in 1991, Houston's district director, Milton Wilson Jr., began working with local groups like the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency to market SBA programs. 
Mr. Martin, whose company generates computer-simulated walking tours for office projects, says home applications are too expensive but expects that to change as the technology becomes cheaper. 
But the FCC has misinterpreted this provision to be an absolute bar against more than 25% ownership -- unless the foreign investor can prove that a larger stake wouldn't harm the public interest, in which case a waiver can be issued. 
Ms. Huffington thinks Hillary Clinton's "politics of meaning" is only an excuse for building an even more meddlesome and suffocating state. 
Figuring the natural rate isn't easy. 
Signet Banking Corp. reported second-quarter net income of $50.4 million, or 88 cents a share, up 25% from $40.4 million, or 71 cents a share, a year earlier. 
Trade diplomats said China's entry also was problematic for other reasons. 
The offering is being co-managed by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lazard Freres & Co. Corning operates businesses in communications, specialty materials, laboratory services and consumer products. 
Another person familiar with the talks said the two executives also resolved another important issue -- the value of Mr. Ullman's stock options under a merger -- and won the approval of some creditors to rework the terms of Mr. Ullman's compensation. 
The fund's manager would get three-quarters of a percentage point of the fund's assets as a fee. 
He will continue as an Omnicom director. 
Thus Kellogg is confronted with a series of difficult choices as it seeks to regain sales momentum. 
Dr. Pascarelli recently attended a government conference on repetitive-stress injuries. 
Monthly rents for the apartments, which will feature hardwood floors, whirlpool tubs and granite counter tops, are likely to be $1,000 or more. 
Even so, he said, he hopes the settlement will send a message. 
The company hailed a doubling in the second quarter of orders for its digital signal processors, though they remain a small part of TI's overall chip business. 
Whale executives couldn't be reached to comment on that. 
Only Marathon agreed. 
Tryptophan, in turn, is a raw ingredient in the production of serotonin. 
"It's a fantastic record," says Clyde Bartter of Cleveland-based Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., whose 3.7% stake makes it Premier's largest institutional holder. 
GET READY for safety warnings on trains as well as planes. 
Mr. Danforth, who is retiring this year, delivered an emotional appeal for the tax as a cost-control device. 
That bottom-dwelling perspective, rough as it may have been for Mr. Robinson at the time, is the reader's good luck. 
The Danish group said it still expects its full year results to meet expectations, on level with 1993. 
Fiske also reaffirmed a police assertion that Deputy White House Counsel Foster killed himself. 
Today, however, the most activity to be found in Jimani is in the town plaza, where unemployed men pass the time playing dominoes. 
Load factor, or percentage of seats filled, climbed to 67% from 63.3%. 
Ms. Bottinelli, who is working on three more television movies, says that she has applied information from Dialogue to many of her characters. 
He is seen as erratic and cruel. 
"If it breaks below that range," he says, "we'll lighten our position." 
That could mean that factories are having trouble keeping up with demand -- forcing them to hire more workers. 
In the BJC relationship, the first of the arrangements, the hospital system agreed to grant Baxter access to its computer information database, which will enable the hospital supplier to measure more precisely the types of procedures conducted and exact amount of supplies needed. 
Amazingly, the Russian team at the international negotiations was directed by the aforementioned Lenin Prize winners. 
Mattel, based in El Segundo, Calif., said it has received irrevocable commitments from holders of more than 50% of Spear's shares. 
Lots of brokers, traders -- even ultraconservative index funds -- jumped on the bandwagon and played this game in recent months. 
Funds investing in big stocks did better than small-stock funds. 
But the "passport" facility available under the EU's Second Banking Coordination Directive offers other advantages. 
"It is spooky." 
Fiske may be the first witness when House hearings on Whitewater-related matters begin on July 26. 
To fend off competition, SIA won a commitment from Phnom Penh to disband two Thai-owned regional carriers serving Cambodia. 
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- On a rainy Saturday night in the Malaysian capital's hot new yuppie enclave, Bangsar, a dozen customers are queued up at the takeout window of Kenny Rogers Roasters. 
Steve Greathouse, president of Harrah's casino hotel division, also said per-capita gambling spending tends to be softer during the vacation season, and adds that visitors are taking time out to visit the new properties. 
But bringing back the whipping post probably isn't the answer, even in the unlikely event that doing so withstood an Eighth Amendment challenge. 
They also said they were less critical of drug use by others. 
It's a difficult day for anyone who believes, or wants to believe, in harmony and order and a history that progresses inexorably from bad to good to best. 
James Ramenda, an analyst with investment research firm Northington Partners in Avon, Conn., said he expects companies in the life insurance sector to show earnings growth of about 10% on average in the second quarter, despite the upward tilt in interest rates. 
But swings in credit permit sharper price fluctuations than would otherwise have been possible. 
Mr. Bowles says he's giving his district directors tools to reach their goals. 
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Consumers may soon be able to order and receive a wide array of documents -- from airline tickets to college transcripts -- through a network of ATM-like machines scheduled to begin operation later this year. 
That may seem like an odd question to ask right now. 
CHICAGO -- United Airlines and parent UAL Corp. took a vital step toward completing a proposed employee buyout by issuing $1.15 billion in bonds and preferred stock, but the offerings raised less than the $1.5 billion Wall Street had expected. 
Business groups maintain that damage awards are still too high, but agree there has been a noticeable pro-defense shift in juror attitudes. 
Unlike the cable industry, which picks up only a small portion of its revenues from advertisers, broadcasters get about $26 billion a year from advertisers, the NAB spokesman said. 
In the past decade, companies have been restructuring themselves. 
Wolfhard Graetz, chief investment officer at Bank J. Vontobel & Co. in Zurich, has roughly 15% to 20% of balanced portfolios he runs for conservative clients in cash. 
Mr. Maude cautioned, however, that the rally in bonds during the past few days "is not necessarily the beginning of a sustained," rise in prices. 
In the general products group, although profit is strong, revenue has been flat. 
Raymond Moore, an analyst at Dillon Read, said he foresees more such acquisitions, although he believes many will be international because demand is so much higher overseas. 
Other managers, such as Tink Veale of Turner Investment Partners in Berwyn, Pa., worry that rising interest rates will hurt home or furniture purchases. 
But Democratic and Republican congressional staffers and administration officials privately say the bill can't deliver what it promises. 
Although the artists are gone, the cafe still attracts a loyal clientele who sit on miniature stools clustered around seven worn wooden tables. 
Steelmakers continued operating at or near capacity in the quarter in a bid to keep up with demand. 
All figures have been adjusted for normal seasonal variations. 
The reasons are that more data have been included in race track programs and track attendance has declined, which some analysts trace to the proliferation of casino gambling. 
With the Fed acting less friendly than it has in years, the heavy-duty industrial or "cyclical" stocks may not be market leaders for much longer, a couple of the big-fund managers suggest. 
According to the family spokesman, "Evanthea thought she was having a perfectly harmless and totally normal relationship with an available man and had no idea that he was married at the time. 
NEW YORK -- Richard Snyder still doesn't get it. 
Well, he did, and it makes me angry. 
It is Pete Wilson's support that has given this "mean-tempered measure legitimacy," the conservative San Diego Union Tribune wrote last month. 
"But that would make Barry a fool," this person said. 
The Big Board began trading the following initial offerings: Ferrellgas Partners LP, Liberty, Mo., which is in the propane business, under FGP; and Franchise Finance Corp. of America, Scottsdale, Ariz., a real estate financing company for the franchised restaurant industry, FFA. 
Clearly, whatever was going on there needs to be opened up, but just as clearly we're not going to get credible answers unless the minority party is somehow empowered to responsibly pursue the issue. 
The catalyst is a proprietary, patented strain of bacteria that extracts sulfur from petroleum. 
Taco Cabana has quintupled the number of its outlets over the past two years to nearly 100. 
Mr. Mitchell plans to meet with those centrists today, but he also is aggressively guarding the option of reintroducing an employer mandate without their support. 
As the dollar weakened, the bond market plunged. 
The key in selecting them, explains Mr. MacSwan, was determining whether cleanup costs might spiral out of control. 
Among this year's innovations: two lower-priced films under the Funtime brand. 
The capability utilization rate is a calculation designed to indicate at what percent of its production capability the industry is operating in a given week. 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Rohm & Haas rose $2.50 to close at $66.375. 
He expects a dividend increase in October. 
All this has left investors with an increasingly dim view of the government's ability to solve Italy's massive financial problems. 
The job requires lifting 4,000 quarters -- weighing roughly 20 to 30 pounds -- at a time. 
"There's concern among some people at the Parliament that he won't be a strong commission president in the sense of pushing for a more progressive institutional system in 1996." 
CHICAGO -- UAL Corp. shareholders approved a bold plan to sell a 55% stake to workers, giving final clearance for the parent of United Airlines to become the nation's largest company majority-owned by employees. 
Due to the success of the "Super Gameboy," Nintendo's sales are rising, he said. 
The situation in Europe is difficult. 
But experts say social smokers are seriously misguided because only a tiny minority of people can control their smoking for any sustained time. 
A judge's order prohibiting news reporters from contacting jurors after a criminal trial was upheld by a federal appeals court. 
The theater could use more funny playwrights. 
Neither ABC nor NBC would discuss its policies. 
Falstaff must flee, suffering gross indignities along the way. 
He has led an Iraqi "charm offensive" since last summer, when Iraq switched from fighting the U.N. to cooperating with it. 
"There is a case for the Bundesbank considering some pre-emptive medicine." 
The executor can begin distributions well before the estate is settled, and the family often pressures the executor to do just that. 
The most elaborate antitheft machines have spring mechanisms that deliver just one paper. 
The Skokie, Ill., operator of microcomputer retail centers reported the sudden death of Hal S. Goldman, its 41-year-old co-founder, president and chief executive officer. 
Expecting an 8% rate for both the short and long-term rates at year end, it is the highest of the group. 
When she talked to a surviving aunt and uncle, they confirmed what she already sensed: "He was a cold, distant man. 
And PaineWebber analyst Ronald Nordmann said, "This is an extraordinarily expensive acquisition. 
The George Demoulas heirs argued that their purchases and personal lives were irrelevant to the case. 
"The ultimate buyer of this high-risk paper, which could be a bank or an S&L, takes on market risk in return for what appears to be an attractive yield," Ms. Alvarez said. 
"That indicates that something is amiss," she said. 
It is discussing an alternative that would require employers to pay only 50% of the cost of insuring individual workers. 
One point on which market economists largely agree is that Goskomstat's reports of falling industrial production are no cause for alarm, but a sign of economic health. 
First, that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. 
For the first nine months of this fiscal year, KnowledgeWare had a negative cash flow of nearly $13 million. 
California Federal Bank, Los Angeles, said it completed two bulk sales of a total of $439 million of performing and nonperforming income-property assets, bringing its total bulk sales for the year to $1.02 billion. 
Nextel said Motorola is delivering 750 mobile units a week and expects to significantly increase that volume. 
Bond investors were cheered by a Labor Department report showing that producer prices were unchanged in June. 
The Treasury's 30-year issue lost 1/8 point to yield 7.60%. 
Warner-Lambert Co. is "going through a rebirth," with most of the bad news of regulatory problems in its Puerto Rico manufacturing plants behind it, Ms. Albers said. 
In an order last week, Judge Greene said he will listen to arguments on the matter July 21. 
What's more, he said, there's no good excuse for a highly profitable company such as Fannie Mae not to pay corporate income taxes to the city where it's based. 
Digital shares have risen 10% on heavy volume in the past two days, on hopes the latest plan will restore profitability after more $3 billion in losses in the past three years. 
The negotiations, which represent unusual cooperation among traditional adversaries, are the first attempt at formal oversight of the derivatives activities of Wall Street firms. 
Mr. Tolman is an environmental policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington. 
But Japanese trade officials said the new government is unlikely to strike any trade deal with the U.S. before the summit of the Group of Seven industrial nations in Naples, Italy, next Friday. 
Salesmen learn well that they must "control" the customer, "work" the deal for maximum profit and "sell what you see" -- what's on the lot, whether it is what the customer truly wants or not. 
Recognizing that there may be abuses, accounting rulemakers are now considering rules to force corporations to take a charge against earnings for awarding stock options. 
The public also won't be able to hear some characters who, were they to testify, might lend a backdrop to the speculative hayride on which the Yale Law tyro went along. 
Dental historians, too, are ecstatic. 
Political slogans were being scrawled in the streets and on public and private buildings late at night by a frustrated left-wing political opposition, necessitating costly daily cleansing. 
I used to be a congressman. 
The federal budget deficit is projected to be a startling 18% of gross domestic product this year. 
It has been understood that Mr. Krebs, a rail industry veteran of more than 30 years, has been willing to negotiate about moving to Burlington Northern, but has insisted that the Santa Fe railway be part of the package. 
"CBS Reports," with anchors Charles Kuralt and Gen. H. Norman Schwartz-kopf, deals with Hitler and Stalin and the question, more particularly, of how they came to power and endured. 
Young Hitler -- like her father -- "had no friends, no money and no future." 
Then, armed with notarized death certificates and proper court authorization, the executor can open an estate bank account and begin to get access to investments and other assets. 
While consumers may not know Smucker's link to natural juices, the Smucker name carries clout in the industry. 
However, the company must still resolve problems in its Italian apparel division, which reported an operating loss last year. 
The A330 version with Pratt & Whitney engines was certified for service on June 2, the spokesman said. 
"It's a correctional systems curriculum," explains the college's president, Robert H. Sandel. 
Arco, which owns 39.9 million shares of Lyondell common stock, has in registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission a proposed offering of three-year notes. 
Mr. McPherson doesn't object to a Disney theme park, per se. 
"When you get all said and done, profits for the year could be down 25% to 30% from a year ago. 
"They did a great job at doing the special-interest issues and capitalizing on existing copyrights," said Jessica Reif, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co.  Warner Music Group, Filmed Entertainment and Home Box Office Inc. showed record cash-flow gains of 10%, 5% and 18%, respectively. 
First the Chamber of Commerce endorsed employer mandates, then rejected them after hearing from its members. 
Its high-end Pirelli tires and its low-cost Armstrong brands lag behind Goodyear, Michelin and Bridgestone/Firestone with only 3.5% of the U.S. car tire market. 
The company said the post-split shares that it repurchases will be held as treasury shares for general corporate purposes. 
In the late 1930s, Harriet and Patsy watched as the Army Corps of Engineers dumped salmon they had trucked around dams into the Icicle. 
All of the chicken that Pilgrim's grows and processes in Mexico is sold there. 
In Brussels, stocks rose sharply on the first day of a new trading account, though turnover was light. 
To stay in would have meant we were really interested in bidding for QVC, which was never our intention." 
He's betting the ranch on Hartford." 
"We have created the market and it has been taken away from us," said Lloyd Werner, a senior vice president of Group W Satellite Communications. 
Analysts are optimistic about Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., for example, which is vying to be Korea's first producer of nonmemory semiconductor chips through a two-year, $2.5 billion investment plan. 
What could have been done for 75 basis points 0.75 percentage point in July will probably take 100 one percentage point in August." 
Dr. Smith of Nabisco says there is "no chance" the company will run into problems with the FDA. 
"Thus, from an economic standpoint, the dependence of house counsel is indistinguishable from that of other corporate managers or senior executives who also owe their livelihoods and career goals and satisfaction to a single organizational employer." 
The European Court of Justice ruled that EMO Air Cargo illegally fired Carole Webb, a pregnant clerk, because she wouldn't be able to do her job. 
Retail sales, a major service activity, fell 1.9% in April, the first decline in five months. 
The airline will need a recapitalization of at least one trillion lire by the end of the year, most analysts agree, which will be subject to approval by the European Union. 
Federal Paper said its net income was $8.2 million, or 16 cents a share, compared with $9.8 million, or 20 cents a share, a year earlier. 
After I did U.S.-Colombia, some of them complained I was too pro-U.S., and some complained I was too pro-Colombia. 
Drypers Corp., a high-profile Houston maker of disposable diapers, has shed more than 24% since its $14.50-a-share offering in March; it's now trading at $11. 
Which saves lives more cheaply, heart transplants or curbing industrial pollution to prevent cancer? 
The unspoken credo, she says, seems to be: "Let users figure out for themselves what they want to do. 
The Tokyo Stock Price Index, or Topix, of all first-section issues, which dropped 12.84 points on Wednesday, fell 2.22 to 1668.43. 
The front-runner is the prime minister, Mr. Kebich, who is pro-Russian. 
The warning echoed concerns among many individual businesses that a hastily conceived system might stir up more trouble than it's worth. 
Bond dealers were also unnerved by the sight of the dollar falling in intraday trading to a new post-World War II low of 98.37 yen and by a one-point rise in the KR-CRB Index of 21 commodities. 
In Kuala Lumpur, equities ended narrowly higher in light trading, as support for some blue chips was offset by skittish dealings in the broader market. 
For this reason, security is the largest item in the World Cup budget (reports have put the figure at more than $80 million). 
"We don't usually have much of that around here." 
He adds, however, "it is also a business." 
"We have adjusted the formula," a spokesman said, adding that the company had held too strictly to environmental rules and had put in too few additives to control odors. 
During the next several years, raw materials costs, especially for oil and natural gas, are likely to surge as supply fails to keep up with demand. 
CATO Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) -- Paul Fulton, 59 years old, and A.F. Sloan, 64, were named to the board of this clothing retailer, expanding the board to 15 members. 
HIS LAW FIRM, which opens for business on Monday, will offer a package of other unusual inducements, such as allowing clients to hold back 5% or so of every bill (the precise amount hasn't been decided) and pay it at the end of a case only if they're happy with the result. 
Labatt, which has interests in sports and entertainment as well as brewing, will hold 51% of the U.S. unit, and Femsa Cerveza 30%. 
The league said many cities took advantage of last year's sharply lower interest rates to refund existing debt. 
The Greens have already dug deep into Social Democratic support, grabbing 660,000 SPD voters in the European Parliament election, according to Infas. 
For the 22 weeks ended Saturday, sales dropped 1.4% to $65.3 million from $66.2 million. 
The company has interests in forest products, fast food and hardware products, and holds large stakes in two publicly traded companies: NL Industries Inc., a Houston chemical maker, and Tremont Corp., a Denver titanium-metals concern. 
The Teamster leader's shop hailed the finding, declaring a victory over what it called a "bizarre smear campaign" by his opponents within the union. 
The company, along with cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., currently runs a joint venture in the U.K., offering both phone and cable-TV services to roughly 750,000 customers. 
Jack is still the No. 1 contact with the Swiss." 
Another Baltimore-based firm, Alex. Brown & Sons Inc., is expected to match the 95 cents of the fiscal second quarter ended June 25, 1993, First Call said. 
Horror overtook him. 
The group did a study of SBA lending practices between 1990 and 1992 and found discrimination against African-American and Hispanic applicants. 
Now the big question for Wisconsin Pharmacal is whether the female condom will sell. 
I was particularly intrigued by Doug Bandow's June 15 Rule of Law column on the constitutionality of caning and/or flogging in the U.S.  In the early '80s, I worked alongside a young man who told me that when he was 24, he had suffered the whipping post in Delaware for beating his wife. 
The situation came to a head when a 16-year-old novice who stood 5-foot-3 created a six-inch "bump" on his head by having a silicone bag inserted under his scalp. 
Transmission to humans hasn't ever been confirmed. 
The European Parliament was awarded slightly more veto power to give at least the appearance of a body representing Europeans as a group, even though it still falls woefully short of being something that deserves the honorific title of "parliament." 
That increase is somewhat lower than the increase of 2.9%, or $539 a car, that General Motors Corp. last week said it is putting through for 1995 models. 
Analysts had expected earnings of about 12 cents, and most hadn't factored in the refund. 
Channel One, the advertising-supported news program that is broadcast in 12,000 schools, is one of Whittle's more successful projects, generating $100 million in revenue annually. 
The Kansas City Southern acquisition "extends the geographic reach of both railroads," Illinois Central said, "enhancing our position with our customers" while offering savings through such things as reduced administrative overhead, more efficient routing, and improved use of train yards and rolling stock. 
But it also had a hole on the financial side, caused by the departure of its former president, Mr. Pope, who was de facto chief financial officer. 
Fast-food chains such as McDonald's and Burger King have been around for decades, of course. 
President Clinton said over the weekend that "apparently the North Koreans desire to continue on with the summit." 
To help ease the crunch, some offices are starting to pay temps for time they spend being interviewed by Manpower representatives. 
Even in this age of cynicism it is beyond belief that the intellectual leaders of the nuclear age can be accused of spying for the Soviet Union ("Scientists, Not Spies," Edward Teller, May 11). 
"You pay more to maintain a Ferrari." 
Mr. Klepetar rushed to court and won an injunction, but the section of the hotel he didn't claim was sold anyway. 
Bonds: Lehman Brothers Treasury index 5097.27, up 72.86. 
After opening on a positive note, shares turned down on a report of higher prices paid by British purchasing managers. 
Kohl: After the laborious work, the positive conclusion of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) is an enormous success. 
But the plan provides just bare-bones fire and quake coverage, excluding theft and liability protection, for example. 
Miles, a pharmaceutical and chemical subsidiary of Germany's Bayer AG, denied wrongdoing in both instances and said it settled to avoid the time and expense of litigation. 
Carr Sons & Co., a British brokerage house. 
Sury Kothari, green coffee buyer for White Coffee Corp., a Long Island City, N.Y., specialty coffee roaster, says that his company had to raise the prices it charges wholesale merchants by about 45 to 50 cents a pound to cover at least some of the higher costs it is facing. 
For Burlington Northern, which already operates the nation's longest railroad, it also solves the question of who will succeed Gerald Grinstein, its 62-year-old chairman, who is expected to retire in a few years. 
Comcast, as reported, already had unsuccessfully sought to block Mr. Diller from making the deal with CBS, though no one on Wall Street expected low-profile Comcast to jump in with its own rival bid for QVC. 
Dollar: 98.50 yen, off 0.25; 1.5877 marks, up 0.0022. 
S&P assigned an SP-2 rating to the balance of the planned $4 billion offering. 
According to Marian, a well-read woman in her 40s, fiction has lost two great themes -- marital miseries and sublimated homosexuality -- now that divorce is easy and gays are out of the closet. 
If Circus is acquired in a transaction that hasn't been approved by directors, the rights also have a provision that would entitle holders to buy shares in the acquiring company at a similar steep discount. 
With soaring prices, "this could be a big year for U.S. cotton farmers," he adds. 
It comes from those interest groups that find, in the utilities, an ever more lucrative feeding ground. 
He cited as authority Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 high court decision that first recognized a constitutional right to abortion. 
The ljeppers continue for two hours, some wet and some dry, but none ahead of Mr. Abma. 
Some will be used for working capital. 
S&P said it doesn't expect the company's performance to improve significantly by year-end. 
The pay scrap bitterly divided the firm and led many high-level managers to quit in protest. 
"I'm amazed that the Justice Department irresponsibly failed to address Bill's systematic announcement of vaporware," complains Mr. Warren of Autodesk. 
It set time zones, decreed that trains could be racially segregated and blocked truckers from going into business if they couldn't prove a need for their services. 
Concerns about the dollar and U.S. interest rates resurfaced in the late going and damped sentiment. 
But as reliable as twin-jet planes are, one or both of their engines do fail at times. 
Vending machines are drawing record numbers of entrepreneurs -- and record numbers of scams. 
Lakhbir Hayre, head of mortgage research at Prudential Securities Inc., noted that existing home sales have been reported on annualized basis of more than four million units for the last six months. 
Thomas P. Leahey, 32 years old, was named executive vice president-finance and treasurer, a newly created post. 
The country is trying to channel investment away from luxury villas and into housing for ordinary citizens. 
In addition to the manufacturing expansion, Koichi Amemiya, president of Honda's North American operations, will discuss changes in Honda's sales and research and development strategies at a news conference tomorrow in Detroit. 
HONG KONG (AP) -- Britain and China reached agreement on the future of British military bases to be vacated in 1997 when China regains sovereignty over the British colony. 
Burns shrugs. 
Japan unveiled a stimulus package in in February that included an income-tax cut, a plan to free banks to raise new capital, heavy spending on public works and steps to promote housing and private business investment. 
That would be in the upper range of estimates, which have valued the facility at as low as $600 million. 
Many lobbyists said the new rules will mean dues increases for their trade-group members, and more-detailed files and journals. 
Credit-rating officials say much of the problem this year in California has to do with the fact that it's an election year. 
And that worried foreign investors even more. 
Judge Turner also rejected the judges' claim to a "contract right" to undiminished compensation. 
"The revolution has begun," proclaims a new video produced by the Army's Training and Doctrine Command. 
A Nissan spokeswoman said the company, which exports nearly all cars from its Japanese plants, has started studying the possibilities of shipping cars to the region from its plants in Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as from those in North America. 
"But then again, I hope Italy beats Germany in the World Cup." 
If Republicans can pursue a reform agenda that attracts Perot voters, Mr. Perot will be the one who follows them. 
The results for the nation's fourth-largest banking company were slightly less than Wall Street estimates of about $1.22 a share. 
"I got the best chicken. 
In fiscal 1993, the defense budget alone was hit for $1.4 billion for peacekeeping. 
Consuelo Marie Sullivan, one of the teachers leaving Ms. Krause's center, loves the work and moonlighted 16 hours a week selling shoes to pay for night classes in child development. 
"It's been outperforming the market," he says with a shrug. 
The settlement clears away a critical obstacle to the Aldus-Adobe merger, but at a price. 
The Spaniards tied South Korea and Germany and beat Bolivia to gain five points, while the Swiss defeated Romania, tied the U.S. and lost to Colombia. 
Alice has one good friend in her neighbor Theresa Collins, the mother of two girls roughly the same ages as her own. 
Perhaps with the choreographer's passing, his influence on the Royal Ballet will fade. 
If Justice Scalia couldn't be convinced, who could? 
-- Vehicle-assembly capacity will be increased to 720,000 units a year from the current 610,000 by 1997. 
The Cusip number is 912794L77. 
"We have been living in frozen time," says Mohamed Yazigi, chairman of the Gaza Union of Industrialists. 
"It was a huge Slavic state that extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea." 
"I think the summer rally paused for one day, which happened to be a summer Friday and an option-expiration day as well," says Larry Rice, market strategist at Josephthal Lyon & Ross. 
Most analysts put TRW's second-quarter profit at between $1.05 and $1.20 a share. 
Hand is still relevant, Mr. Gunther claims, because he had the right view of the court's role -- even if he worried too much about remedies and not enough about the basis of fundamental rights. 
Mr. Wilson's successor as a management representative on the TWA board hasn't yet been named. 
The filing covers the resale by certain security holders of 180,666 purchase options, the units issuable upon exercise of the purchase options, the units issuable upon conversion of outstanding short-term debt at the option of the holder as well as the common stock and warrants comprising these units. 
Standing at a blackboard here, chalk in one hand and eraser in the other, the associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women looks like the classroom teacher she once was. 
Three other major DASA initiatives with France all involved Aerospatiale SA. 
Antitrust clearance is the biggest obstacle to AT&T's bid to acquire McCaw, the nation's largest cellular phone company. 
And as long as the music is familiar, it's not distracting to the listener. 
Revenue passenger miles fell to 406,160 from 456,954. 
Mr. Strasser, currently an international group vice president, succeeds Edward Moerk, 50, who left to become executive vice president of Royal Ahhold NV in the Netherlands. 
Asked how long the companies had been in discussions, Mr. Diller replied, "It's been a bit of a movable feast." 
The most dramatic change planned is the enlargement of the portrait on each bill. 
The biotechnology company added that the patent "is a strong indicator that oral-tolerance pharmaceuticals are protectable" with patents. 
Jerrold Levine, director of corporate studies for Amoco Corp., says his company won't go along because it doesn't have a Detroit refinery. 
The World Cup takes on a distinctly European flavor as the quarterfinals get under way this weekend. 
Looking perplexed, he adds, "For a while you could sell your own personal gun. 
Sidley & Austin is adding three experienced lawyers from two British law firms, in a move aimed at increasing the firm's strength in European telecommunications and banking law. 
Even before it exists, you are showing that you don't take its existence into account. 
Dexter Moore, a senior director of writer-publisher relations at BMI's Los Angeles office, says the system could increase the accuracy rate of radio monitoring tremendously. 
In 1985, he became chairman of Mannesmann. 
But such comments should have been expected. 
What sense does it make for a country with falling unemployment rates and an economic recovery cycle ahead of Japan and Germany to have rates below Germany's, he asks. 
Hosts tend to be tough on government waste and crime, but they lean left on other issues. 
Lamson & Sessions used the roughly $17 million in net proceeds from the sale of the truck-frame unit for debt reduction, said James J. Abel, executive vice president and chief financial officer. 
Sales were $7.05 billion, up slightly from $6.87 billion last year. 
Pearson plans to pay 3.7 billion pesetas ($28.4 million) for the additional 12% stake in the privately owned group. 
Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 3.36 to 444.27, but the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.95 to 705.96. 
Chicago's "Peer Power" program has taken the abstinence message to girls in seven public elementary schools since 1983; a companion program makes boys aware of the consequences of fathering a child. 
MGI Pharma Inc. of Minneapolis just won FDA approval for Salagen, which is derived from a plant and is intended to ease side effects of radiation in cancer patients. 
Its yield rose to 7.74% from 7.69% on Friday. 
The company said its Cleo unit overstated its finished goods inventory at Dec. 31. 
Under Comcast's proposal, Mr. Diller stands to collect at least $100 million from his own QVC stock and options -- the treatment of which had been the subject of haggling with CBS at the last minute. 
"This is going to be a fundamental change," he says, "and for Texas not to be in the debate is insane." 
Moody's Investors Services and Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, as expected, downgraded California's debt on Friday. 
The debt will now mature six years after the agreement is formalized. 
(The yen reached its strongest point ever, hitting 97.87 to the dollar in New York early yesterday, before the dollar recovered to 98.85 yen in late trading.) 
Most analysts believe the stock market won't begin moving higher until the bond market rallies, pushing down long rates and flattening the yield curve. 
Bank of Montreal agreed to buy brokerage firm Burns Fry for up to $293 million in cash and stock. 
Analysts weren't surprised that Metropolitan, which grew through acquisitions from a tiny North Dakota-based thrift into a multistate entity with $8 billion in assets, agreed to be acquired. 
That's because GE has been able to extract $581 million in cash from its faltering brokerage subsidiary, according to regulatory filings obtained by this newspaper as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. 
It also sells a $79.95 dining-club card that can be used to get discounts worth much more than that. 
"I used the money for other things," he says. 
By defining "strong dollar" in such absolute terms, the president would force clarity into an otherwise mushy administration policy, breaking the spell that is drawing policy makers further and further into the mistakes of the late 1970s. 
The Securities and Exchange Commission in 1991 stiffened rules under which money-market funds operate. 
In recent years, the Legislature has been called back for repeated special sessions to clean up unfinished business. 
British consumers already can choose among competing local telephone services and personal communications services; both are still on the drawing boards in the U.S. Britain is doing better because its cable industry -- which is allowed to compete against BT in local telephone markets -- has had an infusion of cash from such foreign companies as Nynex, Southwestern Bell and U S West. 
Exports of iron and steel in June rose 60% from June 1993, while exports of fish and fish products rose by 16% on June a year ago. 
The company said the planned spinoff is aimed at letting AirTran stockholders "benefit from the expected growth of Conquest Sun without adversely affecting the continued Airlink relationship between Mesaba and Northwest." 
If there is a certain amount of hubris and sharp dealing in Migne's story (Mr. Bloch also goes into his activities selling Masses and providing loans), there is also a tragic denouement. 
It was Pacific Telesis's interest in such services, in part, that led the Baby Bell to spin off its cellular unit earlier this year. 
When he testifies before former colleagues in Congress, even those who fear the administration is headed toward invading Haiti -- such as Democrat Torricelli and GOP Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois -- rarely criticize Mr. Gray. 
Each ADR represents one-tenth of a share in the company. 
This view of monetary neutrality places emphasis on the cumulative nature of the progression from both monetary accommodation or monetary restraint to monetary neutrality. 
Now in a major shift in advertising strategy, Bally's Health & Tennis is relying on regular customers like Beth from Costa Mesa, Calif., to make its fitness pitch. 
That worked for a few weeks. 
Mr. Lobinski, the researcher, also notes that many of the most-affected wines in the study are now too old to drink or unavailable in stores. 
H. Kent Vanderhoef, an outside director, continues as chairman. 
The noncallable issue was priced at a spread of 54 basis points above Treasurys. 
The change might be illustrated by a hypothetical time-traveler to our own days from the 1940s, the time of the great war won by a population that habitually used and over-used alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and benzedrine. 
Sales rose 6.8% to $242.2 million from $226.9 million. 
Based on preliminary data, an average of 461,000 people were unemployed in the period ended June 30, compared with 394,000 jobless in the second quarter of 1993. 
Inland Steel Industries Inc. and AK Steel Holding Corp., the first two major steelmakers to report second-quarter earnings, both reversed year-earlier losses and topped analysts' estimates. 
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Spectrum Information Technologies Inc., trying to restore credibility with investors, terminated the employment contract of its president, Peter Caserta, and added four new outside directors. 
Cowles, of Minneapolis, has published daily media news on America Online Inc. Cowles said it'll continue to do so because the AOL offering is aimed at the consumer user, not the business professional. 
Mr. Snyder's show is expected to feature no-frills, one-on-one interviews with celebrities, authors and newsmakers. 
Wednesday, total volume stood at 342.2 million. 
"People in publishing have become convinced the market is out there -- right now it's very hot," says Beverly Robinson of Random House's Ballantine division. 
Is this a great country or what? 
The Air Force plan to buy replacement F-16s would be an "ad hoc program," rather than "an organized annual procurement," he said. 
Certainly Home Depot isn't turning in the sparkling performance of past years. 
And like many of the other mighty executives who have fallen in recent years, he wants his view of history to prevail. 
The enterprising local man who had converted a small truck and large trailer into an inexpensive open-air bus to ferry visitors back and forth to the border makes a futile, half-hearted swing through town in search of customers before joining his dominoes-playing buddies for a game. 
"They get stuff at bulk prices." 
For the full year, Bridgestone is expecting sales of about 600 billion yen, unchanged from its earlier forecast. 
So far, the bulk of the increased activity in the manufacturing sector has been met with longer hours for existing workers. 
Mr. Andreessen, who helped create Mosaic, a popular Internet interface program, added that "if its protocol is up to par, we'll adhere to it." 
My problem isn't Bill's proposal, but what the effect will be on countries who are having difficulty ratifying the accord. 
Researchers recently reported a sharp jump in marijuana smoking among high school students. 
This is quite different." 
-- Dallas Couch Potatoes: Dallas is one of a handful of major cities in which cable rates haven't dropped since August, according to an FCC survey. 
Those were an airman's constant companions," he said. 
"In the long term, {electronic monitoring} is the way everybody's going to get the information," says Bob Barone, a BMI vice president. 
"We are not going to disappoint our investors," Mr. Perham said. 
"Those people are not walking the streets," an official says. 
"Of course there's concern in the short term about the number of IPOs, as it's bound to cap the performance of the market," says Mr. Sandison. 
Another bunch that seems to like it here: former aerospace employees. 
Some of Microsoft's competitors maintain that the U.S. could have done much more to rein in Mr. Gates. 
On Monday, Pyongyang announced that a summit between the two Koreas, scheduled for later this month, has been postponed indefinitely, delaying U.S. and South Korean efforts to negotiate away Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program and to coax the Stalinist state out of its rigid isolation. 
Burlington Northern has been struggling for years to identify a successor to Mr. Grinstein, an attorney who came to the railroad company from Western Airlines as chief executive in 1989. 
She says that job interviewers have asked her, "`How are you going to get to work?' 
Medical-related stocks and some financial issues showed good strength. 
Now 28 years later, he is the man who provided the spark that launched a new pair of mutual funds that invest in "labor-friendly" companies. 
During his night shift at the post office, 33-year-old Mr. Hawkins occasionally finds himself engaged in a sing-off with a 46-year-old co-worker who prefers country tunes. 
"You think the company's not going to work while you're not there," says William Soady, president of Showscan in Los Angeles. 
THE DESC DEAL GOES DOWN: So should Goldman Sachs have postponed the Mexican company's offering? 
For now, the company is concentrating on rolling out an enhanced two-way message service for professionals who travel or are frequently away from the office and for the residential market, a service Destineer believes will be particularly appealing to two-income parents. 
The meetings and phone calls concerning Madison were politically sensitive because the S&L's owner, James McDougal, was a partner of the Clintons in their Whitewater real estate investment. 
"Most of the major accounts are sitting on their hands," said Dudley Eppel, a senior vice president at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. 
The moves also illustrate the cutthroat competition faced by midsized tire producers, and is likely to renew speculation about the long-term viability of these smaller players in the U.S.  After acquiring Armstrong Tire Corp. in 1988 for about $196 million, Pirelli invested an additional $120 million in its operations. 
"Japanese Syndrome: Was the Olive Oil to Blame?" 
But Bill Narasnek, who over his 28-year career at Inco has watched the average staff at a typical level of mine dwindle to six or seven from more than 30, thinks otherwise. 
The Nikkei was pulled down by indexlinked arbitrage selling of cash equities as futures prices fell. 
The gains, coming on top of Monday's rally, set a positive tone to the market. 
Sixty-nine of the 149 IPOs in the second quarter were priced below the initial range expected by underwriters, while only eight were priced above the range. 
The White House acknowledged that Marines were conducting training exercises in the Bahamas, and announced that about a dozen other nations so far had agreed to contribute 3,000 troops to a 10,000-member U.N. force for Haiti after the Haitian regime steps down. 
Molson executives say correcting the U.S. business could take another two years. 
Columbia announced a similar development to the south of Fort Myers after executives and directors at Naples Community Hospital, another not-for-profit, spurned its overtures. 
Older students have a "subject of the week," spending two hours a day on a topic such as natural history. 
Mr. Smith has been an executive vice president at this health-care products manufacturer since 1993. 
Falstaff is a larger-than-life figure -- literally and figuratively -- and the well-padded Mr. Murray does an estimable job of bringing him deliciously to life. 
The Islamic half of the population worried about sea creatures that were too insect-like, such as shrimp and crayfish, and also fish apparently without scales, such as tuna, which some readings of the Koran deem off the menu for Muslims. 
"We think a lot more data will be made available to the state and the ruling will be overturned," said Ms. Ash. 
He took so long considering a Southwestern Bell request to buy a small company that repairs telecommunications gear that the deal had collapsed by the time he took action. 
"I had a huge book on the travels of Dr. Livingston and Stanley in the jungle, beautifully cut like a huge old Bible," she remembers. 
The film and flash category is one recent example. 
Steve Geringer, president of PCS, told analysts the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based benefits concern has in just the past year doubled the number of members covered to about 51 million, largely through negotiations with big employer health plans. 
Such moves are becoming increasingly timely: South Korean counterparts are increasing capacity, despite protests from Japan's shipbuilding industry and the Japanese government. 
There's been speculation since last year about a possible clash between Ms. Bingaman's populist, pro-enforcement line and some administration policy makers, who champion technology and more of a government role in industrial policy. 
But the quest for the perfect jump keeps him going. 
In contract talks, the players sought to eliminate the annual college draft, restrictions on the free agency of newer players and the salary cap. 
Shareholders will get $5.50 for each of the company's 14.7 million shares outstanding and exerciseable options, with a transaction value of $81 million. 
A major strategy for creating new drugs "is by developing compounds that somehow repair the mutated protein and restore its normal action," says Bert Vogelstein, a leading cancer-gene scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. 
In front of the bathroom door is a cement step -- a virtual barricade for John Stefancik, a retired steelworker from Cleveland who has muscular dystrophy. 
QVC reaches about 45 million U.S. households, and only 8% of those ever order merchandise from QVC. 
It won't be enough to accelerate economic growth, however. 
This time, it involves the largest local of the international union, with members from the University of Chicago, Montgomery Ward, Spiegel and Blue Cross-Blue Shield. 
To narrow the broad list of suspected causes more precisely will require so-called prospective studies, which compare different groups, only some of which are exposed to a potential hazard. 
"It's a hellfire and brimstone dealership," the 52-year-old Mr. Tucker says. 
The downtown's economic decline will accelerate, killing any chances for revitalization. 
Investment-talk shows are proliferating on radio, but too many are merely vehicles to pitch dubious products to unsuspecting listeners instead of offering objective advice, says Missouri Securities Commissioner John Perkins. 
After a turnaround two years ago, the company is heading for its best year ever, Mr. Joseph said. 
"I don't know any parks in the world that are better maintained," says Shirley Muirhead, a landscape designer for the city. 
"The fields of technology that are most important to the Defense Department today," Defense Secretary William Perry said recently, are "semiconductors, computers, software and telecommunications." 
In the year-earlier second quarter, the Menlo Park, Calif., maker of software tools reported net income of seven cents a share. 
The precedents being set here aren't reassuring. 
Should the combination win approval and work smoothly, it raises the possibility that the two Baby Bells may someday seek to merge their entire companies. 
In 1977, when many Sovietologists were still predicting that the Soviet Union would become more like the U.S., he focused on the environmental and demographic crises that were undermining the Soviet system. 
Some consumers, she says, try to balance their intake of aspartame and saccharin because of vague health worries. 
And the summitteers may just possibly break down and grant that request for the first time since 1981. 
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. -- $875 million of stripped mortgage-backed securities. 
You might say this is his last triumph." 
But he noted that SynOptics management "isn't held in high regard on Wall Street right now." 
With the July Fourth recess about to start, the Finance panel may linger tomorrow to try to finish its bill. 
The Lancaster, Pa., maker of tiles, furniture and other building products posted net income of $53.3 million, or $1.31 a share, up from $31.9 million, or 76 cents a share, a year earlier. 
Wellfleet Communications Inc. agreed to pay $1.01 billion in stock for SynOptics Communications Inc., in a move driven by rapid technological changes and competition in the computer-networking industry. 
The judge issued the ban June 2 after the jury convicted two former officials of American Express Co.'s American Express Bank International unit of laundering $30 million for a Mexican drug ring. 
But a couple of Purdue University economists, Jerry and Marie Thursby, are convinced that the higher federal levy would also increase smuggling among the states (National Bureau of Economic Research working paper No. 4763). 
Two analysts from the firm cited the company's "weak cash flow" and high inventory. 
A portion of the funds also will be devoted to computer technology intended to improve productivity. 
Frequently sick? 
We hear Naqvi's memory sometimes returns when presented with these documents. 
Now Democrat Sharpe James, the mayor of Newark, N.J., and current president of the National League of Cities, says cities in his state no longer have the option of raising taxes. 
Travis, who was then in kindergarten, was in tears. 
He said in an interview that "that may mean in some cases reconciliation." 
China also plans to lower import tariffs on foreign cars as its own industry develops. 
Executors have four basic responsibilities: locating and valuing assets, paying creditors, settling taxes and finally distributing assets. 
"It may not have reached every allegation, but it certainly addressed the core concern," said antitrust lawyer Kevin Arquit, who began the Microsoft investigation when he was at the FTC more than four years ago. 
"We may have seen the height of the crop scare of 1994 reached in June," said Anne Frick, an analyst at Prudential Securities in New York. 
To help ensure those wins, the drug company plans to spend some $30 million to launch the new line. 
The results compared with net of $107.4 million, or $6.73 a share, for the second quarter of 1993. 
WITH INVESTORS again snapping up commercial real estate, a few entrepreneurs hope to turn a profit on properties they figure no one will want: toxic ones. 
Vogue/Butterick Patterns says five of its top 10 patterns are home products. 
In calendar 1993, CBS reported net income of $326.2 million, or $20.39 a share, on revenue of $3.51 billion. 
"There's a very real prospect that Russian and Ukrainian uranium will be used for electricity generation from 1995 onward," Ms. Grey says. 
MEXICO CITY -- Ricardo Salinas Pliego, one of Mexico's flashy young dealmakers, is in a jam. 
But people familiar with Mr. Cook say he was under pressure because of his supervisory role in the derivatives matter. 
I'm in awe." 
Many leads have not been exhausted yet, Mr. Velasquez said. 
For Mattel, which is locked in a race with Hasbro for the No. 1 spot in world-wide toy sales, Spear would enhance its position in the board-game business. 
Industry watchers considered the move in California a sign of growing price competition among HMOs. 
Ambassadors increasingly intercede with host governments when they think a U.S. company gets a raw deal, such as losing a contract because a foreign rival paid bribes. 
As residents continue to flee to the suburbs, people will look back in anger at one of Mr. Lanier's recent actions: his dismissal of an idea by developer George P. Mitchell to construct an automated lightrail "people-mover" downtown. 
Though the language spoken in this region was old Belarusian, the name of the ancient Slavic state was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 
Late Friday, however, Orthomet said simply that the proposal "has been withdrawn." 
Pizza Hut called the report "bogus." 
The Labor Department said employers added 379,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly large number, and it boosted its estimate of job growth in May to 252,000. 
For the week, the industrials added 62 points, or 1.7%. 
They say the situation will turn around when there is movement on those measures before the election. 
But by their nature these special breaks are always going to attract participants intent on abuse. 
He returns phone calls all day Wednesday, and then crashes into bed at 7:30 p.m. for 12 hours of interrupted sleep. 
The changes were already under consideration by the NASD and the ICI. 
"This is one area where no one really takes much interest until the well is dry," says U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. 
He has two children despite China's one-child policy, and his wife, Mr. Ren says, is a housewife. 
Now we're talking serious business. 
They say officials, under political pressure, already have reworded key treaty phrases to make filing and winning dumping cases even easier. 
Program trading is the simultaneous purchase or sale of at least 15 different stocks with a total value of $1 million or more. 
The people familiar with the offering said Merrill was stuck with a portion of it, amounting to less than $100 million, after Merrill failed to find buyers for all of the stock. 
"They are coming across to get jobs," says Gustavo De La Vina, chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol, San Diego section. 
Indeed, despite the menial tasks he performs, Mr. Choy, who calls himself Tony because it's easier for his employers to pronounce, believes his job is a good one. 
An inviolable law of physics says that fusion reactions must produce "nuclear ashes," radiation of gamma rays and neutrons and/or the creation of helium atoms or possibly tritium atoms, a triply heavy form of hydrogen. 
The LRN system works in theory because it doesn't have the overhead of law firms, which must pay the salaries and benefits of associates who may sometimes be idle. 
It also scored a breakthrough in Hoyerswerda with the election of the first PDS mayor in a sizable town. 
To the contrary, most have concluded that negative advertising is the only thing that actually moves voters. 
But, with changes in top management there, things got harder for us. 
While the first two battles of Bull Run were fought over open ground with musket and cannon, this one has become an uncivil war of sarcastic advertisements, intellectual hired guns, barbed public statements and power plays in the halls of government, culminating today in a Senate hearing. 
Guarantor Ford Motor Credit Co., a unit of Ford Motor Co. 
In Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea that has threatened to secede from Kiev's rule, 92% of the votes went to the 55-year-old Mr. Kuchma. 
If the company's remaining assets aren't sufficient to cover promises to policyholders, regulators say, losses are expected to be picked up by a state insurance-company guaranty fund. 
Besides, he adds, considering Fallingwater's age, location and the technology available when it was built, "it's actually held up extremely well." 
Part of the reason is the local economy, according to Mary P. Quinn, an analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: "New Jersey is coming back, but's it's been very modest growth so far." 
Where was that smoking gun? 
"The president asked me whether it would be permissible for me, as a lawyer knowledgeable about banking law, to provide advice and counsel on any of the legal-regulatory issues relative" to the Whitewater land-development deal and its ties to Madison, the memo says. 
WHEN IT COMES TO saving water, the computer is displacing the brick. 
The First Years, a division of Kiddie Products, makes a "spill resistant" Travel Tumbler with a hard plastic push-pull spout. 
Mr. Diller did say that home-shopping shows wouldn't suddenly appear on CBS: "The goal isn't to fudge them together." 
Securities officials said they are working with the three services to set up their own bulletin boards to warn users of problems and to answer questions about investments. 
A large contingent of radical students in the South already regards the Stalinist leader as a folk hero, and U.S. diplomats worry that he will attempt to win over older South Koreans by highlighting his guerrilla past. 
A stable system could have been re-established -- and still could be -- if the major countries restored a gold standard without foreign-exchange reserves. 
They're cranky," Ms. Lindemuth, who moved two miles away, says of her former neighbors. 
Mr. von der Heyden, 57 years old, was brought in on a short-term basis to quell last year's crisis at MG, in which both the German parent company and MG Corp. were devastated by more than $1 billion in U.S. oil-trading losses. 
Fees 2.5. 
"That's a very nice collection of mallets, frankly." 
The official adds that it is very unlikely that Dr. Zedillo will capture more than 50% of the vote.  There is even a real chance that the PRI may lose its first presidential election in its nearly seven decades of existence. 
Average daily customer trading volume by Schwab customers was more than 31,000 trades a day in the second quarter, compared with 29,200 trades a day in the year-earlier period, Schwab said. 
Soon the Shaman group sets out to gather the analgesic fern and bark that may combat diabetes. 
A Rand Corp. comparison of the two aircraft concluded that if the Air Force wanted a larger force, it should buy F-16s, but that in most cases, the longer range and heavier payload capability of the F-15Es tend to "more than offset its greater costs." 
"The worst is that nothing will happen." 
Most of those costs were passed on to clients." 
The way a binary weapon works is that, after a new poisonous substance is synthesized and tested in a laboratory, it is broken down into two relatively harmless compounds. 
The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles contended that Litton managers lied to government auditors and knowingly filed false papers with the government to conceal the "unlawful accounting practices." 
But after seeing outside legal expenses rise, many companies will take a second look at their in-house reductions, Mr. Getz said. 
The write-off will result in the suspension of cash dividends on common stock held solely by TNP, of Fort Worth. 
The idea was proposed five years ago by university technology-transfer official Carl Wootten. 
Cash and marketable securities were $1.3 billion at the end of the latest quarter; debt was about $600 million, CBS said. 
The transaction was rated triple-A by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group. 
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has narrowed the list of candidates for its presidency to three, with the bank's first vice president, Cathy Minehan, remaining the favorite. 
Indeed, some police and federal agents say that most private sellers don't set out to supply guns to crooks, but simply to sell an unwanted firearm. 
Staples said it expects to complete the acquisition in August. 
Catalyst Semiconductor, Santa Clara, Calif., fell 3/8 to 2; Dallas Semiconductor, slipped 1 1/8 to 15 1/4 on the Big Board, and LTX, Westwood, Mass., edged 3/8 lower to 2 5/8. 
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, a native of the region, is now the point man for this controversy, which could take on political ramifications for the Clinton Administration if the fires continue to grow or threaten homes and property in states such as California. 
The software came "complete with government-stamped receipts," Mr. Kantor said. 
The Hong Kong government had to step in and bail out the brokers who had lent to Mr. Ng and others. 
Indeed, jitters about further rate increases by the Federal Reserve have been the major cause for small-stock underperformance in recent months. 
Wayne Hood, a retail analyst with Prudential Securities Inc., suggests that the overall industry, and especially Home Depot, is set to benefit from favorable demographics and aging homes. 
Steven Yanis, an analyst at Kidder Peabody & Co. was "not convinced that it is the best use of a Bell's capital at this point in time." 
It's unclear how much of the $400 million in assets at the two funds will be left for Ariel to manage once it takes over. 
"But the franchising issue is going somewhere." 
Saturday was Orlando, Fla., and Holland-Belgium. 
After 22 years with this company, it is a terribly difficult decision to leave, but I believe it is necessary to do so in order for me to explore these serious options in the greater depth they deserve." 
During his speech in Warsaw, Clinton virtually promised Poland full memberhip in NATO, saying expansion of the alliance is "no longer a question of whether but when and how." 
About 80% of the U.S. goat population, which numbers 2.2 million, is grown for its mohair, with the rest being raised for milk or meat. 
"They are truly geniuses in this technology," says Paul Rioux, executive vice president of Sega of America Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based unit of Sega. 
What makes this situation so worrisome is the ambiguity. 
Ford Motor Co.'s Ford division posted the third-worst ranking for passenger cars in the industry, despite offering two of the five best-selling cars in the U.S. Chrysler Corp.'s three car divisions each posted rankings that were below the industry average, even though its last-place Eagle division posted a modest improvement. 
American Homestar Corp. -- initial offering of two million common shares priced at $8 each, through underwriters led by Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Inc.  Grupo Sidek -- offering of 5.7 million American depositary shares priced at $16 each, through underwriters led by Salomon Brothers Inc. 
In its initial phase, Airbus Finance will be headed by Tony Rice, the treasurer of British Aerospace. 
In recent months, prices have plunged for many highly rated instruments that were repackaged out of cash flows from mortgages backed by government agencies, such as the Government National Mortgage Association. 
like George Gilder an early advocate of supply-side economics sits on his own little pinnacle and writes works which Ronald Reagan calls works of `protean intellect,' -- when these people . 
The tariffs are complicated because shipping rates change. 
It becomes a different creature. 
Lumped together, these biases probably mean Russia is "better off" than reported, says the chief economist of the World Bank's Moscow office, Charles Blitzer. 
The move is intended to fund Gtech's stock-benefit plans and other "corporate purposes," according to the company. 
Ellen Joan Pollock and Paul M. Barrett in Washington, D.C., contributed to this article. 
Global programs thrive: A record 17% of first-year students at the Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, N.C., get summer internships abroad. 
If I knew this was a high-risk vehicle, we never would have been in it." 
The workers have been without a contract since June 30. 
In just the past five weeks, AT&T has signed up four new partners in Europe; BT enlisted a distributor in Japan; and France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom announced plans to buy a joint 20%, $4.2 billion stake in U.S.-based Sprint Corp.  Unlike the long-running soft-drink skirmishes, the target audience in this campaign is big business rather than consumers; the groups all offer to provide or manage parts of the international corporate telecommunications systems of multinational corporations. 
Mr. Reddy, 49, is also president of the company's film products division, and last week he was named a General Binding director, boosting board membership to 10. 
Mr. Johnson, the analyst, said that "when the dust settles at the end of the day, it appears that SynOptics management is the surviving team." 
Under this tax provision, Mr. Rosen explains, almost all of the deceased person's investment takes on a new income-tax basis, which is the fair market value of the investment at the time of death. 
But Mark Josefson, an analyst with Panmure Gordon & Co., said the report was not enough to buoy the share price in the face of disappointed hopes of a buyback or special dividend. 
Last week, Mr. Clinton urged Estonian President Lennart Meri to treat Russians in his country better. 
Like other Western companies, Tetra Pak struggled. 
And next month, Rand McNally unveils TripMaker software for Windows, to help plan trips to more than 125,000 cities in North America. 
The bourse, which now only has a 2 1/2-hour morning session, will run two hours each morning and afternoon. 
This is not to say there wouldn't be regrets, especially on the Yankee side. 
The company said it didn't know when output would resume. 
"We've asked the lawyers to look into it," Mr. Berman said. 
As the children grow older, the parents help them swing across overhead ladders. 
Despite that pervasive excess capacity, however, the hospital industry's profit margin during the 1980s, and to this day, have been much higher than they were in the 1970s. 
But she can't say whether the primary culprit was her word processor or her pregnancy. 
Mr. Nichol's attention to detail has helped him create some of Loblaw's most successful food products, including The Decadent, an especially rich chocolate chip cookie, and a private-label brand of beer. 
Deciding between saccharin or aspartame used to be a simple matter of choosing pink or blue. 
Tokyo stocks slipped Monday in narrow-range trading following three consecutive sessions of gains, as many investors stuck to the sidelines amid continued uncertainties about foreign-exchange movements. 
The dollar fell against most major currencies and hit its second-consecutive post-World War II low against the yen in intraday trading. 
Even the money used to buy the rubles was sometimes fake. 
He didn't buy his first tuxedo until after becoming prime minister on June 29, aides say. 
Mr. Kugel expects cyclical companies to produce some of the best earnings in the second quarter, but he predicts that 1994 will be the last year for a while that cyclical stocks outperform. 
Mr. Kincaid, for his part, is skeptical. 
The bondholders' position shifted last week after Federated raised its proposed payout to them to $475 million from $400 million. 
Those in the lowest 10th percentile in retail earned only $173 a week. 
Dr. McIntosh sees a basic difference. 
April's figure totaled 45,718 units, down 13% from the same period the previous year. 
"Baseball's a form of language we can all agree on," Burns says. 
It predicted that South Korea, Japan and Taiwan would respond to a U.S. pullout by acquiring nuclear weapons. 
"An analysis of health coverage and other city personnel costs over the past three years produced a startling fact," Sharpe James, president of the league and mayor of Newark, N.J., said in a statement. 
Proposals to eliminate the ICC have gone nowhere within the Senate and House committees with jurisdiction over the ICC. 
"We don't know yet whether the solution will come from the EPA, the FDA or both. 
This time, however, the changes go beyond cyclical factors. 
A combination of the weak dollar and renewed inflation fears conspired to send bond prices sharply lower. 
The IRS says that in 1993, it saw the first rise in 25 years in the number of returns filed for domestic help: The total jumped to 1.5 million from 1.4 million. 
However, he would receive credit for three years of "house arrest" in Abu Dhabi, whose ruler was BCCI's majority shareholder. 
"As parliamentarians we firmly oppose the very idea of a military intervention." 
Compared to the run-down garage it replaced, "It's like going from Calcutta to the Taj Mahal," says Joseph Savage, an assistant U.S. attorney who also parks at Post Office Square. 
Italian bond, share and currency prices plummeted on fears that a political dispute could tear apart Italy's ruling coalition. 
GM said its deliveries were hurt by tight inventories, reflecting plant closings for changeover to new-model production. 
Ultimately, says Mr. Ono, "there was no difference between Air Products and Mitsubishi" in terms of job stability. 
By Friday, the stock had shot up another two points. 
Chaos theory, a more recent but equally unsettling development, holds that the long-term behavior of a system (the weather, for example, or the universe itself) cannot be predicted with certainty unless the initial conditions of that system are known to an infinite degree of accuracy -- which is impossible. 
At the time, the NASD said it didn't "believe that the proposed rule change will result in any burden on competition." 
Edwardson, the chief financial officer of Ameritech, previously was the CFO of Northwest Airlines. 
Perhaps more troublesome, SMU students have earned a reputation as dyed-in-the-wool Metroplex residents who are less willing than others to move. 
In the year-earlier quarter, the company earned $2.8 million, or 21 cents a share, on revenue of $40.4 million. 
BE CIVIL. 
It can't take away national sovereignty -- no outside body can force the U.S. to do what it doesn't choose to do. 
It would be easy to mock this movie, with its shameless use of popular music to signal time and mood changes, its limited historic view, its sentimentality. 
Most HMO stocks traded lower that day. 
Softech Inc. will roughly double its sales and profit with the acquisition of two closely held computer-services firms, said Joseph Mullaney, chief financial officer. 
Other parts of the state aren't in such dire straits -- yet. 
PORTUGAL became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. 
The Tokyo Stock Price Index, or Topix, of all first-section issues, which shed 7.55 points Friday, eased 4.72 to 1656.16. 
While derivatives clearly can make sense for big corporations and larger government entities, there is growing sentiment that they should be off-limits to individuals and institutions that have only limited experience as investors. 
Because the Federal Trade Commission continues to examine hospital mergers for their impact on in-patient care in distinct local markets, it has rarely intervened as Columbia builds its broader, more varied regional networks. 
But actually these controversial tactics have had little to do with Microsoft's success, and there is nothing governments, or the courts, can do to slow the company's continued rise. 
True or not, that's irrelevant. 
Security officials say they must remain on guard, particularly if longtime rivals Germany and Holland meet. 
When built on a foundation of excellent quality and service, pride can be the best of motivators. 
First Citizens Bancorp, which is based in Anderson, Ind., has nearly $350 million in assets. 
"Capital flows are going into Germany from people who don't know where to put short-term funds," she asserted. 
The company also said it would refocus an earlier debt-reduction plan by using existing cash flow to repurchase stock under an authorization plan in existence since 1987, which provided for the repurchase of about six million shares. 
In many ways my high school graduating class was more fortunate than this year's crop. 
"There have been too many layers from the top down to where all the action is," said John Strachan, chairman of PepsiCola Allied Bottlers Inc., an independent bottler in Latham, N.Y. "They are attempting to streamline through that. 
The partners will use their stations to launch syndicated programming; in addition, about $200 million in advertising time on the stations will be sold by a new merged sales firm controlled by Group W.  Federal regulations bar CBS from entering the production and distribution partnership until November 1995, but at that point the two parties will share equally in a new programming unit, each putting in as much as $45 million in cash and assets, such as Group W's existing syndication business. 
Still, he and his partner say they kept their franchise because the Carbide connection helped win customers. 
It has actively resolved many claims of wrongdoing against it, agreeing, for example, to pay more than $150 million in fines, penalties and civil settlements stemming from some of the cases. 
Rex, a consumer electronics and appliance retailer, said total sales for the first five months of fiscal 1995 increased 37%, to $119.4 million from $87.4 million. 
It has also led to demoralization and, according to the office of the U.S. attorney there, to corruption as well. 
"Considerable evidence is now available to show that the heat is real, that it is far in excess of any known chemical source, and that the nuclear products are not consistent with those obtained from conventional sources," says Edmund Storms, a chemist and materials scientist who reported finding tritium in a cold-fusion experiment four years ago, before his retirement from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. 
What role should the Medical Centers of Excellence play in health care "reform"? 
Even simple estates can mean a full year of wrestling with paperwork, tracking down assets and filing papers. 
That stake was sold in June 1990. 
Western Micro Technology declined 1/2 to 6 3/4; Cyrix slipped 2 to 35 3/4 and Novellus Systems lost 1 7/8 to 36 7/8. 
The notes, which are noncallable for five years, are rated Ba-3 by Moody's and double-B-minus by S&P. 
George's children say they rarely turned down an invitation to sample their Aunt Irene's avgolemono, a Greek egg-lemon soup. 
Some investors aren't convinced that interest rates will rise that sharply. 
Call it soul sickness. 
Now 65 years old and semiretired, he has taught two of his seven children to carry on the tradition. 
He had overheard a visitor offer to trade the revolver for a more powerful one displayed by a licensed dealer. 
The new staff chief will have a reorganization plan as early as today. 
Some fund managers are playing it safe now. 
"There's been a lot of discounting at this point, and sentiment is terribly negative," said Robin Kerr, portfolio manager and research analyst at Axe-Houghton Associates. 
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and British Airways crews will conduct similar exercises. 
"We get the people who are committed to the idea that they'll have to work hard to earn their way," says Frank P. Vardy, a demographer for the city planning department for New York City. 
Since 1973, my total pension has skyrocketed by 603% to a total of $9,410 per month. 
Starter said it expects to release its second-quarter results at the end of this month. 
These compounds are stored in separate containers and are thus perfectly safe to transport and stockpile. 
Will they divide the party? 
A gallon of gasoline, about $2 in the Dominican Republic, can fetch $10 to $15 in Haiti. 
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When the Sanam Pao branch of Thai Farmers Bank PCL opened for business one Monday morning last February, customers did double-takes to ensure they had entered the right place. 
"These are very solid, substantial results." 
We agree his Kansas City speech on "ending welfare as we know it" was stirring, but Congressional leaders should realize how little his actual proposal lives up to his rhetorical overture. 
The suit asks the court to declare the state's trash law unconstitutional. 
Deja vu 1978. 
"We need somebody who can stand up for what is right, possibly against hard-nosed politicians from the member states." 
Is the general aware of Mr. Rameau's fate? 
"This is the end of North Korea as we know it," says Daryl Plunk, a Korean affairs specialist for the Richard V. Allen Co., a consultancy run by the former U.S. national security adviser. 
"What really distinguished this move was its size," said Lehman's Mr. Schwartz. 
Messrs. Meerding and van de Brink have been thwarted by the Dutch campaign to quash soccer violence. 
"I'm afraid the mud is begining to stick." 
In 1993, 113 Washington officers, most of them black, stood indicted of serious felonies, ranging from drug dealing to murder. 
She has been married four times, most recently to a 31-year-old Russian emigre, and splits her time between a rustic cabin in Icicle Canyon and an aging tugboat on Seattle's Lake Union. 
Analysts called the new post a major promotion for Mr. Lance, a 47-year-old native of South Africa. 
Now, "any dismissal of pregnant women will almost inevitably be unlawful sex discrimination," frets Nigel Moss, a London labor-law specialist. 
Over the past 40 years the biggest influx of foreign adoptees has been from Korea (my wife and I have a five-year-old Korean daughter). 
We are talking to people, like almost everybody else in the industry, but we aren't going to rush into anything." 
C-TEC Corp., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., said it plans a rights offering to sell as many as 16.5 million common shares, and expects to raise about $300 million to expand its cable television and telephone systems. 
Owens & Minor Inc. agreed to have International Business Machines Corp.'s Integrated Systems Solutions Corp. unit manage its current mainframe-computer information system. 
Holders also will receive a new class of shares exchangeable for Bank of Montreal shares over the next four years to a maximum of five million Bank of Montreal shares. 
Mr. Sinegal will have a seat on the seven-member board of Newco. 
Continental Bank Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $77 million, or $1.25 a share, up 26% from $61 million, or 95 cents a share, a year earlier. 
Mr. Carter's welcome intimations were that this isolated, ruthless tyrant was now prepared to join the world and receive its alms, just as he had so artfully existed off both the Soviets and the Chinese for all those years. 
Proceeds from the bond sale will be used to pay off a $665 million deficit in what had been the state's insurance fund for bad drivers. 
The third quotation is, to me, the most interesting. 
But even liberals should find appeal in an end to energy monopolies. 
Second-quarter declines in most European stock markets roughly matched those of the first three months. 
The company acknowledged yesterday that it hired Morgan Stanley & Co. to seek out buyers for its large stakes in three insurance companies: Bankers Life Holding Corp., CCP Insurance Inc. and Western National Corp. Based on current market prices, the sales would fetch $1.11 billion. 
Mr. Jiang has launched a high-profile campaign to curry favor with the military, whose support is essential for his political survival. 
Earlier, he had predicted food prices would climb as much as 4%. 
"Those looking to write news stories or operate video equipment would be well advised to steer clear of the `Nightline' internship or any other big-name internship in broadcast journalism." 
Once Cellular Technical has earnings, will they be enough to sustain the current stock price? 
Canadian Agriculture Minister Ralph Goodale said Canada's success in exporting wheat to the U.S. has resulted from "basic market factors," including U.S. crop losses last year from widespread floods. 
Another wall panel notes sadly that "exploration and power went hand in hand as local inhabitants were vanquished." 
"To simply convert as it is isn't fair to Barry. 
Thus, in recent weeks, the president held an unusual meeting with the nation's top military commanders to discuss the Korean situation. 
Statistics Canada said mining and oil well activity rose 3.1% in April from March, led by a surge in drilling for oil and natural gas. 
For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.2%. 
It was her own experience, she calmly told one interviewer, that "one cannot depend on human relations for any lasting reward. 
Critics called Dr. Weintraub's sample too small to be significant. 
International Sports Publications also benefited from its connection to Andrew Shue, John's brother. 
Best said. 
"The text has been written," muses Vyacheslav Kebich, and he appeals to several Belarusian officials gathered around him in an unlit hall of the national Culture and Information Center. 
West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude, closed at $20.43 a barrel for the August contract, up 25 cents in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday. 
We can e-mail across the planet but are afraid to cross the street. 
"The increase in orders points to some moderation in the growth of new manufacturing activity ahead," said Carl Palash of MCM MoneyWatch, a financial advisory firm in New York. 
It has led a lobbying effort to deregulate intrastate trucking, and is expected to add to its fleet of 31,000 vehicles. 
The 570,000-square-foot facility, in McDonough, Ga., is expected to open in April 1995. 
So, some helped bankroll a successful city-council candidate, Betty Evans, in neighboring San Marcos (the dump is just inside the city limits, Elfin Forest just outside). 
Mr. Myers himself was unavailable to comment. 
The finance panel's bill was built around an agreement pounded out by a group of moderates from both parties on the panel. 
Kansas City Southern investors had been expecting a better price. 
Most are watching for the U.S. and South Korean response to the emergence of a new North Korean ruler, and hope the impending summit meeting won't be canceled. 
MINNEAPOLIS -- Mesaba Aviation Inc. said its June traffic rose 12% to 28.9 million revenue passenger miles from 25.8 million in the month a year earlier. 
But how on earth do you know what there is to explore except by word of mouth (Hey, check out alt.fan.oingo-boingo!) and painfully tedious trial and error? 
But some of his patrons couldn't pay, and gave him paintings in lieu of cash for long hours spent drinking coffee and talking. 
But the judge said Mr. Mughal hadn't made clear what his injuries were or what his employer could have done about them, "particularly when it is agreed that there is no one safe method of sitting or posture to satisfy different employees." 
We certainly sympathize with part of Mr. Hundt's outlook; auctions are superior to lotteries and other methods of allocating the spectrum. 
Alliant makes a host of weapons such as tank ammunition, cluster bombs, machine-gun rounds, and torpedoes. 
"He's top-down," keeping an eye on economic conditions and searching for countries, "and bottom-up," picking stocks, said Eileen Sanders, an analyst at Morningstar Mutual Funds, a Chicago newsletter. 
"The `Mozart' was the final coffin nail," says Mr. Binder. 
He said the increase in Fox's overall outputabout six films a year-would help fill its home-video and overseas pipeline, and supply films for some of News Corp.'s world-wide television ventures. 
Pondering the string of violent coincidences, we feel some duty to share with readers one factor that colors our own thinking about the Arkansas connections. 
It isn't just the house itself that needs tender loving care. 
That compares with year-earlier earnings of 16 cents a share. 
She was a two-time runner-up for prom queen and, as the apex of her social success, was pinned by a West Point cadet -- a beau who conferred "unbelievable prestige on me with everybody but my father's friends, who think I am at best berserk, at worst seditious." 
Enmity is love. 
The Russell 2000 Index of small-capitalization stocks climbed 1.49, or 0.62%, to 243.62. 
The GAO found Japan fully capable of producing its own jet aircraft, but still unprepared to launch a major program without the cooperation of Western companies. 
New York radio revenue is up 10% from 1993, he adds. 
In February 1993, Synergen's share price tumbled 68% in a single day after another major trial of its drug, called Antril, failed to produce the expected results, although it did indicate that a high dose of the drug reduced fatalities by about 15% among patients. 
"This in not a bull market. 
But the agency's initiative has sparked controversy among some district directors and lenders. 
In Wellington, shares fell; a late burst of selling of blue chips shook up what had been an uneventful session. 
"We have made many improvements in the last five years in our ability to resolve issues raised by our employees," he added. 
This was -- and is -- hard for orthodox physicists to swallow. 
An added factor, they said, was the breakup fee if Kemper is bought by another company. 
The question, GOP leaders concede, is whether Rep. LaRocco's attacks on Mrs. Chenoweth's more conservative views will offset her highly organized backing. 
IBM researchers say the computer-enhanced program so far has helped anthropologists reconstruct whole human fossils from bits. 
On a post-split basis, the new dividend will be 40 cents a share. 
He vigorously defended Microsoft against a lawsuit filed by Apple alleging his Windows program was an illegal copy of Apple's Macintosh software. 
Children are far less likely than adults to say that chores were stressed in their households. 
By late 1993, the company had attracted customers such as Harrods, moved production to China and signed up for gift-trade shows in New York. 
California's enhanced warrants have been rated SP-1 by S&P and MIG-1 by Moody's. 
The Burlington Northern-Santa Fe transaction faces lengthy proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission, which must approve railroad acquisitions and might attach conditions requested by competitors. 
Cambodian lawmakers met to discuss a controversial bill to outlaw the Khmer Rouge guerrilla faction, which is waging a campaign against the government. 
That has starved manufacturers of loans, forcing them to repatriate money, and possibly accounting for the surge in bank savings. 
Humana, of Louisville, Ky., slipped 1 3/8 to 16 1/8 and United Healthcare, of Minnetonka, Minn., dropped 2 3/4 to 45 1/8. 
"The portfolio managers were charged with preserving capital." 
Deputy premier and environment minister here in the state of Hesse, Mr. Fischer is savoring the resurgence of his environmental party and the vindication of his political pragmatism. 
One of the complaints, filed by Michael Abramowitz, seeks class-action status on behalf of other shareholders. 
What's more, when you compare the much higher annual expenses of variable annuities, the gulf between index funds and variable annuities widens. 
The pharmaceutical company estimated its first-half group sales rose 16%; year-earlier sales totaled 2.82 billion marks ($1.83 billion). 
"Apparently our yogurt is selling better and better in Japan." 
(Eli Lilly is a client of Hill & Knowlton as well.) 
"We don't think the game is over." 
Those bonds closed at 66.5 cents yesterday. 
"We really don't consider ourselves a mini-Medco," he says. 
(FCC rules say a cable operator's voting stake in any broadcast property in its market must be under 5%, and it can't have a board seat.) 
Alberta Energy, based in Calgary, Alberta, has interests in oil and gas, pipelines and forest products. 
"Germany will become a very small market for us as we orient ourselves more globally," Mr. Schmiedeknecht said. 
Mr. Golle says any suggestion that he exploits his position is nonsense. 
Starbucks closed yesterday at 27 1/8, down 3/4, on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. 
Northrop Grumman previously said it expects sales this year of just under $7 billion, but it now expects that, as a result of accounting adjustments, sales for 1994 will total about $6.4 billion prior to the acquisition of Vought. 
It also predicted that long-term rates, as measured by the 10-year Treasury notes, will average 6.8% for the year, a full point higher than its previous forecast in February. 
"We continue to grow assets although it's slowing up a bit." 
He graduated from the University of Southern California with a journalism degree, went to work first as a writer for a group of Spanish-language magazines and then as a correspondent for a Buenos Aires radio station. 
His one big regret was getting out of Hong Kong "my pet market" too soon -- in mid-1993. 
Analysts say the retailer is on track to match their consensus earnings estimates of $1.32 a share for the current fiscal year, which ends Jan. 31, and $1.72 for the next fiscal year. 
Based on my experiences, the treaty as it stands will help, not hinder, Russia's production of deadly chemical weapons. 
Her idea is to send more development to China proper. 
The 6-3 ruling was hailed as a victory by abortion-rights advocates, who said it would help them protect clinics that militant protesters have tried to shut down. 
A Florida state representative wants the state legislature to approve a similar stock fund in Florida, perhaps by February next year. 
At least a deliberate jawboning campaign by the White House, as opposed to mere incompetence, would permit the possibility of reversing the damage. 
Analysts said the earnings exceeded their expectations. 
It has bypassed the networks in favor of running the ads on local stations only, where they aren't subject to network ad standards. 
She would give more emphasis to the lateral and less to the vertical. 
He currently rates Premier a "hold" although he believes the company will continue to grow over time. 
But marketers at Sprint and EDS still see a rationale for wooing business clients jointly. 
Amgen closed at $46.75, down 62.5 cents, in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. 
Merrill Lynch Japan Inc., a unit of Barclays Bank PLC and Compaq Computer Corp. have recently hired Japanese executives through headhunting firms. 
One recent Saturday, however, five men offered guns; two displayed handguns, including a Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol with two loaded magazines. 
We passed porters lugging huge panniers of food and other necessities up to the Laban Rata rest house, where we would spend the night. 
In off-year elections, a turnover of about 15 is more common. 
His prize: two airline tickets to Paris. 
TWA Vice Chairman Robin Wilson resigned, the third departure by a senior officer since April, leaving the struggling airline firmly under the control of a new management team. 
"You can't take it with you," he says. 
ABB ASEA BROWN BOVERI Ltd. (Zurich) -- Peter S. Janson was named president of the $1.8 billion industrial and building systems segment of ABB Inc., the U.S. operation of this provider of services to electric power, process and transportation industries. 
And when Southwest Florida Regional offered the city $2 million for a 10-acre plot adjacent to its property, it insisted that $500,000 of the purchase price go to a proposed children's museum championed by the mayor's wife. 
Two days after that, the U.S. arm of the mainstream Greek Orthodox Church, which has been at odds with St. Irene's for years, issued a press release implying that the theft might have been an artful hoax. 
By contrast, NatWest's Mr. Canelo believes the correction could last six months or more, with industrial commodities especially vulnerable to further, smaller declines in the weeks to come. 
"If United is successful, this will be a major landmark in American business history," said Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich. 
After various adjustments, they produced no change in the index for May and April. 
"They face some major challenges," says James R. Brennan, principal in Mercer Management Consulting Inc., a Lexington, Mass., transportation consultant. 
In textile mills at the turn of the century, managers allowed kittens to play on the floor to help the women working the bobbins fight off boredom. 
The Spring Grove, Pa., paper manufacturer said new orders for most printing papers have increased and pricing for some paper has shown signs of modest improvement for the next six months. 
Then some year, it is hauled by shopping cart to the Cancelled Tariff Library. 
"People want to be sold," he says. 
Even if a PC comes with a CD drive installed, and even if the drive works fine, some programs don't run because they require too much memory. 
Mr. Chernin said the rationale for that move is to unite the creative and production units of the company in one division. 
He always remained the upper-class Englishman; manners were important to him and things were either "D" or "ND" -- done or not done. 
He understands the importance of affiliates." 
She ticks off some of the attributes she seeks in even entry-level employees: "Smarts, speed, flexibility, the ability to handle risk and ambiguity, knowing how to find out what you don't know and how to teach others what you do know." 
But a close look at his business empire shows that he is far from extinct. 
"They are not inconsequential." 
"Both HSN and QVC realize their audiences are limited. 
The fund fell 22.4% in the first half of 1994. 
That release is not contingent upon court or parole board approval, but depends solely upon the prison population and whims of the facility's directors. 
Inevitably, when I would call the next day for a report, my friend -- who is a very nice person -- would hesitate, then tell me what a fine man the date was, how attractive and well-positioned in life. 
Universal is a unit of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Fox's "Speed," a hit action movie about a bus rigged to blow up if it drops below 50 miles per hour, was close behind at $12.2 million. 
It was to make sense of her home life that she began writing at the age of eight or nine. 
Attorneys and accountants, in decisions issued earlier in the term, saw their liability curtailed in certain kinds of civil lawsuits. 
The Texas Democrat called on SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to investigate the matter. 
Clinton prepared to leave for a four-nation European trip, saying he hoped the Group of Seven summit in Italy this week would focus on the need to create more jobs globally. 
I spent 26 years of my life in chemical weapons development for the Soviet and then Russian armed forces, and I personally witnessed the internal Russian discussions that preceded the signing of the chemical weapons treaty. 
Buying a pharmacy benefit manager is a high-cost, high-risk strategy, he noted. 
"In order to establish a brand name in the minds of consumers, the companies felt they had to show a picture," he says. 
Mr. Rockel also said there was continued strength in the truck-leasing and truck-rental markets. 
Mr. Morris's move has been expected for some time, though it was a sensitive move for Warner Music because the three other executives are regarded as industry legends who helped create the modern popular music business. 
To the north, Columbia got even tougher in Cape Coral, a burgeoning community of 79,000 joined with smaller Fort Myers by two bridges across the Caloosahatchee River. 
"That guy is a militant in the Communist Party," says one man in hushed tones. 
The chemical isn't believed to be a health hazard, but government officials are concerned that it went undetected for so long. 
Before Mr. Clinton's bid for help, Mr. Ludwig said he was uneasy about the White House's handling of Whitewater, so much so that he warned White House aides that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was being asked by the press for documents related to Madison. 
The figures aren't adjusted for inflation. 
Democrats acknowledge that the strength in polls of many of their House incumbents has sagged in recent weeks. 
Until now Mr. Mays has been president of Denver-based Energy Fuels Inc., controlled by Denver investor Oren L. Benton. 
This is not a game! 
"It was almost too good, in the sense it taught you a way of being and learning and living that was really superior," he says. 
Each piece comes in a few cardboard cartons, none weighing more than 50 pounds. 
Mercedes Benz AG also has expressed interest in that venture, but officials indicated that the Chinese will select Chrysler, pending settlement of contract details.  The luxury car segment would face off against a second VW project with First Auto Corp. in Changchun, which produces the Audi 100 sedan. 
The cash purchase was equal to $20.59 an American Depositary Share, the company said. 
You can be an actor." 
Shiley admitted no wrongdoing under the settlement, which was announced Thursday. 
But an industry official said Mr. Nichol is negotiating to join Cott Corp., the private label soft-drink manufacturer in Toronto that has given Coke and Pepsi a run for their money by taking about a 25% share of soft-drink sales in Canadian supermarkets. 
Daniel Mandresh of Merrill Lynch has been hoping for 5% revenue growth for the second quarter, but says: "I'm worried. 
First USA fell 2 3/4 to 37 1/2. 
In a fierce contest, Lockheed bested McDonnell Douglas Corp. and its F/A-18 attack jets. 
"Countries that have very good positions can lose them very rapidly," Mr. Marshall says. 
A healthy family produces excellence of another sort: "Parents are not taught to make sure that one child in a family wins and that all others lose." 
But unless another bidder emerges, the company is likely to stick to its current offer, under which it would pay $37 cash, plus $7 in convertible preferred stock, for each QVC share. 
The Wheat First analyst expects Old Dominion to do better than his estimated 43 cents a share for the second quarter. 
Such ideas make this soft-spoken, almost hesitant woman of 59 a protagonist in a broader upheaval in American culture. 
The board agreed, however, to ask show promoters to bar individuals from bringing their personal weapons inside. 
The consent decree AT&T and the government signed requires AT&T to keep its cellular-telephone operations separate from its long-distance and equipment-manufacturing businesses. 
Mr. Seidman says that doing research for another attorney doesn't create a conventional lawyer-client relationship and that his company isn't engaged in the practice of law because it doesn't provide advice. 
Other writers are going even further and, with the intellectual support of revisionist historians, are questioning the morality of the Western conquest by whites. 
About 60 Frankfurt-based employees of Cassella-Riedel Pharma GmbH will move to Hoechst Pharma Deutschland in the Frankfurt suburb of Bad Soden as part of the merger. 
The 15 U.S.-funded projects contributed to the $1.8 billion worth of foreign investments Vietnam approved during the first six months of the year, officials said Friday. 
Lately, the bank has been using the first tool, allowing short-term rates to rise to 17.10%, near their high for the year. 
Another $4 billion would come from raising Medicare premiums for upper-income elderly people. 
The leisure and entertainment company's pretax profit for the 28 weeks ended May 14 plunged to #16.3 million ($25.5 million) from #96.1 million a year earlier. 
In the wake of the deregulation of the 1980s, the ICC now can set trucking and rail prices only in situations where competition doesn't exist, something that has become rare. 
The acquisition is expected to be non-dilutive to Omnicare's 1994 earnings, the provider of pharmacy services to long-term care institutions said. 
"For too long, we have made economics the poor cousin of our foreign policy," he said, "and we'll stop doing that . 
He's begun importing a no-name Canadian cola, pasting on the Daiei label and selling pop for the equivalent of 39 cents a pop. 
But the big picture hides some interesting detail. 
But not everyone wants to live in an overcrowded architectural museum that lacks even the most basic amenities. 
Mr. Cragg of Strong Funds is also high on Tokyo. 
But it said recovery of cost increases by raising prices remained difficult through the first half. 
Mr. Malval, 51, makes no pretense of governing Haiti and sees his role as largely symbolic. 
She usually tunes into country music to help her work day -- and her fingers -- go faster. 
The noncallable issue was priced at a spread of 29 basis points above Treasurys. 
But mutual funds owning a minority of the Milan-based bank's capital protested that the increase wasn't necessary and said they hoped it'd be delayed by unfavorable market conditions. 
Based in quiet Orrville, Ohio, Smucker is a close-to-the-vest business run by a grandson and two great-grandsons of founder Jerome Monroe Smucker. 
The issue is clearly important politically to the NFIB, which estimates that about half its members are self-employed, small-business owners. 
Something else happened at that deposition with the folding stroller. 
The first would provide $15 a share in cash, or about $55 million, to Cardinal's 2,000 shareholders. 
Lauderdale carrier with two jet aircraft. 
In June, Destec agreed to halt plans for its Harriman, N.Y., cogeneration project in a settlement with Orange & Rockland Utilities Inc. 
Another would only stay at hotels with Olympic-size swimming pools. 
What value had they against the horrors of a crime?" 
On Thursday, Ultratech Stepper soared 2 3/4 to 23. 
At Prudential California Realty in Santa Monica, branch manager Sandra Deering says that as recently as two weeks ago, her office could count on Allstate Corp. to write homeowners policies "on the spot." 
Fees undisclosed. 
At an average cost of $3 to $5 per month, it is one of the most popular features offered by local phone companies. 
In contrast to French intellectuals, who branded Euro Disney a "cultural Chernobyl," Mr. Bearss expresses respect for Disney's talents. 
Appeals to delay or scrap Vaccine for Children have been ignored. 
Also, analysts said cost cutting has slowed in the quarter, though Unisys said it will "maintain tight controls on costs" in the near future. 
It could be because Japan's government faces a tax-revenue shortfall and wants the money (none of the proceeds from the share sale will go to JT). 
Contributing to the lackluster profit numbers, which sent U S West shares down 3%, were major bets U S West has been making lately that have yet to pay off. 
He had to hire a style consultant for pointers on how to wear it. 
It also alarmed Mr. Stillman and Ms. Gordon, authors of foreign-language textbooks, when the school system removed an advanced-placement European history course from the curriculum; angry parents got it put back after a year of skirmishing with administrators. 
Then the market rebounded as bargain-hunters moved in. 
WellFleet specializes in routers, which manage communication between networks. 
The dollar edged up from its low but ended below its level on Wednesday. 
Illinois Health Facilities Authority -- $78.6 million of Series 1994 revenue bonds priced by a First Chicago Capital Markets Inc. group. 
Datastream, based in London, is a financial information and analysis firm for the securities industry. 
The administration wants growth above all. 
That is both a sad commentary and a self-fulfilling prophecy. 
IBM Japan Ltd. and CSK Corp., a Japanese information-processing service company, formed a partnership to market IBM's large parallel computers in Japan. 
Little "Lieserl" disappeared without a trace; she may still be alive, in her early 90s, under a different identity. 
Mr. Yan said that although the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission hadn't publicly announced the decision, the company already had received approval and had begun seeking an accountant and an underwriter. 
This should lift prices of basic commodities and energy. 
"When we started to discuss my successor, the candidates were terrific, but I started to feel, I started this momentum, let me carry it on," says the 50-something editor. 
The main drama was supplied not by a hot-blooded Spaniard but by Juergen Klinsmann, a blond German forward. 
Michael Harrison, editor of the industry news magazine Talkers, says it's strange a president with "one of the biggest propaganda machines around" would complain that there are no "truth detectors" on talk radio. 
Its post-Cold War outlays have simply gone downward. 
The company also changed its name to XCL from Exploration Co. of Louisiana. 
Senate Republicans have objected to that proposal, and the administration may drop it. 
Mr. Knightley, the biographer, joked that "If Philby had any thought his personal effects would one day come to this, he would have scribbled something on everything he owned." 
"Texaco has taken great strides, but still isn't in the lead," said Fred Leuffer, oil analyst for Bear Stearns Inc. in New York. 
Besides Mr. Bauer's group, the conservative organization Empower America also is running attack ads against what it describes as President Clinton's plan for "socialized medicine" -- a refrain that is frustrating those who support a sweeping brand of health reform. 
Even more modest conservative alternatives have their own financing problems. 
At its core, the complex buyout plan is designed to lower United's cost structure and bend work rules to allow the airline, which hasn't had an annual profit in four years, to thrive in an increasingly low-fare environment. 
Mr. Doman dismisses studies done without his cooperation as "almost obscene" in their bias. 
Many are attracted by the comparatively low pupil/teacher ratio and a comprehensive curriculum that, in addition to Islamic courses, focuses on teaching skills the school deems critical for finding jobs: computer classes and Hebrew and English lessons starting at age nine. 
A law now being drafted would give the legislature supervisory authority over the government and judiciary. 
Charges and Replies American charges that Ms. O'Connell "surreptitiously stole" the tables and that Mr. Baldanza, in saying he brought the diskette with him by accident, had "lied under oath." 
In a release, Warner Music Group described Ms. Rhone, 40 years old, as "the first African American woman to be appointed head of a major record label." 
Software stocks tumbled in tandem with Lotus, which during a conference call drew a cautious picture of its second-half prospects, industry experts said. 
In trading on New York's Cotton Exchange, orange juice concentrate for September delivery ended at 89.55 cents a pound, up 1.15 cents. 
If I move out, I'm not being inconvenienced." 
With some cajoling, Bubba persuaded the man to close his eyes and think back to that day, 45 years ago, when he was wed. 
The dollar suffered its first major selloff of the day after news that the U.S. Producer Price Index was unchanged in June, compared with forecasts of a 0.3% rise. 
He can't speak and can't distinguish warm from cold. 
Synoptics had 1993 sales of $700 million and a market value of $1 billion. 
Buying was dominated by Japanese institutional investors, brokers and investment trusts. 
The network, which Ms. Crawford says may be called The Goods, will be tested on MTV Networks' three distinct channels: MTV, VH-1 and Nick at Nite, beginning on or around Aug. 15. 
One bad sign, in Mr. Shapiro's view, is recent selling of Cellular Technical stock by Terren S. Peizer, a Los Angeles investor and former associate of financier Michael Milken. 
John Hay -- now called Club John Hay and operated by the Philippine Tourism Authority -- didn't have to do much to become a tourist draw. 
More people will begin having credit cards. 
But "people don't want to live by cost-effectiveness numbers alone," says Oregon's Mr. Slovic. 
They are more likely to cite "happiness" than big salaries when defining success -- though Bret thinks most of his classmates have "dollar signs in their eyes" and won't admit it. 
The English-to-Spanish interpreter at the news conference was so inept that FIFA General Secretary Sepp Blatter interrupted him and did the rest of the job himself. 
The politically troublesome imbalance with the U.S. soared 43% to $4.7 billion in June, the biggest such increase in 2 1/2 years. 
But building a national network is expected to take at least four years. 
Group W's syndicated shows include a talk show hosted by Marilu Henner and a court show called "Jones & Jury." 
Nor were the Substance 33 ingredients listed in a document -- "The Complex Program for Gradual Disposal of Chemical Weapons in the Russian Federation" -- signed by 20 high chemical officials and submitted to the Russian parliament earlier this year. 
"Feminist ideology has taken a divisive, gynocentric turn," she writes, "and the emphasis now is on women as a political class whose interests are at odds with the interests of men." 
My mother tells me so, and my first wife tells me so. 
Monthly rates fell 16.46% to an average of $23.19 for cable systems that were required to make the full rate reductions under the 1992 Cable Act, while rates for unregulated systems dropped 0.54% to an average of $23.95. 
Abby Schultz and Thomas T. Vogel Jr. contributed to this article. 
For good measure, Rep. Huffington also has an ad that portrays Sen. Feinstein as "a special interest jukebox: Put in your money and get what you want." 
Nobody wants to speak to the issue publicly, and nobody knows just how big a factor it was, but the sentiment is a pervasive one. 
After 15 years at this work, she is well past being squeamish. 
Hemant Shah, an independent analyst said the boycott would have "a very minor impact. 
In Mexico City, the market fell, finding its direction from dealings on Wall Street and from weaker Mexican stocks that also are traded in New York. 
JAPAN'S SHIPBUILDERS, after once ruling the waves, encounter rough seas. 
In a letter of intent, Maxxim offered to swap two Maxxim shares for every three Kirschner shares or acquire Kirschner's common shares outstanding for $10.50 apiece. 
Infobased, which hasn't signed any clients yet, faces lots of competition. 
Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. 
Kansas City Southern shareholders will receive a distribution of about 21.2 million Illinois Central shares and stock of a company that will hold shares of Kansas City Southern Industries' nonrail operations. 
President Toyoda spoke at a news conference in Nagoya, Japan, following the company's fiscal year end on June 30. 
Microsoft has also introduced a few original major elements that these competing platforms lack. 
"If these numbers are accurate, and they do make sense, it's good news," Mr. Taylor said. 
At a 1991 meeting at a Wyoming ranch of Conquistadores del Cielo, a group of airline and aerospace executives, he bumped into Northwest's president, Mr. Dasburg. 
In another case, Eric Mercer, a black candidate who had been arrested for burglary and for once randomly firing a gun in the street, was allowed on the job after a diversity manager in the police department overruled the Applicant Processing Division, which had rejected him. 
The flamboyant 59-year-old developer disappeared in April leaving debts of more than five billion marks ($3.13 billion), including 1.2 billion marks owed to Deutsche Bank. 
"We took products that have been very successful on QVC and negotiated with the companies to make infomercials," says Mr. Perkins, who is 42. 
The service includes pilots, insurance, fuel and airport and navigation fees. 
As of yesterday , for example, UAL was yanked out of the index and replaced with Southwest Airlines when UAL's employees bought 55% of the company. 
Of the 86.2 million shares outstanding, about 60% are owned by the founding Mandel family. 
(Mr. Mason heads the ski patrol in the winter.) 
The Burlington, Mass., medical products company said late Monday it earned three cents a share in its fiscal third quarter, down from 17 cents a year earlier. 
Irish Republicanism wishes to unite Irishmen whatever their remote ancestry in an all-Ireland Republic. 
However, the insurer said it will deduct from the refund the cost of term insurance. 
Most have focused activities in and around venues nearest to their headquarters: Gillette Co. in Boston, General Motors Corp. in Detroit, Electronic Data Systems Corp. in Dallas. 
His fame was sufficiently widespread to make him an obvious candidate for the Supreme Court in 1930, but he was passed over, in part because he had supported the Bull Moose ticket, and Taft never forgave or forgot. 
COPPER: In a trading session which saw the prices of most commodities, including coffee, move lower, copper posted one of the few high notes of the day. 
Dr. Madani wanders along a warping hallway into Klepetar property. 
Jonathan Miller directs Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea," which packs much avarice and ecstasy into the rapid rise of Nero's empress. 
But experts say consumers don't always feel that way. 
ATF can step in when it suspects a private seller has crossed the line into regular, for-profit gun dealing, but such cases can be difficult to build. 
Lawrence Swanson, president of the Dachshund Club of America, says his organization is pleased, if a bit mystified, at the interest in watching a group of dogs with 6-inch legs run 100 yards in a minute and a half. 
The custody business involves keeping track via computer of the holdings and ownerships of pension and mutual funds. 
The administration pitches stronger international regulation as a move that will benefit developed and underdeveloped nations. 
"In my 32 years I have never seen a company so exquisitely operated this side of Coca-Cola," says Jesse Meyers, editor of Beverage Digest newsletter in Connecticut. 
GE was recently indicted on charges of fixing prices of industrial diamonds and it faces a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that its jet engines didn't comply with standards for protection against electromagnetic interference. 
In Zurich, stocks dropped after late profit-taking amid New York stocks' early softness erased Swiss gains from a slightly better dollar and improved European bond markets. 
Lynn Carlson Fillmore, Provo, Utah, a former broker, was permanently barred without admitting or denying findings that he misappropriated funds belonging to a customer of his employer. 
Tetra Pak faces a proliferation of new competitors determined to grab its market. 
Interpublic Group is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Ammirati & Puris in a stock swap, people close to the advertising firms said. 
About $3 billion of debt is outstanding. 
Now, after a two-year siege, relentless shelling by Serbs and a humiliating reliance on care packages from around the world, Sarajevo has added a defining culture: agriculture. 
Others, including Tyco Toys Inc., Lewis Galoob Toys Inc., and Revell-Monogram Inc. should report losses, albeit narrower than a year ago. 
Most were associates, but many were more senior in-house counsels, general counsels and partners. 
A former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, Mr. Stein is an American Enterprise Institute fellow. 
"But Germany will still hold itself back and does not want to become the world police." 
A third man, also eavesdropping, offered $200 -- and walked away with the gun. 
Of total foreign investment, holdings of American depositary shares stood at $28.62 billion at the end of June, down 10% from the previous month and 16% for the year to date. 
The case for government intervention could then come from paternalism; the government knows better than ignorant individuals about what makes them better off. 
Premium growth will average 3% to 5%, largely a byproduct of continued increases in premium rates in disaster-prone areas, according to D. Gordon Luce Jr., an analyst with Brown Brothers Harriman. 
Dave Pettit and Stephen Power contributed to this article. 
"It's just a vacation." 
Moody's said the credit card and fund management businesses should benefit over the long term from the Discover Card's growing franchise and from the company's large base of assets under management. 
1988 and M.B.A. 1992), I can personally speak to both the quality and rigor of the college's undergraduate and graduate programs. 
Once again, though, Mr. Archer's career in politics fizzled after a London tabloid reported that he had sent #2,000 ($3,077) through an intermediary to a London prostitute. 
If anything, building roads and homes outside existing cities promised the only tangible cure for economic malaise. 
Some Sterling people have left and been replaced by Kodak people. 
With points so rare in the sport with the polka-dot ball, he never knows when his next chance may come. 
"Kendall also has a very good distribution system" to hospitals. 
What's more, immigrants may never advance out of low-wage and low-skilled positions. 
Mr. Bovard writes often on trade. 
Low-rise apartment complexes and condominiums will crop up along the southern edge of downtown, housing workers for both the downtown district and nearby medical center. 
Its 15-week run at the Fort Worth (Texas) Museum of Science and History attracted 286,000 visitors. 
First Boston subsequently downgraded the stock to hold from buy, and last month Gateway said it expects "minimal profit" for the second quarter because of inventory writedowns. 
The Buffalo University architect and like-minded designers say that universal baths and bathrooms would eliminate the stigma that older people often feel with the installation of grab bars and other geriatric devices. 
The Dodgeville, Wis.-based company said Myer Direct expects to mail the first Lands' End catalog by mid-1995. 
When the treaty negotiations began two decades ago, the massive Russian poison stockpile had to be destroyed and replaced with new classes of binary chemical weapons that would be safer to store, transport and handle. 
"Spot me another fiver, Mom?" 
The exchange released the following one-sentence statement on the result of its investigation: "The Chicago Board of Trade has uncovered no irregularities in the pricing of its municipal-bond index." 
He would succeed retiring Justice Harry Blackmun. 
Some sample efforts: diplomat Niels Marquardt helped U.S. seafood exporters regain a $100 million annual market in France, which had been closed for political reasons. 
Fatigue is a common complaint. 
The plea bargain, as detailed by Sharon Walsh in the Washington Post, would provide a sentence of nominally nine to 11 years for Mr. Naqvi. 
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department announced it will redesign U.S. paper currency to incorporate new anticounterfeiting features. 
But are Sarajevans used to eating rabbits? 
That bigger setback was the focus of a reparations complaint lodged against Mr. Bone and others at Refco by Gerald Faulkner, another egg man who set up a Refco unit in Atlanta late in the bull market. 
Executives at Cisco echoed that hope. 
The operation will also supply NKK with equipment and machinery as well as provide technical services in China and eventually in other countries. 
"Assuming that the owners want what they've put on the table, I can't see where we have a lot of choice." 
In late New York trading the currency was quoted at 1.5716 marks and 98.75 yen, compared with 1.5777 marks and 98.95 yen Wednesday. 
But Columbia has been making investment offers just as many physicians have been forced to divest themselves of direct ownership of outpatient facilities such as diagnostic clinics amid new state and federal regulations designed to prevent their overuse. 
So far, P&G's perfume niche is a tiny one for the consumer-products giant, which had world-wide sales of about $30.4 billion last year. 
Even though Brazilian coffee accounts for only a small percentage of White Coffee's purchases, the frost has sent the price of most other coffee beans higher because of Brazil's dominance in the coffee market. 
But each has had varying degrees of success operating inexpensive public golf courses with unique attractions. 
They include a lack of transparency, with information withheld for security reasons; inconsistent application of laws between provinces; and discrimination against foreign entities. 
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS are giving mothers up to 3 million yen, or $30,400, for having a seventh child, in a move aimed at populating Japan's countryside. 
There's a higher probability of the Dow trading in the 3500 to 3900 range." 
"It will be the maximum package we can offer and will be on a take-it-or-leave-it" basis, Mr. Yongtu said. 
NTT, the world's largest company by market capitalization, announced Friday that it plans to list its shares on the New York and London stock exchanges by autumn. 
Then scrap prices fell, and because it uses first-in, first-out accounting, Birmingham Steel was left with a high-priced scrap inventory. 
On the whole, U.S. manufacturers haven't complained too loudly. 
Books were his hobby. 
The carrier's net income for the quarter included a one-time charge of $19 million related to buyout expenses. 
On the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, spring wheat for December delivery closed at $3.4550 a bushel, up five cents, while red winter wheat for December delivery on the Chicago Board of Trade ended at $3.43 a bushel, up two cents. 
The U.S. and China had normalized relations in 1979. 
Just beyond his corn and bean stalks rise the roofs of the cathedrals, mosques and orthodox churches of Sarajevo's old town. 
The trouble is that industry stocks in terms of days of projected use are relatively low this year. 
Pepsi's domestic soft-drink business, despite strong unit volume growth of as much as 7%, is nonetheless expected to see profit hurt by a 2% decline in prices. 
A paltry capital base didn't stop Investors Equity from apparently taking advantage of low "margin" requirements to load up on the futures, however. 
Other efforts have been made to assess special risks. 
Perhaps it did. 
The works survived the American war in Vietnam in good condition -- Mr. Lam moved them into an air-raid shelter for safe keeping. 
Though outside investors recently put $15 million into the company, analysts have said that they expect KnowledgeWare to keep bleeding cash for the next few quarters. 
In New York Stock Exchange trading yesterday, Alliant slipped $1.25, to close at $28.625, a price that would add $100.2 million to the transaction's cash value. 
Morrison Cain, a lobbyist at the International Mass Retail Association, says victory isn't a "slam-dunk" but that "we're guardedly optimistic" about stopping the bill. 
To many analysts, the G-7's economic communique wasn't any more reassuring: It didn't mention the dollar or any plans to stabilize jittery currency markets. 
Nevertheless, it was generally acknowledged that such a system would never be instituted in America. 
Sorry, those words weren't uttered by anyone associated with the U.S. Postal Service. 
Colleagues at the commuter airline, which flies under the name Northwest Airlink, thought of Mr. Falitz as a sharp and competent pilot. 
Within the House, Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D., Mo.) remains committed to the concept of the so-called employer mandate. 
I strapped on my gear -- a helmet as heavy as a motorcyclist's, and a trigger mechanism that fit over my hand and that I was instructed to squeeze in order to move about. 
With only 2.6 telephone lines per 100 residents, Peru is far more underdeveloped than even many of its South American neighbors. 
But it's hardly just talk radio at work here. 
The resulting bill was voted out of Sen. Glenn's Governmental Affairs Committee on June 16. 
The Marines finally left after 19 years, not because Haitian democracy had become strong enough to stand on its own, but because a new president, Franklin Roosevelt, had decided to pursue a new "good neighbor" policy. 
He left ETI when he was eight and later studied violin at Julliard, playing solos with the Philadelphia orchestra when he was 14 and 16. 
An item in yesterday's New Securities Issues column incorrectly stated the amount was $150 million. 
I am pro-life, but am more concerned about politicians addressing the growth of government and its interference in all phases of my life. 
The company's audited 1993 statements are overdue. 
The ability to deliver natural gas, however, is probably less today than it was three years ago, so there is a developing shortage. 
Options Clearing corporation is a clearing organization for listed financial derivative instruments, which have returns linked to, or derived from, the performance of some underlying asset. 
Nissan Motor Co., Japan's second largest auto maker, said it transferred an additional 1,000 employees from administrative and manufacturing duties to affiliated dealerships in order to strengthen its sales force. 
"Many people learned the wrong lessons about what work is all about." 
Lockheed didn't value the Singapore sale, but Pentagon officials typically value the jets in a foreign sale at at least $30 million each, depending on features. 
He had expected the pattern of disinflation (lower prices for goods and services) would continue. 
Those who support an invasion of Haiti today will point to a more recent U.S. incursion into Hispaniola: the 1965 invasion of the Dominican Republic. 
In a news release at the time, the Houston company reported that an investigation found that Mr. Couperthwaite was involved in "serious acts of self-dealing," namely through his affiliation with another company providing services to NViro in 1993. 
Jack Kemp, tribune of popular capitalism, got what he called a "fascinating" earful about the merits of playing by China's rules at a breakfast with the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce while passing through town yesterday. 
Sales in stores open at least a year fell 3%. 
The agency expects a surge in oil output by producers other than members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to partly satisfy this increase in demand. 
"We're sailing into somewhat uncharted legal waters," Mr. Sperry said. 
Instead, the ads, from WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather, promote vacationing and aren't based on "fear," as the ads starring Mr. Malden had been. 
The chartists' diagnosis may not be based on any inherent strength in the company that would justify a higher stock price. 
"Gold price moves tend to herald strong commodity markets," he says. 
Diagnostek, of Albuquerque, N.M., said the mutual decision will reduce its revenue in the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 1995, by about $40 million, while cutting net income by $1.6 million, or seven cents a share. 
Then, after three years of turnaround strategy -- including an infusion of more than $10 million of his own money, the name change and new management -- the bank returned to profitability. 
The trend toward dissolution is likely to be followed by the dozens of other family-run concerns, known as chaebols, that dominate the Korean economy. 
They kept cranking it and cranking it over and over." 
But Russia's foreign minister said the Serbs had no alternative but to accept the plan, which would force them to hand over some land to a Muslim-Croat federation. 
Reynolds Metals, which earned five cents a share in the second quarter, compared with expectations of a loss of 18 cents a share, was up 1 1/2, or 2.9%, at 53. 
Fees 1.375. 
Analysts and industry insiders wonder if some small pharmacy-benefits managers will be able to weather further industry consolidation. 
That compares with increases of 4.6% in 1992 and 4.8% in 1991. 
Even after a warning from county Sheriff Patrick Fox, Mr. Pleau continued selling guns at flea markets in the area. 
The idea that selling guns might be illegal did occur to him, Mr. Miller says, in an interview at the federal prison camp where he is serving a 21-month sentence for dealing in guns without a license, "but I didn't think I was doing enough to get into trouble." 
Mark Heinzl contributed to this article. 
Now, Sanofi will be pulling back from that diverse activity and concentrating on its drug business, while retaining its beauty-products business as a sidelight. 
"The nonexistence incident did not occur in school," says Ms. Doman, who acknowledges that conditions of existence are a Scientologist concept. 
At a news conference, its president, Charles DiBona, said the EPA decision was "the product of special-interest politics." 
A loudspeaker intones a final warning to clear the area. 
Fighting persisted in northwestern Bosnia as pressure mounted for acceptance of a peace plan calling for division of the former Yugoslav republic. 
Moreover, whether market forces or other factors are chiefly responsible for the moderation in health costs is a matter of fierce debate, as is whether the trend will last. 
In trading Friday, the Nikkei rose 103.12 points to close the morning session at 20821.16. 
"Some people were incredulous that the G-7 could be so cavalier on the dollar." 
NEW YORK -- On the eve of a crucial vote by the R.H. Macy & Co. board, a key bondholder sold its stake in the retailer. 
The federal Orphan Drug Act, under which the designation was granted, is intended to promote development of therapies for disorders afflicting relatively small numbers of people. 
If it works, Mr. Webb said, Total is interested in quickly building a full-scale unit that processes 10,000 barrels to 20,000 barrels a day of diesel. 
"Sometimes you're better off with a two-minute commercial." 
But members of the group now say that was simply a number equal to the estimated federal savings from the Clinton-style premium caps. 
Mrs. Stefancik literally provides a shoulder for her husband to lean on. 
The bill also sets aside $20 million to maintain "the dwindling U.S. high-power laser technology base." 
It also prevents magistrates from disclosing the names of those under investigation until the inquiry is concluded, which in Italy can take years. 
The new fascination with information technology stems mainly from one very good source: fear. 
They are looking desperately for ways to restore religious and family values to their everyday lives. 
The family is shifting its business away from property sales to focus on rentals, which generate a steady stream of cash. 
The Milford, Conn., company, which makes pens, lighters and shavers, said net income rose to $16.3 million, or 69 cents a share, compared with $13.5 million, or 57 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. 
Pol Pot was described by Paul Johnson in his history of the 20th century, "Modern Times," as a "middle-class fanatic intellectual." 
But the company's most exciting growth continues from its food business. 
United advertising, which once invited passengers to "fly the friendly skies," will now say "fly our friendly skies." 
Is further airport and port growth and the industries it brings in worth the cost of what it drains away from quality-of-life services?" 
He calls the place by its local nickname, "Landshark," but he is back anyway, with his wife and 19-year-old stepdaughter, for some free Cokes and a sixth purchase, a brand new Camaro. 
Jim Stevens, Atlanta-based Suntory Group Inc. president, catches workers sneaking glimpses of World Cup games on pocket TVs brought from home. 
The "usual effect" of low turnout "is pro-GOP or pro-conservative, because more affluent Republican voters are most likely to go to the polls," wrote Republican theorist Kevin Phillips in a recent analysis. 
Mr. Reynolds said his brother smoked Winston cigarettes, a Reynolds brand, for 30 years. 
The company said the inventory overstatement occurred at its Cleo Inc. gift wrap and accessories subsidiary and resulted "from an allocation of overhead variances in a manner inconsistent with generally accepted accounting principles." 
In Canada, the drug sold for $21 a dose. 
Market observers estimate that Fidelity's returns averaged about 15% over the three years it has held its Macy stake. 
Federated wound up in bankruptcy proceedings two years after Canadian real estate developer Robert Campeau acquired it in a highly leveraged takeover in 1988. 
The majority leader made his feelings clear in a face-to-face exchange with Sen. Bob Kerrey (D., Neb.), one of the moderates. 
NEW YORK -- R.J. 
He named it Cidade de Deus, or City of God in Portuguese. 
This wading bird lays its eggs in the marshes each spring, sending thousands of pole-carrying Frisians scurrying to collect the eggs. 
He was the nuclear engineer for a company developing a new type of well-logging instrument. 
BioChem Pharma Inc. and North American Vaccine Inc. said they agreed to postpone the previously announced secondary offering of 4.25 million shares of North American Vaccine common stock held by BioChem. 
As Neal Soss of CS First Boston Corp. said, "what a strange year it's been so far." 
To Dave Tucker, who has bought five vehicles at Landmark in recent years, that is splitting hairs. 
In 1915, the U.S. view was similar, as was the prescription. 
Three months after the March 23 murder in a Tijuana slum, Special Investigator Miguel Montes began making a series of statements in which he reversed his earlier opinion that Mario Aburto, the confessed assassin, might have been a patsy in a broader plan of others to kill Mr. Colosio. 
Mr. Capps says he has no plans to retire. 
Mexico has begun privatizing its port operations in a process that might render them much more cost-efficient for shipping companies. 
"You have to strike a balance between attorneys' rights as employees and attorneys' obligations as professionals," he said. 
The weeping icon of St. Irene Chrysovalantou, an eighth-century noblewoman who chose a nunnery over marriage to a king, was painted by a Greek monk in 1919 and brought to Queens when the church was founded. 
Since U.S. teams have been able to conduct joint field operations with the Vietnamese, they have been made aware repeatedly that the central authorities earlier systematically recovered American remains. 
The ban list, for instance, includes the AK-47 because it has a detachable, high-capacity magazine and a pistol grip. 
Sun-Times Co. was acquired earlier this year by American Publishing Co., a unit of Toronto-based Hollinger Inc. SunTimes publishes newspapers in the Chicago area, including the Chicago SunTimes. 
Before mountain biking, the towns of Winter Park and nearby Fraser dried up in the summer. 
The responsible members among them should be furious with the rest. 
About a third of women and a quarter of men in the U.S. are currently trying to lose weight, according to the National Institutes of Health. 
A fourth desk is reserved for his younger brother Philip, who works on the project side of the business and spends most of his time in Singapore looking after the Far East Organization. 
Ontario, Canada -- 10 billion yen of Eurobonds due July 27, 1997, at issue and reoffer price par via Nomura International PLC. 
Only 34% of the chief executives at 348 big companies say they have identified their successors, concludes a recent survey by Korn/Ferry International, an executive-search firm in New York. 
How the two bodies work out their differences on the question in conference will probably turn largely on the course of current efforts by the U.S., its European allies and Russia to impose on the warring parties a ceasefire and partition of Bosnia. 
The administration is trying to have it both ways, because while economic growth is a good thing, too much rapid growth risks frightening the Federal Reserve and the bond market into raising interest rates and provoking a recession just in time for the 1996 election. 
Three years ago, the programmer-turned-businessman joined three other hackers to form Steepler Corp., though they weren't exactly sure what their small private company should do. 
When the U.S. Patent Office granted NIH a patent for an AIDS test, Pasteur sued, saying that the diagnostic test was a direct result of French research. 
As part of that agreement, any significant acquisition by either Blockbuster or Viacom would be subject to the other's approval. 
Several months ago, the Justice Department appeared to be widening its investigation, looking, for example, at how Microsoft used advance knowledge of changes in its operating systems to benefit its applications division, which makes programs such as spreadsheets and word processors. 
Simpson brutally beat his wife five years ago and got off with only a slap on the wrist, it wasn't because he was a celebrity. 
TORONTO -- Canada's major banks reduced their prime lending rates to 7.75% from 8% effective today . 
But experts say the new generation of smokers particularly like the idea that they can avoid addiction and health hazards by keeping the habit under control -- essentially denying they have a habit. 
Men must also "love their wives as they love their own flesh," pointing out that "no one abuses his own flesh, but rather nourishes and cares for it." 
Some smaller companies also are feverishly trying to get a piece of the business. 
Adidas shoes are worn in nearly all print advertisements using soccer players for sponsors Cannon, McDonald's, Mars and fellow marketing partners Anheuser-Busch. 
It cost three times that. 
A product can't be sold until approved by the FDA. 
And that suggests that a combination of voter dissatisfaction with political leaders, unhappiness with the choices being offered, and sagging spirits among the Democratic faithful might stop the 1992 experience from taking root and turning into a broader trend. 
Scott attributed the improved results to "early progress" in its move to cut costs, which the company has said it will do by reducing corporate overhead and through layoffs. 
Lin, 45, who was named as president and chief executive officer of a newly created unit, LaserSight Technologies, which will pursue research, product development and sales in the Pacific Rim. 
Mr. Chey agreed to return the license without consulting the other members of the consortium, which infuriated its lead foreign partner, GTE Corp.  Late last year, the new administration announced it would award the cellular-phone license to a consortium chosen by the Federation of Korean Industries, composed of the country's biggest industrialists. 
The scandal spurred a flurry of investigations and media coverage nationwide. 
The Supreme Court showed its cautious, fragmented character in cases dealing with religion and race in its 1993-94 term. 
"Defense people who in the past have said it couldn't happen now have to say it could happen." 
If misconduct wasn't caused by a disability -- if, for example, a slightly speech-impaired child sells drugs at school -- the student can be suspended or expelled. 
True, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 disallows deductions for costs paid or incurred, after 1993, in an attempt to influence legislation or the official actions of certain federal executive branch officials (lobbying). 
The Senate panel's bill appears to aim at a benefit package in the middle of the CBO's range, suggesting the promised subsidies will cost roughly $450 billion over five years. 
Rep. Kasich and several others will offer an amendment to transfer the ICC's few remaining functions to the Transportation Department. 
Barely two months ago, Federated completed its acquisition of Pittsburgh's Joseph Horne Co. chain of 10 department stores for $123 million in cash and new mortgage debt. 
All of which goes to show, as a Neapolitan friend observed, how much our leaders feel themselves beloved. 
The Holmes Lectures pose a special problem for Mr. Gunther. 
Among the many entrants in the field are the EDS unit of General Motors, AT&T and McCaw itself. 
But the price controls the government imposed on vaccines to meet the CBO estimate left no margin for paying delivery costs. 
Nevertheless, with work, Mr. Schmiedeknecht believes Europe can make a strong comeback. 
"You can't know what the intensity of my pain is," says Ms. Landivar, the New York seamstress with carpal tunnel and tendinitis. 
Jenifer Yates, a 27-year-old Banc One coding operator, maintains that her pace slows when she takes her headphones off. 
Normally a suspect must be tried within 90 days of arrest to meet the Constitution's demand for a "fair and speedy trial." 
The book profiles the success of African-Americans through networking, including Mr. Kimbro, a noted lecturer, and Black Enterprise magazine publisher Earl Graves. 
"It was a crisis that had to be dealt with," says Rep. Robert Junell, a Democrat from San Angelo and a member of the Legislative Budget Board. 
And he agreed to pay the IRS $160,000 and forfeit his Jeep Cherokee, they said. 
The temple is built to resemble the famous Kong, or Confucius, family temple. 
William Low was forced to give up its much valued independence and Scottish identity by the harsh new realities of food retailing in the 1990s, more cutthroat than ever before, analysts say. 
The Finance Committee hasn't provided any cost estimates for the bill even to the senators on the committee, several of whom acknowledged they were voting on it with even less than the usual analysis. 
The chairman of Transas Marine instructs a colleague to sit before a control panel surrounded by five oversized computer screens. 
"The market would seem to be discounting a reasonably strong level of housing starts," as well as a 15% reduction in the amount of lumber British Columbia firms are allowed to cut, beginning in 1996, Mr. Merrill said. 
For the year, Federal Express had record net income of $204.4 million, or $3.65 a share, compared with earnings of $53.9 million, or 98 cents a share, a year earlier. 
Yet the biggest worry wasn't the drop in trade volume, or the $2.40 toll Serbia demands per ton of a ship's maximum load, says Karl Brewi, a German who now runs the recently sold cargo fleet. 
The American work ethic also has its roots in religious belief. 
Mr. Clinton pushed the North American Free Trade Agreement through Congress and finished world trade negotiations that had dragged on for seven years. 
Thursday evenings were devoted to Lego building, but students came in on their own time, including other evenings and weekends, to build, despite a recent heat wave. 
According to the filing, the potential buyer wants to use the site for "waste storage and handling only" and doesn't plan to restart the incinerator. 
If he were deciding Thorn strategy, he added, "I would do exactly what they are doing." 
If you swallowed half what he's swallowed, you'd choke." 
Liberal ratings just aren't as high. 
MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine Airlines, the country's flag carrier, dismissed 180 ground-crew personnel who joined a one-day strike over wages. 
NEW YORK -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said it made a proposal to acquire the remaining shares of UPSA Group, a French drug company that specializes in the treatment of pain. 
Within an hour I was struggling for breath and grasping at branches and gnarled tree trunks for support. 
At the same time, sales of sugar in supermarkets were down 2.4%, to $1.16 billion. 
"He keeps climbing all over Ollie with these clever quotes that don't ever mean very much." 
In addition to paying the penalty, the company said it will hire a consultant to review its compliance procedures. 
In New York state, officials have begun programs aimed at producing more primary-care doctors, and encouraging physicians to practice in underserved areas. 
As of June 1, the company had 478,000 HMO clients, compared with 445,000 a year earlier. 
With racial and ethnic separatism on the rise at home and abroad, it's a point well worth keeping in mind. 
DTI, as it is known, also took the extraordinary step of naming Mr. Archer as one of the subjects of its probe. 
The bills are then organized according to task, and clients can readily see how lawyers' hours were spent. 
Regarding trade, President Clinton plans to unveil a plan that his advisers variously call Agenda 2000 or Trade 2000 or Open Markets 2000. 
At the same time, such growth could help increase Pilgrim's total revenue to about $1 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1995, up from a projected $925 million in fiscal 1994 and $888 million reported for fiscal 1993. 
Launched off European medium-term note program. 
They should know better. 
Dwight Tierney, MTV Networks' senior vice president of administration, acknowledges that the paid and unpaid interns have similar responsibilities. 
Ayala Land Inc. (Philippines) -- $100 million of global, convertible notes with indicated coupon of 4% to 4.5% due January 2000 at issue price par via Morgan Stanley & Co. International. 
At Mrs. Bingaman's instigation, legislation is pending on Capitol Hill to facilitate cross-border cooperation without the target company's consent, which Microsoft in this case granted. 
"This will not be forgiven," he stated in a condemnation of the international community's actions. 
Below, the display asks: "Is human exploration of Mars an act of destiny or of arrogance? 
Northwest wouldn't trade. 
The move, said Mr. Chaney, was in response to sluggish sales and swollen inventories in the wake of Japan's recession. 
"No community," he wrote, "would benefit more than Hispanics from the enactment of reform resulting in universal, affordable health-care coverage." 
That strategy has given the program a modicum of success. 
Russian reformers and the West can address this extremely important shortcoming by adding a protocol prior to ratification. 
Even my son seemed a little overwhelmed by the experience, though he quickly began talking strategy with two other kids huddled nearby. 
Telefonica de Argentina and CTC, for example, now provide continuous mobile telephone service to subscribers traveling between Argentina and Chile. 
We do after all have laws about who can own an American bank, and clearly they were violated when the capital's biggest institution was taken over by front men for a criminal enterprise. 
Ms. Adams is president of Adams Group Inc., an economic consulting firm. 
"If the `right candidate' couldn't even win the primary, maybe they weren't the right candidate after all," argues Rep. Bill Paxon of New York, chairman of the House Republicans' campaign arm. 
The switches extend even beyond the initial 12 cities involved, as owners of station groups affiliated with more than one network seek to cut favorable deals with networks desperate to keep their distribution lineups intact. 
Ms. Pluemer said it's likely to be a number of years before a true per-patient fixed-rate system kicks in that will enable hospitals to be more certain about the cost of their supplies. 
MANSFIELD, Mass. -- Augat Inc. expects to better "by a penny or two" analysts' second-quarter earnings estimates of 34 cents a share, said Marcel P. Joseph, chairman and chief executive. 
Jonathan Osgood, an analyst with Alex. Brown & Sons, said some companies will be able to show "continued increased profitability through cost controls and higher gross margins." 
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to announce today that it approved tighter rules for mutual-fund advertisements. 
To Mr. Jakuc and other plaintiffs lawyers, the survey results line up with their own eyeball estimates. 
Now he has taken his attack a step further by implying that Mr. Robertson and the 1.2 million members and activists of the Christian Coalition would condone violence against women. 
The forces of chance won another round against the pros in this column's latest stock-picking contest, but it was a hollow victory. 
NEW YORK -- CBS Inc., stymied in its plans to merge with cable-retailer QVC Inc., signed a far-ranging agreement yesterday to buy stations and jointly develop programming with Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Group W broadcasting unit. 
According to United Nations human rights observers, horrific human rights abuses are taking place in Haiti. 
Despite Kendall's recent earnings growth, the company has been a troubling venture for its largest shareholder, the New York buyout firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which has scored large returns on many of its investments. 
Separately, the SEC is planning to warn fund companies that money-market funds shouldn't be investing in some of the more volatile securities. 
It said the device could bring annual world-wide revenue of $500 million within five years. 
To make them directly comparable, each index, calculated in local currencies, is based on the close of 1969 equaling 100. 
Intel said it still plans to produce six million to seven million Pentium processors this year, and expects the line to represent 25% of its fourth-quarter shipments to the PC market. 
Indeed, more than 30% of businessmen in the Tokyo metropolitan area said they were inclined to change jobs in 1992, the most recent year for which data are available, up from 25.4% in 1991, according to a survey by Recruit Research Co.  At the same time, longstanding stereotypes about foreign companies are also being chipped away. 
And get this: Unlike our Postal Service, theirs actually operates in the black. 
It is, however, unlikely that after they seize control of the Haitian government, our troops will be able to root out the current Haitian military and paramilitary forces. 
Nicaraguans involved in the struggle understand that progress depends on the security of property rights for all Nicaraguans, including the poorest, some of whose blood has been shed in the struggle to dislodge Sandinista usurpers long after the official Contra war ended. 
But such companies don't expect much sympathy from the Clinton administration, despite its free-trade rhetoric. 
"We're talking about immediate delivery of the product." 
Regions Financial Corp., a bank-holding company based in Birmingham, Ala., said it signed a definitive pact to buy Union Bank & Trust Co., a banking firm, for $65 million in common stock. 
Suzanne B. Conlon, an Illinois federal judge, rejected Prudential's request to disallow the suit, which accused Prudential of improperly forcing the investors to accept a paltry VMS settlement rather than advise them of other legal options. 
As for the tougher insurance-fraud provisions, law-enforcement officials say the insurance companies themselves have proved a barrier to prosecution. 
"If I were worried about the state of the Edison Project, believe me I would be departing a lot faster," he said. 
The evening is a sweet spectacle; I can think of but one better way to pass a summer evening: to sit in that ballroom and listen, really listen, to Mr. Merwin's Calderon. 
Mr. Sidak, former deputy general counsel of the FCC, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. 
The nation's largest discount-brokerage firm said the overall gain in revenue came in spite of a 3% drop in commission revenue. 
In his book "A Brief History of Time," he argues that it may well be possible to discover the Holy Grail of physics, the "unified theory" -- and with it, "the ultimate theory of the universe." 
Some industry analysts called the June sales impressive, considering the tight inventories of some of Detroit's most popular models, such as Ford Motor Co.'s Explorer and Chrysler Corp.'s Grand Cherokee sport-utility vehicles. 
The very strengths that Russian software designers typically possess don't usually lend themselves to commercial success. 
Last year, net income tripled to $507 million, or $1.50 a share. 
Nasdaq total turnover was 249.6 million shares, up from 225.7 million shares Monday. 
All of which he neglected to tell the archbishop, who was representing the church in its dealings with Cigna. 
The company said it could take four years for the service to begin. 
Calling the Kelvinator investment a key part of his company's strategy for aggressive growth in Asia, Whirlpool Chairman David Whitwam vowed in a statement that "it won't be our last one." 
Einstein's wit flashes throughout "Ideas and Opinions." 
Tetra Pak has been in India for 30 years now and invested $50 million, but it continues to lose money on its share of a factory and claims only 0.3% of the market. 
Mr. Eberling says he would buy companies that are diversified, or able to profit from overseas trading, underwriting and merger advice as well as the basic business of brokerage. 
"That's been the real problem." 
He previously had reported to the company's president and chief operating officer. 
S&P said the long-term risk associated with the pending acquisition outweigh short-term cash-flow benefits. 
Recent buying in John Fairfax shares prompted the company to seek the identity of its mystery buyer. 
"Scared? 
The primary force behind the rally was a scramble among traders to close out short positions. 
Mr. Gearan followed up with a plea for talk radio to be more fair. 
"If it got there, it would be a buying opportunity." 
NEW YORK -- Quarterly earnings for the nation's food retailers will be mixed, industry analysts said, reflecting some companies' ability to increase sales despite low inflation. 
Meanwhile, even if there isn't any Fed action when a meeting of its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee closes, observers said they believe the central bank could act on Friday after the Labor Department releases June employment data. 
Nike's outdoor category was up 47% in the fourth period; cross-training, up 27%; walking, 27%; and tennis shoes, 23%. 
Russia's privatization voucher, the currency used until last week to bid for shares in state-owned companies, is to be revived after a two-month audit. 
"They risked everything they had," Mr. Kjellberg says. 
Last Dec. 1, just hours after trading sharp words with a co-worker and complaining that the company was violating his contract, Capt. Falitz was trying to land in rain, snow and darkness at the airport here. 
In a number of cases the taxes have mainly served to keep the borrowers mired in poverty. 
And Mo was quite supportive of Doug," said Mr. Morgado in an interview. 
Signature's mutual-fund accounting system combines a number of separate "spoke" funds into a single investment pool, or "hub," enabling asset managers to achieve economies of scale not possible if each fund were invested separately. 
At the same time, the two partners passed a milestone in their closely watched international-services venture, Concert. 
Mr. Nichol, who was in Japan last month promoting Cott's soft-drink business, is expected to spearhead a diversification drive by Cott into food products, analysts said. 
For she's taken this "women's novel" protagonist and placed her in a story right out of a high-concept male-targeted movie thriller. 
I mean, would you apply for a job if you didn't have a way to get there?" 
Paris equities plummeted 2.3% under technical factors. 
As she arrives for work on a recent morning, Ms. Medina, 51, greets her client, who also lives in a housing project, pulls a pink and white house dress over her jeans and starts a load of wash. 
The final regulations on so-called transfer pricing, which were detailed in a Treasury news conference yesterday, are expected to calm the business community, which felt that earlier regulations were too confining. 
Indeed, demand for all assault weapons is surging. 
"But complacency isn't good," he says, explaining the merger with Lintas:New York. 
The GTE spokesman said the sale allows the company to "recover its sizable investment" in the satellites and other assets. 
A further slide in the dollar could depress stocks and increase pressure on the Fed to lift rates. 
Owners are being notified of the recall by phone and repairs will be made at no charge to the customer. 
The object of fierljeppen -- a cross between a pole vault and a dunking booth -- is to bound as far as possible. 
The latest quarterly earnings, a record for any quarter, were achieved on sales of $1.71 billion, up 21% from last year's $1.42 billion. 
It'll take considerable time and resources to make a serious dent in domestic violence. 
The president's special adviser on Haiti, William Gray, is privately saying 15,000 to 20,000 troops would be needed to secure Haiti, a figure consistent with Pentagon contingency plans written last year. 
Although profit at the Charlotte, N.C., bank holding company was virtually flat with a year earlier, the 1993 period included unusual merchant-banking gains of $44 million, or 16 cents a share. 
Only when they are fired are they combined to form a weapon of mass destruction. 
Andrew Carnegie might have been a triple-A borrower for his whole life. 
He added that for unenhanced warrants to be attractive, their yield would have to be higher than market participants were expecting as of yesterday . 
Ms. Svoboda is a New York media producer. 
At its current market price, a 10% stake in Circus would cost nearly $190 million, based on Circus's 86 million common shares outstanding and closing price of $21.50, up 25 cents, in composite New York Stock Exchange trading. 
Canada, which wants a boffo summit in Halifax, quickly signed on to the new agenda. 
And the tax increase's effect on consumer spending "isn't going away," predicts Susan Sterne, a Stowe, Vt., economist who specializes in consumer behavior. 
Mr. Falitz's defenders, including several former co-pilots and the pilots' union, say the former Navy officer could put his emotions aside when he needed to concentrate. 
The value of the contract is nearly one billion marks ($646.6 million), it noted. 
But the hefty purchase also will mean an additional $2.5 billion or so in debt for a company once debt-averse. 
Analysts reading between the lines of events in Pyongyang, as reported by diplomats and the Russian news service, noted the younger Mr. Kim's No. 1 place in the official reception line beside his father's crystal sarcophagus at the presidential palace. 
Microsoft's Windows software occasionally shuts down a program I'm using and tells me something like "This application has violated system integrity and will be terminated." 
But shellfish is another matter. 
Early Monday in Tokyo, the dollar was trading at 1.5540 marks and at 98.30 yen; sterling was at $1.5565. 
"In the past, win or lose, the state took care of us," says Wu Yongzhong, vice secretary of the Communist Party unit at Panji No. 3 mine, who carries a shiny, coal-black business card with gold lettering. 
Investors will be offered more shares on the open market in October. 
In 1977, at the last peak, U.S. steelmakers could produce 160 million tons a year. 
The American side is quick to point out that the relationship between the two men stems partly from their similarities. 
To cover likely losses on its loans to the Schneider group, Deutsche Bank has already announced plans to set aside 500 million marks in provisions. 
-- Personnel. 
The foundation he runs, known by the Spanish acronym Funedesin, raises money for medical care, school construction and water projects. 
Nevertheless, at 10:55 that night, the committee members approved Kolon as the lead bidder, 11-3, in what the sources say was a protest vote against Posco's heavy-handed lobbying. 
No one holds his former position of chief operating officer. 
CIDADE DE DEUS, Brazil -- This country's largest private-sector bank, Banco Bradesco SA, was founded 51 years ago by a farmer who, even after becoming a millionaire, would show up at the office without any socks under his wingtips. 
The Nynex-Bell Atlantic deal may put more urgency into the courtships. 
Both are upset that Fidelity pushed for a lower recovery on the 10-store debt in order to get a higher recovery on another loan Fidelity held but they didn't, people familiar with the companies' holdings say. 
Of Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" it said: "Spielberg could not have told his story without showing the horror against which Schindler acted. 
(Have you heard the one about the two cesium isotopes that went bang in the night?) 
The merger will place Martin Puris, Ammirati & Puris's president and chief executive officer, as president and chief executive of the new agency, which is expected to be named Ammirati & Puris/Lintas. 
And when the fall general election rolls around, even a small decline in turnout in key states could determine the outcome of some races, most likely to the detriment of President Clinton's Democratic party. 
Discussing the link between diversity efforts and corruption is a politically touchy issue, and it is right to be wary of unfair generalizations that hark back to nativist slurs against "inherently criminal" immigrant groups, like the Irish, said to be unfit for police service. 
But today 95% of the people would support an invasion to get rid of . 
That is the state's estimate of what it spends on illegals, but Congress has no intention of paying it, and has earmarked just $350 million in such payments in 1995 to all 50 states. 
The day after Mr. Snyder's dismissal, one Viacom executive was overheard at a marketing meeting paraphrasing an old Jim Croce song: "You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. 
State Street currently has about 77 million shares outstanding. 
We don't, to repeat, begrudge Mr. Larrahona's luck in finding himself before a judge who would decide to nullify his sentence. 
The banking company, with $14.3 billion in assets, said net income rose to $42.6 million, or $1.12 a share, from the year-earlier $33.7 million, or 88 cents a share. 
The custom began in 1938 to help keep the currency of the day, the silver dollar, from soiling the white gloves of female guests. 
But as it happens, Nickelodeon was running "Lassie" reruns daily even before the merger with Paramount, so Paramount executives hope there is some built-in recognizability with kids. 
But Smith Barney released a 10-year track record for the "Top Picks" its analysts release each January. 
Analysts noted that the technical rally also helped support precious metals prices after some weakness early in the day. 
That's about twice the number of jobs from ASAA Technologies Inc., which built a plant to manufacture car interiors, one of the few new manufacturing facilities the region has managed to land. 
Thinking of entering the New York market, the Encino, Calif., franchiser wanted assurance that it would be exempt from the unusual law. 
The operator of full-service truck stops said the increase came despite a charge of $99,735 for accounting changes recorded in the first quarter of 1994. 
Fearful of losing focus, he has resisted the temptation to boost his prospects in multimedia by spending some of his billions on a movie studio or communications concern. 
Grenada Sunburst, the third largest Mississippi-based bank, operates 108 offices in the state, adding to Union Planters' 25 branches. 
Only a few years ago, a group of bright young technocrats working under President Carlos Andres Perez began what was in most ways an exemplary market-oriented reform plan. 
Bank Mashill raised $31 million in its IPO in March, offering shares at 3,450 rupiah ($1.60) 
On gays, a commonplace view is that homosexuals are sinners and should be treated accordingly. 
Flowers has also been hurt by investments it is making to expand its sales of frozen breads and ready-made cakes and pies. 
Do you want to join a lesbian, gay and bisexual mailing list or a Bible discussion group? 
Mr. Clinton should ask why the 1915 operation failed and, indeed, whether Haiti is a military problem at all. 
"Nightstick," part of the 10-part "Point of View" series, is a look into allegations of a systematic pattern of beatings and police brutality in the Chicago Police Department over the past two decades. 
Many investors first heard Mr. English's voice on financial talk shows such as KIEV's "The World of Investors," a program sponsored by a company owned by Mr. English. 
It had been thought that Mr. Fiske's June 30 report on the death of former White House aide Vincent Foster and a series of contacts between the White House and Treasury Department officials concerning Madison, combined with a report expected this week regarding the handling of Mr. Foster's office immediately after his death, would close the "Washington phase" of his probe. 
"Koehler owned this house." 
(The shows, both 30 minutes and one hour, will run during daytime, prime time and late night.) 
Computer Task Group is an information technology services company. 
In 1988 the median time served in confinement by violent offenders was 24 months for whites vs. 25 months for blacks. 
And he thinks low turnout also led to the defeat of some big bond issues in California. 
Currency traders remain nervous about the dollar, and sentiment remains bearish. 
Hong Kong 74.9 and Israel 74.54. 
But banks must also fail, and some have (one got sucked into a phony-guarantee scam and wasn't caught until U.S. regulators got wise). 
BIC Corp. said net income rose 20% and sales increased 12% in the second quarter, aided by improvements in its core businesses and foreign operations. 
North American production of the Ford and Mercury models is expected to reach 325,000, with more than 75% of that volume coming from Kansas City and the rest from a Mexican plant. 
The spokesman said the better-than-expected earnings will reflect the smooth implementation of cost-cutting efforts. 
The U.S. is deploying 2,000 Marines aboard a four-ship amphibious assault group lead by the U.S.S. 
Mr. Daniels said it hasn't yet been decided how much of the $82 million Mr. Carton and the other nongovernment plaintiff in the case, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group Taxpayers Against Fraud, will receive, though they are entitled to between 15% and 25% under the False Claims Act. 
Men who commit these crimes are essentially bullies. 
John H. Lubera, 50, was named executive vice president, a newly created post. 
Insurers are worried about their quake exposures because actual losses from the recent quake far exceeded the models they used to predict worst-case scenarios. 
The U.S. agreed to give the French a bigger share of royalties for kits used to test for AIDS. 
Communism buried the episode in memory's deep freeze. 
Last Friday, the IRS backed off, allowing filing as usual until "the service's new computer systems become operational." 
CMT reaches about 1.9 million Canadian cable television subscribers. 
"It is now more acceptable to write from an Indian point of view." 
Removing hazardous asbestos and keeping sewage from drinking water not only protect the health of our troops and their families, they save health-care costs and work hours lost. 
He didn't. 
HOUSTON -- Camden Property Trust, a real estate investment trust, acquired five apartment complexes in Texas and Arizona in transactions totaling about $49.1 million, including the cost of planned renovations. 
He lives here year round, spending the winter tracking the Wild Man and much of the summer fending off visitors and government functionaries who come to gaze at Wild Man habitat. 
But it was hard to miss Mr. Ludwig in a bright blue sweater and white shorts. 
Mr. Fox, who is stepping down as the Tuck dean, was previously president of the Student Loan Marketing Association. 
Lewis Galoob, another toy maker on the mend, also should narrow it loss to 35 cents a share from 45 cents, she said. 
UNC said recently it would take a $50 million charge to reflect asset sales and would proceed with cost-cutting initiatives to offset continuing weakness in the industry. 
The firm set up private schools, in Eagan, Minn., and Paradise Valley, Ariz., which lost money. 
Running barefoot toward the canal, he grabs a pole and rises high into the air in an attempt to vault over the muck. 
Telemachus "Mike" Demoulas could well afford it. 
Chief Justice Rehnquist indicated that more narrowly drawn protections of private homes would be permissible. 
Elsewhere in the group, Cambridge, Mass.-based Immunogen fell 1/4 to 3 1/4, Sepracor, Marlborough, Mass., slipped 3/16 to 4 5/8 and Gensia, of San Diego, sagged 1/2 to 8 3/4. 
As chairman of Continental AG, Germany's largest tire maker, he is leading the company's escape from high German production costs to lower wages, cheaper raw materials and growing markets farther east. 
The company, in Fort Myers, Fla., plans to open a new distribution center in September and is rapidly increasing the number of its stores, he says. 
Then during the week of July 4, the three sides met in Brussels for five argumentative days. 
As evidence, they cite developments before and after the 1983 increase in the federal excise tax. 
It isn't approved for use on oats in the U.S., but it can be used on growing corn and wheat, as well as apples, cherries and several other crops. 
The company is facing tough new rivals and has had to fight charges of unfair competition. 
The Esquire and Griffin brands have combined annual sales of about $3 million, Sara Lee said. 
Eventually, the whole place has to be stripped of old paint, and surface cracks patched. 
Mr. Buchholz, 65, is semi-retired and will remain chairman of the financial-services holding company. 
Then business began picking up last summer, and suddenly took off in the spring. 
He was acquitted by a federal jury a year later; a longtime King assistant was convicted by the same jurors of three counts of attempted tax evasion. 
End-of-quarter worries caused shares of Gupta to skid 1 1/2 to 9 1/4, a 52-week low. 
Amex began trading the initial offering of Dycam Inc., Chatsworth, Calif., a digital camera developer, DYC. 
And these won't end until the administration sets priorities, so that what it says doesn't clash with what it does. 
This time, she said, "it's catching." 
Although committee members noted that signs of building wage and price pressures remained scarce, they expressed concern at the May meeting that pressures "could begin to rise" unless the Fed raised interest rates. 
As a boy, Mr. Golle says, he was told by his father he would have no spending money unless he worked for it. 
It accused the Italian government of not doing enough to fight organized crime despite having launched a major offensive after two anti-Mafia magistrates were killed in 1992. 
The big maker of disk drives reported earnings of $79.3 million, or $1.07 a share, on revenue of $1 billion. 
The facility increases the amount of bank lines and letters of credit to $11.7 million from $7.9 million. 
I called a friend who knows about such things and asked him what to do. 
Terms of the transaction with the Concord, Mass., cooperative weren't disclosed. 
Trading was very light in the investment-grade and junk-bond markets, with spreads unchanged on investment-grade debt. 
In EAI's past deals, school systems have retained a right to cancel contracts on short notice. 
The additional $2.2 million represents treble damages allowed under the False Claims Act. 
So they are taking unprecedented steps to survive -- including accepting the majority of new ship orders for export in depreciating dollars so as not to lose customers to highly competitive makers in South Korea. 
His lawyers discharged themselves from representing Mr. Seow when they found he had deceived the court, the prosecution and themselves. 
But the restitution fund has no ceiling, and that's the rub. 
Mr. Doyle thinks Express Scripts, for example, could be the next discounter acquired by a pharmaceutical manufacturer. 
Mr. Diller says he remains interested in CBS but will remain at QVC to oversee negotiations with Comcast for now. 
Finally, it was argued that a return to gold was unthinkable because it would benefit the Soviet Union and South Africa; today, of course, we want to integrate both countries into the world trading system. 
Shares of Interleaf shed 1 3/4, or 33%, to 3 1/2. 
Analysts expect that AK Steel will report earnings of 73 cents a share for the quarter, according to First Call, a stock-research unit of Thomson Financial Services. 
"If they have one, you don't know if it's an aberration or a symptom," says Paul Hayes, director of Airclaims Ltd., a London loss-adjustment firm. 
Caitlin Mollison contributed to this article. 
Mr. Wain is editor at large of The Asian Wall Street Journal. 
Voicing the same worries, the National Cable Television Association, which has consistently fought the FCC's video dialtone program, said it will appeal the Toms River decision, most likely to the federal Appeals Court in Washington. 
But Mr. Schoolar thinks that's pretty good, considering that his fund is a growth fund -- one that seeks stocks with rapidly growing earnings. 
Other research simply hasn't progressed far enough to answer crucial questions. 
Industry experts are also predicting significant consolidation and cost-cutting as the combined company closes down unprofitable stores and reduces its work force of 117,300 employees. 
Too many decisions still need Mr. Arafat's personal approval, say local Palestinian leaders, and the chain of command is unclear. 
The results follow U S West's move last week to purchase two Atlanta-based cable properties for $1.2 billion in stock and cash. 
Seat said production in 1994 will fall short of forecasts, with 332,000 units to be manufactured compared with the 364,000 units originally planned. 
A city worker in Melbourne, Fla., told Ron Miller with "a wink and a nod" that his wife could probably get away with running her freelance translation business from their house, despite a ban on home-based occupations, Mr. Miller says. 
Under the proposal, investors will find it easier to sue if it turns out that securities firms recommending troubled bonds failed to investigate the facts or knew that information the municipality supplied was false, misleading or stale. 
Dow Jones industrials 3748.31, off 7.12; transportation 1606.58, up 3.45; utilities 183.17, up 0.27. 
"We respect the Nigerians because they play with heart, but they are so young," wailed Gianfranco Comune, a fan from Florence, Italy. 
BOSTON -- In October 1989, Evan Demoulas received a puzzling telephone call from a lawyer handling his finances. 
Under the agreement, Descartables Argentinos will become a unit of Kimberly-Clark Argentina. 
And so it went. 
Through both asset sales and profits from distribution of oil products, MG has had profitable cash flow since January, he said. 
A former Chrysler Corp. vice chairman who helped in the auto maker's celebrated turnaround in the 1980s, Mr. Greenwald took over at the airline yesterday. 
And his long-term bond pick of 5.50% was 2.11 percentage points below the correct figure. 
The mark, meanwhile, cracked the psychologically important level of 1,000 lire soon after trading got under way in Asia. 
He added that in June 1989, "there was a consensus" at Northeast that the problem wasn't serious enough to warrant a detailed analysis about the cooling system's "operability." 
"Premier Li Peng and Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin are very busy strengthening their power bases because they know Deng Xiaoping's death is the biggest threat to them," says Ruan Ming, a visiting scholar from China at Princeton University. 
Sister Bonnie now operates a second Pearly Gates on the outskirts of Cincinnati, along with the original downtown salon, serving more than 200 clients a week. 
Maybe the Israelis should want to belong to a united Arabia, or the Bosnian Muslims to a united Serbia, but they don't either. 
"The cultural differences between New York and California, between Hispanic and Jewish or Korean and Cuban are far greater than any between the U.S. and the U.K."  What about those high-pressure salesmen? 
It's good for developing countries, much better than aid. 
Unlike GATT, its decisions are binding. 
The U.S. Attorney's office in Tampa, Fla., meanwhile, recently began reviewing reports compiled by the regulators on Met Life. 
But the main advantage of digital information is to make it easy to copy and exchange information. 
IRI, which had outbid Nielsen at the time, walked away from that deal after the value of its shares dropped following several setbacks. 
Bret is one of about 40 seniors taking rigorous advanced-placement classes. 
-- MicroAge Inc., which sells personal computers to corporate customers, warned that its earnings for the current quarter will be lower than expected because of pricing pressures and a need to reduce excess inventory. 
The biggest such cash infusion was by BankAmerica Corp., which put a total of $67.9 million into two Pacific Horizon funds to make up for losses on "derivative" securities. 
But even an informed shareholder would have had a hard time realizing they owned these bonds, because most have unassuming names such as Fund America Investors Corp. II or Bear Stearns Secured Investors Trust 1993-3. 
Commodities: Oil $19.24 a barrel, off 38 cents. 
People are cynical about Washington for good reason. 
"They were expatriated, that's all, not murdered." 
One proposed change would provide for the prosecution of companies themselves for criminal behavior. 
Among corporate developments, in London, Dixons Group surged 18 pence, or 11%, to 188 pence ($2.90). 
The bonds, rated single-A-1 by Moody's and double-A-minus by S&P, are subject to the alternative minimum tax. 
All 60 jumpers dutifully fell into the canal. 
He sometimes overdoes it, just as he occasionally slips into the paralyzing argot of trendy lit-critspeak. 
Eli Lilly said it will consider offering one or more potential partners a stake in PCS Health Systems, the drug-benefits manager Lilly last week agreed to acquire for $4 billion. 
Then last month the U.S. Justice Department gave a green light to BT's plans to buy a 20%, $4.3 billion stake in MCI Communications Inc. Soon, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to add its blessing to the BT-MCI pact -- and, sources said, it's also starting to move on a long-pending BT license application in the U.S.  In Britain, AT&T currently provides data-communications services through its AT&T-Istel Ltd. unit, issues calling cards and makes telecommunications equipment. 
Under the new definition, his wetlands added up to a mere 0.089 of an acre. 
We looked at the kind of crowd we might expect in Malaysia -- increasingly affluent and sophisticated, with many people already familiar with Friday's" from having lived or studied in the U.S., says Lim Su See, group communications manager at Melewar Corp. Bhd., which owns 51% of the Friday's franchise for Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. 
The Nikkei initially lost ground on renewed fears about the U.S. dollar's slide to record lows against the Japanese yen in currency dealings. 
Finally, we believe that some of the Arkansas tales, such as the 1987 murders of teenagers Kevin Ives and Don Henry, are the result not of political conspiracies but of drug smuggling. 
Then, the scene changes to attractive scenes of the Red Sea, and Fatuma, Eritrea's best-known home cook, sets to work on its fishy produce. 
"We are not apologizing one bit for prisons in our area." 
In its negotiations with Justice Department officials, AT&T has also reiterated its promise that McCaw's customers would have immediate "equal access" to long-distance carriers other than AT&T. 
The IFA also qualified its code to say that franchises may be refused to people whose disabilities would prevent them from operating effectively. 
"He didn't want to show up, but he knew that for the president and the country, it was the best course." 
This approach is more concerned about the practical consequences of a court's decisions than with adherence to a liberal or conservative ideology. 
Africa, an expanding market, posted disappointing results as slow economies and civil unrest disrupted unit-volume growth, which was flat for the quarter. 
"Higher taxes will squeeze consumers' purchasing power, which will slow GDP gross domestic product growth this year and next," says economist Arnold Moskowitz of Moskowitz Capital Consulting, New York. 
Phillips, based in Bartlesville, Okla., is much bigger than Anadarko and also has sizable gasoline and chemical operations. 
The Country Network, the Canadian station, will be operated by CFCN Productions Ltd., which is controlled by Maclean Hunter Ltd., Toronto. 
Friday's report of stronger-than-expected payroll gains only added to the nervousness that has left many investors hemmed in between conflicting concerns. 
THE AIRLINES have been so successful with frequent-flier programs that it was only a matter of time before a law firm would borrow a page out of their flight manual. 
In the manufacturing sector, which added a strong 34,000 jobs in June, the total hours worked rose by 0.1%, however. 
We will continue to seek to reinforce our three principal businesses through generating organic growth and, where appropriate, by making investments and acquisitions in closely related areas." 
"The game has changed," since the Fed stunned the markets with its first rate increase in five years back in February, he says. 
And people close to him say he had preferred the proposed CBS-QVC merger because, among other things, it was a tax-free transaction. 
While the San Francisco Fed study argues that wages have been rising in the retail trade, they still remain far lower than those of other businesses. 
He also noted the U.S. economy was strong in the second quarter and fuel prices haven't increased substantially. 
CLINTON ARRIVED in Europe, pledging aid for the Baltics and Poland. 
To impart some spark to dentistry itself, the museum hired Miles Fridberg Molinaroli Inc., a flashy Washington exhibit-design firm. 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Barnes shares closed at $35.125, up 62.5 cents. 
Although water is the topic du jour in the colony, it actually has been a tiny component of the rapidly increasing volume of environmental complaints to authorities. 
And Moody's Investors Service Inc. said its outlook for United's ratings remain "negative due to concern over the company's future financial flexibility." 
Tomkins PLC reported that its pretax profit rose 50% to #257.1 million ($398.4 million), or 15 pence a share, for the year ended April 30 from #171 million, or 13 pence, a year earlier. 
Before singing hosannas, however, Republicans might also consider the risks of communing with such live ammo. 
The objection, now popular in liberalism's current incarnation, is that such words convey a moral judgment, a taboo in a society that is supposed to be neutral about "lifestyle" choices; somehow a mother's marital status is considered irrelevant to the fate of her child. 
They will be distributed by Sega. 
Mr. Falitz complained of fatigue and, at one point, a passenger told Northwest she had seen him nod off during a flight to Milwaukee from Columbus, Ohio. 
BRUSSELS -- The European Union Commission said it will review antidumping measures against imports of the food additive monosodium glutamate from Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea. 
She kept her clothes in four separate closets -- thin, just getting heavy, moderately heavy, and fat -- and shuttled despondently from closet to closet as her weight bounced between 120 and 175 pounds too many times to count. 
Despite much-ballyhooed decisions by New York and Wisconsin to pay refunds to eligible retirees, federal pensioners in both states are still fighting for more refunds for more retirees via class actions. 
They include Five Rams Bicycle Industry Corp. and Huanan Sewing Equipment Group Co., the official China Daily newspaper said. 
The Dow Jones World Stock Index yesterday was at 114.60, up 0.34 from Friday's level, reflecting increases in markets in the Americas, Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. 
Displaying his confidence in the company, Mr. Welch last month also bought 50,000 GE shares, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
It's now almost certain not to figure in any Whitewater hearings held this session. 
Banpu Coal Public Co. (Thailand) -- $60 million to $80 million of convertible Eurobonds due Aug. 25, 2004, via Jardine Fleming. 
But most users just dump everything into the same pile, or even think they've "lost" files because they wind up in the wrong section of the disk. 
John Allison has decided to find out why everybody's talking about Pittsburgh. 
Mothers or fathers are supposed to present the cards with great joy and enthusiasm to instill a love for learning. 
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was elected president of Nicaragua in 1990, ostensibly replacing the Sandinistas. 
"The earnings are really coming through there," he said. 
Everyone already knew the first two steps: The body converts starch to sugar; the sugar spurs the pancreas to release insulin. 
Fees 1.625. 
The measure repeals most of a set of prohibitions against price haggling that went into effect in 1933, a year before Ms. Krause's grandfather founded the business she now runs. 
Started in the Midwest almost a decade ago by a Lutheran minister, Granger Westberg, it bases nurses at individual churches and synagogues to meet the health care needs of the congregations. 
Czechs now care more about street crime than political crime: A dubious hunt for secret-police snitches has run out of oomph; a diplomat interprets the popular attitude toward it as, "We're out of the clear, we aren't threatened by these people, let's go easy." 
OCCUPATIONS kids admire most: Preteen girls choose performing artists, teachers, doctors and lawyers from a list of 10 possible role models, while boys favor athletes, according to a survey by Childreach, a child-sponsorship group in Warwick, R.I. 
The index rose from 59.2% in May to 61.4% in June -- its highest level ever and the fifth month in a row that purchasing managers have reported an upsurge in manufacturing activity. 
The decision to go public was made in part "to become more acceptable. 
Europe's geography, if nothing else, dictates Germany's interest in the welfare of countries such as Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 
Construction: Plans call for spending $469.6 million for athletic facilities and $47 million for an Olympic village. 
Analysts said GM could report net income of $1.8 billion to $1.9 billion, or $2.19 to $2.22 a share. 
"A sweetheart of a chart," Mr. Smith says. 
Those values, not endorsed by all Christians, include an end to abortion, opposition to homosexuality and pornography, and prayer in public schools. 
Of course, the Interior Department has its own honey pots; let's not look too closely at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for example. 
"What sale of stock?" 
Bell Atlantic also would transfer $87 million in debt to the new business, its only debt as it starts out. 
"CMT floaters" -- securities whose interest-rate reset provisions are tied to long-term interest rates so that a change in the slope of the yield curve could result in the value of the instrument falling below par. 
The most important effect, however, will be in the House races. 
In a conference call with analysts and investors, Comcast swiftly moved to promote its proposal, disclosing that it will sell non-strategic assets and possibly take on partners to finance the acquisition and avoid burdensome debt levels. 
Still, she wouldn't have it any other way. 
"When hot weather hits, places such as Target and Wal-Mart carry what people want," said NatWest's Mr. Buchanan. 
With 40% of its loan portfolio tied to the prime, the bank should benefit from the rate increase. 
Until then, Sarajevans, who have been a part of the longest airlift in history, are striving toward self-sufficiency, filling their cupboards in anticipation of another miserable winter. 
Under the deal, the family would receive more than $500 million for its majority stake. 
But all that could change -- ironically, thanks to the free-enterprise forces in Mexico that unleashed Nafta in the first place. 
Interest in Japan should be high: The city of Nagano is host to the 1998 Winter Games. 
Patricia Black, counsel to the RTC's inspector general, said on Friday that other law firms have complied "extensively" during similar investigations. 
French officials said cross-border shelling killed another 60 refugees around the Zairian town of Goma. 
Some Conde Nast insiders wonder if last week's announced departure of Ms. Penney, a long-time close friend of Mr. Newhouse, was partly a tactic by her to earn increased independence from Mr. Truman's influence at the magazine. 
First Indiana, of Indianapolis, added 3/4 to 15 3/4 and Bay View Capital, San Mateo, Calif., improved 3/4 to 25 1/4. 
For example, there are hundreds of post-1969 studies of minorities in the juvenile justice system. 
In the more liberal House, two committees have approved bills with employer mandates. 
In June 1992, Digital Systems, Redmond, Wash., filed a lawsuit charging EIS, then Electronic Information Systems Inc., with making false statements about its products. 
Yet as Justice Thomas observed in his lengthy dissent, it was only last June when the high court said that distorting districts to give minorities more electoral muscle amounts to "political apartheid" and may violate the Constitution's guarantee of "equal protection." 
And, in the event that happened, Justice Scalia added, that group would have an open-and-shut constitutional claim. 
An imminent Italian homecoming seemed likely for most of Tuesday's fray. 
The latest tax-free yield is equivalent to a taxable 3.48% for someone paying 36% in taxes and to 3.69% for those who pay 39.6%. 
In addition, GM's "turn and earn" system of allocating the most desirable vehicles gives the hottest new products to dealerships with prodigious sales. 
And it's a major threat to Wellcome: Since Famvir's introduction in Britain late last year, the drug has captured more than 15% of that shingles-treatment market. 
But while that process has served as a magnet for warnings about the loss of liberty, the reality of the WTO, many trade economists say, will be the same give-and-take bargaining that already characterizes other international affairs. 
Lead in gasoline additives introduced in the early 1960s was released in auto exhaust and was absorbed by grapes growing nearby, and from there made its way into the wine, the study found. 
The Stadium Group is a property developer based in London. 
Revenue will be "modestly higher" than the $36.1 million recorded a year earlier, the company said. 
The debt reduction will come from restructuring of debts, capital increases and sales of assets. 
Hilton's casinos, facing new competition in Las Vegas, reported a slight drop in operating profit to $36.7 million, compared with $37.4 million a year earlier. 
Mr. Stallman argues that "copyright is incompatible with the natural way of using a computer network. 
WOODBURY, N.Y. -- A partnership comprised of subsidiaries of Cablevision Systems Corp. and E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm, completed the $90 million purchase of three Boston area cable-television systems. 
In the House, Majority Leader Gephardt is discussing a phased-in approach to the employer mandate giving firms more time to adjust. 
The following were among yesterday's offerings and pricings in U.S. and non-U.S. capital markets, with terms and syndicate manager, as compiled by Dow Jones Capital Markets Report:  Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. -- $75 million of notes due July 15, 2009, priced at par to yield 8.325%, according to MCM CorporateWatch. 
Any permanent break of the intervention limit would represent a broken promise on the part of the government to reduce inflation and support the currency. 
Though unimposing looking and given to whimsical outbursts of laughter, Illias is greatly feared by other shamans. 
Then there's the business of high-pressure salesmen in the U.S. with their paynow/die -- later prearranged funeral plans. 
Volume was damped as investors awaited action from the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which started late in the trading session yesterday. 
Then the teacher gave a collective grade to the table as a whole. 
After spending $30,000 on Stanford tuition, Mr. Robinson was hired by Rupert Murdoch and promptly laid off when recession hit Mr. Murdoch's News Corp. 
He suggests that politicians such as Bill Bennett should distance themselves from religious conservatives. 
The characters are composites, the roommates he describes were not his real roommates, professors are described in classroom settings as if the author were present when in fact he wasn't. 
Following the news, the stock advanced 1 1/8 to close at 11 1/4. 
The Finance Committee's bill is one of two health-reform measures approved by Senate committees. 
But it asserted that Mr. Clinton did nothing wrong. 
Fed economists Sean Collins and Phillip Mack used data on more than 200 money-market funds to examine the effects of the regulatory changes on the funds. 
The ruling appears to be the first time a government body acknowledged such a link, lawyers in the case said. 
Greyhound's latest plan for change comes less than three years after it emerged from bankruptcy-law protection, which the company was forced to seek in 1990 because of a devastating strike by drivers. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Regency Realty Corp., a real-estate developer, bought three Florida shopping centers for $23.1 million. 
He thinks revenue fell about 7.8% to $3.6 billion from $3.91 billion. 
JEDI is a Houston-based joint venture of Enron Corp. and the California Public Employees Retirement System. 
Mr. Ross-Munro wrote to Mr. Seow's Singapore lawyer:  "After all, as an officer of the court you owe a duty not to knowingly put a false case before the court, and if your client refuses to give you proper instructions or in any way challenge the serious prima facie case of deceiving the court, then you are entitled to ask the court to come off the record." 
"We don't see an economic peak here, and we're not looking for a slowdown," said Mr. Henderson. 
About 50% to 60% of peanut crops are insured, a group spokesman said. 
The study was carried out by mailing more than 6,200 letters between 13 large cities in EU countries, plus Switzerland. 
A smoker has therefore determined that the benefits of lighting up are greater than the costs imposed on the children. 
All of this suggests that opponents of caning could make a strong case that it was barred by the Eighth Amendment. 
Analysts said the tame inflation report lowered the chances of an imminent interest-rate increase that could help boost the currency. 
In addition, Charles W. Battey, K N Energy's chairman and chief executive officer, became chairman of the combined companies. 
Mr. Pesatori said that Digital's computer systems sales are 35% indirect now and he expects that to grow to 50% next year. 
The royalty agreement reached in 1987 settled the lawsuit. 
Conversely, many others consider him now to be too religious. 
"Defendants have fixated on plaintiffs' personal lives and have relentlessly sought information concerning plaintiffs' activities and personal relationships . 
First Bancorp. of Ohio fell 1/2 to 24 1/4 following release of second-quarter earnings. 
Lesser-known discounters may find their best growth opportunities among small employers or tiny health plans ignored by industry giants, Ms. Bird says. 
So why not give everyone a chance? 
Clearly, something has eroded away over time: The supreme confidence -- or hubris -- that characterized earlier eras of science. 
Now, bids will be called or pacts renegotiated, mostly when existing contracts expire, usually by the end of 1995. 
Mr. Guarino has been in the business almost as long. 
"It was something we were going to do when we closed the books on the second quarter." 
Volume was 567.4 million shares, compared with 506.2 million shares a day earlier. 
Mr. Eisner's surgery comes as Disney is under pressure. 
His best guess is that stocks will find the going "difficult near-term, improving later on in the year." 
Nothing from Justice's crack Office of Legal Counsel. 
Digicon these days is focusing much of its offshore seismic business on the Gulf of Mexico, an exploration hot spot. 
Garbage-haulers have enjoyed something of a winning streak in this area. 
That has made luxury hotel rooms -- which cost more than $100 per night -- a more attractive value, says Scott Berman, director of Coopers & Lybrand's hospitality industry consulting group. 
There are some exceptions. 
Other kids' movies coming up: "The Little Rascals," "Lassie" and "Black Beauty." 
You now can watch a Senate candidate such as Virginia's Oliver North complain in succession, as he did recently on "Larry King Live," that Congress is spending too much, that tax increases are bad and that the Clinton administration isn't spending nearly enough on defense. 
Continued rapid growth seems assured in the second half, but there are signs that the rate of growth will abate. 
A year earlier, the company had second-quarter net of $26.8 million, or 56 cents a share. 
Both Hambrecht & Quist and Alex. Brown & Sons Inc. reduced their recommendations on Zoll, citing the results. 
Never mind that all seven Baby Bells are pushing to enter the long-distance and equipment markets. 
It has few big industries, and the major employers are local governmental entities, grocery chains and hospitals, even though about half of hospital beds are usually empty when winter tourists aren't here. 
He succeeds in shortening the purely macroeconomic discussions to devote more time to each nation's domestic problems. 
Newsbox makers praise the looks of the Delman Access News Dispenser -- which hasn't gone beyond the mock-up stage -- but reserve comment on its functionality. 
Fees 1.875. 
So it's not particularly surprising that Mr. Carter would so quickly inject himself into the painful and difficult transition under way in Nicaragua. 
Other forward-looking indicators should be used to confirm the meaning of the signal sent by the declining price of gold. 
IMMUNOMEDICS Inc. (Morris Plains, N.J.) -- Marvin E. Jaffe, 57 years old, was elected a director of this biopharmaceutical company, increasing the board to eight members. 
Citizens of U.S. allies, which include the European Union members, Canada and Australia, should be allowed to buy 100% stakes in U.S. telecom companies. 
Fearing the prying of journalists, he keeps their identities secret. 
Bonds yield 3.25%. 
With more generous subsidies, more of the uninsured are expected to take the bait. 
By the end of the first quarter, following the lifting of short-term interest rates by the Federal Reserve, the numbers had improved to 34 sectors buying, 28 selling and seven neutral. 
OTTAWA -- Canadian manufacturers recorded a further gain in shipments in May, but their new orders declined, Statistics Canada, a government agency, said. 
There are other features in the administration bill that would virtually guarantee added costs and delays. 
Once highfliers, the stocks have been plunging since December, when the market cooled toward China's state-owned companies and other so-called China plays. 
That has the advantage of sounding like chevre, the French term for goat cheese, which years ago found its way onto gourmet menus. 
Indeed, if history is any guide, the tech sector could lead the overall small-cap market out of its corrective phase, he adds. 
"I never expected it to become that tremendous," he says. 
It was the second such reduction in the rate in less than a week. 
I wanted to give him a hug to thank him; I wanted to warn him about other pterodactyls that might be overhead, I wanted to walk beside him, enjoying our newfound comradeship in this digital Garden of Eden. 
Mr. Nichol, who has promoted private-label goods on television and at conferences with almost evangelical zeal, quit as a Loblaw executive at the end of last year after 20 years with the company. 
I'm not a member of the Christian Coalition, have never given money to Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, and voted for Jim Miller at the Virginia Republican Convention (though I will support Oliver North in November). 
Geoffrey Hazard Jr., a legal-ethics specialist at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, praised the court for recognizing the pressures in-house attorneys may face to go along with a client's misconduct. 
Intel added 63/64 to 60 7/64 and Applied Materials gained 1 3/8 to 47 1/2, both on the Nasdaq, and Advanced Micro Devices climbed 1/4 to 27 on the Big Board. 
Federal Signal's new orders increased 24% in the latest quarter, led by growth in its Emergency-1 Ambulance division, where orders grew 50%. 
Soaring tuitions are a factor, but so is the uncertain economy. 
But since the music is heard only in brief spurts, the effect is somewhat like having a chamber-music combo on television play 20 seconds here and there from one of the late Beethoven quartets. 
Principal on notes may be amortized from July 28, 1997, based on three-month dollar London Interbank Offered Rate. 
With car makers choking from recession, tire makers waging price wars and exports hurt by the strong mark, Conti's profit fell a whopping 51% last year. 
GUARANTY NATIONAL Corp. (Englewood, Colo.) -- Tucker Hart Adams and M. Ann Padilla were elected directors of this insurer, expanding its board to 10 members. 
"It's a right-handed world." 
Law-enforcement officials say a bogus company usually has prospects talk with "shills," who give glowing -- and usually false -- testimony about their own success. 
General Magic, based in Mountain View, Calif., is a software concern partly held by some of the world's largest communications companies, including Motorola. 
The announcement prompted Standard & Poor's Ratings Group to revise its longterm outlook on the two companies to "positive" from "stable," noting no debt is involved. 
Officials are having a difficult time convincing foreign investors and currency-market players that betting on the dollar is not a losing proposition. 
He predicts that competing cut-rate juggling kits will start popping up in discount stores as early as this fall. 
-- Wolverine Tube Inc. said it has agreed to acquire Small Tube Products Co. of Altoona, Pa., for $51 million in cash and 400,000 shares of Wolverine common stock. 
For the six months, Hilton reported net of $56.6 million, or $1.17 a share, a 6% rise from earnings of $53.3 million, or $1.11 a share, a year earlier. 
There were a few people whose chins dropped, and they didn't know what to say," she said. 
But what is most troubling is what has followed these outbursts. 
Union Pacific wanted to install radio transponders along the tracks, while Burlington Northern Inc. has preferred using the military's satellite-tracking system. 
LOS ANGELES COUNTY NORTH VALLEY BUILDING CORP., will redeem its leasehold mortgage bonds on Aug. 1, 1994. 
When Brazil loses, terrible things can happen: On the day Italy eliminated Brazil in 1982, Jornal do Brasil reported one suicide, two deaths by heart attack and dozens of nervous disorders. 
Kids are eating up "Angels in the Outfield." 
In Nasdaq Stock Market trading Friday, Cellcor closed at $2.063 a share, up 12.5 cents, or 6.5%. 
Mr. Seow now makes the additional claim that the Singapore government detained him in 1988 on "spurious charges that I was involved in a dark conspiracy with the U.S. government to enter Singaporean politics." 
WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party, sensing the chance for big gains in this fall's elections, will mount a drive to raise 25% more money than planned this year so that it can contribute to a growing list of candidates with chances to win. 
Bakersfield Energy, based in Bakersfield, Calif., will remain the operator of the properties and the gas-processing plant. 
NEW YORK -- After a romance of several years and a bruising nearly six-month battle with QVC Inc., Viacom Inc. gained full ownership of Paramount Communications Inc. yesterday. 
Her first book, "The Imposter," a novel published in 1979, left the critics unimpressed. 
The Japanese market is up sharply this year. 
June was also the first full month of bookings since Southwest flights were delisted by several large computer reservation systems. 
The 30-day simple yield increased to 3.68% from 3.64%, while the 30-day compound yield rose to 3.75% from 3.71%. 
Despite the trading problem and difficult markets, however, Kidder officials say the firm's European bond operations will be profitable for the second quarter. 
Speculation that the retailer would use some of its estimated #1.7 billion ($2.66 billion) cash reserves to reward shareholders by making one of the moves had put a premium of 30 pence (47 cents) to 40 pence on the company's share price since last Friday, analysts say. 
Brother reported pretax profit of 2.43 billion yen for the six months ended May 20, up from 482 million yen a year earlier, on sales of 72.23 billion yen, up from 70.17 billion yen a year earlier. 
"A lot of people rolled over losing positions into the second quarter, which is a polite way of saying they first took a loss, and then took new positions still believing in what they thought would happen in the first quarter," says Ms. Voute. 
But William Gray stressed that the military option remains a viable option. 
"It's a horrible day," one Frankfurt trader said, adding that the market went entirely against his expectations. 
"The fact that the fern can overcome a chemical threat means it could have its own chemical arsenal," Dr. King says. 
The issue will be sold through underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs & Co.  Household Finance Corp. -- $250 million of notes due Aug. 1, 2004, priced as 8s at 99.832 to yield 8.024%, according to MCM CorporateWatch. 
Philip Morris's second-quarter net rose 18% on strong cigarette sales at home and abroad, but its stock fell. 
"Unamerican Activities" is an earnest attempt to make sense of a schizophrenic life. 
It took lots of steel, copper wire and pipe, cement and the like to construct the roads, buildings and factories of an industrialized society. 
Four Baby Bells launched their legal fight to eliminate the consent decree that controls their operations. 
A survey in January found that 64% of the organization's 170,000 members rated lumber prices and availability as their biggest problem. 
Moreover, Mr. Metz contends, money is beginning to flow out of the market as short-term interest rates inch upward. 
That's a sharp contrast with last year, when more than a dozen states considered sweeping health reform proposals. 
Such a strategy carries with it enormous political risk. 
In addition, Mr. Fiske documented Mr. Foster's despondent state and said it couldn't be attributed to the Whitewater affair. 
Moody's has rated the issue MIG-1, and S&P has assigned an SP-1-Plus rating. 
The National Basketball Association scored a victory over its players when a federal judge in New York declared that continued use of a college draft and a revenue-sharing system that imposes a salary cap doesn't violate antitrust laws. 
And in Japan, several big companies and universities are joining a new Ministry of International Trade and Industry plan to pour some $30 million over the next four years into "new hydrogen energy," its euphemism for cold fusion. 
But some medical specialists who treat RSI patients have serious doubts about such assessments. 
It's a variation on the trick he pulled off in "Big," where he played a young boy who finds himself inside an adult body. 
We were making good time until I was suddenly jolted by a wave of altitude sickness: nausea, dizziness and ringing in my ears. 
In fact, Advanced Micro executives predicted a temporary revenue decline in its 486 business during the third quarter due to falling prices. 
"If the jury goes out there, they're going to see all those nice houses. 
To that end, the Partnership has created more than 400 antidrug ads that have aired nationwide; if you have a television, you've probably seen one. 
This would amount to nothing less than an attack on Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage and the division of labor. 
But he feels heavy traffic to and from the park, and a collateral sprawl of motels, strip malls and restaurants, will cause "the degradation of this historic landscape into a minor-league Orlando or Anaheim." 
Times Mirror found 42% of Americans listen frequently to talk radio, and one in six listens regularly. 
The Teamsters' motive "is to get Merrill Lynch involved in a labor dispute that it has no business being in," said James Wiggins, a spokesman for Merrill Lynch. 
The White House also will enlist lawmakers to stump for Clinton's plan. 
It's tremendously significant. 
As they tried to understand the publishing business, Viacom senior managers would call division heads at Simon & Schuster and ask about, say, a particular budget item. 
Fidelity will receive another seven million to nine million Federated shares for its $522 million holding of Macy bank debt. 
He looks at companies as if he were buying the entire business, not just their stock. 
You could have an overlay at the bottom of the screen that asks if a consumer wants more information. 
Fitch Investors Inc. already has a volatility-rating scale for use in the mortgage-backed market, which hasn't caught on. 
The company said it would continue tests involving the use of Antril as a potential treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, but acknowledged that developing it would involve long-term research and testing. 
Mr. North, with his bulging negative ratings in the polls, is seen by many as the one Republican Mr. Robb might be able to beat. 
Germans fear the disease could be transmitted to humans who eat infected meat. 
Under a complex formula, the number of shares that Tyco will give Kendall sharesholders is subject to adjustment based on Tyco's stock price when the deal closes. 
But from 1993 through March 31 of this year, ADM gave $206,500 to the Democrats and only $47,500 to the Republicans. 
The presidents of the regional Fed banks are picked by their local private-sector boards of directors, subject to approval of the Fed governors in Washington. 
Analysts estimate Boise Cascade's second-quarter loss at around 97 cents a share, compared with 85 cents a year earlier, according to the First Call research service. 
Marriage counselors who advise dual-career couples say our communications gulf wasn't unusual -- and neither are the hurdles it can place in the path of a marriage and couples' careers. 
Perhaps he expects to do some running when he gets home, and is saving his breath. 
"It comes from eating overcooked Brussels sprouts for two years," he explains. 
That logic will strengthen some companies and weaken others. 
In addition to its stake in FoxMeyer, National Intergroup owns 67.2% of Ben Franklin Retail Stores Inc., a publicly held franchiser and operator of variety and crafts stores based in Carol Stream, Ill. 
EAI has a management contract with Tesseract and counts the school employees as its own. 
The survey also found seed money and start-up financing increased, indicating venture capitalists were willing to take greater risks on unproven ideas rather than sticking to the more conservative route of financing expansion. 
This may be the Invisible Hand that despite the inadequacies of public policy saves us from extreme and persistent errors that can have terrible consequences. 
"Success Runs In Our Race" is being marketed heavily to black media outlets, and Morrow is sponsoring a 20-city book tour. 
Indeed, the median cost for a life-year saved by programs to avert cancer deaths is about $750,000, the study found. 
On the New York Stock Exchange, Standard Commercial, Wilson, N.C., declined 3/4 to 14 5/8, and Farmville, N.C.-based Monk-Austin retreated 1/8 to 12 3/8. 
It's not their fault, she argues, that white males find themselves cast as "winner-killer" combatants in a struggle for power and position. 
But long and irregular hours come at a price. 
The SEC had alleged that Mr. Greenberg made illegal trading profits of more than $500,000 on information he received from Mr. Downe about a possible restructuring at Kidde Inc. 
Sens. Kassebaum of Kansas and Kerrey of Nebraska try to stall a proposed increase in Job Corps spending, citing an old Labor Department inspector-general report that says most grads receive low-level jobs without needing the program. 
TRITON GROUP Ltd. (San Diego) -- Michael M. Earley, senior vice president and chief financial officer, was elected president and chief operating officer of this diversified holding company. 
He itches to get rid of his party state chairman, Patrick McSweeney. 
No." Peter Ide skips out of his job with the Japanese government to snag a last-minute ticket. 
But Mr. Neely is more provocative in looking at solutions. 
Mr. Yeltsin is indeed trying to democratize Russian politics and privatize the Russian economy, guiding it along lines for which the Western democracies are models. 
We don't have the money for that." 
A U.S. Figure Skating Association panel also banned her from the association for life, citing her conduct in connection with an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. 
Ms. Evans doesn't disagree. 
Bonds convertible into ordinary company shares at indicated premium 10% to 15% above three-day average closing share price. 
Simpson's estate as evidence he should stand trial for the murder of his ex-wife and a friend. 
The fund-mispricing issue has also attracted attention from Congress. 
He has threatened -- with a grin -- to break employees' kneecaps if they didn't follow his orders. 
Northrop already builds the main fuselage sections for Boeing's 747 jumbo jet, but Boeing has contemplated doing that work itself later on if the big plane is redesigned. 
Already, demand exceeds the supply. 
The political change that began when the PAN took over has won plenty of praise. 
Sales are accelerating, Mr. Bye says, and earnings could grow at a 15% to 20% rate "in the next couple of quarters." 
Prior to that, Deutsche Bank had started to get concerned about the extent of its exposure to Schneider, but only because of the size of its exposure, not because of suspicions of possible fraud. 
A one-time blip in air fares may have accounted for part of the transportation increase, said Allen Sinai, chief economist at Boston Co., and higher prices on domestic cars may have been sustained as the weakness of the dollar pushed up prices of imports. 
Lying, too, can be excused, even justified. 
Espionage suspicions emerged about nine months ago; at that time, local authorities began observing Theodor B.'s actions. 
"There's even a slogan that says: Eat More Fish and You'll Get Clever Like the Japanese," chuckles a flattered Mr. Etoh. 
But, based on the usual difference of nearly three percentage points that exists between the core rate of inflation and short-term interest rates, fed funds should be 5.7%, he asserts. 
Since then, worries about how long Pepsi will take to get back on track have kept the stock bouncing along its bottom. 
In other words, girls, don't worry your pretty little heads about boys' work. 
Airport officials suspect ValuJet's fare structure, which rewards people for flying Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, is contributing to the midweek crunch. 
"It allows people to see it two years ahead of schedule." 
Last year, the Houston district made more loans to black business owners than any other SBA office. 
The $500 million project, which also includes the construction of an international airport, will be situated on undeveloped Snake Island. 
Almost everything was lost. 
Also pulling up the rear were global bond funds, down 2.12%; convertible bond funds, down 1.99%; and longer-term U.S. government funds, down 1.86%. 
The decree, including a provision to prevent the proliferation of products that can be used to produce chemical weapons, was signed by President Boris Yeltsin on Sept. 16, 1992 -- the very day our story was published and the day I gave interviews to Izvestia and the Baltimore Sun. 
A Continental spokesman noted that the company recently announced a restructuring plan involving layoffs, additional reinsurance coverage and other steps to improve profitability and financial strength. 
And they keep players locked into a form of indentured servitude where the vast majority don't have any control over their future. 
Nasdaq volume was 281.7 million shares. 
Treasurys were further pressured by renewed selling of the dollar in currency markets. 
After all, a trainer can always be replaced. 
All you have to do is boot up your computer, rev up that high-speed modem and start cruising down the information superhighway, looking for fellow travelers. 
He markets their product to big companies and law firms at set prices rather than hourly rates. 
He collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on his book "The Way Things Ought to Be." 
But the discovery has set off alarms, as it could be a sample from a larger quantity for prospective purchasers. 
Thus, some federal district and appeals court judges who took office prior to 1983 argued they shouldn't have to pay Social Security taxes. 
But since last year, Chinese banks have curbed lending aggressively. 
The new picture will focus that effort. 
Texas is just now emerging from yet another financial panic and economic collapse. 
He has served as a nonexecutive director at Lonrho. 
The changes come as traditional pricing and promotion strategies are being challenged and as private label cereals continue to gain popularity. 
Perched in a seat behind home plate at Fenway Park, the filmmaker expounds: "Baseball is like life -- bad things happen. 
In a news release, Bernard Fox, Northeast's president and chief executive officer, said that the company is "disappointed" by the fine. 
It's a serious problem." 
At BankAmerica, it's believed that the latest infusions were made this week. 
Brazil's debt, meanwhile, staged a powerful rally early in the day, with many of its government bonds up as much as a point. 
Here are some examples:  -- In Oregon, first-term Rep. Elizabeth Furse was rated a likely loser; the Democrat won with only 52% of the vote in 1992 and was considered more liberal than her district, which consists of Portland and its suburbs. 
The gold-free lowers were returned; the uppers remain at large. 
And, she adds, on a slyly thoughtful note, "bone structure has a lot to do with it." 
Meanwhile, sales of private-label charcoal declined 22.6%, while sales of private-label microwave popcorn dropped 15.6%. 
But for his and the other craft still afloat in the Imperial & Royal Privileged Danube Steam Navigation Co., much of their former glory -- and some of that grandiose name -- have been jettisoned. 
I am sorry for the old buildings, the old trees." 
She has been married four times, most recently to a 31-year-old Russian emigre, and splits her time between a rustic cabin in Icicle Canyon and an aging tugboat on Seattle's Lake Union. 
An official left open the possibility that another downturn by the Tokyo stock market could again delay the auction. 
Although longer-term players have grounds for bullishness, this week's events are more likely to hurt the dollar than to help it, traders and analysts say. 
It also has signed letters of intent or other agreements with school districts in Texas, Colorado and Michigan to run a total of six more schools in 1995. 
"It's a very different product and shouldn't be mistaken or confused with the basic Tampax franchise." 
Japan, he said, will "work to build the necessary minimum defense capability." 
"A little disappointment" was the stock market's reaction to the decision, said Bruce Jones, an analyst at Smith New Court Securities Ltd. 
ReSound, a Redwood City, Calif., maker of hearing aids, said it isn't aware of any effort to acquire the company. 
Judge Joyce Hens Green accepted the deal at Friday's hearing, which is not surprising since it's rare for a judge to overrule a plea bargain. 
The loss of the assets has prompted two investors in the NFA World Coin Fund partnership to file a lawsuit charging Merrill and others with fraud, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. 
Their reaction, he says, has been "mixed." 
In a losing effort to fund this antique economy, the Belarus government has been churning out cash and credit at a rate engendering inflation of 40% per month. 
The figures are seasonally adjusted. 
The government is to release on Friday a key reading on last month's employment. 
For one thing, there could be some early impact from the so-called motor voter bill, which President Clinton pushed through Congress last year in hopes of pushing up voter participation. 
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. -- Goulds Pump Inc. said it signed a letter of intent to acquire Pumpenfabrik Ernst Vogel GmbH, a pump manufacturer in Austria. 
Once penny-ante schemes that preyed on the uneducated now prey on a growing number of early retirees and laid-off workers seeking new careers. 
Nearly every week, Robert's father visits Sino Land's offices from Singapore. 
In a stunning strike that busted up the proposed merger of CBS Inc. and QVC Inc., cable giant Comcast Corp. announced an offer of $44 a share, or $2.2 billion, in cash and securities for the approximately 85% of QVC shares it doesn't already own. 
The main lobby for invasion is Strobe Talbott at State, the National Security Council and political aides at the White House, who believe it would help the President show resolution. 
Mr. Costley couldn't be reached for comment. 
The plan will be open to comments from the public for 90 days before the department decides on adopting it in final form. 
Sophisticated societies, religions, and whole nations were destroyed in a misguided attempt to convert them to allegedly superior ways. 
Small businesses busy expanding at home seldom can spare the resources to devise exporting strategies, says Andrea Larson, an assistant business professor at the University of Virginia. 
Drug money? 
The losers among cable programmers have been Arts & Entertainment, MTV, Discovery and ESPN, high-quality (or highly rated) basic cable nets that are harder for cable operators to squeeze under their price caps. 
Few credible economists think that President Rafael Caldera's interventionist policies will do anything more than further erode confidence in the battered economy. 
TV and radio weather forecasters urge people to curb activities that can increase ozone, like mowing the lawn, using oil-based paints, lighting a backyard barbecue or filling a car gas tank. 
Honda said its additional investment in North American production and other facilities will amount to $310 million. 
Kellogg Co. said Gary E. Costley, head of the company's flagship North American ready-to-eat cereal business, had resigned as part of a management shuffle after 24 years at the Battle Creek, Mich., concern. 
Hong Kong stocks rallied on progress on issues for handing China sovereignty over the British colony. 
There are three distinct working groups studying different aspects of global telecommunications. 
It turns out that not everyone in Congress wants to let this taxpayer-supported nonsense run forever. 
"The way they looked and acted wasn't polished enough," he says. 
A surge in technology issues and economically sensitive stocks helped underpin the market's recovery late in the session. 
The department has a clear responsibility to clean up after itself, to reduce its current impact on the environment, to prevent pollution in the future, and to reduce the cost of doing all three of these things. 
A detailed analysis shows that all major inflations and deflations, under every U.S. monetary standard, have involved credit. 
Sacrifice. 
Approximately 70% of the project will be financed with debt and the remainder with equity, Tanayong said. 
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports Inc. said sales for the five weeks ended Saturday slipped 1.7% to $65.6 million from $66.8 million, with sales flat in stores open a year or more. 
The three partners and four associates, led by Richard Weidman, represent several European and Japanese banks, trading companies and U.S. investment banks. 
But the company's new management team recently told Wall Street analysts that it is eager to expand Miller's international scope. 
"European firms have to be allowed to cooperate, because when we're on the global stage, we're often going up against companies that are giants compared to us." 
"We drive ourselves crazy and we drive our parents crazy" trying to make ends meet. 
Media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle is seeking at least $50 million to replenish the operating funds of the Edison Project, a for-profit venture that plans to run innovative public schools. 
"We commend your attention to a0641, AM-Clinton-Whitewater," read an Associated Press advisory to editors yesterday afternoon, "which quotes a top banking regulator as saying President Clinton asked him last New Year's Weekend to provide `advice and counsel' on Whitewater issues." 
If it happens once a month, I'm concerned. 
Not only have the chemical weapons authorities attempted to deceive the U.S., but they have tried to deceive Russia's elected political leaders as well. 
"Clinton's turning this into an unemployment conference begs the question of why he and the G-7 aren't concerned with the dollar," said Amy Smith, senior currency strategist at I.D.E.A., a New York financial-research firm. 
A disappointing outlook pulled shares of Krystal 1 7/8 lower to 9 1/8, a 52-week low. 
Washington hoped to speed South Korea's official reform plans, making it easier for U.S. companies -- and other outsiders -- to do business there. 
The Treasury's 10-year note, a benchmark for current coupon mortgages, rose 1 1/8. 
But the extra money invested in South Pointe through the private contributions calls into question whether even such results as these can be replicated with average public-school spending. 
The treaty, both sides agree, permits the signatories to continue chemical weapons research. 
Were there more visitors? 
In Madrid, stocks rose, boosted by bottom-fishing as banks bought blue chips; a stronger dollar in afternoon and late dealings supported the bourse's upward trend and growing bullish sentiment. 
Thanks to its pre-eminence in stock and bond underwriting, Merrill Lynch, the nation's largest brokerage firm, continued to dominate the underwriting landscape, becoming the top-ranked underwriter of U.S. stocks and bonds for the 26th consecutive quarter. 
Durum and spring wheat production is expected to jump in Northern Plains states, which should help curtail demand among U.S. millers for similar Canadian varieties. 
The small company also has faced ethical temptations. 
Each Lowell applicant's grade-point average and standardized test results are combined to produce a single score on a 69-point scale. 
Ford said the reorganization includes creation of a new-markets development office "charged with pursuing a growth strategy." 
Gone is $580 million of future research funds (separate from the university grants mentioned above) for the C-17 cargo transport plane; gone is $490 million in research funds for ballistic missile defense; gone is $100 million for advanced versions of the F/A-18, the Navy's frontline fighter/attack plane. 
-- Exports from North America are expected by 1999 to rise to more than 150,000 vehicles annually, including vehicle kits that would be assembled elsewhere. 
The Klepetars are Jewish. 
Domestic wholesale prices in May fell 0.1% from April and declined 1.9% from a year earlier. 
Robert Growney, president of Motorola's messaging, information and media sector, said the company hopes to expand the network in order to generate demand for new products, such as the company's Envoy hand-held communicator, scheduled to be shipped later this year. 
The council will favor overseas firms that can provide high technology and help enterprises export. 
-- Moving the employee's desk away from high-traffic areas, such as the copy machine. 
He was hired three years later by Mercedes. 
The FCC knows this. 
The board also affirmed panel findings following a contested hearing that Christopher Dickerson Hodges, Sarasota, Fla., a former broker, engaged in sales-practice misconduct in five customer accounts. 
"It's just almost too much. 
Service Corp.'s president and chief operating officer, L. William Heiligbrodt, defended the bid as "extremely fair," saying it represented a 26% premium over Great Southern's market value just before the offer was made. 
With the exception of Series 1994-B bonds due in 2012, the overall offering is insured by the Municipal Bond Investors Assurance Corp. and carries triple-A ratings from Moody's and S&P. 
Besides, Harry doesn't have to be as suave and sexy as Bond. 
HSN couldn't produce it for him, so he went to National Media for an infomercial. 
A pro-abortion-rights moderate and scrappy campaigner, he wasted no time spotlighting his rival's more controversial stands. 
And at some point (unless you are a massively capitalized company), you put the dollars into either research or patent protection. 
"This is a serious product dealing with a serious issue," says Mary Ann Leeper, president and chief executive of the Wisconsin Pharmacal's division introducing the condom. 
Early in the Republic's history, the Panic of 1837 plunged the U.S. and Texas into a depression, threatening homes and farms. 
While Federated, based in Cincinnati, appears to be gaining ground in its plan to merge with Macy, people close to Macy cautioned that major obstacles still exist. 
We salivate." 
He added that Pelikan has a "very strong" presence in the U.S. retail market, where Nu-Kote lacks some distribution channels. 
Citicorp dropped 1 1/4 to 40 3/4 even though it posted second-quarter earnings of $1.83 a share, compared with 88 cents a share a year earlier. 
"It looked like a homeroom for first graders where the teacher had been gone for too long." 
That was enough. 
The IRS could disallow all or part of such payments as child support. 
Investing in manufacturing and health-care companies fell, too. 
"It makes me sad to think that some people's souls are too dead to appreciate that." 
Of course, not all the civil service problems can be blamed on Mr. Carter. 
Another possible pitfall involves liability for errors. 
"We have just basically suspended our investment relationship with Merrill Lynch because there are some serious questions that have been raised in other states about Merrill's market behavior," said Patrick Quinn, the treasurer. 
It's always bad news, especially for young people, when a famous athlete runs afoul of drugs. 
TUCSON, Ariz. 
He said that results were also hurt by higher marketing expenses, a $1 million charge related to the bankruptcy of a German distributor, and charges for litigation expenses, bad debts and a settlement with an Australian distributor. 
In the second quarter, the winners were mostly funds that invest overseas, or in financial services, banking and real estate. 
Conservatives, on the other hand -- from small business owners to Christian evangelicals -- are united in their belief that the government should be smaller and its influence limited. 
In Havana, the deprivations seem more acute -- perhaps because one can still see how beautiful Havana once was, from the post-colonial townhouses of Old Havana to the deco-style mansions of Miramar and Vedado. 
It was to weigh only eight pounds and measure only 18 inches long without its bit, yet have enough battery power to drill through 10 feet of the hardest rock on Earth. 
Says Steve Janachowski, a partner with investment advisers Brouwer & Janachowski Inc. in San Francisco: "Emerging markets are going to be where a significant amount of growth is going to happen in the next decade." 
ST. 
His repudiation of judicial review came sharply on the heels of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, which invalidated racial segregation in public schools as a violation of the equal-protection clause. 
(George Washington was displeased with Congress's lenience in limiting the number of lashes that could be imposed on army miscreants.) 
At FourGen Software Inc., a Seattle maker of financial and order-processing software for corporate customers, capital spending is expected to rise 25% this year, to $500,000, says Gary Gagliardi, a cofounder and president. 
"If you're fighting as much with silicon as with bullets, the traditional defense industrial base looks a lot less relevant." 
"Since this is an election year, Congress is more concerned about rising interest rates and how they could impact the economy than the weak dollar or nonexistent inflation," said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist for Norwest Corp. in Minneapolis. 
Then there is the question of Mr. Fay's appeal. 
"Now there's an AIDS hospice and the neighborhood is full of renters." 
Indeed, the staff demand for the growing number of church-affiliated clinics is so great that many traditional seminaries have set up programs integrating standard courses in pastoral care with a strong mental-health curriculum. 
That telegraphs his take on the information age. 
In Tallahassee, the state capital, its 26 paid lobbyists push for tight new restrictions on the tax exemptions of not-for-profit hospitals, which are its primary competitors and acquisition targets. 
Intel is trying to encourage the personal computer market to move to its flagship Pentium line, in order to maintain its control over the PC market. 
But in the U.S., the biggest and most profitable drug market, Sanofi has been cautious, even timid. 
Insiders are signaling we may be near a bottom here, but the timing of any move off that bottom is very difficult to determine from insider action." 
OTTAWA -- Country Music Television said it intends to appeal a Canadian regulatory agency's order that Canadian cable television companies drop the country music video channel to make way for a similar Canadian station. 
MINOR MEMOS: Ohio GOP Chairman Robert Bennett says some state-party donators have threatened to stop giving because they think he is Clinton's Washington lawyer Bob Bennett. 
"In South Carolina," he says, "we've been meeting with black pastors who have been active in the Democratic Party." 
In August 1993, Transmation hired investment banker Advest Inc. to "explore financial opportunities . 
In Basel, Switzerland, Sandoz Chief Financial Officer Raymond Breu, said strategic considerations rather than accounting-rule changes prompted the company's decision to acquire Gerber. 
BellSouth Corp., a one-time partner of QVC Inc. in its failed offer to buy Paramount Communications Inc., has expressed interest in a possible bid for the home-shopping giant, according to people familiar with the development. 
The experiment is significant, because P&G, which spends $3 billion a year on advertising, is among the most conservative and traditional of advertisers. 
Soldiers may use a continually updated electronic display of the whereabouts of friend and foe. 
"The company is very tied into the economic fortunes of Mexico that aren't that great right now," says Mr. Martins. 
The SEC is negotiating with six of the nation's biggest securities firms in a bid to set voluntary standards for the selling and trading of derivatives. 
Both companies are in Toronto. 
Wetlands are technically defined as swamps, bogs, marshes or "similar areas." 
However, many analysts believe coffee could continue to retrench to the $2.13 level before rebounding. 
A lot of people don't understand that the true value of Apollo was the same as the value of NASA -- pushing out the frontiers in basic research. 
I thought they had a fail-safe system." 
In a 1993 book on health and safety regulation, Judge Breyer forcefully argued that misplaced public pressure and bureaucratic "tunnel vision" have badly skewed priorities. 
NO MOB TIES: Probe clears Teamsters International President Ron Carey. 
For the year, Seagate said it earned $225 million, or $3.08 a share, on revenue of $3.5 billion. 
"There will be more and more regulations for the controlled distribution of specialized products." 
From then on, she only wrote "sub-`Treasure Island' and Dickens." 
But there are other reasons, too. 
Ford ultimately hopes to sell as many as 800,000 of the Mondeo-based sedans a year. 
It also pledged to let McCaw customers pick any long-distance carrier to handle long-distance calls made on their cellular phones. 
Experts said the purchase from the Canadian company signaled a safety-first approach by the carrier. 
Many homes are getting pretty old, with 70% older than 15 years. 
What's more, both partners believe they are entitled to some compensation, Dr. Medway says. 
It covers nearly 2,000 former workers and retirees. 
Based on data from Lipper Analytical Services Inc., the report follows the sequence and organization of the Journal's weekly closed-end table that appears on Mondays. 
Last April 15, IRS Commissioner Margaret Richardson tried a novel approach to encourage last-minute filers by appearing on TV right after a Tostitos tortilla-chips commercial spoofing tax audits. 
"If the guidelines signal that the enforcement of this law is going to focus on whether I use the right words or not, that's not good. 
The woman involved in this case had been diagnosed with cancer and failed to respond to conventional therapy. 
You couldn't get close to him." 
The companies said the transaction will result in a pretax gain of about $50 million for Portland, Ore.-based U.S. Bancorp, to be recognized in this year's third quarter. 
"We went for the whole loaf on this and finally got it." 
"Without that right, one isn't a company chairman." 
But suppose the money were parked in a variable annuity. 
That accident, the worst in Chinese aviation history, came just two days after the CAAC vowed to step up a campaign to boost air safety following dozens of near-accidents earlier in the year. 
Three-month Treasury bills are expected to average 4.7% in 1995, compared with the 3.8% average forecast in February. 
While Mr. Johnson calls the ICC "filing clerks," he also hopes the agency sticks around. 
In an interview, Mr. Schipke said Sunbeam-Oster is benefiting from a significant increase in its capital spending. 
MOSCOW -- The cramped main computer room of Russia's state agency for measuring the economy, Goskomstat, is filled with the clatter of machines generating some of the world's gloomiest, and most misleading, statistics. 
Don't look for GE simply to sit tight and absorb the losses, Mr. Hayes and other Wall Street specialists say. 
Not only was he warned about expulsion, he says, but was told his family could be evicted and lose their institute jobs. 
Unlike a similar Florida law, which is being challenged as unconstitutional, the Massachusetts provision doesn't explicitly bar tobacco companies from using any of their traditional legal defenses. 
Sen. Riegle said his bill will protect deposit-insurance funds and taxpayers by barring regulated entities from using "exotic or especially complex derivative instruments." 
Sensing the power structure's new vulnerability, party dissidents are becoming more vocal in seeking internal reform, especially of the way the PRI selects candidates for governorships or national legislative seats. 
But Mr. Berner counters that the weak dollar suggests that "global investors are unwilling to hold our securities because they lack confidence in U.S. policies, and that monetary policy isn't tight enough to reassure investors that inflation won't pick up." 
It also found that 47% had lumber shortages in the preceding three months. 
Neither Interpublic executives nor Mr. Puris could be reached for a comment. 
"It is politically difficult to tighten credit on employment data because it gives the appearance that the Fed doesn't want to see job growth," she said. 
The action, which the board attributed to a need to protect schoolchildren, may run afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 
The first must bring the company back from the verge of bankruptcy. 
And every day, five days a week, clerks in T-shirts haul in an estimated 16,000 more pages from the nation's trucking companies. 
Analysts estimate that 800 porn numbers will cost businesses more than $100 million this year. 
The perception that the next rate boost is at least one month away has drawn investors into short and intermediate Treasurys. 
"But the bloom is far from off the rose with private label." 
The list also includes a number of controversial proposals, including one to change a pension-guarantee program, which is likely to find opposition from Democrats as well as Republicans. 
Having concluded that Justice Thomas was in the pocket of Antonin Scalia, maybe legal reporters couldn't admit that Justice Scalia had signed Justice Thomas's opinion. 
Excluding volatile food and energy costs, the increase was also 0.3%, the Labor Department said. 
Among the expansion areas for Hong Kong, said Mr. Pebereau, is the merchant banking business. 
Now Puma largely has taken itself out of the race for prominent pitchmen. 
But he said the turmoil of implementing the cuts will depress near-term results at a time when the company is facing intensifying competition. 
The Transport system allows surgeons to administer site-specific doses of anticlotting drugs while treating coronary plaque buildup with balloon angioplasty. 
With inflation running at 1.5% a day, and interest rates even higher, a single day's investment produces a significant return. 
The publisher's fans and allies included some of the biggest agents and authors in the business. 
Best positioned, especially due to their exposure to recovering international markets, are Monsanto, Aluminum Co. of America and International Paper, Mr. Metz says. 
The agency still reviews railroad mergers. 
According to the story, a marketing official for the company responded in a deposition that the company did not intend for any meaning to be attached to those words. 
At a post-tax price of $2.10 per gallon (compared with $1.50 in Mexico and Chile), Peru has become the most expensive country in Latin America in which to fill your tank. 
via Credito Italiano. 
The Federal Reserve weighs on the portfolio managers' minds but the Whitewater controversy doesn't. 
"If you're not set up to do that," says the individual, "you're standing still, and then your business can be in jeopardy." 
Products affected include power shovels, bulldozers and dump trucks, the company said. 
State securities regulators are cracking down on alleged investor scams on popular on-line computer services. 
Speech-writer Don Baer campaigns for the post, but an outsider is likely. 
"Who would ever think that playing with Legos would cause such stress?" 
Round table. 
But does the evidence of the last decade support his claim? 
The 18 Kress Regional Galleries range from Allentown to Honolulu, from Birmingham to Seattle. 
Investment bankers also are looking to some of the region's fiscally conservative governments -- particularly the state companies that are being privatized -- as being a big part of the market. 
A top Arafat aide said the PLO leader plans to take up permanent residence in Gaza this Saturday after he returns from a meeting in Paris with Israel's Rabin. 
With more companies downsizing and selling corporate perks, Mr. Santulli says the connotation attached to flying in a private jet "is generally not a good one." 
North Shore Square is a one-level, fully enclosed regional shopping mall, containing 624,000 square feet of leasable area, Sizeler said. 
Overall, Mr. Joseph said, automotive customers account for 50% of Augat's sales. 
The Deputies who are urging this course were elected, like President Aristide, so they have standing independent from the military. 
Among the Chung brood, Mong Koo draws the most comparisons to the founder for his aggressive style. 
Earlier talks had broken down in February because of disagreements over how to measure the progress of imports in Japan. 
"Member states want their money back, and there is a problem of trust." 
But for any solution to work, it has to overcome a lot of history. 
"He's OK," says a Beijing taxi driver, recalling how Mr. Zhao offered to let his son be punished for alleged speculation in color televisions to kick off an anticorruption drive in 1987. 
What they've reduced in their inventory levels is quite promising. 
Retired Col. Bill Gregor, who teaches midcareer officers at the Army's Command and General Staff College, says many younger officers believe that the Clinton White House simply doesn't care about them. 
"They have had two fairly major financial snafus now . 
But to do so she had to overlook the objections of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who has been the most dogged pursuer of BCCI crooks. 
Also, Mr. Kepple says, it takes time for victims to escape the emotional control of their therapists and to realize a crime was committed. 
The specter of division has prompted calls within the SPD for an eventual coalition with the Greens. 
Russia already has privatized more than 100,000 state companies, accounting for more than 50% of GDP. 
The chain of events began this past Easter Sunday, when longtime president and chief operating officer Frank Wells died in a helicopter crash. 
Her acknowledgements include thanks to her late husband, the author of a successful novel, "The Accident." 
"I really try to make the vacation mine." 
If we had an explanation of how BCCI got away with its illegal purchase of First American, we could afford to dismiss such ambiguous connections as lawyer-client relationships. 
This explains both its heavy emphasis on the middle class in advancing the president's goal of universal coverage and its active support behind the scenes for proposals to scale back the costs to business of its employer mandate. 
But it was a ribbon of wildness in a landscape tamed by mechanized agriculture, a connection to a larger natural world of sun and wind and sky. 
The White House now is clinging to the hope that the confusion over health-care reform will clarify once the debate moves to the House and Senate floor. 
PT Jardine Fleming Nusantara, lead manager for the issue, says subscription will be in the first half of July, pending final approval from Bapepam, with listing expected by early August. 
Internationally, Merrill is competing with big institutions such as Union Bank of Switzerland and J.P. Morgan that already have banking operations spanning the globe. 
Chrysler Corp. said it hasn't set a date to announce 1995 prices, and the leading importers haven't discussed their pricing plans yet. 
Two years ago, the EPA, after pressure from Mr. Quayle's Competitiveness Council, agreed to let industry make operational changes even if they result in more -- in some cases substantially greater -- toxic emissions into the air. 
Some investors contend their Prudential brokers told them their only option to recover money from the failed VMS partnerships was to participate in the class action. 
NAPLES, Italy -- Leaders of the Group of Seven nations deliberately didn't mention the dollar or currency markets in their written final statement, in order not to exacerbate the recent volatility. 
Metallgesellschaft Chairman Kajo Neukirchen will take on the additional responsibility of the personnel division. 
Traders said the country's win in the World Cup was part of the reason for the rally. 
By bringing marketing and research under one umbrella, "Schering-Plough expects an even more effective relationship," a spokesman said. 
However, its enlistment in the modern environmental crusades is a less well-known story. 
Officials also said they don't know whether the FBI's action was part of an ongoing investigation of missing securities shipments. 
It is only fair, it argues, to at least give an allocation of SDRs to the countries that have become IMF members since the SDR spigot was turned off in 1981. 
The preferred stock pays an 8% dividend, but the real attraction in parking-deprived Boston was the accompanying perpetual right to a monthly space in the garage at prevailing market rates. 
But the tentativeness of both decisions shows why it's difficult to discern clear patterns in the court's rulings. 
Thus, the value of the proposed deal jumped by about $1.2 billion yesterday afternoon. 
In addition, Mr. Puris is expected to have a role in Lintas:Worldwide, according to industry officials. 
Brown Brothers Harriman's Mr. Luce said he expects Safeco Corp. of Seattle to post operating income of $1.40 compared with $1.48, which he said reflects an "extraordinary quarter last year." 
Mr. Keehner had headed the firm's 1,200-member brokerage force since 1990, and is credited with helping to boost profits in the group, which focuses on well-heeled individuals and small businesses. 
Hit hard were initial public offerings, or stock sales by companies going public for the first time. 
A spokeswoman for Microsoft said the company continues to provide information to the Justice Department and that both sides "continue to talk about the case." 
But the company said yesterday the EPA decision "will have no material effect, either positive or negative, on ADM's earnings." 
A flat tax had dominated British income tax policy and philosophy for the past 70 years, and no doubt this would be the way income taxes would be administered in America. 
Under the terms of its offer, Comcast would top the CBS bid by offering QVC holders $37 in cash, plus a new preferred stock valued at $7 a share for each share of QVC stock. 
He says the treatment is based on a "bankrupt theoretical foundation" and cites scientific studies showing it doesn't work. 
They have asserted that Mr. Aburto met with a political group before the assassination and that he mentioned the names of some of the suspects before the assassination. 
Analysts point to several factors that could help reignite the commodities rally. 
Mr. Mfume said it was a "travesty" to even suggest Haiti's rulers would remain that long. 
The company also will manage and work to improve the value of the properties it purchases, DKB said. 
Ms. Nishikawaji has won trophies for accuracy and speed in national delivery contests. 
Rated Ba-1 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. and triple-B-minus by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Merrill Lynch & Co.  Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. -- $500 million of real-estate mortgage-investment conduit securities offered by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. 
Pressure from UPS, Airborne Freight Corp., DHL Worldwide Express and TNT Express Worldwide has put an added chill on pricing. 
Mr. Reed says he and the archdiocese supported 90 to 100 pro-family candidates out of a total of 288 candidates on the ballot, and that 63% of them won. 
ROSEMONT, Ill. 
In the congressional arena, doubts are muffled by the fact that the GATT agreement culminates a long and uniquely bipartisan negotiating process. 
Banc One Corp. reported a 12% jump in earnings, and PNC Bank Corp. said earnings climbed 11%. 
But as the real-estate market collapsed, annual sales fell to 1.5 billion yen in the year ended September 1993. 
A Democratic senator threatened to hold up the government's new program to immunize children for free, claiming flaws in the program could endanger public health and waste money. 
Some of Microsoft's rivals had urged the government to break the company into two parts -- operating-systems software and applications -- just as AT&T was broken up in 1982 as part of an antitrust action. 
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Rochester Telephone Corp. and Nynex Corp.'s Nynex Mobile Communications said they had made final their previously announced joint venture to operate a cellular telephone network in upstate New York. 
A spokeswoman for Virgin says its returns of 7th Guest are high only because it has sold so many. 
The commission's decision, which gave a boost to so-called competitive access providers, came in response to a federal appeals-court ruling just last month that the FCC lacked the authority to order phone companies to let competitors install their own equipment in the local phone company's switching centers. 
Just yell loud enough to get his attention, and he'll shoot back with a new policy. 
That would indicate earnings growth of 43% in the quarter and 45% for the year, excluding a special charge in 1993 for a change in accounting for benefits of former employees. 
In the end, said people involved in the negotiations, Mr. Tisch was influential in persuading Mr. Miller, the bondholder's attorney, to accept the Federated deal. 
Kathryn A. Thomas, vice president of staff development, estimates EAI invested "close to $2.5 million" in the school and will lose money unless an equal amount is raised. 
Leaders of the southern revolt reportedly fled to neighboring Oman, vowing to regroup and then resume fighting. 
The grassroots support that such Republicans employed to win their primaries will be evident in the fall, with a get-out-the-vote potential that could offset disaffection among moderate voters. 
Somewhere along the line, somebody is going to have to produce about two million barrels a day more this year than last to make the oil equation balance. 
That's why Mr. Yeltsin was at the IMF's summit. 
For all of fiscal 1993, the company's loss of $25.8 million was equal to $1.94 a share, on revenue of $128.8 million. 
In any case, "you have to be more selective in picking buying opportunities than in the past," argues Scott Meyers, senior technical analyst at Redel Trading Ltd. in New York. 
Still, there is some progress. 
Mr. Fiske may be the first witness when House hearings begin July 26. 
Still, he declined to join the general festivities. 
The increase is the third in the past three weeks for the consumer products giant, which attributed the boosts to a series of frosts in Brazil. 
The tests involve a variety of techniques, such as using digital compression to jam video signals down twisted phone wiring; hybrid fiber-optics and coaxial-cable systems that essentially overlay a video network upon the phone network; and the fiber-to-the-curb systems such as the one Bell Atlantic plans to install at Toms River. 
So, for most sexually active adolescents, the "technological fix" decried in your editorial does work reasonably well, at least for those whose families are relatively well off and who, overwhelmingly, should contraception fail, obtain abortions and continue with their educations and careers. 
Revenue rose 23% to about $2.3 billion from $1.86 billion, he says. 
"It was May data . 
TDK will use the Spectrum technology in cable interfaces used to connect a modem in a laptop computer to a mobile phone, Spectrum said. 
The driving force behind that debate is Andrew Marshall, a virtual unknown outside the Pentagon but a legend within it. 
"AT&T won't take 21 months to do this," he said. 
Gross operating margins were 6.8% in the first five months of 1994, compared with 5% a year earlier, Ferruzzi said. 
Reed Elsevier, a publishing and information business, has annual sales in excess of $2.7 billion. 
In most cases, workers can't deduct the cost of travel between home and work. 
At the least, they wanted to talk about their feelings with the Czechs. 
Freddie Mac priced its $1.5 billion of five-year global bonds at 99.66 to yield 7.207%, 0.17 percentage point above five-year U.S. Treasurys. 
The U.S. attributes its prowess to technology. 
No immediate successor was named. 
Mr. O'Leary begged off. 
In an article, "Casting a Wider Net," published last summer in the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review, Mr. Reed lamented that the "pro-family" movement has failed to connect with the concerns of average voters. 
The Maynard, Mass., computer maker has negotiated with Quantum Corp., Seagate Technology Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., the industry insiders said. 
Bedford, Mass.-based Millipore said in a news release that it and the buyer of Waters Chromatography, Water Holdings Inc., had decided that changing "business and market conditions" dictated a lower price. 
He was hired for a full-time position this spring in the international marketing department. 
Mr. Rhodes opposed the move, saying he was closed out of the process. 
Comcast management on Wednesday said the company may consider reducing its stake in Nextel to raise money for its planned $2.2 billion purchase of 85% of QVC Inc.  But analysts played down the chances of a Nextel sale by Comcast. 
Revenue rose 62% to $113.2 million from $69.8 million. 
Search Capital had a year-earlier loss of nine cents a share. 
Under the counterproposal, creditors would receive 100% of stock of the reorganized company. 
The latest results brought profit for the first half of this year to $2.59 billion, or $1.52 a share. 
Mr. Bode says talk radio is the modern equivalent of the barbershop that sat near most county courthouses: a place to learn the political gossip and have a frank exchange of views. 
One way the military brass might thwart Mr. Marshall's ideas is by adopting the rhetoric but resisting the content. 
And while not all of those stocks are good buys, most present a chance for short-term gains, analysts say. 
Mr. Dole spoke to the governors before Mr. Clinton. 
The partisan skirmishing provoked a blunt, bittersweet lecture from the committee's former chairman, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D., Ill.), who said he sometimes missed the days of a Republican White House, when the GOP had to be more compromising to advance its agenda. 
In May, the Fed said interest rates were close to what Mr. Greenspan described as "neutral." 
"The main comment we get is that the portions are much too big," Mr. Anderson says. 
They didn't heed producer warnings of short supplies even before the frost." 
Then along came a rotten carrot. 
United's June load factor, or percentage of seats filled, was 76.1% -- "the highest for the month of June in our history," the company said -- compared with a 70.4% level in June of 1993. 
Terms weren't disclosed. 
The protocol was signed in Baku Friday. 
And so, in the wake of De Grandy nothing much is likely to change. 
The article said Texas ports should be booming now that the North American Free Trade Agreement has passed. 
The Dow Jones World Stock Index lost 0.39 to 114.59. 
If you forget to keep such a list, years from now you'll have to poke through copies of your tax returns to compile one. 
On Saturday, his spokesman Morri Berman said that legal action was being contemplated. 
Chili's, Friday's closest competitor, has kept its U.S. menu intact, save for serving beef ribs instead of pork ribs in mostly Muslim Malaysia. 
The deficit forecast for that year was increased to $179.2 billion from $173.1 billion. 
But it doesn't have to report to regulatory authorities in other European countries, as it would have had to do in the past. 
Historically, department stores were safe havens for suppliers lucky enough to get their foot in the door. 
In a sense, the PCS deal showed Mr. Tobias at his decisive best, resolute even in the face of personal tragedy; his wife died in May. 
Volume was 515.8 million shares, down sharply from 856.2 million shares in the previous session. 
A year earlier, Schwab earned $31.6 million, or 53 cents a share, on revenue of $232 million. 
PEORIA, Ill. 
But it is rare for such a big mistake to happen on such a prominent measure. 
"It's democracy of plumbing rather than autocracy," says Mr. Mullick. 
But he said Apache still boasts a strong cash flow and he noted that natural gas analysts tend to be more concerned with company cash flow than with net income. 
Together with another pending transaction, New York-based Josephthal said the acquisition will increase its sales force by about 50%, to 1,200. 
CHILL OUT: It doesn't pay to be a pain around the office. 
Painting fire hydrants. 
Overall, market surveys placed Dell as the seventh-largest seller at the retail level in the first quarter, with only 3% of the units sold. 
WASHINGTON -- Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 21,000 last week to 332,000, the Labor Department said. 
The services range from developing individualized written course materials to delivering speeches to top management. 
NEW YORK -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, citing Trans World Airlines' unexpectedly soft revenue, lowered its rating on the fiscally pressed carrier's $271 million in senior secured debt to triple-C from triple-C-plus. 
They "break down, the bulbs explode, the plugs melt. 
The opera and symphony will each receive a third of the profits; the remainder will be distributed to the smaller music groups by the Corporate Council for the Arts. 
Justice Blackmun also noted that $52 million was a "serious" amount of money. 
They cost an average of $30 to $50 for short-term sets and up to $220 for several months' supply. 
Gazing up at its 13,500-foot-high peaks, framed in my hotel window here, I had my doubts. 
A spokeswoman says American Express hasn't run a commercial featuring Mr. Malden since 1991. 
Revenue rose 18% to $329 million from $277.9 million. 
Chrysler's earnings for the second quarter are expected to be between $895 million, or $2.20 a share, and $960 million, or $2.33 a share. 
The impact of Apollo? 
The move signals GE's commitment to the company and would make it easier for GPA to place the securities, analysts say. 
Kidder paid GE the balance in dividends, $200 million of these paid out to GE in 1990 when GE first stepped up to bolster its subsidiary. 
"Those chickens are for the tourists," says one woman. 
Smith Barney, however, kept the Uncommon Values Unit Trusts, under which investors put their money where Shearson Lehman's mouth was. 
cent higher at 50.52 cents a gallon. 
That opportunity appears all the brighter since China postponed the offering of Shanghai Haixing Shipping Co. earlier this week, leading to speculation that the pace of Class H issues entering the market will slow down for a while. 
Bogged down by a national character that many Belarusians describe as pensive and cautious and by a government packed with former apparatchiks, economic reform here has barely budged. 
"There's a lot of leadership in the states," says Richard Merritt, a George Washington University health-policy researcher. 
But it surely doesn't produce a reliable account. 
Since then, the organizations have shown up in almost every region of the world. 
The U.S. dropped its opposition based on changes in provisions about seabed mining. 
Chrysler continues to benefit from the popularity of the new vehicles it's rolling out. 
But economic hardship of the sort experienced in Ukraine can drive people to do extraordinary things. 
Mr. Tisch, who wasn't available to comment yesterday, didn't rule out some other kind of deal with QVC Chairman Barry Diller, though relations between the two are badly strained at present, people close to them say. 
He was barred for eight years. 
But it isn't clear whether the administration would win again if the Bosnia embargo is put to another vote later this year. 
An attorney with the FTC estimates that Vendall defrauded at least 8,000 people out of about $56 million. 
Traders can profit by selling dollars and buying them back at cheaper levels. 
Germany must accept that the structure of its economy slowly will have to shift more toward a service-industry-based economy such as in the U.S.  Since Mr. Schmiedeknecht was brought to Deutsche Babcock as chairman in 1990 to rescue a company that had accumulated roughly one billion marks ($631.1 million based on currency trading Wednesday in New York) in losses in the 1980s, his programs of restructuring the German operations while pushing the company's globalization program has pulled the company back into the black and placed it on a path to becoming increasingly less German in its strategic focus. 
Terry Lash, director of nuclear energy at the DOE, confirmed yesterday that his department has an oral agreement with Westinghouse and that the U.S. government is not taking on any additional liability. 
Applying new bankruptcy procedures for the first time, Russia declared three state-owned companies insolvent. 
DETROIT -- U.S. auto makers planned to build 44,553 cars and trucks last week, down 55.1% from 99,270 vehicles built in the same week a year ago. 
The man turned out to be an undercover federal agent. 
The last U.S. invasion of Haiti came at the high point of a very idealistic U.S. foreign policy. 
The stock and bond markets mostly withstood the assault on the dollar yesterday. 
Richard Ciccarone, director of tax-exempt fixed-income research at Kemper Securities Inc., said Atlanta debt traditionally has received double-A ratings from Moody's Investors Service Inc. and Standard & Poor's Ratings Group. 
A Federal Trade Commission lawyer says one operation alone involved at least 8,000 investors. 
More TV viewers than U.S. Open golf! 
Southwest Airlines added 1/8 to 28 3/8 on about 6.4 million shares, compared with a daily average of 804,000 shares. 
Circus Circus, based in Las Vegas, rose 4 1/4 to 25 3/4. 
International footwear and apparel sales were $442.8 million on the quarter, up 9%, and $1.36 billion for the year, down 3%. 
The election ("Revolution," Jefferson called it) of 1800 was a "contest of opinion . 
National Insurance Group Inc. said it would post an unexpected second-quarter loss of as much as $300,000, or six cents a share. 
Every business sector has been affected, with the pharmaceutical industry especially hard hit. 
But that wasn't always the case: In the early 1980s, Sino Land was caught by the collapse of the real-estate market. 
The company says it will assign four employees and pay $20,000 in filing fees this year to record its rates. 
Mr. Akhiarov's new company, Inzer Corp., took over the Corel contract and is now assisting the Canadian company to develop an improved version of the spreadsheet. 
Mr. McManus said the transaction will increase New York Bancorp's tangible capital to assets ratio to 6.65% from 4.98%. 
Tokyo stocks ended narrowly mixed Tuesday in lifeless dealings. 
Revenue increased 31% from the year-earlier period, to $5.43 billion from $4.15 billion. 
Mr. Pew's father, Robert C. Pew, remains chairman and will assist in the search for Mr. Myers's successor, the company said. 
But Disney's redesigned park will likely face controversy, however it treads between patriotism and political correctness, between entertainment and education. 
"We've decided that our funds should be managed by an external manager rather than an internal fund manager," he said. 
KKR decided to back Mr. Reilly after narrowly losing a 1988 bidding war for MacMillan to the late Robert Maxwell. 
Takuhaibin "have a thin profit margin," says Laurent Del Grande, a transportation analyst in Tokyo. 
Until it does, there seems little hope that the company will regain its former eminence. 
"We want to try to gather around us the most competent companies involved in genetic therapy or development of medicines based on our genomic information. 
The judge had handed down this sentence, he went on to tell the Montclair State student, because he had determined that "there's a lot of good in you." 
"Adults have a right to see them if they want to," he says. 
The article's unfair criticisms may seriously harm efforts to immunize the nation's children. 
But the bill that Mr. Mitchell, as a Finance Committee member, unhappily voted for falls so far short of the president's standard that it isn't clear whether the majority leader can pull the Senate back to universal coverage. 
In a short sale, shares are borrowed and sold with the hope they can be purchased later at a lower price. 
Bonds: Lehman Brothers Treasury index 5039.80, off 1.51. 
As far as Cornelia Krause is concerned, it's a fool's leap into the abyss. 
The company now has about 40.5 million shares outstanding, compared with 37.5 million a year ago. 
A branch of the Internet, called Mexnet, has started up in Mexico, helping people to swap information. 
Interest income on financial leases rose to 25.9 million guilders from 23.0 million guilders. 
The carrier said its unused $45 million bank line of credit will remain available into next year. 
Among broader indexes, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 1.06 to 455.22, the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index climbed 0.38 to 251.44 and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.26 to 722.62. 
The nation's biggest bank continued its steady recovery from financial distress. 
First, the author has chosen to mix fact and fiction too liberally. 
Chrysler changed the way it accounts for the depreciation and amortization of some tools and equipment. 
affiliate, will merge their domestic pharmaceutical distribution systems, effective Oct. 1. 
"A government that wants to stay in power ignores kindergartens at its own peril." 
Excluding food and energy prices, the rate dropped 0.1%. 
"This country wants to see greatness," Mr. Doherty says. 
Terms weren't disclosed. 
St. Irene's balked, but after considerable negotiation it did allow photographs. 
The same went for Tab Ramos. 
Fran Grimmett, who has been with the ICC for more than two decades, spends three months a year compiling a list of minority- and women-owned trucking companies. 
To read this book is to be aghast at its corny B-movie dialogue. 
You can't see who is talking, and the show isn't labeled as paid advertising. 
It sounds plausible enough. 
The New York-based company said the results, which compared with a net loss of $1.3 million, or nine cents a share, for the second quarter of 1993, were due to the inclusion of operating results of Unistar Radio Networks Inc. Westwood acquired Unistar effective Feb. 3. 
Trading revenue fell 19%, fairly modest given the difficult trading environment. 
Domestic participants weren't selling heavily, and some picked up retail, non-export-oriented laggards. 
The thrifts would have combined assets of about $2.5 billion and a network of 26 branches in Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. 
But Austin, Texas-based Dell said it believes it can more profitably reach consumers by refocusing efforts on its mail-order business. 
Like Mobil, Texaco will take a second-quarter restructuring charge -- for $165 million. 
An annual survey from Deloitte & Touche found Texas venture-capital firms financed $428.2 million of deals for entrepreneurial businesses last year, up 13% from $377.8 million in 1992. 
It continues to expand rapidly. 
The department told Judge Greene it would file its opinions on Friday if possible. 
These people added that Mr. Malone now wants Comcast to revamp its proposal to increase the overall value and lessen the potential tax bite. 
The new rule, which is slightly tougher than U.S. rules, calls for deducting goodwill over five to 20 years. 
At a news conference yesterday, Mr. Liener also indicated Daimler may adopt a policy of more closely tying its dividend to its earnings. 
The GDP grew at a 7% pace in last year's fourth quarter. 
The yen tranche reportedly was better subscribed than the other two. 
Helping to sop up the excess supply, world uranium consumption of 56,000 metric tons exceeded output by 22,000 metric tons last year, and consumption should continue to exceed production by a wide margin in coming years, the institute says. 
"When I first heard about it, I thought, `That's rather bizarre,'" says Doug Koch, Mrs. Koch's son, who composed the wording on the plaque. 
IBC/Donoghue's average seven-day compound yield on taxable funds rose to 3.77% from 3.71%, according to Money Fund Report, an Ashland, Mass., newsletter. 
CINCINNATI -- Comair Holdings Inc. said air passenger boardings for June rose 35% to 290,407 from 215,219 a year earlier. 
The House and Senate bills are generally in agreement on the overall size of the defense budget and the need for industrial policy initiatives. 
In Amsterdam, prices ended narrowly higher in light trading. 
The new clusters are partly a response to marketers' desire to target Hispanics, according to Claritas demographer Dave Miller. 
He had rated shares of the Miami Lakes, Fla., medical-device concern "accumulate." 
"I'd prefer a tax cap, but we're not going to get that," said Dr. Ellwood. 
Barney and "Jurassic Park" toys each generated more than $100 million in 1993, said Mr. Jacobson. 
Consider our key readiness indicators: in 1995 we will invest 12% more per aircraft for maintenance, 11% more in ships, and 14% more per combat battalion in the Army, compared with 1993. 
Eduard Benes, the pre-Communist postwar president, decreed their expulsion in 1945. 
Despite Germany's rigid and expensive labor market and high tax rates, 92% of top managers at U.S. companies operating in the country expressed satisfaction, up sharply from 71% a year ago. 
Reoffered at 99.9. 
Unlike in the 1970s and early 1980s, Caterpillar no longer shuts down to wait out a strike. 
Then Czechs eliminated Germans. 
The volume of bond and debenture transactions amounted to 1,860 trillion yen ($18.8 trillion) in fiscal 1993, with brokers accounting for about 40%, according to the Japan Securities Dealers Association. 
The teams of two of Reebok's four big-name stars, Colombia's Carlos Valderrama and Argentina's Gabriel Batistuta, were unexpectedly eliminated in the tournament. 
Affiliates are "cautiously optimistic" about Mr. Diller's arrival at CBS given his strong broadcasting background, said Bill Sullivan, president of KPAX in Missoula, Mont., and chairman of the CBS affiliate board. 
Dr. Gallo noted that he wrote in the publication Nature in 1991 that "based on new scientific information we had concluded that due to an accidental contamination we had used a virus from the Pasteur in our blood test." 
One possible change said to be under discussion includes allowing fund groups to correct early mistakes in a subsequent transmission later in the evening. 
He was also accused of trying to launder $1 million through a pawn shop in Fort Lauderdale called Cash Kingdom. 
One client wanted names of used book stores on her route. 
San Miguel said that the loan, which will have a term of five years, is part of the funding for the capital budget of 12 billion pesos ($453.3 million) that it has programmed for the next two years. 
Caterpillar says that more than 3,000 of 13,400 UAW members at struck facilities in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Colorado have quit the strike. 
"This is a much-better-than-market company selling at a below-market multiple," says Mr. Gipson. 
HONG KONG -- Consolidated Electric Power Asia Ltd. has scaled back plans to build power plants in China and is looking to Indonesia and Pakistan instead. 
During the spring some U.S. business organizations were at least willing to withhold judgment. 
Advancing Nasdaq issues trailed decliners, 1,547 to 1,646, on total volume of 300,401,000 compared with 249,347,100 shares on Monday. 
At issue in the CBS merger, then, would be the treatment of the options, such as determining what future value to put on them or the number of shares into which they would be convertible. 
The neighborhoods, 44% Hispanic, have large young families with blue-collar jobs earning just under the national median of $31,900, "but they are college-bound and moving up," Claritas says. 
The median weekly salary for high school graduates in service jobs was only $385 a week, compared with $481 for all service workers. 
Credit Lyonnais's problems stem from its too-rapid expansion, as part of its plan to become a European retail bank, its excessive and -- according to the report -- tardy investment in real estate, and its lending to Messrs. Parretti and Fiorini. 
The new law, effective Jan. 1, also bans workplace discrimination based on race, nationality, sex or religion. 
The hooligans are dimly aware of that: Their sense of rejection has in turn heightened the tension and increased the violence in Northern Ireland. 
Most of this nightmare has begun to fade into the past. 
It may not be a great movie, but it's a great stunt. 
RICHMOND, Va. 
A 1993 Discovery Zone prospectus indicates that, based on various options that Blockbuster held for Discovery Zone stock, the price may have exceeded $100 million. 
The little Linda Browns of today's urban neighborhoods are being deprived of basic governmental protections and civil rights. 
Mr. Riverso said he will only propose the recapitalization once the company has reversed its cycle of losses. 
Deutsche Lufthansa AG said its parent-company earnings swung to a pre-tax profit of around 100 million marks ($63 million) in the first half of 1994, following several years of losses. 
Mr. Hazlett teaches economics and public policy at the University of California, Davis. 
Following a paper trail that began 18 years earlier, just six weeks after George died, the firms alleged a systematic transfer of ownership to Mike's side of the family in 12 transactions, reducing George's heirs' stake in the grocery business to 8% from 50%. 
"As improved inflation prospects unfold, there may be scope for some further reduction in short-term interest rates," the OECD said. 
"You want to work here, get a permit. 
Instead, he passed the mantle to Dr. Salinas, who later named first Mr. Colosio and then Dr. Zedillo as his successor -- all three of them Ivy League -- educated technocrats and free-market enthusiasts. 
Private sales flourish at gun shows and flea markets where sellers can expect the greatest concentration of potential buyers. 
"Why don't you put a warning on your Nike sneakers that says `Don't run too far or too fast,' or on your golf bag that says `Don't play more than 18 holes of golf a day'?" 
In the process, the two amassed great personal wealth and Circus was built into a high-growth Wall Street phenomenon. 
Cypress closed yesterday in Nasdaq Stock Market trading at $17.50, down 37.5 cents. 
Republicans need to say something about this unhappy situation. 
To accusations that the caning was barbaric, Singapore retorted through its ambassador in Washington that "caning was introduced by the British colonial government and has been part of our law since." 
That's a critical question for U.S. goat ranchers, who hope to free goat meat of its ethnic image and turn it into a mainstream -- even upscale -- food. 
But the law, an effort to raise some $653 million over five years, sets out to narrow the loophole. 
But even Germany's leaders seem to recognize there are limits to how much it can do. 
For both, the baseball diamond is a place of classical drama; of Fates, heroes, tragic flaws and a chorus that haunts the actors with the deeds of all those who have played before. 
Industry executives say Mr. Snyder's attorney, Ed Hookstratten, received a contract from CBS yesterday and that an official announcement is just days away. 
"We keep waiting for the right person to turn up," the spokeswoman says. 
They also make the best of a schedule that might daunt the most leather-lunged talkers. 
Walt Disney Studios is a unit of Walt Disney Co.  With Disney calling the shots, "Movie News" has some interesting editorial perspectives. 
In its suit, Temple alleges that Carbide also misled franchise buyers by failing to warn them that it planned to quit franchising unless it met several growth targets. 
The 13-week bills mature Oct. 20 and the 26-week bills mature Jan. 19. 
FOSSIL REBUILDING is aided by a new International Business Machines Corp. software package in development. 
One of the discounted funds is Global Privatization Fund, which raised $1 billion in its initial public offering in March after a widely publicized cancellation the month before over an overstated chart in the offering document. 
Tempers will flare among minority populations trapped in the inner city with few economic opportunities and higher taxes. 
Judges, in his view, ordinarily should defer to the expertise of such policy professionals. 
The review came as Merrill was scrambling to deal with a federal investigation of allegedly improper trading on the desk. 
The BP/Statoil alliance holds a combined 36.7% interest in the consortium, with two-thirds of that held by BP and one-third by the Norwegian company. 
The company couldn't yet estimate the cost of the recall, but the spokesman said the tins are sold at a retail price of 28.95 guilders ($16.38) 
Earnings for Weyerhaeuser's wood products sector remained fairly flat, rising less than 1% to $243.3 million from $241.8 million a year ago. 
"Over the last few years the taboos have broken down, in part because cable operators can offer parental lockout," which prevents children from watching adult fare, says Stephen Astor, a marketing vice president with Playboy Enterprises Inc., which has bought some softcore South Pointe films for the Playboy Channel. 
Fans of the rifle say it isn't an assault weapon at all, just an ordinary rifle useful for "plinking," such as shooting at tin cans, and cheap enough to use for foul-weather hunting. 
Mr. Diller, who owns 13% of QVC on a fully diluted basis, would end up with a 4.7% stake in CBS. 
The headline matchup takes place on Monday when Team USA meets Brazil. 
But it was the Fed's seeming reluctance to support the currency through an interest-rate boost that is seen convulsing the dollar in the longer term. 
Investors also are focused on the meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in Naples, Italy, this weekend. 
"Even manufacturing requires more and more skills, and companies will pay more for that," Mr. Meckstroth says. 
She now expects the industrial average to trade in a range of 3500 to 3900 this year. 
Clinton officials hope the surprise pick of a socialist prime minister in Tokyo will overshadow complaints that the U.S. mishandled dollar policy vs. the yen. 
In addition, the airline said it's pushing back "indefinitely" its plans to open a flight attendant base in Hong Kong. 
Still, the hearing could set the tone for work in the next Congress, they add. 
That's small consolation, considering that it's not clear who is in charge of the nuclear materials. 
The distributor of automotive parts reported sales for the six months ended June 30 of $113.5 million, up 17% from $97.1 million a year earlier. 
Justified or not, they certainly do raise prices. 
The SEC settlement doesn't necessarily spell the end of Mr. Mozer's troubles with the government. 
With this latest acquisition, Canada's six largest banks will own 51% of the country's brokerage industry, calculated as a percentage of total industry revenues for the year ended May 31, according to the Investment Dealers Association. 
According to Frank Russell Co., the Russell 2000 Index of small-capitalization stocks lost ground in back-to-back quarters for the first time since the first half of 1984. 
Royal Caribbean has ordered another ship that size from Kvaerner-Masa, scheduled for delivery in November 1996, and it has contracted with a French shipyard for two 1,800-passenger ships, to be delivered in April 1995 and March 1996. 
In its bid for the contract, Education Alternatives had proposed managing all of the school district's finances and splitting equally any cost savings it generated between the school board, the City Council and the company. 
"Some of these are terrific ideas, but they'll never reach the scale of the successful fast-food chains," says Mr. Kirchen, the venture capitalist. 
Though Mr. Rosenthal is mum about other details of the programming, Ms. Crawford is more forthcoming. 
Mr. Clinton had those two invaluable precedents before him. 
Mr. Rice will work closely in the new unit with Ian Massey, the financial controller of Airbus Industrie. 
That's down from about 8% nationally last year and 16% in 1990. 
Its historic low is 1.2105 Swiss francs set Oct. 5, 1992. 
Another American problem, the uncertainty that litigation has brought to this field, isn't as present in Hong Kong and the rest of the region (though Ms. Loh, trained in law, wishes for more of an opening). 
PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES Inc. (Atlanta) -- Robert W. Foster, 43 years old, was named to the newly created post of senior vice president and chief operating officer of this environmental engineering and waste treatment company. 
The company said the release of its quarterly results, set for July 5, was delayed to reflect its purchase of Oral Vision Inc.  Bio-Dental distributes cut-rate dental products to dentists mainly through catalogs and telemarketing operations. 
Singapore had purchased F-16s in the past but invited St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas to enter its F/A-18 in the competition last year after that aircraft won a pivotal sale to neighboring Malaysia. 
Think about it. 
The Neon and the JA, which likely will be marketed as the Chrysler Stratus in Europe, could add about 20,000 cars a year to Chrysler's Europe sales. 
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, though he will be in Houston this week, has "at least a dozen" other health-care meetings scheduled, says Larry Neal, his press secretary. 
THE RECAPTURE TRAP: Paid correctly, alimony is deductible to the person who pays it and taxable income to the person getting it. 
But it differs markedly from acute otitis media, which typically involves a painful ear infection and possibly a fever. 
SINGAPORE -- Political pressures and financial discord have grounded Singapore Airlines' plans to launch a national carrier for Cambodia. 
Barley acreage was estimated at 10,700,000, a 5% decline from 11,265,900. 
But the company has since signed agreements to build two power plants in the Philippines, and is close to signing contracts to build two in Indonesia. 
But that did not turn out to be the case. 
Junior says he doesn't try for home runs, they just come. 
The commission recently concluded a series of public hearings on the issue and is expected to release preliminary findings in August. 
Reynolds Metals Co. rose $2.75 to $50 a share and Alcan Aluminium Ltd. added 87.5 cents a share, closing at $23.75. 
In addition, Mr. Balfe, formerly a senior vice president of Lafarge Construction Materials group, succeeds John M. Piecuch as president of the division. 
That plan is then subject to approval by Macy's various creditors groups and the court. 
At Inco's Ontario operations, "we have 7,000 now, and our goal is 5,500 in 1997," says James Ashcroft, president of the Ontario division. 
A communique issued by the Jonaissant government called Mr. Malval's statements treason and said that he ran the risk of being arrested. 
As the CIA and for that matter Russian President Boris Yeltsin have also warned, it will be a growing international problem. 
KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Less than a year after Price Co. merged with Costco Wholesale Corp., a clash of cultures is provoking a split in the executive ranks and a spinoff of one-third of the new company's assets. 
Under the terms of the settlement, which requires SEC approval, Concord won't admit any wrongdoing and will agree to cease and desist from filing false reports and from keeping inaccurate records. 
Undoubtedly, some attach an unfair stigma to mental disorders or have exaggerated fears of suddenly violent behavior. 
In a meeting last month dominated by EAI detractors and union supporters, the school board was threatened with lawsuits and accused of abdicating its duties. 
The historic $4.8 billion buyout, in which workers will exchange concessions for their majority stake, will test the ability of employees to control a huge company in the highly volatile airline business, where the major players have run up billions of dollars of losses in recent years. 
In Manila, shares sank 1.8% in sparse trading, as investors failed to find news to spur buying. 
At that fall 1982 hearing, Mr. Faulkner's attorney maintained that $38 million was lost by Refco's Arkansas crew during late '79. 
The S&P 500 jumped 3.40, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 13.06, or 1.9%. 
"That remains for Haitians," he said. 
She needed three operations to repair the damage. 
Because the two planned to divorce in 1994 and roll over their individual shares of the proceeds into new principal residences within two years of the sale, they elected to defer taxes on the gain. 
One of Mr. Bennett's law partners, John Schmidt, was also recently appointed Associate Attorney General, the number three post at Justice. 
"This marks the beginning of the end of an era," said one Bell executive of the surprise assault on the court decree, which has been the defining centerpiece of the U.S. telecommunications industry since the Justice Department forced AT&T to spin off the Baby Bells a decade ago. 
Ironically, The Wall Street Journal has done much beating of breast and gnashing of teeth over two bizarrely shaped congressional districts in North Carolina and Louisiana, which districts were drawn by state legislatures presumably exercising their powers under the "times, places, and manner" clause. 
Most of these companies acknowledge they are actively exploring their options. 
The exchange's principal index, known as the I.P.C., 
It would do this by replacing Superfund's site-specific liability-based fund-raising system -- the root cause of the wasteful litigation that has delayed cleanup -- with a broad-based tax on business, insurers and others with a stake in cleanup. 
The U.S. subsidiary of National Westminster Bank PLC, the London-based international banking and financial services organization, reported net income of $76.2 million, compared with $69.8 million a year ago. 
UAL, parent of United Airlines, slid 1 5/8 to 128 1/8 on 12.2 million shares traded, compared with a daily average of 160,000 shares. 
Two dozen of their peers, however, say cost-containment measures that worked in the recent past are slipping now or will be less effective by year end. 
However, the month was a disappointment for some prominent specialty retailers, such as Limited Inc., where sales remained sluggish for fashion apparel, according to industry analysts. 
After that, American lawyers learned, Mr. Baldanza -- by then working at Northwest -- somehow got an American computer diskette. 
She was a regional executive of Salomon Inc.'s commodities arm and managed retail and other projects for CIM Co., a Hong Kong conglomerate. 
Jessica Reif, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., says: "The value of QVC with CBS is much higher than QVC standing alone. 
Perhaps most troubling was that 1% of the letters had yet to arrive eight months after being sent. 
"I'm proud of that." 
South Korea's currency is closely tied to the value of the dollar. 
"People have a lot of things to think about right now," said Alan Bond, president of Bond, Procope Capital Management. 
"The fact that one building sells at inflated prices doesn't justify every building being marked up to that price," says Marc Faber, who heads his own investment advisory firm, Marc Faber Ltd.  But even Mr. Faber doubts Sino Land or Hong Kong's other high-profile property companies will face serious difficulty if the property market drops further -- as Mr. Faber believes it will. 
Dow Jones futures index 147.95, up 1.55; spot index 142.87, up 2.99. 
"I think overall, the dollar is headed down with the seemingly tacit approval of Clinton and Waigel," said Stephen Flanagan, a vice president at PaineWebber Inc. 
Barclays PLC, the large British commercial bank, received a reprimand from regulators over the selling methods of its life insurance branch. 
"This is a year when legislators and governors are getting an easy ride, because the economy has boosted tax revenue," said Steven D. Gold, director of the Center for the Study of the States at the Rockefeller Institute. 
Though he had "assisted" Mr. Dammerman for just three weeks, Mr. Keehner said in a statement: "With Kidder's management transition on sound footing, I can now take the opportunity to pursue a long-term ambition of managing my own company." 
One American document given to the Northwest experts, Marc Diamond and Christopher van de Velde, was a paper titled "Seminar on Demand Forecasting." 
Kinabalu Park is home to 1,000 species of orchids, as well as pitcher plants that gobble insects, huge Rafflesia flowers and many other plants that can't be found elsewhere. 
One study by some interested parties suggests that in a high-rate state such as California, a free market for this energy could save the economy what amounts to $200 a year for every person in the state. 
Before the 1992 election, the Missouri Democrat struggled to develop some consensus among Democrats, and this experience gave him insight into the debate this year. 
The funds are being pitched to union pension plans across the U.S.  Inspired by the success of some other issue-oriented funds, Mr. Eason left the union world a while back for American Capital Strategies Inc. of Bethesda, Md., an investment-banking firm with experience in employee stock-ownership plans. 
In her films, irreverence of a different kind -- comic and shrewd -- made even the worst side of a character seem winning, and even reasonable. 
Should the broader market continue to experience further downdrafts," as a result of dollar and interest-rate jitters, "small-stocks investors are going to need a lot of Dramamine in their system to weather the storms," he cautions. 
It represents a major change in the evolutionary status of the human race. 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Diagnostek shares closed at $20.50, up $1.25, or 6.5%. 
WASHINGTON -- A coalition representing some 170 public-interest groups asked federal regulators to fine Chicago's leading public broadcasting station for airing about 45 hours of a high-brow home-shopping service. 
"It's not a threat, it's more a strong declaration," said Mr. Kerrey of the letter, which will be discussed among moderates at a meeting early today. 
Reoffered at 99.875. 
After skidding 13% on Monday, Lilly fell another 3.3%, or $1.625, to $48.375 yesterday in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. 
It is also possible that the most innovative leadership in health care reform is coming from what is, in the context of today's secular culture, a very unexpected place. 
-- Litton Industries Inc., often identified with "sunset" ship-making but also big in communications and electronics. 
Among those detained were Alberto Falck, 56 years old, president of Italy's largest private steel company, Acciaierie & Ferriere Lombarde Falck; Giuseppe Tramontana, managing director of Fiat SpA's Rinascente department store chain; and Luciano Betti, former chief executive of insurance group Premafin Finanziaria SpA. 
The OECD warned that there are no grounds for complacency. 
Financial details weren't disclosed. 
"Remember how much you loved your wife that day," Bubba said, speaking slowly and softly. 
Banc One lost 1 to 33 1/8 even as its earnings rose to 81 cents a share from 73 cents a share. 
Alco Standard, a distributor of paper and office equipment, said St. Louis-based Larson has annualized revenue of about $10 million. 
Investors can be fairly certain that if their dollars are with certain fund companies, such as Benham Group or Vanguard Group, their money isn't pouring into complex derivatives. 
Stocks: Volume 273,273,020 shares. 
But Mr. Clinton knew how to appeal to black voters on his own; he could even afford to distance himself from Mr. Jackson on Sister Souljah with no ill effects. 
Dialogue, a newsletter distributed by a small, Washington-based nonprofit group called the Institute for Mental Health Initiatives, illustrates for writers and producers how to avoid violent confrontations on screen. 
But if he survives more than a year, it would be hard for the government to stay united." 
I jawboned to him about it." 
NEWPORT, Ky. -- Koppel Steel Corp., a subsidiary of NS Group Inc., completed the acquisition of a tubular products processing facility from Hoesch Tubular Products Corp. of Baytown, Texas. 
It asked them first whether they thought M.B.A. programs taught anything of any value. 
The territory on which modern Belarus sits has for centuries served as the wrestling mat of central Europe. 
Mr. Bhagat, who also is chairman and chief executive officer of Mtel's Destineer Corp. unit, said in an interview that the company has filed to participate in the July 25 auction. 
But like all matters relating to car-rental insurance, this issue is as clear as mud. 
Mr. Jager's supporters cite his turnaround of P&G's troubled business in Japan. 
Put simply, the Sandinistas, while in power, grabbed a long list of enterprises and assets, with little or no justification. 
"There is a concern and a real threat that we will have a two-level healthcare system," says Tim Howard, an attorney for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, a state agency that monitors health-care spending and operations. 
In one instance, Mr. Questrom assured the board that Federated would build on, not diminish, the Macy's name. 
When the Chinese community protested this discrimination, the district tried to placate them by admitting an additional 153 Chinese students, some with scores as "low" as 61. 
Tyco's Mr. Kozlowski defended the purchase as "positive" for Tyco's earnings but conceded that "it will take a little explaining before people realize that." 
He said the White House would also cooperate with pending investigations by the Office of Government Ethics and the Treasury inspector general that were put on hold while Mr. Fiske finished his work. 
Although many banks are benefiting from the rise in rates, many in the industry believe it may be a short-term thing. 
"We have no written opinions," he said, in a remarkable admission. 
"I hope it's not too little too late." 
The Burns Harbor mill largely serves contract customers, making it unlikely that Bethlehem Steel was able to recoup the higher semifinished steel costs, says Mr. Bradford. 
Its stock closed Friday at 10 1/8, unchanged, in New York Stock Exchange trading. 
What does Washington say to that? 
-- In a sleek gray suit sprouting a white pocket hanky, John Golle stands apart amid the blue jeans and windbreakers at a crowded meeting of the Hartford Board of Education. 
Mr. Riverso remains confident the plan will be accepted by unions and dismisses comparisons to the feud between Air France and its unions. 
Barry Corp. said it completed a $15 million, 10-year loan agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.  Barry, whose products include footwear, heated stadium cushions, scarves and bread warmers, said the loan will be used to increase its working capital to support future business growth and to prepay certain long-term debt. 
The situation today appears to be different, with tight money policies seen almost everywhere. 
Economists call it rent seeking: the capture of somebody else's dime through cost shifting and padding. 
Baker & McKenzie, whose 1,600 attorneys make it the nation's largest law firm, is based in Chicago. 
Anne Wells Branscomb -- a policy analyst at Harvard University who has just published a book called "Who Owns Information?" 
Immediately after the inflation figures were released, prices jumped across the entire spectrum of Treasury issues. 
may race nor sex nor creed, No more divide, but side by side, all rise united, freed!" 
"For the first time in my life I felt like a normal person," she says. 
Revenue fell 14% to $444.3 million from $515.5 million from a year earlier. 
Remy Cointreau said sales of its cognacs had expanded by 13% last year, and that its Remy Martin brand had reinforced its position as the world's biggest-selling cognac, accounting for one-third of cognac sales world-wide. 
Such customers fear the dealer will "bump" them to a higher payment. 
Ms. Bainbridge drew on Watson's actual letters, but the character she created "was half my dad and half Dr. Johnson" -- the curmudgeonly 18th-century literary critic. 
"Policymakers feel they must look inward and clean house," Ms. Finstrom added. 
Four members of the current Macy's board, including Mr. Ullman, will be nominated to the Federated board. 
"You can put an awful lot of valuable information on a diskette and just walk out with it," says Donn Parker, a computer-security expert at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. 
Those guys didn't qualify for this Cup, so one can only imagine their unhappiness. 
First USA Inc., a financial-services concern, acquired most of the assets of NationalCard Processing Systems Inc., Englewood, N.J., and Electronic Processing Source Inc., New York. 
When raw materials prices rise, the profits of retailers usually get burned. 
"Can it be corporate, if not will give anyway -- not looking for publicity so up to him whether I am co-chair or not." 
Airports in Dayton, Ohio; Oakland, Calif.; and Burbank, Calif., are among the airports that offer the service. 
In 1986, Mr. Golle formed EAI by buying a Control Data Corp. unit that was planning a chain of computer-intensive private schools. 
"They bring nothing to the party that the juice manufacturers don't have," says Mr. Crane, adding that Smucker lacks "clout" with retailers to obtain shelf space for juices. 
Analysts noted there is a widening sense that central bankers are unwilling to get involved in buying dollars at a time when the currency's downtrend seems so inexorable. 
Mr. Holston is a senior contributing editor to Americas, the periodical of the Organization of American States. 
"We will not look for alibis." 
As Mr. Goddard points out, "Americans pay upward of $300 billion a year -- more than the interest on the federal deficit -- in charges directly attributable to driving, over and above normal user fees." 
"Snapshots From Hell" is a much better book than "1L," funnier and more intelligent. 
"It is common practice for brokerage firms to require employees to do personal trading at their own firm," said Grant Callery, general counsel at the National Association of Securities Dealers. 
"I have trouble with my spine, that's enough." 
The resort reconfigured its trails this year, adding some less demanding terrain. 
-- General Electric Co.'s financial-services arm, GE Capital, said it agreed with Swedish insurance company Skandia to acquire the consumer-financing assets of its Denmark-based AS Nevi Danmark subsidiary. 
PHILADELPHIA -- Fresh from reciting haiku during their morning Japanese lesson, the six- and seven-year-olds at the Evan Thomas Institute eagerly review some Greek and Latin word roots. 
Others argued that the market shrugged off the data in the face of an overwhelmingly bearish downtrend. 
Kim Jong Il's handling of the leadership transition has earned him grudging respect from the international community. 
The issue is noncallable for five years and was priced at a spread of 85 basis points above Treasurys. 
But Lynne V. Cheney, while chairman of the National Endowment for Humanities during the Bush administration, wrote a broadside against political correctness that singled out Dr. McIntosh, and her notions, for sharp criticism. 
And what better place to evaluate fire-suppressing chemicals than at the Air Force's Aircraft Survivability Research Facility? 
Though the White House says about a dozen nations have offered troops to go into Haiti if its military leaders depart, there are commitments for only about 3,000 of the roughly 10,000-member U.N. force the U.S. wants. 
A close below that level would show market pressure, he said. 
At one point last year, frustrated aides to Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen noted wryly that there was only one person whose name begins with "B" and ends with "N" who set U.S. policy on the dollar. 
Stay away from evils, such as drugs. 
Second, the governments themselves must reach a conclusion on the commission blueprint by the end of 1995. 
According to data recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 24.4% of young adults reported smoking in 1992, up from 22.9% the year before. 
The NTSB, an independent agency, investigates accidents and makes safety-related recommendations to other agencies. 
SOMATOGEN Inc. (Boulder, Colo.) -- This biopharmaceutical company named Andre de Bruin, 47 years old, president and chief executive officer to succeed Charles H. Scoggin, 50, who remains as chairman. 
Market speculation about which companies could be the next targets of official corruption probes has been rife ever since the arrest last month of the chief executive of Schneider SA, Didier Pineau-Valencienne. 
"We've lived and suffered with malpractice liability for so long that I think the feeling is that we could continue to live with it." 
Recently, another woman who has chronic lung disease and I filed a suit in federal district court in Dallas against a public accommodation under Title III of the ADA charging disparate impact discrimination and disparate treatment against a musical entertainment venue whose policy of allowing smoking effectively denies us access to the facility (Emery v. Dream Spirits Inc.). 
"Margins hit 9.3% when I wasn't expecting them to hit 9% before the fourth quarter," he said. 
Bretton Woods re-established international convertibility of the major currencies into gold or gold-convertible dollars. 
Other than that, said Joseph Liro of S.G. Warburg & Co., "It's dead quiet. 
While declining to comment on analysts' estimates, a Conrail spokesman said the company has added 500 train crew members and 200 locomotives so far this year to handle a surge in rail traffic, up 10% in the second quarter. 
After a presidential speech on board, the White House press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, 32 years old, was besieged for at least 20 minutes by sailors who wanted her to autograph their T-shirts, D-day posters and scraps of paper. 
The proposals aren't so much killed as allowed to evaporate. 
"The board is sure not pleased with the profitability, as I am not pleased and shareholders are not pleased," Mr. Grayson said. 
The contents of the agenda are not really in dispute. 
"To the best of my knowledge, this transaction has been concluded. 
The record of price stability under the classical gold standard, from 1834 to 1862 and 1879 to 1913, is without parallel. 
Inverse floaters are a particularly volatile form of derivative that provides a potent tool for speculating on the direction of interest rates. 
Mr. Murayama, Japan's first socialist leader since 1948, formed a cabinet composed primarily of his one-time rivals from the pro-business Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP. 
For the six months, earnings were $13.6 million, or 30 cents a share, up 29% from $10.5 million, or 25 cents a share, a year earlier. 
She is said to have told colleagues: "He is driving me crazy." 
"It's not the right time to consider a sale, and we believe our stockholders' value will be maximized by pursuing our strategic plans." 
Fred M. Owens, a former member-firm employee, was permanently barred without admitting or denying guilt to findings that he misappropriated funds from his employer. 
Omega owned more than 20% of the most senior class of bonds. 
"Dealers are reluctant to create new deals unless they can distribute them in short order, because they don't want to carry a lot of inventory," says Mr. Sobti. 
In addition, Mr. Van Wagoner said oil-service stocks are another area where he sees good buying opportunities. 
Paul Maco, a veteran bond lawyer who joined the SEC's legal staff this year to assist the agency on its muni-disclosure initiative, said some of the concerns "are reasonable ones" and promised that the SEC will give due weight to all concerns. 
Ted Turner, whose Turner Broadcasting System Inc. made a run at CBS in 1985, isn't thought likely to jump in, since his company is 25% owned by Tele-Communications Inc., which also owns a chunk of QVC. 
The firm also runs the Avondale Mutual Fund, a small, conservative balanced fund split 50-50 between equities and bonds. 
The company, based in Richmond, Va., said revenue climbed 7% to $1.46 billion from $1.36 billion. 
But some co-pilots told investigators that his anger unnerved them and claimed he sometimes deliberately handled the controls of his British Aerospace Jetstream roughly, giving passengers aboard the propeller plane a bumpy ride. 
"It's like unscrewing your legs, handing them over and hoping you get them back," Mr. Zumbo says. 
Cuba announced fees for a range of previously free items such as vitamin pills, school lunches and cultural and sporting events in an effort to cut a yawning budget deficit. 
But if today's consumer-price index also shows tame inflation numbers, the path will be clear for a rally in both stock and bonds, he said. 
Universal, publicly financed day care, which sets the first lady's heart fluttering, is "impossible" because any such program would become bureaucratized and unworkable. 
Much of what Mr. Sabato tells reporters is achingly conventional. 
The commentary that Cantor delivers isn't the sort he grew up with. 
A year earlier, the diversified construction company had net income of $1.8 million, or 17 cents a share, on fewer shares outstanding. 
The solution: a box called a DAT, which stands for "distributed antenna translator." 
The five-year high was also attributed to utility companies working to keep pace with the summer heat. 
He said the gold-trading business wasn't under investigation by any regulatory agencies. 
In Kuala Lumpur, prices jumped 2.1% in light trading, driven by institutional investors' buying and by rumors of an early general election. 
For two generations, Republicans have fought big government the way a starved wolf hunts a herd of deer, hanging back out of harm's way and waiting for an old buck to stumble. 
But that takes some money up front to train them so they can get jobs. 
The Supreme Court said it threw out the contempt fines against the mine workers union because they really were criminal in nature, but were improperly imposed in civil proceedings. 
The party chairman, Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, declared, "From now on, the Greens will be our chief opponent." 
But by the mid-1970s, ecologists, with their scientific training, had begun to distance themselves from environmentalists (who are often laymen) and their holistic, reformist and ultimately moralistic approach to nature, Dr. Worster says. 
Day-care costs for some poor families are subsidized, but few people expect government to start financing universal child care. 
Ernesto Perez Balladares, who becomes Panama's president Sept. 1, said yesterday that he would accept an unspecified number of Haitian refugees for a maximum of six months. 
Incomplete returns show that Mr. Lukashenko, a 39-year-old populist who crusaded on anti-corruption themes, won 80% of the vote, compared with just 14% for Vyacheslav Kebich, who has been prime minister since 1990. 
Trizec's junior creditors rejected its restructuring plan, spurring other creditors to prepare to seize the firm. 
Sanofi also will pull research activities out of Sterling's expensive new research lab near Philadelphia, which the cost-conscious French concern isn't buying from Kodak. 
And this, Mr. Lipper notes, has been a mild downturn by historical standards so far. 
If it doesn't ship, say, until the end of next year, some software developers may start to reconsider OS/2, he says. 
A 10-percentage point rise in the expectation of living to 85 raises the anticipated age of retirement only by one month for men and by less than one month for women. 
Net sales rose 24% to $2.13 billion, from $1.71 billion. 
Federal Express shies away from speculation that it will become more like a trucking company, saying it will use whatever mode of transportation works effectively and cheaply. 
Volume was 481.5 million shares, compared with 483.2 million shares on Monday. 
Fears of a drop in world wheat production, coupled with current low world inventories, are helping buoy wheat prices, analysts said. 
Ever since, North Koreans are told, Tanzanians have averted meteorological calamities by singing the "song of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il" or by calling out his name three times. 
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. signed a contract through trading giant Marubeni Corp. of Japan to build two container ships for Regional Container Lines Pte. 
This situation has been developing for several years, experts say. 
Last year, when the center finished the year with a small profit, she split it among the teachers. 
WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Donald Riegle introduced a bill to regulate the use of derivative financial instruments by securities dealers, federally insured depository institutions, and three government-sponsored enterprises. 
The company posted a loss of five cents a share, including an unusual expense, for its first quarter, compared with net income of 17 cents a share a year earlier. 
Since taking over two years ago, after a run as finance minister, he has celebrated unbridled capitalism while keeping his hand invisibly on the controls -- exchange controls, wage controls, rent controls. 
There are two options in the offer. 
Along with higher prices and the strong economy, Acme cited productivity and quality gains in operations and aggressive cost-cutting as reasons for its improved earnings. 
In the nuclear field, India has offered important confidence-building measures to Pakistan. 
Joe then went home and took a shower. 
In late New York Stock Exchange trading yesterday, Bausch shares were 37.5 cents higher at $34.875. 
At ETI, former students say, the discipline became more intense as the students grew older, especially for the few children who lived on campus with their parents. 
Texaco added 3/4 to 60 7/8 after the White Plains, N.Y., company disclosed plans to slash its costs and refocus its efforts on core oil and gas operations. 
Mr. Monsma, who most recently served as director of finance for Concurrent Computer Corp., a computer maker in Oceanport, N.J., succeeds William P. Glaser, 61, who will retire as senior vice president and chief financial officer in August. 
Halos bonds exchangeable at spread of 155 basis points above 2017 gilt on one-for-one basis with GESB bonds at issue price. 
By late 1993, officials at the bank had reached a clear suspicion that Mr. Moell was acting in the interests of Mr. Schneider rather than those of Deutsche Bank. 
Aside from its headquarters on New York's Fifth Avenue, its only other office is in Toronto, opened to service the Compaq account. 
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Computer Task Group Inc. said it sold its Network Systems Integration group to Sage Technologies Inc.'s AmeriData Inc. subsidiary. 
The intent of the two-year study was to provide the best facts available on a difficult and contentious subject, and for the readers to draw their own policy conclusions. 
Some young city residents have also taken to growing marijuana among the spinach and parsley in their flower boxes. 
Key Neil Berman, a PCA vice president, said the HMO's motivation was to improve patient care, rather than to reduce costs. 
All this is fine in theory, but will it happen? 
The average yield on six-month broker-sold CDs rose to 4.43% from 4.35%, while yields on five-year CDs increased to 5.75% from 5.70%, BanxQuote said. 
Investors had put some $200 million into unit trusts, which were set up to duplicate the Shearson Lehman list. 
In October 1937, Samuel H. Kress, then in his second decade of buying pictures, purchased a purported Giorgione, "Adoration of the Shepherds," from Joseph Duveen, against the wisdom of Bernard Berenson, who called the painting inauthentic. 
In his first public strategy statement since taking the helm of Japan's largest semiconductor maker late last month, Mr. Kaneko said NEC should post a consolidated pretax profit of 200 billion yen ($2.03 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1999. 
At the close of the quarter, which ended March 31, Glendale Federal's loan-loss provision had dropped steadily for five consecutive quarters to $28.2 million. 
Asked about his reputation for tormenting managers, Mr. Snyder replies, "Part of it is myth, part of it is true. 
This view was totally discredited during the 1980s. 
As a result, the guidelines will require more extensive training of managers, not just in the objectives of the disabilities law but also in the semantics of related questioning. 
There were 27 downgrades totaling $16.4 billion and 22 upgrades totaling $11 billion in the second quarter. 
In that case, it would have been able to settle or resell its futures contracts at a higher price, pocketing the difference. 
But Microsoft fell 1 3/8 to 50 1/4, and Lotus dropped 1 1/8 to 35 5/8, both on Nasdaq. 
The Metropolitan Transit Authority, drained of funds, will be forced to raise bus fares. 
But no one at Kroger responded to my letter. 
While she tries to provide high-quality service, she can't pay enough to keep trained workers. 
Weyerhaeuser Co. is expected to report second-quarter profit of about 63 cents a share, down from 71 cents a year earlier, analysts said. 
The move, which came at the request of Coke's board, reflects the directors' confidence in Mr. Goizueta, who has held both posts since March 1981, overseeing the company through an unusually successful period in its history. 
Also joining the Souter opinion yesterday were Justices Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 
"Anything you do in Texas has to account for the Texas mentality of individual rights and wanting to do their own thing," Mr. Wright says. 
Does he ever get calls! 
I wanted to make sure the future is ensured. 
"We can tell if there's a mudslide or earthquake or natural disaster in California without turning on the radio -- our phones start ringing off the hook" with requests for relocation information, she says. 
Rather than announcing the job cuts in one fell swoop -- as Roger Enrico, vice chairman, did when he was head of PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and eliminated 1,800 positions in 1991 -- Pepsi-Cola officials apparently aren't releasing details of this restructuring or notifying most employees in advance. 
The Peruvian government retains 40% of Edelsur. 
This is anathema in the populist world of Henry Gonzalez. 
Premier may be a victim of its own success. 
Guarantor Westdeutsche Landesbank GZ. 
Our interest is in turning the cash into equity." 
CBS has avoided investments in the cable industry, while its broadcast brethren bought into it. 
State Street is purchasing Investors Fiduciary from units of Kemper Corp. and Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. 
The transition of their care to Salick will be handled on a case-by-case basis, Mr. Berman said. 
The machines will dispense airline tickets at the start, and later other documents such as event tickets and travelers checks, Jafri said. 
The department's Export Enhancement Program is designed to protect U.S. share of overseas farm markets. 
The three hours a day on average that people listen to radio hasn't changed much over the years, radio executives say, despite a profusion of other entertainment media and gadgets. 
He has worked for Time for 26 years. 
Advertising linage at The Wall Street Journal fell 2.7%. 
I was allowed into Cuba after several months of high-level negotiation, so presumably my movements were being monitored. 
The company said the recent rise in the value of the yen brought about the move, Komatsu's fifth such price increase since April of last year. 
Rather than invest in an elaborate distribution system such as an HMO or pharmacy-benefit company, drug companies might seek to invest instead in expanding their product line. 
"It's a bad law, it's unconstitutional, and we have to challenge it," said Robert Boege, the group's vice president of government affairs. 
The offerings, called virtual private network services in industry jargon, use phone-company computers to provide fancy corporate phone services -- such as a common phone-numbering system for all of a company's offices world-wide, or international corporate calling cards. 
Everyone's afraid," says designer Eric Gaskins of Eric Gaskins Design Inc., which sells dresses and suits to many major upscale department stores. 
European countries have been introducing a slew of new laws that affect business. 
Mr. Obey called A to Z "ludicrous," "disingenuous," "phony," "a fraud," "a national joke" and nothing more than a "ginned-up GOP effort." 
The Geneva-based reparations account is funded by about $30 million from Iraqi oil accounts abroad that were frozen, and is to get 30% of proceeds from Iraqi oil sales, though Iraqi oil exports remain banned under U.N. sanctions. 
Other analysts said they expected to see some Wall Street earnings estimates, which range from five cents a share to 15 cents a share, come down for the period. 
A strong yen hurts earnings of Japanese exporters by making their goods more expensive overseas, and by decreasing the yen-denominated value of their overseas sales. 
The truck maker said its auto parts unit recorded slightly lower sales, but operating profit rose for the quarter. 
She hasn't heard that some Sudeten Germans want to come home. 
According to New York City records, Mr. Grace's E.G. 
"What did I know about raising carrots before the war? 
Bonds yield 3.1%. 
Although Mr. Tisch declined to comment on CBS's plans, one person close to CBS said Mr. Tisch may move forward with a generous dividend payment to CBS shareholders. 
Nationwide, black families represent only 4.4% of "Kids & Cul de Sacs" households. 
In a blow to the defense, the judge said detectives didn't do anything improper by scaling a wall at Simpson's estate without a warrant. 
Global order inflows rose 19% to 16.80 billion marks, Mr. Dieter said. 
Apart from the technology group, "it was kind of slow, even with earnings," said Bob McIntyre, senior vice president of equity trading at Principal Eppler Guerin & Turner Inc. 
Suppose, for example, some great force erased the virgin prairie of Mr. Clements's native Nebraska, returning the land to a blank slate. 
The company also said its PDG Remediation unit received two contracts. 
By contrast, 25% think derivatives trading will have an important impact; only 7% think Whitewater will. 
And we're going to put on the best Games ever." 
The CIA World Factbook resource is invaluable for those planning to create their own military alliance." 
He said that "some people think the economy is just flat out strong, and some think it's slowing. 
Beating last summer's total take of $2.1 billion will be tough, but executives say it's possible. 
Late Tuesday the Dallas purchaser and manager of motor-vehicle receivables said it expects to report a fiscal third-quarter loss on changed estimates of the rate of return on loans purchased from dealers. 
In the meantime, the company is on target with analysts' estimates that it will post a second-quarter loss of around 16 cents a share and a full-year loss of about 65 cents a share, Mr. Webb said. 
Mr. Eason says he'd even consider including nonunionized companies that might have good labor-relations track records -- such as ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry's Homemade -- as long as they agree to sign a promise not to block any attempt by their employees to unionize. 
BOSTON -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston named Cathy E. Minehan to be president, succeeding Richard Syron. 
He said bookings for the summer are ahead by more than 3% in value terms and "just ahead by volume." 
"The problem is their dream can become the consumer's nightmare unless vigilance is exercised by those who shape public policies," AT&T warned. 
Of course, there will be the predictable objections. 
"It's in the First World mainly because it has better information." 
For months the company has been "flying" virtually every part of the plane -- not in the air (the test flights last month were the first), but on the ground at Boeing's new $500 million Integrated Aircraft Systems laboratory, the largest and most complete indoor jet-testing facility in the world. 
She excelled academically; in fact, she would eventually graduate summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College. 
"If Northrop was going to be a big player," Mr. Roche recalls thinking, "it would have to augment itself with what's inside -- the stuff of information war." 
However, the stock "broke down further than expected," Mr. Moody notes, sinking into the mid-$20s, where it has remained. 
An IBES survey of 17 analysts projects that U.S. Surgical will report earnings of three cents, compared with a loss of 39 cents last year. 
As it is, she continues, "a lot of weeks I have to play more irons off the tees than woods, and that's frustrating for someone who enjoys really letting it out. 
-- The federal role in domestic violence, as with most crime issues, is minimal; local governments and private organizations will be on the front lines of any serious effort. 
Mr. Golle settled the judgment in August of that year. 
In any case, a Western agricultural specialist who travels often in China says, "the three-to-five year outlook for increased cotton production in China is not good." 
Under Bizarre, for example, you will discover how to become a minister of the Church of the SubGenius, where the deity is called Bob and looks a lot like Fred MacMurray. 
Money Fund Report is published by IBC/Donoghue Inc., a subsidiary of IBC USA (Publications) Inc.  The average maturity of the taxable funds' investments, which include commercial paper, or short-term corporate IOUs, and Treasury bills, shortened by one day, to 41 days. 
After U.S. retail sales data showed a moderate gain in June following two monthly declines, London stocks also found support from perceptions that the U.S. for now will delay raising interest rates, as the figures indicate U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter. 
In Seoul, the market edged up, after falling from intraday highs on news reports that South Korea securities regulators will investigate some issues suspected of involvement in unfair trading; the news took a big toll on stocks, such as construction issues, that had gained from recent overheated, speculative buying. 
In the United Kingdom, Toyota is particularly targeting women buyers with its RAV4. 
"We still like some of the money-center banks," Mr. Schoolar adds, particularly Citicorp and Chase Manhattan, "where there's a bit of a restructuring theme." 
Oregon's voters have approved a pilot program in several counties that will replace all welfare with a package of job and training benefits. 
Yields for the $46 million of Series 1994-A-2 senior-lien fixed-rate bonds range from 5.3% in 1997 to 6.1% in 2004. 
Healthy corporate profits are expected for the second quarter, but the stock market won't benefit much because investors are too anxiety-ridden to celebrate. 
Like the Fiske interviews, the Park Police report, the FBI report or anything else anyone actually would like to know about, their lips are sealed by the special counsel's needs. 
"What the telecommunications gurus need to do is take some Prozac. 
Two days after a newspaper featured a birdhouse-building business that Leonard Berthelsen had set up in his Omaha garage, a city inspector appeared at his door with a cease-and-desist order and gave him 10 days to shut down. 
They cannot run against the bureaucracy if there is no bureaucracy. 
Mr. Dehecq emphasizes that while he will trim the headquarters and basic research staffs, "It is out of the question that I will lay a finger on the American sales team." 
The following excerpt illustrates the point:  "A strike creates many problems for employers. 
Possibly Singapore would be better off, at least among advanced American thinkers, eating the criminals instead. 
Digital is expected to seek other asset sales, including for its consulting business and perhaps some of its chip-making capacity. 
Some Thorn shareholders, who had been betting that splitting up the company would boost its stock price, regarded the board's decision as mildly bad news. 
In Taipei, after an early sharp climb, the market finished lower because of late selling, despite support from foreign institutions, which continued buying electronics and plastics shares. 
They tell us nothing about Mrs. Rodham Clinton, but a lot about the milieu of her 1978-79 financial fling. 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Repligen Corp. said it's restructuring to conserve cash by reducing its work force by 37%, to 190 people from 301, and dropping clinical research on an HIV vaccine. 
Ditto, says New York's Aureole; its busy period moves up-week from Fridays. 
NEW YORK -- Very nervous investors sent coffee prices surging yet again on New York's Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange on reports that Brazil's key growing region may be facing another cold snap this weekend. 
"There was only one, you know. 
Mr. Truman couldn't be reached to comment, but Mr. Florio, who was named president of Conde Nast early this year, said, "This is absolutely Alexandra Penney's idea and it's been in the works for some time. 
"If it offends you, don't buy it." 
While many analysts remain bullish about coffee prices in the wake of recent back-to-back frosts, they are cautious about getting involved in what has become a very volatile market. 
Because Whirlpool is buying new shares in Kelvinator, the $100 million will be reinvested in the company. 
In April, a jury in the U.S. District Court of Washington awarded $4.8 million to Digital Systems. 
They thus were reluctant to buy boldly, fearing a stronger currency could erode corporate earnings. 
Overall, basketball-shoe orders for the first fiscal half are down slightly from a year ago, but orders for the holiday season are up. 
In the wake of the devastating Jan. 17 Los Angeles quake, which has generated more than $6 billion in insured losses, insurers representing nearly 60% of the California homeowners' market have announced bans on sales of new policies or other restrictions in recent weeks. 
And the city's scaled-back plan for streetscape improvements rests largely on a $149 million bond issue to be voted on next Tuesday. 
Instead, at last week's Washington premiere of "The Lion King," he was confronted by protestors shrieking "Lying King!" 
NEW YORK -- Competitors and critics yesterday loudly opposed the Baby Bells' plans for an all-out assault to wipe out the consent decree that has controlled their business moves for the past decade. 
Punching through walls, the state connected the house to another two and opened a hotel. 
CBS lost eight affiliates in May, when New World Communications Group Inc. aligned 12 stations it owns, or plans to acquire, including WJW, with Fox. 
The balance sheet of A.G. Edwards is "so clean it sparkles," Mr. Eberling says. 
The prices of corn and soybeans in central Illinois have dropped 18% and 13%, respectively, since mid-June. 
The agency disclosed the investigations in statistics forwarded to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in preparation for a hearing Tuesday on emerging fraud problems in the IRS and housing and student-loan programs. 
"At the end of 1989, we had unrealized capital gains of 200% on our stock holdings. 
But Dr. Swanson promises it won't blindly celebrate dental history. 
But Ira Brodsky, president of Datacomm Research Co., a wireless consulting company in Wilmette, Ill., said Motorola's agreement in principle to buy out IBM amounts to "more of a rescue mission than anything else." 
"Life Is a Dream" is a wild and beautiful story that centers on a Polish prince, Segismundo. 
Gresham T. Brebach, the unit's chief, has said that the total consulting revenue was $2.5 billion in the year ended July 3, 1993. 
In Prozac's case, none of these has hurt the drug's success thus far. 
Five of the economists surveyed in mid-June expect no increase or a slight easing of short-term rates by year end. 
Last year, it earned $2.3 billion, or $5.20 a share, nearly six times the 1989 level, and the consensus estimate among analysts for 1994 is about $2.65 billion, or $6 a share. 
And any aggressors will almost certainly have more accurate missiles than Saddam's Scuds. 
The transaction is expected to close by the end of the month. 
The responsibility for violence among today's teens can be placed nowhere but on the teens themselves. 
As much as 20% to 25% of all consumer spending stems from the wealthiest 5% of households. 
On GM's most popular models, prices are going up substantially more than 3.5%. 
State Street Boston agreed to acquire Investors Fiduciary Trust, which sells custodial services to the mutual fund industry, for $225 million in stock. 
Northern Yemeni forces captured two outlying districts of Aden, moving closer to the city's center in what appeared to be a final push to overthrow the breakaway southern Yemen state. 
"I think it does keep their mind off the stress, and it does help improve quality," Mr. Benjamin says. 
In other logging development work, Well Surveys made use of the cobalt isotope cobalt 60, and the Cesium isotope, Cesium 137, both sources of high-energy gamma rays. 
Mr. Reichardt, who will remain a director, did experience one major disappointment, however. 
Mr. Brown, 60 years old, will continue to hold public office; the state Legislature permits members to maintain private employment. 
Toyota Motor Corp. said it has revised its 1994 domestic sales outlook down to 2.13 million units from 2.17 million because of the sluggish Japanese economy. 
Andreas Moeller of Germany, for example, usually plays in Nike but must wear Adidas during the four weeks of the Cup. 
But he continued in a consulting position to direct and market Loblaw's successful President's Choice line of upmarket private-label goods in Canada and the U.S. Now Mr. Nichol said he also has ended his private firm's consulting agreement with the Toronto supermarket chain. 
Sprint's second-quarter net income grew by 40%, helped by long-distance service and cellular operations. 
Patricia Young, a portfolio manager at Alliance Capital Management, which has $5 billion in mortgages under management, said the pass-through market remains virtually unchanged and the sale of securities by Glaxo hasn't caused any noticeable dislocations in the collateralized mortgage obligations market so far. 
From his perspective, most of these matters are ancient history." 
Not soon enough for disabled travelers. 
The higher common dividend is payable Aug. 15 to stock of record July 25. 
Despite its passion and eloquence, Justice Thomas's Holder opinion probably won't sway a majority of his muddling, precedent-hidebound court colleagues any time soon. 
Mr. King, now married with a baby on the way, joined the current strike, hoping the long dispute can be resolved once and for all. 
He was fashionably late for lunch, and fashionably casual, too, wearing the top two buttons of his shirt undone to beat the heat. 
That day she talked with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates twice by phone, the second time shortly before the settlement was filed. 
Traders said that despite the dollar's strong performance for the day, it was unlikely to have any lasting impact. 
TRAVEL & LEISURE Magazine lists the best hotel gyms in major U.S. cities: the Peninsula Hotel, New York, features an aerobics room with a "pulse-stopping view of Midtown" and an attendant who hands out cups of water. 
Investors remained on the sidelines, leaving the markets thin and volatile. 
There is a clampdown on obscene gestures in the office and on the field. 
But earnings at the company's resources unit were "flat to down" because oil prices were about 10% lower than a year ago. 
Fasteeth, from Richardson-Vicks personal products division, is ranked No. 3 with sales of $6.7 million, down 6.7%, and 11.2% of the market. 
The state panel's omission of Houghton from its recommended text list represents "a major setback" that could have "dramatic impact on Houghton's earnings picture," said Edward Atorino, a Dillon Read analyst. 
Clinton will attend a weekend G-7 summit in Italy, where he plans to meet privately with Yeltsin to discuss the timetable for Russian troop withdrawal from the Baltics. 
He says that fundamentalists distrust Pentecostals because of the latter's "charismatic religious experience, the emotional part, faith healing, speaking in tongues." 
RAI state television reported that many travelers either took to the skies before the strike or opted for trains when possible. 
"Why train someone who may leave in three or four months?" 
Mr. Lang says that when people find out he works at Caterpillar, the reaction is the same: "Oh, you're rich." 
The average yield on six-month small-denomination "savings" CDs rose to 3.61% from 3.56%, according to a survey by BanxQuote Money Markets. 
Both the president and Sen. Dole are slated to appear before the governors tomorrow, and Mr. Dole said yesterday he already had begun negotiating revisions to his plan to meet the complaints. 
One ploy to try to satisfy that requirement is to invite callers to punch in any four-number code. 
Distributors said Bacardi rolled back prices last year to the $8.50 range but hasn't yet regained momentum. 
It has been reasserting its influence over the former Soviet empire. 
"I had an unconditional love and trust for this man," Fotene says. 
The Israeli software developer said its parent company, Mashov Computers, plans to begin a stock-purchase program to increase its stake in Magic. 
The former first-class price was $536. 
During the past five years, Texaco has replaced more than 100% of its oil reserves and logged in a finding cost of $4.10 a barrel. 
While the problems in Asian cotton fields have rattled world markets, not everyone is upset. 
"The numbers are good, but the market is not willing to pay for" the stock. 
Taiwan likewise has plans to build passenger jets, but its timetable has slipped as a result of its failure to forge links with either McDonnell Douglas Corp. or British Aerospace PLC. 
The index is compiled by Rockbridge Partners, a Charlotte, N.C., firm that places investors' money with short-selling managers. 
In Zurich, equities climbed 2.2% in a technical rebound following recent sharp losses. 
A power struggle then would probably center on factions and issues, instead of personalities, as during the strong-man era of Mao and Deng. 
Despite the beating many investors suffered in Asia's smaller stock markets this year, money mangers are beginning to crawl back into them. 
The ceremony is expected to elucidate whether Mr. Kim's son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Il, has established his authority in a potentially turbulent succession. 
Survey respondents expect the increase to contribute to a 31% jump in revenue over the next 12 months. 
And while he had relinquished the chief executive's job to Mr. Turner in February, he had continued to run the company as he had previously, Circus officials and others say. 
Political careers now outlive disclosures of infidelity and drug use. 
Could you point it there instead?" 
But the health-care plans passed by the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees would eliminate "flexible spending accounts" for medical expenses. 
On June 22, the Washington Post published an ad paid for by Agriculture for Clean Air -- a pro-ethanol coalition that includes ADM -- reprinting a recent radio commentary by Mr. Harvey touting corn-based ethanol and deploring petroleum-based methanol. 
"This new racism holds that it is better for black children to wait in foster care twice as long with less chance of exiting through adoption because of the color of their skin," charges Carol Statuto Bevan, director of public policy for the National Council for Adoption. 
The festival tradition was actually copied from the Germans and Swiss; an all-Estonian repertoire was performed for the first time in 1910. 
"He still believes that this is the form." 
When the inflation rate was 8%, 12%, we were getting increases of 0%, 3%, and not much better. 
Mr. Suard said he had asked the Commission des Operations de Bourse to investigate. 
Softech's sales on an annualized basis would rise to about $48 million in fiscal 1995, while earnings would rise to about $2.5 million, as a result of the acquisitions, Mr. Mullaney said. 
Generally they are used to manage market risk, but some lawmakers, regulators and others have grown concerned that they have introduced new elements of risk into the financial system. 
Also, they report, communications between the capital and troops along the heavily militarized border between North and South Korea appear to be normal. 
it registered in May and April. 
"In fact, they're at the bottom of the barrel" in terms of revamping old telecommunications rules. 
Wilson rushed to her aid. 
Stock market trading volume remained low as wary investors awaited reports this week on inflation. 
After surrendering its European deliveries to contractors, the company has focused on intercontinental routes and shipments to and from the U.S. Clearly, last week's profit figures show that strategy is paying off. 
United's $371 million offering of 20-year debentures was priced at par to yield 11.21%. 
A court cannot judge the legitimacy of a sole-commissioner form of government unless it knows how many commissioners there should be. 
to keep up with the increase in assets and the complexity of managing" such a business spread over many states. 
They squeeze more revenues out of ballplayers than they pay out in salaries. 
And they played what they wanted to play. 
Mr. Malval also has a lot of time to practice political psychology, from a distance, on the handful of soldiers running Haiti. 
Mellon's mortgage-banking unit currently operates 27 mortgage-origination offices in 11 states, with concentrations in Texas, Colorado and the Northeast. 
"The absence of a comprehensive assessment denies the committee the ability to determine the merits of such proposals." 
NatWest's Mr. Buchanan noted that Limited has had some significant management turnover, but also noted that the retailer is "very committed to the mall, perhaps too committed to the mall -- this at a time when malls are losing market share, especially to strip centers," which are smaller, more-accessible shopping centers. 
PLO and Israeli negotiators began work on the next stage in the Mideast peace process, aimed at giving Palestinians more autonomy while Israeli troops in the West Bank are redeployed. 
It observed that the U.S. has switched from monetary stimulation to a "neutral" mode, notwithstanding its tightening earlier this year to offset potential inflation pressures. 
Wellcome shares tumbled 29 pence, or 4.3%, to 588 pence ($9.09) in volatile London trading yesterday; SmithKline's benchmark Class A stock fell three pence to 405 pence. 
Patients still suffer from many diseases for which medical science has not yet found a cure or prevention. 
Four of them, including Ms. Brady's father, were suicides; a fifth became alcoholic. 
Her second, "The Unmaking of a Dancer," an autobiographical work, found a better reception but failed to sell. 
And the honeymoon between Mr. Diller and CBS chief executive Laurence Tisch was over almost as soon as it began. 
The Clinton administration threw its support behind the bill, which is similar to a version passed by the House last year, and some senators wanted to show support for unions to repair ties with labor that were damaged over the North American Free Trade Agreement debate. 
Public-service announcements touting water conservation run daily on the radio. 
Nick Price of Zimbabwe won the British Open golf championship by one shot over Jesper Parnevik of Sweden. 
Otherwise known as "turnover." 
"Companies have been using this as a gimmick for a long time," said Ms. Berkowitz, "but it doesn't work." 
Unfortunately, the winning tune is so bland that Mr. Gilevich says he hopes parliament will reject it. 
It didn't say when the sale would occur. 
One of them, I would learn, was Antonio Matmadarrese, head of the Italian soccer federation. 
Coke on Monday reported that second-quarter earnings rose to 59 cents a share from 52 cents a share a year earlier, in line with expectations. 
In addition to political score-settling, there probably would be massive movements of refugees. 
The only critics of Dr. McIntosh's ideas you actively quoted are all associated with a fringe group in Brookline educational politics. 
"Mostly we just describe the action on the screen, without all the explaining that the commentators for the American networks have been doing," Cantor says. 
The survival of Pyongyang's Communist system is important for the continuity of China's own Communist Party. 
Critics think so. 
The candidate of the center-right PAN had been expected to peak in a burst of popularity after his aggressive performance nearly two months ago in the first presidential debate, which vaulted him from a distant third into serious contention. 
"In the Soviet times, only the capital was important," he says. 
"But it's when expectations are that nothing will happen that something does happen -- and the market confounds itself," Mr. Schwartz added. 
Under the agreement, Pittsburgh-based Alcoa would own 60% of the new enterprise, with Western Mining holding the remainder. 
This show is not just exuberant, it's exhausting. 
Late yesterday, a senior CBS official said the network is internally projecting, though not guaranteeing to advertisers, that Mr. Snyder's show will be watched by 2.1% of U.S. homes with television sets. 
Total inventories of durable goods, items meant to last three years or more, rose 1.3% from April, with auto inventories increasing 1.4%. 
Sorry, the IRS replied, we aren't equipped to handle it that way. 
John J. LaFalce, the New York Democrat who heads the committee, has proposed new laws that would broaden franchiser disclosure to prospective franchisees and give franchisees new legal rights. 
The needs are great as well: The Shining Path's swath of destruction included roads, ports, airports and electricity pylons; and no less than 25% of Peruvians currently live in conditions of extreme poverty. 
Virtually unheard of and contained in the gulag days, the Russian mafia was now on the move, clinking glasses with European and American associates in crime. 
The case was returned to the appeals court for further consideration of whether black voters could prove intentional discrimination, which would be a constitutional violation. 
Investment bankers are certainly trying to interest drug companies in the concept, and, they say, drug companies are listening. 
For the second quarter, net income was $21.6 million, or 46 cents a share, down from $23.1 million, or 49 cents a share, a year ago. 
The federal court here will determine the sentence of Mr. Steindler of Melbourne Beach, Fla., who was a GE international sales manager. 
He will be succeeded by President Paul Hazen. 
Bishop Vikentios claims that in 22 years the domain of the archbishop has grown to 22 churches in North and South America, with membership totaling 150,000. 
Indeed, profits have been affected by unheard-of price discounting in those markets. 
The IEA said non-OPEC output is expected to rise by about one million barrels a day, much of it from the North Sea, in the fourth quarter. 
The event was well-enough organized, to be sure, but that was not the magic ingredient. 
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday, Disney shares closed at $41.75, unchanged. 
Hawaii Insurance Department officials say it may be a month before they piece together the full story. 
"We're in the same boat as the unions," Mr. Riverso said. 
"It gives them their dignity back," he said. 
York, Pa.-based Bon-Ton operates 45 department stores in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and West Virginia. 
The weekend reconstruction marathon that produced this sea change marked the beginning of a three-year transformation intended to gird Thailand's second-largest commercial bank for swiftly mounting competition. 
Lobbyists monitor a legislative panel discussing regulation of the telecommunications industry. 
Even less, perhaps, is there support for population limits, which she acknowledges is a logical extension of her stance. 
The brief trading halt was the third time in two years that trading had been halted by a power shortage. 
Excitement may generate sales, but high-pressure salesmanship has given the car business a bad name. 
"After virutally a decade of unabated demand we are seeing the demand begin decelerating," said Kevin Brett, a Semiconductor Industry Association spokesman. 
Lo-Med, Wadsworth, Ohio, provides pharmacy, clinical and consulting services to 72 nursing facilities in northeastern Ohio and has annual revenue of about $13 million. 
"Parsons stepped into an institution that was absolutely toxic, and the only reason it survived was that he did an endless number of things right." 
He's owned his cyclicals for a couple of years now, but thinks it may soon be time to shed them. 
"The same inspiration that once promoted the poet Keats to write, `O for a draught of vintage!, that hath been cool'd a long age in the deep delved earth,' awaits interns at Robert Mondavi." 
At the same time, a convention hotel will finally be built next to the George R. Brown Convention Center, bringing in more convention business and giving rise to a whole new crop of restaurants and shops. 
Getting an offer that puts QVC in a position to get the best deal for its shareholders, he maintains, is "great." 
John Satagaj, president of the Small Business Legislative Council, said the administration's willingness to "step up and work with" business advocates on the issue will have a significant impact on small companies. 
Nine analysts surveyed by stock-data provider First Call predict the company will earn $1.26 a share in its current fiscal year, or a 14.5% improvement over the fiscal year just ended. 
"If customers start clamoring for it, we will give them what they want." 
Justice Blackmun said a five-commissioner arrangement would be "an objectively reasonable alternative." 
"Our 1994 balance sheet won't be optimum, but it will be better than last year," says Mr. Marzotto during an interview at the company's headquarters. 
Moreover, at the same time Fidelity's representatives were engaged in negotiations with Macy and Federated as a member of a bank creditor committee, Fidelity was buying up other Macy debt and Federated stock. 
"It's too soon to say they have to go out and aggressively cut costs, but if it persists, I would expect an expense-reduction program." 
Instead, the Indomitable Lions, as the Africans are called, laced up in Mitre shoes. 
The product was a bust. 
South Pointe, one of the first publicly traded purveyors of explicit sex, reported a 10% increase in sales in the nine months ended March 31 to $9.6 million, while profits doubled to $507,000, or 21 cents a share. 
All this vividly recalls what I believe to be one of the first rules of Singapore politics: Never believe anything until it is officially denied. 
Four billion people are re-entering the global marketplace for goods and capital. 
"We don't see any signs of inflationary buildup," Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman said in an interview on CNBC Friday. 
Receipts amortized in five equal instalments on each anniversary, giving three-year average life. 
Sunshine Broadcasting is a regional television network company operating from its base in southeast Queensland. 
Comcast, a big QVC investor, initially opposed the home-shopping firm's proposed merger with CBS, people familiar with the situation said. 
G-7 officials declared the summit a success. 
But does The Wall Street Journal want to take sides and give Mr. Seow credibility, giving coverage to a proven liar and a fugitive from the law? 
PRAGUE -- For Deutsche Babcock AG's Heyo Schmiedeknecht, going global isn't just a blueprint for growth -- it's a strategic imperative to insulate the German industrial company from some of the wrenching economic and social changes looming on Germany's horizon. 
This should lower prices, increasing the number of subscribers and boosting video programming suppliers. 
Mr. Smith couldn't be reached for comment. 
He has made no visible effort to understand the military ethos, to familiarize himself with the awesome capabilities (and limitations) he commands, or to show his concern for the institution and its members. 
A surge in bank deposits and Beijing's success at selling more than 100 billion yuan ($11.52 billion) in government bonds suggest that ordinary Chinese are optimistic enough about economic prospects to put their money into financial instruments instead of spending it, analysts said. 
Kroger paid absolutely no attention, by its own admission, to the content. 
Local authorities have thus far denied Mr. Hu the two things he thinks would make this mission easier: a helicopter and a stun gun. 
A bill reported last month by the House Ways and Means Committee would impose an employer mandate in two steps, first for large companies in 1996 and then for those with 100 or fewer workers in 1998. 
Most of his "assessments" -- projects sometimes spanning years of meticulous research often based on super-secret intelligence -- are allowed out of his office only one copy at a time. 
On Wednesday, the Nikkei rose 24.50 points to close the morning session at 20858.87. 
The mark continues to benefit from "the market's faith that the Bundesbank is committed to an anti-inflationary policy," Ms. Finstrom said, noting that a strong currency is a tool for allaying inflationary pressures. 
Democratic blacks also sued, saying they were shortchanged in the drawing of Senate districts. 
Mr. Diller enjoys a reputation as one of the entertainment industry's most brilliant managers, and he was to head the merged QVC-CBS, succeeding Mr. Tisch as chief executive officer. 
Mr. Rexrodt's statements were the latest in a series by German officials who have questioned the need to support the dollar. 
CANAL FULTON, Ohio -- Valley Systems Inc. completed the sale of two million shares of its common stock to Atlanta's Rollins Investment Fund, its majority shareholder, for $4 million. 
Murayama gave 13 of the 21 posts to his old enemies in the Liberal Democratic Party, including the trade, foreign affairs and defense portfolios. 
This is the perfect timing for me." 
Elsewhere, the managers bought convertible bonds of Scor, the French reinsurer, and convertibles of the Taiwanese microchip maker Microelectronics instead of the equity because they felt the stocks would face heavier pressure than convertibles. 
Heinz cereal, of course. 
A Boeing official says the company is still in talks with at least one Chinese carrier, Air China, that could lead to a breakthrough this year. 
At the same time, Harvard is buying two million Cairn USA shares at $7.50 each from Cairn Energy PLC, which currently owns 7.5 million of Cairn USA's 12.5 million shares of common stock outstanding. 
"It doesn't matter if you've got one or 10,000 phone lines. 
While wages vary by region, Milwaukee-based Manpower says its pay rates can be 15% behind those of entry-level permanent workers. 
Ms. Cohoe, 40 years old, had been senior vice president, group creative director of WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather Direct, where she oversaw about 45 creative people. 
Now, the perils of concentration are coming home to roost. 
Public suggestions by the Belgian Employers Federation that the country's commercial law should be decriminalized sparked such a storm that it has been forced to backtrack. 
Despite such stirrings of change in the military, Mr. Marshall and his allies still aren't sure that the U.S. can stay on top in the coming era. 
Sandy Hardina, assistant director of Human Resources at the Millenium Hilton in Manhattan, estimates that 50% of the hotel's employees are foreign-born. 
Guangzhou, the capital of China's southern Guangdong province, plans to sell 30 state-owned companies to foreign buyers. 
The army couldn't sell the weapons to Chinese citizens, who aren't allowed to own guns, but saw fertile ground in America. 
On Nasdaq, U.S. Healthcare dropped 1 1/4 to 35 1/4, FHP International slid 1 3/8 to 21 7/8 and Pacificare Health Class A declined 1 7/8 to 47. 
Component exports to Japan grew to $190 million in 1993, up from $6 million over a decade ago. 
"You can't just talk away the fact that other regions can produce at lower cost and provide good quality. 
The plant receives a license for production and goes into operation. 
Shanghai Automobile won't decide on a partner until at least the fall, Mr. Lu said. 
Use taxes are like sales taxes applied to out-of-state purchases such as mail orders. 
Her 13th novel, "House of Splendid Isolation" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 232 pages, $21), centers on a paradigmatic O'Brien heroine -- a reclusive old widow named Josie O'Meara who lives among "listless fields" on the outskirts of a village. 
A three-judge panel in St. Louis said the school in Ladue, Mo., shouldn't have required the Good News/Good Sports Club to meet on weeknights or weekends. 
Christian activists like the shrewd Ralph Reed, who runs Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, argue that criticism of them amounts to religious bigotry. 
They were: vendor performance; the change in sensitive-material prices; manufacturers' unfilled orders for durable goods; consumer expectations; stock prices; new orders for consumer goods; and contracts and orders for plants and equipment. 
"We're looking for very good earnings in the second quarter," said Morgan Stanley analyst Leslie Ravitz, who sees the sector being helped by "good industrial production, stimulated by strong consumer durable demand." 
The Dana chief executive said the Toledo, Ohio, company is benefiting from the boom in light-truck sales in North America, among other things. 
Says Jack Gottschalk, a museum fund-raiser and an observer of Mr. Tarrson's alleged epiphany: "I saw goose bumps." 
The Guangming Daily said the 20 Beijing delegates to the People's Political Consultative Conference stated, "Owning dogs has 100 disadvantages and not one benefit." 
Both advocates and foes of new franchising laws say the subcommittee hearing will come too late to lead to any new legislative proposals this year. 
Dr. Finn, who will be joining the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, as a John M. Olin Fellow by the end of the year, said Edison's money requirements played no role in his decision. 
The fiscal 1994 results include the first full-year contribution from the Rank Hovis McDougall food companies, which were acquired in December 1992. 
Bavaria's prime minister gave a speech. 
But several defense attorneys, businessmen and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro repeatedly criticized the magistrates for using preventive detention without adequate proof, to force confessions from those being investigated, a technically illegal tactic. 
There is little employment. 
Without the special items, earnings per share rose 19% from $5.77 a year earlier, the company said. 
For Claire's Stores, based in Pembroke Pines, Fla., with 1,124 retail outlets in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, Japan is the main focus of the venture. 
In Wellington, equities slid sharply in busy trading on selling by a couple of institutional investors and overseas participants. 
In addition, only about 40% of Hispanics received health insurance from their employers. 
However, at any time, the owner can fire him. 
He will retain his current titles of president and chief executive officer. 
The numbers say it all. 
GM acknowledged that the new 1995 models, including midyear price increases and higher shipping charges, will cost roughly 3.5%, or $700 a vehicle, more than the 1994 models did when they were introduced last October. 
NEW YORK -- Investors' confidence in the economy remained steady in June despite volatile markets for stocks and bonds, a new PaineWebber Group Inc. survey says. 
Expensive facilities and well-paid teachers are nice, he suggests, but not especially essential to schooling. 
The investigation was disclosed in a letter from G. Oliver Koppell, the New York attorney general, to Rep. Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.), chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
Boston developer Norman Leventhal organized Friends of Post Office Square to try to rid the neighborhood of a crumbling, three-story parking facility facing his Meridien Hotel. 
During the transition, outsiders expect him to focus on employee morale, creditors' concerns and calming jittery suppliers. 
Settling down on his porch, looking out over the city, Mr. Zildzo counts his chickens: "Two big ones, five mediumsized ones and seven small chicks." 
asks Gordon Eubanks, chief executive officer of Symantec Inc., a medium-sized software company in Cupertino, Calif. 
The Spaniards appear to be gathering momentum. 
Here the report is extensive and persuasive. 
"I really love to drive," says the petite deliverywoman, whose lipstick matches her pink uniform shirt. 
The company, which makes switching systems for network services, said it expects fiscal first-quarter earnings to come in below Street expectations as a result of protracted contract negotiations. 
Not far away, an abandoned Haitian bus, caught on the wrong side of the border when the gates closed for the last time, gathers dust in a parking lot. 
Meanwhile, sales of Big Foot, a 21-slice pizza, appear to have trailed off since its introduction 14 months ago. 
The chart reveals that between last August and October, the semiconductor maker's stock floated between $16 and $19 a share before plunging to $13 in December. 
It's a multibillion-dollar question that many in the news media and the plaintiffs' bar believe already has been answered. 
Already, top Chinese leaders are positioning themselves more openly for a possible succession struggle. 
The company reported earnings of 84 cents a share, below analysts' estimates of 91 cents a share. 
For 1993, Gibson reported net income of $25.9 million, or $1.61 a share, on sales of $546 million. 
New World will give 463,330 of its shares to Westinghouse in exchange for about two million shares owned by Westinghouse in Photocomm Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz., supplier of photovoltaic systems. 
Since 1980, the U.S. has given the government of war-wracked El Salvador more than $4 billion in aid, much of it targeted to developing a viable private sector. 
Among the transactions were proposed deals involving Time Inc.; Squibb Corp.; Combustion Engineering Inc.; LIN Broadcasting Inc. and American General Corp.  Mr. Haddad, who worked in the investment firm's mergers and acquisitions department in New York, wasn't charged in the indictment. 
Its most recent market: Vietnam. 
Made of thinner fabric by Bag Bag, Newport Beach, Calif., it holds up to to 60 grocery bags and sells for $2.99. 
For the first quarter ended March 31, Dual Drilling reported net income of $600,000, or four cents a share, on revenue of $30.9 million. 
Since last year, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been looking into whether Merrill Lynch employees made payments to a firm with ties to a top aide of then-New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio in return for part of that state's turnpike-bond business. 
The resulting famines took lives that the sea could have saved. 
Mr. Ciampi previously served as an ex-officio member of the BIS board, was governor of the Bank of Italy and headed the Italian government for a time. 
This is important, because almost 30% of the population still lives in the countryside, where there is still no great electoral competition for the PRI. 
"The best could be yet to come," said Scott Merlis, an auto analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. "Big Three earnings could go through the roof" once Europe recovers and North American sales strengthen further, he said. 
While the 27 deals consummated in the first half of 1994 roughly match the 23 offerings completed in the year-earlier period, the dollar amount raised by Texas companies surged 50% to $1.83 billion, according to information collected by Securities Data Co.  That's exactly the opposite of what happened on the national scene. 
But defaults are expected to rise slightly. 
The engineer, who was identified only as Theodor B., 46 years old, was arrested Monday and released on bail Tuesday. 
Under the statute passed by Congress last month, a special division of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit appoints independent counsels. 
WASHINGTON -- To hear some critics tell it, the World Trade Organization created to oversee the pending global-trade pact would be a rampaging Godzilla, chewing up U.S. environmental laws, swallowing Congress and spitting out local regulations that might be trade restrictive. 
In composite trading on the Big Board yesterday, Conseco's share price rose to $46.25, up $1. 
"If growth is above that pace, rates will keep going up," he said. 
Such arguments get a sympathetic hearing from Democrats and Republicans alike on Congress's agriculture committees. 
Her acting career continued until her first marriage, and included small parts in a few London productions and in the popular British TV series "Coronation Street." 
Toyota also is exporting 2,500 vehicles a month to Europe, in both left- and right-hand-drive designs, the spokesman said. 
Like everyone else who plunged into cold fusion, Dr. McKubre initially had trouble repeating experiments. 
As his circumstances suggest, the 41-year-old Mr. Ren is a prized cog in China's industrial machine. 
Mr. Clinton had no more luck with his hopes of calming currency markets, which have driven the dollar down against the yen and the mark. 
"This significantly accelerates the process . 
"It's a good thing to work at a well-endowed university," Mr. Sabato says. 
The new Chinese regulation also requires infringers to compensate copyright owners for losses, Xinhua said. 
GUETERSLOH, Germany -- Bertelsmann and Australia's News Corp. agreed to rescue German television station VOX, which Bertelsmann in March said it would close. 
JEDI is a joint venture between Enron Corp. and the California Public Employees Retirement System. 
OCALA, Fla. -- Nobility Homes Inc., a manufactured-home seller, said it plans to buy back as many as 100,000 shares, or 8.8%, of its about 1.1 million shares outstanding. 
He says the company plans to back Satin Touch with a "very substantial" investment in television and print advertising. 
Once the approval is granted, the two sides said, the union will end a strike that began June 1 at facilities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia. 
The company also developed the natural gamma ray log. 
One recent battle was fought in court, after Ecolab sued to restrain its six former sales managers from giving certain information to Diversey. 
The Macy board, however, may still raise objections to Federated's plan. 
"I tell them it's the law." 
Coke shows that Japan isn't closed to Western companies, just as long as they're willing to front the money to play by the same rules as Japanese firms. 
To improve the odds of success, the committee picked a patriotic text and asked only that composers set it to music. 
Bell executives counter that the court effort is simply a parallel effort to legislation and has been in the works for several years. 
"Whether true or false, the perception will be there that this is a good product for arthritis," says Jack Trout, president of Trout & Ries, a Greenwich, Conn., marketing strategy firm. 
With managers of many of the problem banks banned from the industry for life, the government is scraping to find qualified personnel to replace them. 
That means drawing up the terms of a deal with North Korea, a path to unification more real than wishful thinking. 
The main crisis is in China's cotton fields. 
Overall, coffee consumption in the U.S. has declined from about two cups a person a day in 1980 to 1.87 cups last year. 
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury plans to sell $6 billion in 69-day cash-management bills tomorrow raising all new cash. 
Some specialists believe GE's recent decision to place two senior executives at the helm of Kidder shows the firm's sense of urgency in turning Kidder around, and Wall Street expects GE to dump Kidder as soon as it can. 
Otherwise, attention centered on the FOMC. 
In Hong Kong, stocks fell, surrendering early gains to profit-taking following two sessions of strong run-ups. 
Following the announcement on Friday, Telmex stock fell two centavos to 9.48 pesos ($2.80). 
If households and business agents expect price increases, they will tend to go on a buying spree and purchase buildings, equipment and inventories. 
To speak more bluntly: At its present state of development, Haitian society may be incapable of sustaining an authentic and functional democratic political system by itself. 
Caterpillar has independently owned dealerships in more than 125 countries. 
The women lounge around Ruth's tasteful apartment, wolfing down quantities of bad-for-you comestibles. 
Mike testified that he left high school in his junior year to work full-time at the store and save the family home from foreclosure. 
"As a practical matter I don't think you'll see much of that these days," says Mr. Hobbs. 
"I'm also the chemistry department and the math department," says Dr. Cravens, 43, who holds a doctorate in biophysics from Florida State University. 
If the opposition persists, Mr. Clinton may have to soften his position or change course, as he did when his earlier attempts to reform the behavior of China and Japan proved unworkable. 
"Things here are getting tough," laments Ricardo Bendeck, a family physician who says he recently sold his practice to Lee Memorial after Mr. Hall told him that any physician who didn't support Columbia could expect to find a competing practice opening across the street. 
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. may have scored a big hit with its newest model, the RAV4 urban recreational vehicle. 
"I thought the business was a bit fanciful, to say the least," David Fairbairn says. 
An investor group including New York money manager Mario Gabelli said last month that it had lifted its stake in the company to 22% from 19%. 
To understand why, hike with Harriet Bullitt along the rocky banks of Icicle Creek. 
The company's four core business units are showing sales gains of at least 10% this year, and all are profitable, Mr. Schulze said. 
Two periods stand out: The 1947-62 era of the Marshall Plan, and the second half of the 1970s, during the last commodity boom, which was exacerbated by the artificial oil shortage caused by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Carter administration regulatory actions. 
LAWRENCE, Kan. 
Dollar: 98.05 yen, off 0.70; 1.5620 marks, off 0.0096. 
Mr. Rhodes immerses himself in detail; Mr. Capps is bored by numbers. 
"Many banks have benefited" as rates paid on deposits lagged behind the jump in the prime lending rate," says Robert Albertson of Goldman, Sachs & Co. "Overall, we are looking for solid loan growth and stabilizing margins to translate to flat-to-higher net interest income versus the first quarter." 
Some Northwest Airlink pilots live five to an apartment, sleeping in bunk beds. 
As part of the retrenchment, David Novak, chief operating officer at PepsiCola responsible for Eastern and Central U.S., is expected to take a senior executive post in PepsiCo's restaurant business, according to executives within PepsiCo. 
In recent years, Brazilian supermarkets haven't been making money by selling eggs and milk. 
More than 1,000 jobs will be affected. 
Maybe it was style. 
Unfunded mandates, or legal programs required by the federal government without any accompanying funding to pay for them, are a continuing beef of municipal governments. 
But the new fix-it provision won't be effective until next year. 
The demand for other loans also increased, according to bank officials. 
Sales rose 12% to $173.6 million from $154.8 million. 
For Harcourt, the sale furthers the company's efforts to focus more acutely on the publishing industry, and builds up a cash horde that analysts expect will soon be used for a large acquisition. 
Founder Brian L. McCarty says the channel aspires "to be the C-SPAN of jazz." 
"It's the agencies' response to an increasingly global market," he said. 
Why not get the government to require the following warning on all commercials: "Caution. 
But the federal government can't use its regulatory muscle to tell state and local governments what to do. 
"Bold moves from here would have a better bond-market impact than the gradualist moves we've grown used to." 
A spokesman for Chrysler's Jeep and Dodge Trucks division said the auto maker is confident the government will drop its investigation. 
Analysts generally viewed the FCC's action as favorable to competitive access providers. 
Some of the most important initial work was done by our Demerit Action Groups -- employee teams charged with systematically auditing a vehicle's quality as it comes off the line, tracking down the cause of any "demerit" and implementing solutions. 
Motorola Inc. reported a 63% surge in second quarter profit on a 38% jump in sales, providing further evidence that it has become the fastest-growing of the major U.S. multinationals. 
As interest rates rose in the late winter and early spring, bond prices plummeted. 
Enquirer/Star Group said an investment group withdrew a $315 million offer to take the firm private. 
Analysts are concerned about future growth at the company. 
Callable at par after June 2001 on any interest payment date if current balance of mortgages is less than 10% of purchasing price. 
"The traditional New Deal notion of delegating broad, general legal authority to administrative bodies still retains its vitality," he declared. 
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Diamond Shamrock Inc. expects to report that second-quarter net income surged to a range of 80 cents to 90 cents a share because of the positive impact rising crude oil prices have on its inventories. 
Like children, individual retirement accounts can't safely be ignored. 
The stock's June 30 decline zapped the game players -- brokers, traders and even some index funds -- with losses instead of the profits they expected. 
The dollar gained to 99.25 yen and 1.5682 marks yesterday from 98.40 yen and 1.5475 marks late Monday. 
The yield dropped to 10.6% from 11%, traders said. 
Actor Charlton Heston, who lobbied heavily against the legislation, said the defeat represents "a challenge to the utility of big labor." 
It also redesigned the diet Coke can. 
It has also spent years courting shareholders in the U.S., where institutions hold 24% of the company. 
"Rome wasn't built in a day," he added. 
Many other marketers, including Eastman Kodak Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co., have responded to the private-label threat by spending more on advertising or by spinning out new products meant to help foster a perception of a clear quality advantage. 
What Muslims in Eritrea or elsewhere may believe is referred to as "traditional beliefs" inspired from certain teachings and interpretations that belong to regional minority sects through the "well-intentioned" endeavors of their sheiks. 
H. Leighton Steward, chief executive officer, said Teak's inconclusive results "absolutely" wouldn't deter his company nor others from drilling more subsalt wells. 
"They said there's too much traffic in Osaka," she sighs. 
As with all the specimens, weeks of lab analysis will be needed to know whether the described medicinal effects are borne out. 
It's the backward-in-time story of three friends who grow apart as they grow more and more successful. 
But he said most of the managers would be redeployed to other positions. 
It isn't that simple. 
Moscow subsequently allocated this stake to LUKoil, a Russian integrated oil company. 
For some big investors, timing is everything. 
Citizens said its acquisition of the New England bank increases its assets to $9.2 billion, making it the fifth-largest commercial bank in the region. 
In calendar 1993, a total of more than $16 billion of short- and long-term debt was sold by the state of California and its authorities. 
Here are the corrected figures: total car sales, 871,059, up 4.3%; total import car sales, 177,087, up 7%; and total vehicle sales, 1,449,472, up 6.8%. 
The $1.5 billion portion is being marketed with a yield 0.11 to 0.13 percentage point above London Interbank Offered Rate; the 175 billion yen tranche at 0.08 to 0.10 percentage point above Libor; and the 1.25 billion mark portion at 0.12 to 0.14 percentage point above Libor. 
"The nice thing about this deal is that there is very little overlap between our current market and Newport's market," said David Gudmundson, Cisco's manager of business development. 
But Wall Street traders say one telltale sign that the deal didn't proceed as planned is the fact that the offering was cut in size to 16.42 million depositary shares, priced at $25 each, from an originally planned 30.6 million shares. 
Smaller stocks underperformed larger issues throughout the day, partly because of weakness in the dominant technology segment of the Nasdaq Stock Market, said Patrick Davis, head of Nasdaq trading at Salomon Brothers. 
Mr. Kessler couldn't be reached for comment. 
In addition, Hovnanian said "accounting timing differences" caused by changing its fiscal year end from Feb. 28 to Oct. 31 caused it to record higher expenses. 
Since the beginning of the year, the regional Bell companies have filed a flurry of new applications at the agency, asking for permission to overhaul their networks so they can transmit video signals, a business that the phone companies believe could deliver a substantial portion of their future revenues. 
De Beers's agreement with Calgary diamond explorers Tanqueray Resources Ltd. and Mill City Gold Mining Corp. brings the total funds conditionally committed to diamond development in northern Canada to more than C$1 billion. 
The report found some special-education students were placed in regular classes without sufficient parental notice or consent. 
As in World Cup. 
The stock rallied during its first week of trading to a high of HK$3.50 (45 U.S. cents) before slipping to a low of HK$2.88 late last month. 
"A lot of white Democrats would run away from that issue," says Merle Black, an Emory University expert on Southern politics. 
Prices fell in apparel and home appliances. 
Under the accord, the Spanish government is expected to grant VW some 30 billion pesetas ($230 million) for investments in new technologies and development programs for Seat. 
"A real-estate agent doesn't have the obligation to do an independent investigation of what the seller says is true unless they're tipped off that something is wrong," says Charles Jacobus, a realestate lawyer in Houston, who isn't involved in the case. 
The most bullish economist is Gail Fosler of the Conference Board. 
An additional 2.3% was customer facilitation, in which firms use principal positions to facilitate customer trades. 
Thus, the bloody internal struggle that tore apart the Marxist New Jewel movement in Grenada presented dangers of even greater extremism there -- and, alternatively, opportunities for the U.S. containment of Soviet designs -- that could not be ignored. 
Mr. Yeltsin talks without referring to notes, and swats down aides with hand gestures for interjecting things he considers trivial. 
"Every person in the country could be eating six meals of fish a day, and we wouldn't exhaust our resources." 
He considers CoreStates a bargain, selling at only eight times his estimate of 1995 earnings. 
American Maturity's capitalization will be less than $25 million, but could be rise over time as the company grows, a spokesman said. 
A few years ago, Herman Miller, the Zeeland, Mich., office furniture maker, asked Design Continuum, Boston, to create a universal bathroom, including toilet, sink and tub. 
But excluding an exceptional charge of #220.4 million to cover U.K. store closures, the disposal of Silo and the disposal of U.K. property, among other things, the company had a pretax profit of #73.3 million, down only slightly from #76.7 million a year earlier. 
Among the biggest ADR issuers were European companies; 23 European firms raised $4 billion through ADR offerings. 
The current talks, the SEC's Mr. Becker said in an interview, are intended to "strengthen the information base for our risk-assessment program, develop better methods for evaluating capital adequacy and ensure that customer-protection issues are appropriately addressed." 
Yes. 
The drug, which has been tested in trials at several sites, has been found to be effective in treating yeast infections and preventing them from recurring. 
"One bright idea," he replies. 
The proposal is scheduled to be presented separately to both companies' boards on July 13. 
Because commuter flights usually are shorter, they might perform as many as 10 landings and takeoffs a day. 
In the 12 months ended Oct. 25, 1993, the ATF authorized U.S. importers to bring in as many as 2.5 million rifles. 
Kash n' Karry's senior unsecured debt is rated B3 by Moody's Investors Services and single-B-minus, on negative watch, by Standard & Poor's Rating Group. 
A number have been elevated to new corporate jobs, but the pace of change has been dizzying to the staffs there. 
The systems will be installed in Advanced Micro's manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas. 
Instead of reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance," why not also teach about "the invisible, effective female support system which prepared Emerson's meals?" 
For our part, we consider that the outstanding lesson we can learn from the Korowai is that it's a bad idea to be a woman caught stealing their bananas. 
Nothing but flux and flow. 
Short covering is the purchase of securities to replace shares previously borrowed for a short sale, or a bet that prices will decline. 
Suddenly, a pump that was keeping the heavy water flowing through the cell at a constant temperature broke. 
At the turn of the century, 10 to 12 people lived in each of the 22 tiny units, and shared six outhouses and one water spigot in the backyard. 
"A lot of institutions just want to unload {the sites}," said Brookhill's president, Ronald Bruder. 
"The Navy doesn't like it too much because it doesn't have a pointy bow." 
Former IRS Commissioner Shirley Peterson, now a Washington lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson, calls the idea of issuing summonses for the data "unwise as a matter of policy and unsound as a matter of law." 
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury's general counsel, in giving her account of the department's handling of the Whitewater investigation to a Senate committee, contradicted Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's version, the Washington Post reported. 
A ballot could be put off until after Kim Il Sung's funeral on Sunday. 
The Associated Press reported that Mr. Clinton borrowed at least $220,000 in the mid-1980s while he was governor of Arkansas to promote his legislative agenda. 
She had a large nose, painted bright red by the cold. 
"I've been asked a thousand times by people for a bigger raise than I wanted to give," he says. 
Alumina-based chemicals are used in several applications, including spark plugs, paper products and toothpaste. 
Decisions on investment, as well as selling or leasing assets, would have to be approved by the government. 
In an unusual move, Judge Greene ordered that the Bells will be allowed at the July 21 hearing to voice any opposition to or support for the AT&T-McCaw deal. 
The issue will be sold through underwriters led by Discount Corporation of New York. 
How did 10 million Czechs awake one morning to find themselves transformed into normalized capitalists? 
"If the Czechs want good relations with us," Edmund Stoiber was reported to say, "they have to make an attempt to come to terms with history -- as we have -- rather than simply sweeping it all under the rug." 
Mr. Rose declined last week to release documentation of his expenditures, while an aide to Mr. Thomas hasn't responded to a request for documentation. 
Instead, they buy enough stocks to represent the entire market, and by holding them also avoid the hidden expense -- and taxes -- incurred by heavy trading. 
By the end of last year, Steepler was selling 83,000 units a month for about $40 apiece. 
But as bond prices advanced on signs that inflation remains in check, so too did the dollar. 
Pakistan Textile companies world-wide rely heavily on China and Pakistan to satisfy their needs for cheap cotton. 
It brags of 300,000 laid-off farmers, pointing to 30,000 other workers who get the boot each month. 
Eugene Nowak, an analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds, sees quarterly oil company earnings down by 25% on the average year-on-year. 
Mr. Clinton, to the dismay of those on both sides, has ducked taking a position, preferring to seek a so far elusive compromise. 
But the move may have swayed other institutional investors -- disgruntled because Enterprise didn't buy their shares -- to reject the #.6 billion bid because they would have had to settle for a less appealing offer of Enterprise stock had the bid succeeded. 
The Hari Krishnas do it better. 
"Any type of interest-rate increase is extremely difficult for small-cap stocks, but the fundamentals of our companies are still quite strong." 
"We wanted to get something out now, because the increased usage of derivative options in bond issues is not something that's lessening, it's increasing," says S&P's chairman, Leo C. O'Neill. 
In addition to the Fixodent experiment, industry executives say P&G is exploring the possibility of producing an infomercial on a shampoo, although the specific brand couldn't be determined. 
Although Mr. Yokoi is not currently listed as an officer of that company, Ms. Nakahara and two of Mr. Yokoi's sons currently serve on the board. 
Of Atlantic Coast's charge, $6 million will be a one-time, noncash write-off associated with options to purchase 10 of the Embraers. 
A leading skeptic of much existing economic regulation, Judge Breyer would replace what he considers to be ineffective rules with ones that protect more people at a lower cost. 
Andrea Martin, a gifted comedienne from the TV show "SCTV," is delightful as Mistress Quickly, the daffy, motor-mouthed go-between, who carries messages between the wives and their prey. 
He tells visitors that a future Haitian government will need to sell state-owned companies, and that, with a change in regime, the country will need to find $45 million in foreign aid over three months in order to give democracy a chance. 
The U.S. economic recovery remains spotty, and those patterns are reflected in municipal budgets. 
The Prudential Insurance Co. of America unit argued in the case that the class members were precluded from filing suit after agreeing to participate in the class-action settlement. 
In a careful understatement, Microsoft's general counsel, William Neukom, describes the terms as "reasonable," and predicts they will have "no material effect" on the company, which is based in Redmond, Wash. 
And Seoul prices jumped, on signs of stability on the Korean peninsula. 
Obviously appalled at such partisanship in the Vatican, Mr. Clinton responded, "After that political comment he made he has another good reason to go to confession now." 
Sales of Pizza Hut's budget-priced Big Foot pizza are already slowing. 
His friend, Johan Oldewarris, says he falls in the canal about 30 times a year. 
It was "an autonomous universe dedicated to the book." 
In the New York religion case, for example, Justice Souter appeared to be looking for the most limited theory possible to strike down the school district created for disabled children of the Satmar Hasidic sect. 
Mr. Damschroder says Ohio could avoid conflicts of interest -- such as regulating companies in which it also invests -- by having the fund managed by a private money manager, rather than a state employee. 
While most anti-abortion activists are peaceful, the more militant wing of the movement has used aggressive blockades, threats, vandalism, and in some instances, personal violence to try to put clinics out of business. 
But correcting the problem will take until February at the earliest, he says, rendering the laws toothless for at least five months. 
The new planes Lockheed wants to sell would be delivered between 1999 and 2002. 
Some are easy to avoid, but others may be less obvious. 
The Invisible Hand may have been the guidance and limitation placed upon the policies of government by the division of functions among the federal government, the states, and the citizens, by the room left for the play of diverse factions and interests, and by the assurance of freedom of discussion and the competition of ideas. 
He is fluent in French, German, Spanish, English and Italian. 
The company said the new name is derived from the phrase "electronics for medicine." 
When he goes out with friends for dinner, he says, they often plead, "Don't take me to one of those goat places." 
Shipments to offshore markets rose 10% to 223,000 metric tons. 
Gesturing toward the bazaar-like warren of shops near her own, she says: "These kids don't have to do this, yet here they are -- 17 years old, sometimes working alone, closing up, putting money in the safe. 
One money manager who holds shares in all three companies was harshly critical of Comcast, saying it was merely "muddying the waters." 
They did warn, however, that the belts not only don't protect workers, but may actually increase the risk of injury by lulling the user into a false sense of protection. 
But Clinton aides privately worry that Congress might not even get to the world trade pact this year. 
The Pentagon said it is stepping up aid flights into the area and is considering sending civil affairs officials to help with relief efforts. 
-- Kemper Financial Services Inc. said Robert Ash, chairman of its Kemper Sales Co. with responsibility for marketing and distribution of mutual funds and other products, resigned to "pursue other interests." 
"We are actively prospecting the technology sector, especially semiconductor issues. 
The former Olympics sprinter who became Britain's youngest member of Parliament at age 29, saw his first political career wilt in the early 1970s, when he unwittingly invested in a fraudulent Canadian cleaning company. 
People on Wall Street familiar with the SEC talks describe them as a way to accommodate Washington without stifling their own derivatives businesses. 
Mr. Ebbers said any uncertainty over a proper bidding price would increase if IDB were required to restate its financial results. 
Just before last Tuesday's deadline for making estimate changes, he decided that a rise in the federal-funds rate of 1/4 percentage point is now in the offing. 
After opening almost flat, the Nikkei pushed higher at midday as investors were somewhat reassured by the dollar's strengthening against the yen. 
In Manila, prices advanced for the third consecutive session, jumping 1.7% on bullish sentiment from a previously announced reduction in banks' reserve requirements, effective Aug. 15. 
Judge Vela declined to comment on his order or the appeals-court ruling. 
In May, a board committee voted to recommend that the full board search for a replacement for Mr. Rhodes. 
The maker of diagnostic ultrasound systems said the acquisition wouldn't affect its production facility at its Milpitas, Calif., base, or a site in Horten, Norway. 
Both Sens. William Roth of Delaware, a Republican, and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Democrat, are fighting for their jobs by airing TV spots that stress their records on substantive issues. 
That secret poisoned an already turbulent family life. 
Mr. Kunstler's latest book is "The Geography of Nowhere" (Simon & Schuster). 
WASHINGTON -- The slapdash health bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved last week promises health insurance for 95% of Americans, but doesn't raise enough money to achieve that goal, administration and congressional officials say. 
Goldman routinely faxes price quotes to these interdealer firms to be used in pricing the CBOT index. 
ATLANTA -- Cigarette smoking in the U.S. costs the national economy at least $50 billion a year in direct medical expenses, more than twice a previous government estimate, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
Stuart Bascomb, executive vice president of Express Scripts, declines to comment. 
The ads feature a clay figure known as Pizza Head, created by the man who brought you Mr. Bill, the hapless character who was routinely squashed by his nemesis Sluggo during the glory days of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." 
Mr. Phelps, a sales manager, hands young Jacoby Rice over to a salesman who happens by. 
Where it does not work very well is for the poor and low-income young women who bear 85% of the children born to teens. 
Competitive bidding will be held on $27.1 billion of existing contracts, including $8.4 billion in contracts previously announced by the department. 
WHO analyzed 75,000 heart attacks between 1985 and 1987 in the continuing study. 
Among corporate developments, in London, Rank Organisation climbed 13.5 pence, or 3.5%, to 404.5 pence ($6.34). 
An employer mandate reduces the need for large government expenditures. 
Mr. Reed separately settled SEC charges in this case, agreeing to pay a $50,000 civil penalty, the company said. 
A massive four-year study, funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, dramatically refuted these criticisms. 
UBS Securities initiated coverage of the stock with a "sell" rating. 
He looks for sweeping social and economic trends in a country and buys stocks to capitalize on the metamorphosis. 
MasterCard has taken advantage of finals week in Los Angeles to host a board meeting of Europay International, its European consortium of member banks. 
In addition, they would receive $20 million in preferred stock. 
In later years, he sought out fellow boomerang enthusiasts by helping to organize national tournaments. 
Katz, of New York, sells advertising time on behalf of television and radio broadcasters. 
While that represented a 6% dollar increase from the previous year, domestic operating margins declined to 19.9% from 20.3%, analysts estimate. 
First and foremost, Mr. Gates is a cunning and tough competitor who never relents, and there is nothing in the settlement to curb that behavior. 
In a way, Mr. Clinton's gregarious style with other world leaders has loosened up Mr. Yeltsin. 
Today's trading should be very thin, with no new issues and no scheduled data to keep players tied to their desks ahead of the Fourth of July holiday Monday. 
Some states have passed laws requiring companies to allow customers to block call return or caller ID because of privacy concerns. 
NEW YORK -- AT&T Corp. said it signed several agreements totaling $425 million to extend its long-distance telephone services to Holiday Inn Worldwide over four years. 
And, as part of a round of belt-tightening at the company, he cut his salary 15%. 
He says Mr. Snyder reassured him that Ms. Regan, whose string of bestsellers included books by Mr. Limbaugh and Howard Stern, wasn't going anywhere. 
USX Corp.'s U.S. Steel Group also said it promised customers only two base price increases in 1994. 
At the start of this decade, the Peruvian treasury had almost ceased to exist. 
Mr. Schmiedeknecht aims to transform a company that last year received 60% of incoming orders from German customers to one that has only 25% to 30% dependence on Germany. 
In fact, bundling accounts for a significant portion of CD-ROM sales. 
But Dairy Queen's tie-in with the box office disaster "Radio Flyer" is considered a success because the main thrust was before the movie opened and the reviews killed it. 
Time was short, the Neapolitan character dilatory. 
Actively traded bonds in the secondary market were slightly higher. 
NUCLEAR DYAD? 
"AbFab," as it's known to British fans, is the story of Edina (Jennifer Saunders), a neurotic 40-year-old fashion publicist who's perpetually in a tizzy or an alcohol-induced stupor. 
He says the stock price could rise to "the high 40s or $50" in six months; it closed at $38.50 on the New York Stock Exchange late yesterday. 
The main source of concern for bond traders was an increase in the prices-paid portion of the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index. 
Schroders remains located in a modest 1970s London building with three cramped elevators. 
That investor is Fidelity Investments, the Boston mutual-fund giant. 
Trading mostly was technical, largely related to squaring of positions in DAX-index futures. 
Rated single-A-3 by Moody's and single-A by S&P, the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs & Co.  Telex Communications Inc. -- $100 million of senior notes due July 15, 2004, priced at par to yield 12%, according to MCM CorporateWatch. 
"Some manufacturers have made great gains against private-label competitors," says Gary Stibel, a principal with New England Consulting Group in Westport, Conn. 
But Mr. Oldman says the "nightmare internships" they investigated didn't pay, weren't educational and offered no networking opportunities that could lead to future employment. 
OTTAWA -- The Canadian government said it will auction Wednesday two billion Canadian dollars (US$1.44 billion) of bonds due Dec. 1, 2004. 
Though Los Angeles-based LRN has been in operation for less than three months and hasn't advertised yet, it has done work for huge companies like Motorola Inc., Aetna Life and Casualty Co. and MCI Communications Corp. 
The arrest and release on bail last month of Schneider SA Chairman Didier Pineau-Valencienne is prompting Belgian businesses to push for changes in the country's legal system. 
Five well-financed groups, mostly Mexican-U.S. 
Laptop Contortions: Most of the mice, or cursor-control devices, built into portable computers are just plain awful. 
South Korea began the DEC process with one of Asia's most protected economies; it's unclear just how different it is today. 
"It is a serious harm to the publiclike taking away your right to let someone else read your books." 
As B-2 production winds down, Vought expects that 1993 sales of nearly $1 billion will drop to $600 million or less annually beginning next year. 
DFA Japanese invests in small Japanese companies, holding more than 600 stocks. 
Boris Yeltsin was allowed to sit in on the "political" part of the Naples G-7 summit this last weekend but not the "economic" part, a rather interesting limitation. 
Meanwhile, Rep. James Leach (R., Iowa), who has doggedly pushed for investigations into Madison and Whitewater, noted ominously yesterday that Mr. Fiske's report "covers less than 5% of the Madison-Whitewater affair." 
The acquisition of Great Southern would give SCI, which owns 843 U.S. funeral homes and 201 cemeteries, its first foot in the U.K. grave business. 
His series of reports, "Virginia Votes," which analyzes voting patterns and gives breakdowns of actual numbers, city by city and county by county, remains essential reading for academics and campaign specialists. 
The ad in question, as you suggested, presented a biased, rather simplistic account of the role of organized labor in our nation's economic history. 
.UUntil the market can get a fix on what the economy is doing -- and, from the last few days, it appears that's still uncertain -- it's going to be increasingly difficult to get deals done." 
The notion of randomness, of chaos, was moving into ecological theory. 
The Treasury's benchmark 30-year issue gained more than 3/8 point, or more than $3.75 for a bond with a $1,000 face value, to yield 7.68%. 
But that view has come under increasing attack as more and more legal work has been turned over to in-house lawyers. 
That means no capital-gains tax, no estate tax, no tax on dividends. 
The judge reproached both sides, questioned the jurors to satisfy herself that the incident hadn't tainted their judgment, and allowed the case to proceed. 
"But I think there's a possibility to survive as an independent airline." 
But, increasingly, people are ignoring the numbers. 
According to Mr. Sowanick, the bond market "simply does not offer enough yield to offset the risk of further price declines." 
Tokyo-based Sega put up its money after dispatching engineers to verify Rocket Science's claims. 
Mr. Clinton tried to confront that tendency during his visit to Riga, Latvia, just before the Naples G-7 summit. 
We couldn't see any way out of it except to make a fairly radical break." 
The collateral has a weighted average coupon rate of 8.5% and weighted average maturity of 349 months. 
As they approach November's ballot box, Americans deserve to know what Bill Clinton's buddy system is all about, and whether their Congress is trying to find the truth or trying to hide it. 
The disconnection and frustration were apparent everywhere -- from suppliers to employees. 
WASHINGTON -- Ending a rancorous dispute, the U.S. agreed to give the French a bigger share of the royalties for the kits used to test for AIDS. 
Further big names in the Nike stable are Tomas Brolin of Sweden, Italy's Paolo Maldini, Mexico's flamboyantly fluorescent goalkeeper Jorge Campos, and the U.S. squad's Tab Ramos, now known for the vicious elbow to the head he took during the U.S. loss to Brazil. 
Credit-rating services have been reviewing the state's budget for fiscal 1995, which began July 1. 
Fees 1.75. 
Tumbling commodities prices helped Treasury securities show modest gains. 
"Of the $15.5 billion, about $5 billion of the deals don't have any specific timing associated with them." 
Unlike the situation in February, when trade talks collapsed at a U.S.-Japan summit, "nobody is being pressed to finish up before the summit," said one official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. 
However, they would probably agree that the politics of moral emptiness that has characterized so much of the national debate in recent years is about to be supplanted by one or the other of their visions. 
"This thing is a freight train," say Steven Saril, Graff's vice president of marketing. 
A union spokesman termed Bridgestone's final proposals "unacceptable." 
"Chicago" is the code name Microsoft uses to describe an all-new software program designed to totally replace both Windows and DOS, the nearly ubiquitous pair of programs that control tens of millions of IBM-compatible personal computers. 
Both couples decided not to have children after the husbands' disabilities were diagnosed. 
But political instability there makes it far too risky for a company, unless in the context of a public-private venture, in which Western governments would go into the region together with industry on infrastructure projects. 
No country would do that. 
The price increases were "planned and programmed in advance in the most explicit detail," the commission said, and the companies agreed among themselves which would be the first to announce the new higher price. 
Leaves have been canceled for the entire Israeli police force in expectation of demonstrations by Israelis opposed to Mr. Arafat's visit. 
Are they too diverse? 
"The only hesitation centers around the technology stocks," he said. 
Turnover, or revenue, in the three months ended May 31 rose 5.5% -- excluding interest income from financial leases -- to 676.7 million guilders ($383.6 million) from a year-earlier 641.7 million guilders. 
Outside New York, Mr. Rudnick's loony sensibility has reached broader audiences via his screenplay for "Addams Family Values." 
The drugs include Hoechst-Roussel's Altace heart drug, A/T/S acne treatment, Claforan anti-infective drug, and all Copley generic drugs. 
Inquiries regarding specific issues should be directed to the paying agent or, if none is listed, the issuer. 
The game is set to air tomorrow night on General Electric Co.'s NBC. 
Founded in 1989, Energy BioSystems went public in March 1993. 
"It's difficult for me to quantify, but we see this business as having the same kind of potential PCS had four or five years ago," Mr. Seelenfreund says. 
Conseco officials "recognize that the level of debt is an issue," said Larry Mayewski, senior vice president at A.M. 
Since fiscal 1990, short-term borrowing by California, as measured by existing issues of revenue-anticipation warrants and notes, has exploded from $3 billion to a projected $8.2 billion in fiscal 1995, Mr. Zimmermann says. 
The same is said to be true of Cablevision Systems. 
Other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had raised gentle questions about the issue, but Sen. Metzenbaum was the first to do so with any force. 
He recently sold his second home on Cape Cod because it was "a very expensive luxury." 
Burlington Northern fell 1 1/4 to 51 5/8, Santa Fe Pacific dropped 1 to 18 1/2, CSX dropped 1/4 to 74 3/4, Conrail dropped 1/4 to 55 7/8 and Union Pacific was off 3/8 to 56 3/4. 
And the hard-line Communists turned out to have been as stingy under the skin as their bourgeois uncles. 
'Cause the dealers are scared of police. 
Conde Nast said in its news release that someone else will be named to the media development post "in the near future." 
If they want their Harry and Louise to push for universal coverage and get the same benefits as members of Congress, we would absolutely agree with that," says Susan VanGelder, an assistant vice president at the trade group. 
It was a hilarious show, albeit helped along by the publicity stunts of actor Nicol Williamson, who occasionally enlivened his performance with an onstage tantrum. 
The basis for the order wasn't clear, though the award had come under fire in Congress for not being approved there first. 
This is like a presidential year." 
The credits will be tracked by the firm's computer and will accrue until they are used. 
Each new outlet will employ five full-time and seven part-time employees, Mr. Platin says. 
Obtaining the coverage relating primarily to the Sphere Drake Insurance Group is required as a condition of the previously announced plan by American International Group Inc. to invest $200 million in Alexander & Alexander, an insurance brokerage and consulting company. 
Mr. Golle says one reason is that EAI has brought special-education students into regular classrooms, meaning their results are included in tallies now. 
In addition, he owns an undisclosed interest in some 100 oil and gas wells that were excluded from last year's IPO of Clayton Williams Energy, according to the prospectus. 
With combined sales of $1 billion, Wellfleet and SynOptics are bitter rivals of Cabletron Systems Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., which agreed to cooperate on technology and marketing earlier this year. 
The Republican National Committee has been expecting to raise roughly $50 million in contributions this year, and through the first six months of 1994 had gathered in $25 million of that, party officials said. 
The National Association of Securities Dealers plans to announce today, in conjunction with the Investment Company Institute, a plan to extend by 10 minutes the deadline for mutual funds to transmit their closing prices to the NASD. 
A sale wouldn't solve Digital's problems, but it would strengthen the company's cash position amid Digital's third major restructuring and another round of work-force reductions. 
"If you're unhappy with your marriage, you leave. 
Anytime you make a nondeductible contribution to an IRA -- or withdraw money from one after having invested already-taxed dollars -- you're supposed to file Form 8606, Nondeductible IRAs, along with your tax return for that year. 
Mr. McNall went on to reap the benefits of the market boom he helped ignite by holding sports memorabilia auctions at his Superior Stamp & Coin Inc.  NFA World Coin Fund is the third Merrill Lynch coin limited partnership that has run into trouble. 
Bob Chlopak, a consultant to the Reform Project, says the coalition of labor, medical-care and consumer groups stands by its report. 
The U.S. unit of Lego Systems A/S of Denmark donated 80,000 Legos for the classroom project. 
"With the kind of money Starbucks is making," he says, "you don't have the playground to yourself for all that long." 
The administration didn't alter its forecast that the gross domestic product, the value of goods and services produced in the U.S., will rise 3% this year -- despite a strong 3.4% rate of growth in the first quarter and private estimates in the 3.5% range for the second quarter. 
Nearly a dozen years after my job transfer to a dream assignment, my wife's resentment of that move suddenly erupted. 
Mr. Bang and other investment professionals in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong spent much of the weekend swapping theories about the impact of Mr. Kim's death. 
Other families share domestic help, which doesn't lend itself to a tidy tax return. 
"They have to work so much harder to get a lousy watercolor to perform for them." 
In 18th-century Italy, a researcher described "diseases of clerks and scribes" from "continuous sitting, repeated use of the hand and strain of the mind." 
How the Erisa issue will be handled "is the question of the day," says Bernadette Dochnal, who chairs the Washington state Health Services Commission. 
Instead, these three money managers rely on more sophisticated methods for predicting the direction of stock prices: Technical analysis, one of two broad schools of stock-market study, with a dash of the more popular method, fundamental analysis, thrown in. 
In fact, only two years ago it hit the highest level recorded. 
The track operator prepaid its advertisements for 25 of the paper's 28 issues in late May, spending about $30,000 and giving the publication its first real infusion of cash. 
But such slipperiness is one reason so many Americans have become so skeptical of politicians. 
Altera, a San Jose, Calif. maker of programmable logic devices, which are a type of semiconductor, said it'll give $25 million and 779,277 of its common shares to Intel for the business. 
Government agencies, schools and state-run companies are ordered to reduce power consumption by 10%, while privately owned factories are asked to shut down production when necessary. 
As an administrative law professor at Harvard in the 1970s, he shuttled between the ivory tower and staff positions in the U.S. Senate, where he put his ideas into practice, most notably by helping orchestrate airline deregulation. 
And Santa Fe Pacific Gold will become a separate entity effective Sept. 30. 
Working a clumsy scoop by remote control is one thing; drilling blast holes to expose ore and using explosives is quite another. 
But BT's Mr. Mockett said the Concert announcement signals that they have finished some key technical work to make their services work together in a common, world-wide system. 
At both plants the expenditures will add only 75 jobs because most of the production increases will come from greater automation. 
Under the plan, the G-7 leaders would have devised a new agenda for trade liberalization, as a follow-on to the world trade pact now being considered in Congress and other national legislatures. 
Home Depot is poised to take advantage of that growing market, experts say. 
Unlike the other managers interviewed, he is dipping into the depressed drug sector, buying Bristol-Myers Squibb and American Home Products. 
Neil Behrmann in London contributed to this article. 
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, which had stabilized around the 1600 level in the past two weeks, was pummeled yesterday, falling 19.64 to 1582.88. 
The bonds are rated single-A-plus by S&P. 
P&G raised prices on that size can by 40 cents on June 27 and by 30 cents on July 1. 
GM's price comparisons include some adjustments for changes in standard equipment. 
Assets of 56 tax-exempt funds rose by $263.7 million to $21.10 billion. 
There may still be enough of an opposition to business-as-usual to put this new coalition in immediate jeopardy. 
The publishing company said a California Board of Education advisory group opposed the company's math textbook for elementary school. 
Having the gift to guide the customer is key to such happy endings, says Bubba, who recalls the sale of a Caprice sedan to an elderly couple. 
Tomorrow marks the 133th anniversary of Bull Run, and roughly the eighth month of war over Disney's America. 
Yes, he has taken some financial hits. 
But pinning down what's taxable can be a headache, advisers concede. 
At the very moment we talk about simplifying, we proliferate. 
In 1994, as Gov. Cuomo trudges uphill toward a fourth term, his speech 10 summers ago is a reminder of how the mighty have fallen. 
Mr. Perna spent 13 years as an economist for General Electric Co. before joining Connecticut National Bank, now part of Shawmut, in 1987. 
Despite the spotty performance of gels so far, manufacturers would love to convert consumers to the pricier format in other categories too. 
That is what I wrote you. 
Mr. King and his co-managers travel extensively, visiting companies before investing and also relying on in-house research. 
"We've got two scandal-drenched candidates" in Virginia, he told the Independent, a British daily. 
In French law, "there is a presumption of innocence," Mr. Guerin said, but if allegations are leaked like this, "people are tried without trial," he added. 
Millions of boxes of General Mills Inc. breakfast cereal containing traces of an unauthorized pesticide were sold in the U.S. for more than a year before the chemical's presence was discovered, the government disclosed yesterday. 
Mr. Myers had been Mr. Merlotti's successor at the Grand Rapids, Mich., concern. 
Simply put, the bulk of them are underpaid. 
Many regarded Japan -- a country mired in recession with three consecutive years of declining corporate profits -- as the world's deadbeat. 
One of the conditions of Royal Oak's bid is that Lac cancel its shareholder-rights plan, which could delay the bid or make it very expensive. 
Finally, Mr. Chipman adds, "it will mean people getting on planes." 
Although the Northwest paper didn't mention American, it did make mysterious references to "A1" techniques. 
The retired Floridians filed an arbitration claim against Smith Barney Inc. last year, claiming they had lost more than $700,000 in limited partnerships. 
That way, firms can find a supplier or customer, even if it is a small business operating out of a home. 
An alluring reason for an acquisition is the fact that the international portion of the prestigious Compaq account is now up for grabs. 
At the same time, Mr. Hollenbaugh said his panel hopes to develop voluntary programs that will encourage lawyers to "advertise in a way that enhances the image of the profession rather than promote the notion that lawyers are less than dignified." 
In a related move, Moody's Investors Service Inc. said it placed about $2.8 billion of General Public's utility unit debt under review for a possible ratings downgrade, in view of the court ruling. 
They also allege -- credibly -- a coverup by Einstein intimates to keep the plaster saint from crumbling. 
-- The criminal justice system has been woefully insensitive. 
It said most workers will see only small real gains in earnings, since it projects inflation of 2.6% this year and 3.6% in 1995. 
MUI plans to acquire the Shangri-La stake through a Malaysian subsidiary, Ascada Sdn. 
Because they manufacturer around the world, they are somewhat shielded from the full impact of a strong yen. 
to a management-led group. 
This is one of the quainter results of the last 25 years. 
HUBCO Inc. (Union City, N.J.) -- This bank holding company raised its quarterly dividend 25% to 15 cents a share from 12 cents, payable Sept. 1 to shareholders of record Aug. 15. 
Of greater importance -- because it takes five justices to form a majority -- would be Judge Breyer's impact on the court's moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor. 
In a short sale, shares are borrowed and then sold with the hope that they can later be purchased at a lower price for replacement. 
"Focusing on the bottom line could make them more competitive." 
But, of course, people are responsible. 
But more important than the big stick is the police's ability to speak softly. 
JOCKEYING INTENSIFIES for the next wave of Whitewater inquiries. 
TOKYO -- Japanese exports of videocassette recorders in May rose 9.7% from a year earlier. 
Elayne Garofolo, marketing chief for Broadway Stores in Los Angeles, took only five days of the four weeks she earned in the past year; she didn't want to lose "momentum" as the firm reopens earthquake-damaged stores. 
Other twin-engine jets have first hauled passengers over land, or close to it, for several years in an attempt to uncover any hidden flaws that could lead to dual-engine failures or glitches over the water. 
The buzz on Wall Street about "dex" made Interneuron a sexy stock when it went public in 1990, turning the Wurtmans into paper millionaires. 
Workers will have to pay a monthly sum, and employers will have to contribute a percentage of their workers' salaries. 
The apartment, which Ms. Medina cleans three days a week, already appears spotless. 
TO DO WHAT EVERYBODY wants done in the long run -- get poor people off welfare rolls and into jobs -- the Clinton administration figures it needs to spend $9 billion over the next five years on education, training, child care and similar items. 
"The Red Sox help give meaning to the existence of people in New England, without which our life would be diminished," Burns says. 
They had to receive assurances that "victory will not usher in another two decades of economic uneasiness, bickering, ferment, and disruption." 
CBS Chairman Laurence Tisch immediately said he is dropping his proposed deal with QVC. 
Hercules (NYSE) slipped 3/8 to 106 3/4. 
A statement from the bank said it had discovered discrepancies in expense claims at Mocatta's Hong Kong branch and that the employees involved explained the expenses as "gifts to individuals in certain countries to facilitate business." 
The following were among Friday's offerings and pricings in U.S. and non-U.S. capital markets, with terms and syndicate manager, as compiled by Dow Jones Capital Markets Report:  Doubletree Corp. -- initial offering of three million common shares priced at $13 each, through underwriters led by Montgomery Securities. 
The 30-minute program, from the agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, touts Fixodent, the top-selling denture adhesive. 
"Nothing else comes close" to its firefighting prowess, says Mr. Bennett, a mechanical engineer and civilian employee of the Air Force. 
This isn't the first time Bacardi has dragged its feet. 
The dollar was mixed. 
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York, ruled in a case involving a letter written by a lawyer for Yale-New Haven Hospital to the attorney of a patient concerning his medical bill. 
That scramble to refinance drove issuance of mortgage-backed securities to record levels in 1993, as Wall Street investment bankers scurried to repackage home mortgages into exotic securities for investors. 
"There was a clear competitive disadvantage" with banks, Mr. Giles says. 
According to Moody's, the rating actions primarily reflect Lincoln National's improved capitalization and lower leverage, its reduced exposure to the commercial real-estate sector, and its decreased investment in group health insurance operations. 
For all their efforts, executors may get nothing more than a hearty handshake. 
Others, such as Mr. Zhao and Qiao Shi, the head of the legislature who is widely seen as destined for the top, "are waiting," he adds. 
Snyder Oil Corp. said the Overseas Private Investment Corp. signed a letter of commitment for $40 million of financial support for Snyder's Permtex joint venture in Russia. 
The military's attitude and the social and economic environment at the time of Mr. Deng's death are also crucial factors in determining who emerges on top. 
Heavily regulated banks control about 70% of the U.S. off-exchange derivatives business. 
Analysts said the results were at the bottom end of their estimates, and management was cautious about earnings prospects during a presentation yesterday. 
Holy Cross has two other hospitals in Utah; HealthTrust currently has six in the state. 
The task is proving tougher than the institutions could have imagined. 
Mr. Babcock told the court that Mr. Levine, in light of his interest in acquiring Sassco, declined to agree to a new executive contract. 
A one-time university administrator and White House fellow, Mr. Ullman, who is known as Mike, might be a candidate for top positions at other retailers and posts outside the industry. 
"Passion," his current Tony-winning Broadway musical, is about a doomed trio of lovers. 
The company's unconsolidated, or parent-only, sales for the period rose 0.6%, to 503.86 billion yen. 
"We're seeing that in our focus groups." 
The two new partners also hope to expand their cellular business rapidly. 
Under the new lineup, Chief Operating Officer Franz Humer assumes management responsibility for research and development, as well as manufacturing activities. 
HONG KONG -- To many investors, the H in China's Class H shares might stand for horrors instead of Hong Kong, which is where the shares are listed. 
The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 1.95 to 705.96. 
But after a month at Griffin, she was discharged with a prescription for lithium and told by psychiatrists that she was fit to return to work. 
The issue will be sold through underwriters led by CS First Boston Inc. 
At DuPont Co., analysts expect per-share earnings of about $1.10 or perhaps $1.15, compared with 79 cents a year earlier. 
Eric K. Cheung, manager of the fixedincome division of Wilmington Trust, said he expects the Federal Reserve to boost interest rates in July. 
"Nobody knows why he left, and the company was to supposed to clear it up weeks ago, but hasn't," says Donald Newman, an analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann in New York. 
After moving into town, Columbia executives quickly seized upon HealthPark as an example of the spendthrift ways of their nontaxpaying competitors. 
"We are determined to make Fannie Mae more accessible than ever before, and in the process, put people who have not been well served by the home mortgage system on the path to homeownership," he said. 
"We want a reform of the tax system that puts more of the burden on environmental and natural resource use, and decreases the burden on income tax," says the 46-year-old Mr. Fischer, who adds that he doesn't want to see total taxation increase. 
Rabobank Nederland (Netherlands) -- $250 million of 6.5% Eurobonds due Aug. 5, 1997, at issue price 100.7505 
Hildebrandt, based in Somerville, N.J., has 30 consultants around the country. 
"We're taking some of the complexity out of the whole problem." 
Mr. Diller won't say what his next move is, though there is much speculation that he may yet end up running CBS or another network. 
And oh yes, her algebra exercises: They led to the discovery of Evariste Galois, a French genius who died before his 21st birthday in a duel after inventing an entire subbranch of mathematics that now bears his name. 
Struggling with mounting losses because of high costs, Digital is accelerating its job-cut plans. 
He offered the most eloquent defense of liberalism heard in many years -- though not eloquent enough to save Walter Mondale. 
At his Rose Garden nomination ceremony, he described a judge's job as making the untidy mass of statutes and constitutional provisions "fit together." 
We'll end with just one more example of decision time for the spenders, because it comes up tomorrow, and perfectly embodies the automatic-pilot mind-set. 
ARLINGTON, Va. 
The foreign ownership restriction also fails another part of the 14th Amendment test -- it is underinclusive in other cases. 
Industrial production was prized under the Soviet system, but no one cared whether consumers would actually buy the stuff. 
The average yield on six-month broker-sold CDs rose to 4.35% from 4.26%, while yields on five-year broker-sold CDs also rose to 5.70% from 5.63%, BanxQuote said. 
The dismantling of the old PRI has continued, partly by design and partly by tragedy. 
Similarly, WCI Steel Inc. of Warren, Ohio, has a strict policy prohibiting all Walkmans on the job. 
In one particularly amusing chapter, Mr. Pais reviews Einstein's mail, which includes letters from children demanding that he get his hair cut, nutcase anti-Semitic abuse, and a 1947 postcard from Boston that reads simply: "You will immediately stop calling space curved." 
Baltimore developer David Cordish will complete his renovations of the Albert Thomas Convention Center, which will become a retail center providing shops, restaurants and nightclubs for downtown theater patrons. 
Traders reported no difficulties with Nasdaq, which saw nearly 249 million shares trade hands without interruption Monday. 
The fear has been stoked by measures against Hungarians in Slovakia and especially Romania, where about two million ethnic Hungarians live and complaints are rife of cultural, economic and educational discrimination. 
"No suggestion has ever been made by Kidder Peabody, nor can it be claimed, that Buch's employment at Kidder Peabody was terminated for cause," according to the arbitration claim. 
"No one is ever forced into the job," says Kenneth P. Brier, a tax attorney with the law firm Sherburne, Powers & Needham in Boston. 
he asks. 
PARIS -- German media group Bertelsmann AG and French pay-TV operator Canal Plus intend to set up a European pay-TV joint venture by the end of July, Bertelsmann financial director Siegfried Luther said. 
Single-market directives, environmental regulations and greater regulatory surveillance of financial markets have translated into new laws -- many of which carry fines or prison terms for offenders. 
But the acquisition will make it a bigger player in a growing and competitive business. 
"The interesting thing is that in the small-cap area, when stocks have been down recently, there's been very little for sale, and they rebound quickly on the slightest hint of good news." 
Some think this arrangement is just fine -- financial and commodity speculators say so all the time. 
The prices-paid portion of the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index rose to 69.7 in June from 63.6 in May. 
The new rules specify that there will be no limit to the number of competitors that Telmex will face when its monopoly on long-distance service expires in 1997. 
Other car makers -- also reeling from last year's collapse in sales -- complain that Seat is receiving preferential treatment from the government. 
It's almost as if Norman Vincent Peale met Newt Gingrich and they decided to co-author a book. 
But the stock dropped $1.625 to close at $128.125 in composite New York Stock Exchange trading, in part because of uncertainty about the carrier's future cash flow. 
Mr. Goetz had stepped down from Metallgesellschaft's supervisory board at the end of 1992 and was called back to the management board in December to help guide the group through its financial crisis. 
Met Life will refund premiums and interest to those whose claims it doesn't contradict with evidence. 
"The revisionists have opened new doors for me as a novelist," says Mr. Blevins, the Crazy Horse biographer. 
The theory was that the traits of these various derivatives would offset one another and the investor would reap a nice return, a theory that proved false. 
Terms call for each Hamilton share to be exchanged for 1.6 share of New York Bancorp common, which closed Friday at $21, down 62.5 cents on the American Stock Exchange, making the exchange worth about $33.75 per Hamilton share. 
The agency has hired nine new inspectors to read filings. 
He added, though, that Russia hasn't received much of the aid pledged to it at last year's summit in Tokyo and "it hurts a little." 
Mr. Gray has embraced Mr. Aristide, focusing solely on the goal of returning him to power. 
Shares of the fund must be given as a gift to another individual or organization, and must be held either for a 10-year period or for the time it takes a minor to reach adulthood. 
Digital Equipment Corp. continues to struggle with shrinking sales, but it hasn't been able to control its costs, said Jay P. Stevens, an analyst with Dean Witter. 
Mr. Silver also recommends hard work. 
Also, many portfolio managers and institutions cashed out of positions in connection with window dressing. 
During a tour of the dump, the county's senior civil engineer, Eric Swanson, dismisses the occasional dynamiting as "not a major activity." 
"Fast-food companies are afraid of dog-related products," says Mr. Cohen. 
An official of Roadway Services, an Akron, Ohio, freight hauler, says its truckers are told to practice restraint. 
Mr. Sardon is a professor of law at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima. 
The agency hasn't yet compiled such data for the second quarter, though it reported that the industry added to its stocks in April and May. 
When he watched one of them give the correct answer to 43 + 8 - 3, "it was spine-chilling," he says. 
"It would be nice if there were no winners or losers. 
A draft of long-awaited federal workplace rules on repetitive-stress injuries fails to prescribe specific means of alleviating the problem, reflecting medical uncertainties about the ailments involved. 
Kelvinator of India, a publicly traded company, was formed in the 1960s as a licensee of Kelvinator brand appliances. 
Republican Sen. John Warner failed to support Mr. Farris and was overheard making critical remarks about the candidate's having home-schooled his nine children. 
Besides, Mr. Damschroder says, a mutual fund is a more ethical way to raise money than being the umpteenth state to legalize casino gambling: "Soon," Mr. Damschroder wrote in a newspaper column, "much of America will look like Pottersville in Frank Capra's `It's a Wonderful Life'" -- that is, overrun with dens of vice. 
Andrea Mitchell of NBC News recently noted that Mr. Clinton "had it so easy" on talk shows in 1992 that he can't seem to accept they are now much tougher on his policies than they were on his speeches. 
This is your chance to take the bull by the horns -- knock on a few doors and get to know a few of these gurus." 
Michelle Galanter Applebaum, an analyst with Salomon Brothers, said Inland Steel's steelmaking unit benefited from higher prices and increased volume. 
Apparently he couldn't resist buying in bulk. 
The British food and manufacturing company reported that sales for fiscal 1994 rose to #3.25 billion, up 62% from #2.01 billion a year earlier. 
The amendment would "convert every death penalty case into a massive sideshow of statistical squabbles," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), minority leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote to his colleagues. 
They've been swept up in the hysteria." 
And Bishara Awad, a teacher at the Bethlehem Bible College, says he was once beaten by three masked men as he taught a class. 
In contrast, legislation to allow home-equity lending, which is being studied by a special Senate panel, isn't expected to get very far in presession work, because resistance is still strong in the House. 
Lots of people are getting into the mutual-fund business nowadays. 
Both were friends of Mr. Downe. 
WCI Steel Inc. -- initial 5,750,000 shares, via Merrill Lynch. 
Fees undisclosed. 
Symantec said privately held Intec would become part of its contact management division, which develops specialized corporate databases. 
But Charles A. Bradford, an analyst with UBS Securities Inc., noted that prices of can sheet and aluminum cans were still weak in the period. 
In the interim, Washington state is drafting a standard benefits package, assuming that it ultimately will have authority to require employers to offer such coverage to their workers. 
"We plan to maintain an improving balance sheet through the program. 
The positions take effect Aug. 1. 
DALLAS -- Battered by dwindling bus ridership and competition from low-fare airlines, Greyhound Lines Inc. said it will post an unexpected second-quarter loss and retrench its operations to focus on short routes in five U.S. regions. 
E. Courtney Siegel, 43 years old, vice president-general manager of the division, will serve as chairman, president and chief executive officer of the spinoff. 
Commenting on U.S.-Japanese trade talks, he said the strengthening of the yen had done "more to level the trade playing field between Japanese and U.S. companies than all of the rhetoric and policy initiatives of the previous 20 years." 
Sales of building materials increased 2.7% and apparel rose 1.8% for the strongest gains. 
The number of sepsis cases reported nationwide increased 7% to 637,697 in 1992 from 596,213 in 1991, according to an HCIA study, with the average case involving about $16,600 in hospital charges. 
The products include a protein designed to stop cancer growth and reverse the effects of anticoagulants used in surgery; a small-molecule product that regulates the backup energy system within cells, potentially treating cancer; an immune modulator that could control specific immune responses and an antibody fragment that could work as an anti-inflammatory agent, which it's developing with Eli Lilly & Co.  In its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, Repligen said it had a net loss of $6 million, or 39 cents a share, widened from a net loss of $4.6 million, or 37 cents a share, a year earlier. 
The tour group, recommended by the Sabah Tourist Board, operates out of Kota Kinabalu and arranges tailor-made trips. 
In the face of strong objections from India, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil and other developing nations, Mr. Kantor settled for assurances that the subject will be taken up by a WTO preparatory committee. 
Some publications also were accused of leaking state secrets or violating copyright regulations. 
At the special board meeting, Circus directors are expected to review several options presented by its investment banking firm, Salomon Brothers Inc., and law firm, Latham & Watkins. 
If their immediate supervisor can't answer the question on the spot, he makes sure the question is answered within 24 hours. 
They said the Marine force, which returned recently from a tour off the coasts of Somalia and the former Yugoslavia, is there to evacuate U.S. citizens if necessary. 
A spokesman for the Japanese electronics company, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the program is one of several options under consideration to cope with an increasing demand worldwide for computer chips and rising production costs at home. 
He isn't a workaholic drone leashed to his computer but a workaholic adventurer heading off nuclear warheads at the pass. 
The bullbar "probably has some sort of macho association," says Gary Goucher, policy director of the National Farmers' Federation. 
HARTFORD, Conn. 
But Billy Payne, ACOG's president and chief executive, says: "I don't worry about the `what if's.' 
On the Nasdaq Stock Market, Optical Radiation closed at $22.813, up 6.25 cents. 
MCorp, which once had close to $20 billion in assets, filed for Chapter 11 protection in April 1989, a month after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized 20 of the company's 25 banks in one of the costliest bank failures in U.S. history. 
What has been done, however, is not superficial. 
Many in business back GATT. 
Wertheim's strength historically has been in the media and entertainment industries. 
And he says his clinical work suggests that a diet with only 10% of calories from fat -- far lower than most other diet plans -- is every bit as effective as any drug in losing weight and keeping it off. 
It seems so logical. 
In comments to the ABA Commission on Advertising, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission cautioned against "overly strict restrictions" on the style and content of lawyer ads. 
Dwight Gooden didn't make it into the All-Star game on Tuesday. 
"The guilty ones left before the war ended." 
Fees 0.3. 
Overall, the industry has the best balance sheet she has seen in a decade. 
That spurred more calls for another tightening of U.S. credit conditions by the Fed. 
It said the transaction would immediately be accretive to Astoria's earnings. 
provided legal services." 
"From a Machiavellian point of view, Mr. Murayama is a brilliant leader," said Jesper Koll, an economist at S.G. Warburg Securities. 
Meanwhile, Bob Dole could take the high ground by introducing a bipartisan bill to pay Mr. Clinton's legal fees out of public funds while he's in office. 
At the same time, Alcoa shipped less primary aluminum, or ingot, which carries slimmer profit margins than fabricated products when ingot prices are low, said Thomas M. Van Leeuwen, an analyst with CS First Boston. 
The 1869 festival marked the 50th anniversary of the emancipation of the peasants in Livland, a region comprising Estonia and northern Latvia. 
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225-stock index, which fell 52.51 points Monday, edged up 57.52 to 20775.16. 
The founder considered them an invitation to procrastinate. 
I love the wheeling and dealing. 
At one time, though, the ICC had real power. 
The White House had tried to discourage comparisons with the Reagan address. 
Mr. Clinton broke up laughing. 
Sunshine Broadcasting Network Ltd. of Australia announced a takeover bid for Wesgo Ltd.  The offer is one Sunshine share and 1.15 Australian dollars (83.72 
If man could just know enough and apply that knowledge, things would get better and better. 
Like Gov. Cuomo, Mr. Gibson saw yawning splits in America's future. 
"The big crime syndicates drew together, put an end to wars over turf and declared a pax mafiosa," she writes. 
The effort stems from last September's fatal derailment of an Amtrak train, the Sunset Limited, near Mobile, Ala. 
Pontecorvo was the nuclear engineer on the project. 
He switched on "60 Minutes." 
Her parents "loathed each other," she says. 
"The Berlin Wall is gone," Mr. Clinton told a crowd gathered at the Brandenberg Gate. 
A 34-year-old Austin trial lawyer, Mr. Kincaid has spent much of the past decade suing insurance companies and winning large legal judgments on behalf of policyholders. 
Coal traffic, an important part of rail revenue, rebounded from depressed levels a year ago. 
In his discussion of how senior research-oriented faculty have relegated undergraduate instruction to inadequately prepared, underpaid teaching assistants and adjuncts, Mr. Roche traverses well-charted ground. 
Traders and analysts characterized the sell-off as a "hiccup" in coffee's steady rally, attributing it to technical factors, such as the activation of computer-driven sell orders. 
So most of the country saw its standard of living drop after the breakup of the Soviet Union. 
MFS shares, which dropped significantly after the appeals-court decision a month ago, yesterday was at $28.75 a share in late trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, up 75 cents. 
Equity Inns Inc. -- offering of four million common shares priced at $12.50 each, through underwriters led by Morgan Keegan & Co.  Nazionale Delle Assicurazione SPA -- initial offering of 13 million American depositary shares priced at $15.248 each, through underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs & Co.  Howard County, Md. -- $65.3 million of general obligation bonds apparently won by a Prudential Securities Inc. group. 
But the initial U.S. offering won't include an aid package for hard-pressed Pyongyang. 
John Lister, head of Lister Butler Inc., a New York-based brand consultancy, says Satin Touch adds a needed boost to Tampax's image. 
Recently, MCA Inc.'s MCA Records unit faxed a letter to several hundred radio stations claiming Broadcast Data had under-detected the number of times a song by singer Meat Loaf was played. 
Aside from France's usual prickliness at following a U.S. lead, Paris generally opposes enhancing the power of the G-7 as an institution. 
Users also may get consumer tips from "Good Morning America" and the chance to "chat" with stars of ABC's day-time soap operas. 
The world uses roughly 68 million barrels a day, and that usage is growing at 2%. 
Barley is Canada's main feed grain. 
The solution was first marketed as an antiseptic for the mouth, nose and wounds. 
Their reasoning is that the demand for workers already exceeds, or is close to exceeding, the supply of people available to fill the jobs. 
Transferring the ICC's functions without the necessary accompanying funding -- which is, in fact, what the House voted to do the day after your editorial ran -- would not only be harmful to the regulatory programs administered by ICC, but also would seriously damage Transportation's ability to properly perform its own ongoing programs. 
He is particularly caustic in his account of academic administrators who treat taxpayer money as a free good, quoting from internal directives advising them to assign every manner of peripherally related expenditure to the cost-sharing required by federal research programs. 
But as recently as June 6, Mr. Bernbach said he wouldn't leave Needham, "My father's name is on the door," he said. 
Statistics for the quarter, however, were grim. 
Renovations to turn the historic structure into ritzy loft apartments will begin this summer, and Mr. Davis hopes to be finished by January. 
Mr. Eisner adds that he thought he'd be lionized for bringing a historic park to Virginia. 
The 6.00% government bond maturing in 2025 dropped 1.79 point to 76.60 to yield 8.07%. 
The government will spend $9 billion to build infrastructure and purchase land for the 200-mile rail line linking the capital, Taipei, to the southern port city of Kaohsiung. 
Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic criticized a new peace plan for Bosnia, asserting that it was dictated by the U.S. with no input from Russian or European leaders. 
Yet that hasn't happened. 
Very early on, the auto manufacturers and the road builders saw the advantages they could enjoy by cooperating with each other. 
Carol Means is a consultant with the Job Accommodation Network, a service of the President's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities. 
KINDER-CARE LEARNING CENTERS Inc. (Montgomery, Ala.) -- Sandra Scarr, 58 years old, was elected chairwoman of this child-care-center chain. 
If the case ever got to arbitration, he argues, the panel might well waive the six-year limit, on the theory that the defendant's own allegedly fraudulent actions prevented the customer from discovering more quickly that they had been defrauded. 
Once you start counting, ratios are what you look at: minority officeholders in relation to minority population. 
But none can compare with holding the founding denture. 
Sen. Mitchell said that while he regards this as an unacceptable approach, "the solution of caps is so politically attractive" that Congress would probably adopt it if broader health-reform initiatives fail to pass. 
"Flirting," "social drinking," and "light smoking" have all become euphemisms for sinister forms of exploitation or self-destruction. 
What did they conclude? 
The new trade regime under the Uruguay Round gives preferential trade terms to developing countries (and an even better deal to the least-developed nations) by extending the transition time in some areas, such as the application of uniform patent and intellectual-property laws, and higher subsidies, for instance in agriculture. 
On the one hand, it is excited about Barry. 
Moreover, he says, the nature of the restaurant ownership -- with partners often holding stakes in different stores -- can make it difficult to go public. 
Some analysts say many Japanese retailers are moving into Asia only to keep up with their domestic competitors. 
The agencies that issue most mortgage-backed securities, Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., are also aiding the market with purchases, the analyst said. 
The plan also called for an International Trade Organization, with power similar to what is now planned for the WTO. 
With great intuition and physical dexterity he never makes Forrest more than he is, or less. 
In 1991 a small group of crooks led by a Russian emigre set up a fake medical clinic in Los Angeles that promised free checkups to patients who signed over their insurance claims. 
Regulated institutions would be allowed to continue using derivatives to hedge their own portfolios, but only after permission for such activities had been granted by the appropriate federal regulatory body. 
But a thicket of foreign-exchange rules in Japan keeps companies from putting too much overseas. 
"Alitalia is like an 18-year-old child who enjoys the comfort of its mother, but who knows it has to become independent and is pushing in that direction," Mr. Riverso said in an interview. 
The more cautious in the bunch are waiting for evidence that more bad news won't pop up later this year. 
I set out to find my son. 
"He is very demanding from his people, while being nice, low key and easy going. 
Sort of. 
Intense lobbying attracted another for the summit of nearby Red Onion Mountain, named for a prohibition-era bootlegging operation. 
People in the derivatives industry say a compromise would be good news if one can be reached. 
In the late '30s, he was considering building a house or museum to contain his collections, like Mrs. Gardner's in Boston or Mr. Frick's around the corner in New York, but he went along with Andrew Mellon, then endowing a new museum in Washington, and instead deeded his objects to it. 
"Leave a paper trail," Ms. Means says. 
Some colleagues sent me to Jimmy Lai. 
Sadly, while Mr. Clinton is trumpeting his good intentions, his administration is slapping new textile quotas on exports from Africa and other regions. 
The administration, so far, shows little interest. 
There is some validity to the idea that as Russia develops stronger trade ties to the West and becomes more dependent on Western financing, it will become less threatening. 
Dongfeng hopes to have a primary listing in Hong Kong and a secondary offer in New York. 
But discounting on its routes to Europe, and to a lesser extent on domestic routes, "will cause revenues to fall well short of previous company expectations," S&P said. 
The whole problem reminds me of President Eisenhower's warning: "As we peer into society's future, we must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow." 
By 1996, the company said, it anticipates that the restructuring will reduce costs by $400 million annually, a nearly fourfold jump in projected savings since last fall. 
In recent years, for instance, Fallingwater has spent $50,000 on wood restoration, some $40,000 to replace most of the window glass with panes that filter out ultraviolet light and more than $28,000 for a new security system. 
final in the Rose Bowl. 
Most of her $1.8 million budget pays wages -- for tour guides and other museum workers -- and for running a museum shop and cafe nearby. 
Seventy people were still missing nearly 30 hours after an explosion ripped through a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, while the death toll rose to 27, rescue workers and Jewish leaders said. 
Even some big law firms have commissioned work to be done by LRN or offered to sign their own lawyers onto the network. 
"They are reluctant to move people into less prestigious jobs." 
Defense industry cutbacks have shrunk the demand for machinists and other such workers. 
Mr. Greenspan will be presenting the semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins report to Congress. 
Another is to "ensure that the benefits of the trading system are available to all workers and that the denial of such standards is not a means for a country or its industries to gain competitive advantage in international trade." 
Now, many cities have at least one radio station specializing in so-called hot talk; the hosts talk to listeners on the most-discussed issue of the day. 
During the 12 weeks ended May 22, Filippo Berio accounted for 32.3% of all pints sold, compared with Bertolli's 26% share. 
Dominion said the resignation "restores the reporting relationship" between the president of Virginia Power, James T. Rhodes, and the chairman and chief executive of Dominion Resources, Thomas E. Capps. 
For instance, it didn't get much attention, but that Clinton budget that Congress voted recently for fiscal 1995 authorizes outlays of $1.5 trillion. 
The proceeds from the transaction, the second public sale of aircraft lease bonds by GPA, will be used to pay off bank lenders and other creditors. 
It was twice as much as either Sotheby's or his fourth wife, Rufina, who watched the proceedings from the front row, had expected. 
The well-off, verbally adept customer will now get a better deal than the less educated one, says Armin Busacker of the Association of German Retailers. 
The Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 9.76, or 1.38%, to 719.35. 
"That's the range you need to attain to get prices up." 
With the sneaker business stagnant -- and Reebok shares going nowhere on the New York Stock Exchange after falling 12% last year -- the company thought it had found the answer: soccer. 
But the Wilmington, Del., company's presence in the European nylon market had been minor until it acquired Imperial Chemical Industries PLC's nylon business in mid1993. 
Mr. Ridder, the president, ran the company for several months last fall after Mr. Batten was seriously injured in an auto accident. 
Mr. Whitescarver promotes SilverCreek as a gentler alternative to Winter Park's more challenging trails. 
"We know it works" based on tests in the laboratory, Mr. Webb said. 
Output is expected to rise to a rate of some 600,000 barrels a day by the end of the decade. 
But the income-distribution effects and competing constituencies reflect the harder-edged politics, as all sides seek advantage in anticipation of floor debate in the House and Senate. 
Chains also provide economies of scale, restaurateurs say. 
With a Federal Reserve policy meeting under way, and key economic data scheduled for release Friday, many big investors were unwilling to buy or sell, traders said. 
If prospective issuers stick to their schedules, total cash calls this year could top 10 trillion rupiah, compared with 4.4 trillion rupiah in 1993. 
Dwain Mayfield, vice president of marketing for Lockheed's unit in Fort Worth, Texas, said there is currently a 540-plane backlog of U.S. and foreign F-16 orders. 
Volume fell in nearly every other underwriting category during the second quarter, including initial public stock offerings and common-stock sales. 
South Pointe contracts with independent directors for nearly all the films produced under its five labels, Cal Vista, Metro Home Video, Soho, Intropics and Paradise Visuals. 
"It takes time to make good coffee. 
Deteriorating conditions in Haiti, along with a decision announced with Mr. Gray's appointment last spring to stop forcibly returning Haitian boat people, have unleashed a fresh flood of emigrants that the administration is scrambling to deal with. 
During the past three years, the U.S. has moved to impose sanctions three times -- and all three times the two sides reached a deal at the last moment. 
Both the House and Senate Banking panels will hold hearings on those issues, with the Senate's also slated to start by the end of the month. 
-- Playing white noise to cover distracting conversations. 
The liberal senator cited a ruling in which the nominee wrote the 1990 opinion for a unanimous three-judge panel that reversed a $39 million jury verdict against Boston Edison Co. The Massachusetts utility had been sued by two towns that accused it of a "price squeeze," selling power to them at high wholesale prices while also selling to retail customers at cut rates. 
Its bond rating is investment grade. 
As widely reported this week, Mr. Giuliani's office favors the selection of a single adviser for the handling of New York City's debt issues -- Public Resources Advisory Group -- which is based in New York. 
Last week, government officials announced a deal with Marathon Oil Co., the largest marketer of gasoline in the state, to sell a low-emission fuel this July and August. 
First Bank, with about $26.5 billion in assets, has targeted the nation's "central corridor" for its expansion effort. 
According to the CAAC, China currently has between 4,000 and 5,000 pilots. 
Joe, appear to have suffered as a result of the rise of the Power Rangers, Ms. Krutick said. 
When the 16th Amendment was up for ratification by the states, the British system was still in its 1842 form -- low uniform rates and with a minimum of intrusions. 
Neither could be reached to comment. 
(Results for the fiscal year, ended in May, are due out later this month.) 
Giants such as Medco Cost Containment Services Inc. and PCS Health Systems Inc. -- the company that Eli Lilly & Co. agreed to buy this week for $4 billion -- aren't the only ones cashing in on the prescription-management-services boom. 
Allendale Inc., Crystal Lake, Ill., raised its soybean harvest estimate to 2.17 billion bushels from its original forecast of 2.1 billion bushels. 
Both stock and bond prices rose in early trading, but a worrisome Chicago Purchasing Managers index for June derailed the advance in bonds and carried stocks lower, too. 
The '80s are over, but chief executives are still making lots of money on the sale of their companies. 
If Mexico hasn't recovered, how can those who trade with Mexico recover? 
France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom plan to invest $4.2 billion in Sprint for a combined 20% stake. 
"We need to break down the invisible barriers that have to be considered when obtaining equipment," says Lee Chung Goo, vice president and chief engineer at Hyundai Motor. 
Meanwhile, the Bundesbank's policymaking panel decided yesterday to leave key German interest rates undisturbed. 
Why, then, he asks himself, was he fired? 
Outside, two self-described "skinheads" had begun firing at the synagogue with military rifles. 
Earnings from continuing operations are forecast to grow about 14% in the quarter from the year before, according to Zacks Investment Research. 
The company said the recent quarter included transaction costs of $4.1 million, or eight cents a share, associated with its acquisition of Radiation Systems Inc. 
For a long time I thought he was saying that the world is governed badly because it is governed with so little wisdom. 
We are told that a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier will anchor in the roadstead for President Clinton's protection. 
Wasp, another helicopter carrier. 
AKRON, Ohio -- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said it plans to centralize its tire-distribution operations at a facility to be built near Atlanta. 
LAST YEAR, 44% of real-estate brokers were women, more than twice the percentage five years ago. 
"This will make for some protracted conversing" between the IRS and taxpayers, says William C. Gifford, international tax partner with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. 
Viacom and its auction broker, Stanley Shuman of Allen & Co., had indicated that final bids would be due in several weeks. 
If all goes according to plan, that would occur in 1996 and put Energy BioSystems in the black for the first time, he said. 
Overall, tax experts praise the changes. 
Their approach also appeals in varying degrees to Justice John Paul Stevens on their left and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy on their right. 
He said the spinoff will occur over the next several months. 
Only later did American learn that she had express-mailed the diskette to the Northwest official in Minneapolis. 
Wharf Cable's rights to operate a pay-TV service in the territory are exclusive until June 1996, but require it to carry three of Star's so-called "free-to-air" channels free of charge to Wharf Cable customers. 
The younger Mr. Kim was known as "Dear Leader" during Kim Il Sung's reign. 
Thus others now direct foreign aid, trade negotiations and the foreign commercial service -- all once on the department's agenda. 
The company, More Balls Than Most Ltd., says it sold 27,000 kits in the U.S. during the first seven months of its American campaign. 
The company announced plans to import Coca-Cola Classic from North America to compete with its own high-cost Japanese bottlers. 
The departure of Michael A.M. 
Greece's Tourism Ministry said a tourism bank will open in January. 
Always careful to pick his timing, Mr. Marshall never showed the alarming report to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. 
A few days later she attended a GOP county executive committee meeting to discuss the contest and was stunned; the session was dominated by religious-right activists, and it was made clear that she was out of place. 
Moreover, Intel's gross profit margins have fallen by nearly 9% in the past year because of the cost of new plants, a broadening product line that includes less lucrative devices and relentless price cutting to maintain market share. 
BRIEFS: The Treasury Department seeks comments before Oct. 25 negotiations on a treaty with South Africa covering business, investment and service income taxes. 
Ampal-American, based in New York, makes loans and equity investments in Israeli companies. 
A quarter-century ago, a young Bill Clinton chose principled protest over dutiful service in response to a misguided foreign policy venture no more ambiguous than this one would be. 
All of the market's key indexes were disabled at 1:30 p.m. EDT and remained that way through the close. 
Bids are being taken today for securities issued by New Mexico, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, the Orange County, Fla., School District and Arlington County, Va. 
Mercantile Bancorp said it agreed to acquire UNSL Financial Corp., a Lebanon, Mo., bank holding company, in a stock transaction valued at $61 million. 
It was the association's advertising campaign against premium caps that helped spur lawmakers to search for a different costcontrol mechanism. 
In addition, M$52.2 million had been set aside for loans whose interest payments aren't being serviced, up about M$2.4 million. 
But he said it will be "much less" than the loss in the second quarter of 1993. 
The European nylon business generated 1993 revenue of "close to a billion" dollars, DuPont said. 
The injunction will expire in two months. 
Because of the Sudeten hang-up, this is one of the few nations never to have sought reparations for Nazi crimes; if Germans paid Czechs, they might then ask Czechs to pay Sudetens. 
CompuServe, the U.S. on-line service owned by H&R Block Co., has set up a local number in Mexico, making it easier for Mexicans to dial into U.S. companies' bulletin boards, chat lines and information services. 
While representing 33% of Price/Costco's assets, the businesses being spun off contributed less than 10% of pretax earnings for the first nine months of fiscal 1994, the company said. 
The growth forecasts for Europe were more upbeat than most economists' expectations only a few months ago, when many still expected Europe to recover from its recent recession only gradually and fall short of the brisk growth rates needed to begin reducing the region's average 12% unemployment rate. 
General Electric Capital Corp. (U.S. parent) -- 100 billion Italian lire of 10.125% Eurobonds due Sept. 2, 1997, at issue price 101.305 
London prices climbed 1.2% on the back of rallies on several other European exchanges and stronger U.K.-government bonds and stock-index futures. 
Either way, that adds up to less than his $100 million or so in net worth during the governor's race. 
Assuming the Tyco acquisition goes through, that investment would be worth as much as $340 million -- $206 million more than Clayton's total investment but below the returns the firm likes to achieve. 
Since neither Mr. Mukhamedov nor Mr. Solymosi is in this class, their presence tends to lend the RB an air of stylistic incoherence. 
The gale roars on, its fury unabated. 
He also has noted some upward pressure on wages. 
Mr. Keehner, one of Kidder's seven executive managing directors, had been at Kidder for 23 years. 
The company said that operating profit on continuing U.K. retail operations fell during the fiscal year, mainly because of a reduction in gross margins at Dixons and Currys stores. 
Between eight and 16, Mr. Katz says, he was basically rehashing much of what he had absorbed at ETI. 
"Mike was Mr. Inside, finding sites for new stores and doing the real heavy lifting of the day-to-day business." 
This time, though, the culprit isn't exotic, one-of-a-kind financial products, but plain vanilla, exchange-traded U.S. government bond futures. 
Then, after World War I, foreign central banks created a third category of U.S. high-powered money when they began to accept foreign exchange -- chiefly dollar or sterling assets -- in lieu of gold. 
Eager for the group's support, Federated plans to meet this week with representatives of the bondholders' committee. 
U.S. Treasury securities put in their best performance in weeks, rallying strongly with the help of a firmer dollar and economic news. 
"The Street is very frustrated." 
The "Cotlook A" index, compiled by a United Kingdom trade magazine to track cotton prices, is already up about 53% since last August, while yarns available in Hong Kong cost nearly 80% more now than they did in October. 
And even where money has been available, squabbling among Atlanta's political factions often has put the funds out of reach. 
Now, with the influence of Mr. Robertson, Albert Hunt will himself experience bigotry and persecution, as have others who differ with the views of Mr. Robertson's or King James's version of what at one time was the true word of God. 
And Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the ailing studio which is mounting a comeback effort, found success with "Blown Away," a suspense thriller starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. 
If there is unrest, there is no guarantee that restive military factions, which have attempted two coups in the past 30 months, will stay in their barracks. 
"There were a number of people raising the specter of mass resignations," says Peter Yunich, president of Simon & Schuster's new media division and one of the top managers then threatening to leave. 
The 30-year bellwether issue dropped less than 1/8 point, or $1.25 for each $1,000 face value, and its yield edged up to 7.59% from 7.58% on Tuesday. 
The company, which pioneered selling computers over the telephone, has fallen behind mail-order competitor Gateway 2000 Inc. in the number of machines sold in the U.S. But Gateway has stumbled of late with growing pains of its own, like expensive inventory problems and shrinking profit margins. 
In the past, Republican incoherence on the subject of big government was usually justified on practical grounds: The voters liked big government, and, as George Bernard Shaw once said, "democracy is the theory that the voters know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." 
"Yup, yeah, I got it now," the co-pilot replied, according to a transcript of a cockpit recorder. 
So to get the poor off the rolls, the administration calculated it would pay the way by taking the well-to-do off the rolls at the same time. 
Unions have their best chance of winning now with Clinton administration support and a Democratic Senate. 
Playtex is already in the infant-care market with its Cherubs product line. 
They also say they wouldn't have knowingly put their capital at risk to earn higher returns. 
"But they weren't able to attract or develop enough key managers . 
According to First Call, analysts expect that Reynolds will post a loss of 18 cents a share for the period, compared with a loss of 38 cents a share in 1993's second quarter. 
Of the hundreds of such programs set up in recent years, one after another has been dragged down by political infighting, conflict-of-interest charges and waste. 
Mr. Keehner couldn't be reached to comment; Mr. Sutton didn't return a call. 
"Apparently this went on for 13 months and the company did not know it. 
The defense produced photocopies, saying the originals had been lost. 
As head of Paramount Pictures a decade ago, he breathed life into the moribund studio with films like "Star Trek" and the "Indiana Jones" series. 
Ms. O'Connell, making about $34,000 at American as a yield-management analyst, got $50,000 at Northwest. 
Approval is expected next month. 
Among retail funds, assets of 419 taxable money-market funds increased $306.2 million to $324.29 billion. 
Mr. Khilewi's affidavit says that on May 18 Abdulrahman al-Rassi, a second secretary at the Saudi U.N. mission, pushed his way into Mr. Khilewi's apartment and threatened his life. 
Midcon officials weren't available to elaborate on the suit against Louis Dreyfus, which was filed in a Harris County, Texas, court. 
The handling of the funeral could provide an early indication of the relations between Kim Jong Il and the North Korean military. 
He added that Pure Tech is talking with several other companies interested in buying the divisions, but he declined to identify them. 
Birmingham Steel Corp., another minimill, has said it expects that it will report earnings of about 30 cents a share for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, compared with 11 cents a share a year ago. 
The Firebird Fund, a new investment group, has placed a $40 million bet on Russian shares. 
(An attorney for Refco and Mr. Dittmer today denies the various Faulkner charges, and points to a series of court victories as supporting his clients' positions. 
The then-prime minister liked Mr. Archer's zeal and promoted his candidacy as deputy party chairman. 
The Fort Worth division now has 14,500 employees, and expects employment to level off at 13,000 next year. 
Although the Houston clothier reported June sales at stores open at least a year rose 6.5% from a year earlier, Wall Street pushed the stock down 16.8% last week to $19.125. 
And when Fotene wanted to open an art gallery, Mike set her up with a team of lawyers and accountants. 
Laura Jones of the U.S. Association of Importers of Textile and Apparel notes that textile "imports from Africa, particularly Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Swaziland, the Ivory Coast and South Africa, have an opportunity to increase significantly. 
Bausch & Lomb Inc. reported an expected 30% decrease in second-quarter earnings, largely because of a previously announced inventory-reduction program in its eye-care products lines. 
The price of the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond dropped 1/8 point, or $1.25 for a bond with $1,000 face value. 
With most investors seemingly boxed in by interest-rate fears, Mr. Keane believes now is the time to be a contrarian and return to the interest-sensitive sectors. 
The retailer posted a pretax loss for the year to April 30 of #165.2 million ($254.9 million), compared with a profit of #33.5 million a year earlier. 
The 77-year-old senator has been tireless in pushing this view, taking an idea that had no visible constituency and creating a support base. 
(Retail sale of an infringing item is still infringement and, if a court agrees, subject to triple damages.) 
Citing an estimate that 22 million babies are born each year in China, Mr. Chen argues that the market can easily digest more cereal. 
The majority relied on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year allowing a religious group to show films at a school. 
The arrest and release on bail last month of Schneider SA Chairman Didier Pineau-Valencienne is prompting Belgian businesses to push for changes in the country's legal system. 
In other words, the plan isn't to cut benefits for family farmers struggling to make a living off the land. 
Armed with so little useful information about what causes RSI, legislators and employers seeking to address the problem are in a tough position. 
NEW YORK -- Medical device companies should see improved sales and earnings in the second quarter as the scope of health-care reform seems clearer and hospitals restock their inventories. 
Mr. Fogarty declined to comment on the report, but said the launch was delayed because of capacity problems. 
Afghan rebels rained rockets on Kabul, killing 11 people and wounding at least 40. 
Woolsey also announced steps to reorganize and reform the CIA to lessen the chance that other intelligence officers could spy and get away with it for years, as did Ames. 
He concedes he frequently ignored the export side of his business. 
Some tentatively approach the Dominicans, pressing for information and asking for food and water. 
The case is expected to return to a U.K. tribunal to determine compensation. 
The proposed consent decree must be approved by federal District Judge Harold Greene, who oversees the earlier consent decree that broke up the Bell System. 
Recalls James Betts, chairman of the board's organization and compensation committee: "We realized the bomb was exploding." 
When Mr. Grace bought the building from Prudential Insurance Co. of America in 1991, all of the parties involved signed agreements pledging not to disclose the buyer's identity. 
A Finance Ministry official said there will be no limits on the amount of JT shares that foreign investors can bid for or purchase. 
Russia's State Duma, parliament's lower house, rejected the government's proposal for a second round of state-industry sell-offs. 
So Mr. Klepetar and a few hundred others have the right to reclaim their property -- and the Germans believe they have a precedent. 
ReSound Corp. said it adopted a shareholder-rights plan to discourage "abusive and coercive tactics" in a takeover attempt. 
The announcement came as the U.S. was positioning new ships and 2,000 more Marines off Haiti, and as the number of Haitian boat people declined sharply. 
At the meeting, the current supervisory board chairman, Friedrich Wilhelm Christians, who was slated to step down, will be nominated to keep his post. 
And George Fisher, who took the helm of Kodak last year, has been too busy to designate a second in command, a spokesman says. 
The Texas survey will include consumers who bought policies as early as 1988. 
We suspect that partial reforms aren't going to change that. 
Health clinics are adding floors, opening new wings and beefing up the range of services offered. 
Over the past 10 years, documents have slipped to 15% to 20% of Federal Express's revenue. 
That's only a slight exaggeration. 
The U.S. currency also was changing hands at 97.73 yen, down from 98.05 yen. 
The native ecology is disturbed by human presence, especially the microbes and technology that explorers bring with them. 
Guarantor Deutsche Bank AG. 
While some "regional" stock funds exist, they haven't taken the world by storm. 
Gradually, it reduced its exposure to 1.2 billion marks, granting no new loans from 1993 on. 
The restructuring will result in a second-quarter charge of $165 million. 
Mr. Severino of Wellfleet said that the two companies are a tight fit, with Wellfleet offering a direct sales force that SynOptics lacks and SynOptics bringing strategically important data-switching technology. 
via Nikko Europe PLC. 
I used to read all the spy stuff when I was a kid. 
From 1988 to 1992, the family business paid out $114 million to shareholders, 92% of which went to Mike's immediate family. 
Currently, he owns outright almost one million QVC shares, for which he paid about $25 million when he joined the company. 
Onions frame sidewalks. 
The gallery later failed. 
"Smoking is dirty," she says, fingering a lighted cigarette in her hand at a recent party. 
June savings-bond sales also were 9.0% lower than May's level of $725 million, the Treasury said. 
One of them, Zhang Huizhen, a 40-year-old woman who works in a nearby fertilizer factory, says she's glad it was preserved. 
Their best recourse is to persuade us to withdraw after a decent interval. 
Under the guise of presenting a simple history of the American labor movement, the article blamed General Motors for many of the misfortunes of the Depression, lobbied for feminism, condemned white people, classified the American corporation as greedy, selfish and irresponsible, and praised unions as the savior of the so-called working class. 
FRANKFURT -- Metallgesellschaft AG plans to reduce the size of its management board to five from seven members by the end of 1994. 
The cost for improvements would run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. 
He gestures toward another bombed-out house, beyond a couple of grazing goats. 
Maybe the author was just trying to push my button. 
Mr. Ng doesn't think prices will soften much further, although he adds that like any other market, Hong Kong property could be hurt by unforeseen political or economic shocks. 
Carbide officials decline to comment about the Temple case. 
Northvale, with a population of 4,800, estimates it could save $30,000 annually. 
Many costly incinerators and other trash disposal outlets were built when officials expected a shortage of disposal capacity. 
Load factor rose to 69.7% from 62.9%. 
Ms. Tyson also said the economy is showing "mixed signals" right now, giving alternating signs of slowing and quickness. 
The hardest tax to estimate in the legislation is Sen. Bill Bradley's (D., N.J.) tax on high-cost insurance plans. 
HOUSTON -- One of the most closely watched oil wells drilled in the U.S. in years, a Gulf of Mexico prospect using new technology, found oil and gas, but not enough to declare it the gusher its owners were hoping for. 
It attracts extremists -- "Rambo from the right and healers from the left," as one old Washington hand puts it. 
The consent decree is more burdensome on the Bells than it is on AT&T, which must go before Judge Greene less frequently than its former offspring. 
Brock didn't estimate the size of the loss. 
Still, the movie couldn't hold this course without its compass, which is Tom Hanks's performance as Forrest. 
Quebecor Printing signed a letter of intent in February to acquire by June 30 a 49% stake in the French printing company for 165 million francs ($31.5 million). 
SKOKIE, Ill. 
He first began noting Soviet worries in the mid-1970s that U.S. technological advances would revolutionize warfare. 
Moreover, as applied in the classroom, the McIntosh thinking has some parents up in arms. 
In 1979, a dozen years after its moon-drill experience and after spending many times the original tool's development cost, Black & Decker installed GE's new batteries in a much-improved Dustbuster cordless vacuum that was a market success. 
At that time, Gibson said it hired outside counsel to investigate. 
At the same time, the decline in May was revised to show an even larger drop. 
For its fiscal third quarter ending July 31, it will report that net income rose almost 20% to $1.27 a share from $271 million, or $1.06 a share, the year before, Mr. Willman predicts. 
Although the two companies had held talks a year ago, the Santa Fe's gold mining business was an impediment, Mr. Krebs said in an interview, because Burlington Northern didn't want to meet Santa Fe's price. 
It has a suggested retail price of $530. 
The Prussians had adopted a graduated income tax, like our own, which, according to one German legislator "covered the country with a perfect system of espionage." 
It can be exhilarating to dial into an on-line service and retrieve news and information, or carry on discussions with people all over the world. 
It is Bohemia -- my home, my fatherland." 
Apart from "The Sleeping Beauty," the last is the only work on view at the Met to evince the choreographic distinction that in the past gave the RB its artistic reputation, and, indeed, proved instrumental in shaping its nobly lyrical style of dancing. 
"No later than Tuesday afternoon, the press had been able to obtain these privileged documents," Mr. Suard said. 
Relaying reports from Beijing, the state-owned South Korean news service recently reported that 10 North Korean army officers suspected of conspiring against the government were doused in oil and burned to death. 
Taken as a whole, though, the results of the shootout merely confirmed what had taken place all afternoon. 
Fees 0.1875. 
RJR also plans to set up a cigarette production unit at the plant to produce Camel and Winston cigarettes. 
NEW YORK -- R.H. Macy & Co.'s board has agreed to hold a meeting on Friday at which it may vote on Federated Department Stores Inc.'s merger proposal. 
She also said the Idaho Falls contract, valued at about $5 billion over five years, "is due to be awarded any time now." 
Mr. Kim, South Korea's first elected civilian president, has vowed to cut the ties between business and government, but the dispute over the cellular-phone license, which was formally announced in late June, illustrates the magnitude of his task. 
The decree gives more rights to defendants, for example allowing those detained to see a copy of the accusations. 
It is expected to serve 30,000 vehicles daily and spur industrial and residential development in the Pearl River Delta. 
WASHINGTON -- The House approved a $243.6 billion defense-spending bill for fiscal 1995, which includes funds to improve the readiness of U.S. troops in South Korea. 
"None of them want you to pay Social Security," she laments. 
The result was GATT, the runt of the economic-management litter. 
Shortly after the election, Brookings Institution scholar Thomas Mann told the press that Americans would be "condemning" Mr. Clinton if he didn't back away from his campaign promises; he would be an "irresponsible president" if he stuck to them. 
"The industry owes Mr. Bennett a debt of gratitude for his contribution," said Mr. Turner, 57. 
The U.S. vehicle market continues to be led by truck sales. 
Mr. Nakauchi's Daiei department-store chain is groaning under a heavy load of debt, and that has helped motivate the maverick retailer to take on his country's brand-name cartels. 
But the Senate Finance panel twice voted 14-6 to kill even standby versions of an employer mandate. 
Republicans, looking for a way to frustrate Mr. Clinton, are more prepared to vote as a bloc than Democrats. 
The Amalgamated transaction was announced after the stock market closed. 
Although previous interims have produced serious results -- the sweeping 1984 education reforms were drafted in the off-season -- activity between sessions used to be more laid back. 
Mr. Eisner is quoted as saying he was bored upon his first trip to our nation's Capitol. 
"Mexican firms -- and not just firms but also hospitals and private institutions such as universities -- need to become radically more competitive" and are finding that information technology is the key, says Roberto Batres, head of Mexican operations for consultant Arthur D. Little Inc.  Mexico has been known as an opaque place to do business. 
For the quarter, N-Viro, which owns and operates sewage sludge treatment facilities, posted a loss of $678,909, or three cents a share, compared with a loss of $157,467, or one cent a share, a year earlier. 
The raises the money could have gone to. 
Without the change, fully dilluted per-share earnings of $2.35 would have been 11 cents higher, Ms. Needham said. 
Could whipping be reimposed constitutionally? 
State officials, viewing Red Onion Mountain from a helicopter, had to use some imagination to envision a prison complex along a steep, rocky road where wild turkey and deer wander, and remnants of a 1950s mine are evident. 
In the past few years, many have been sued by the bankruptcy trustees of defunct trucking companies for getting lower rates than the tariffs spelled out. 
Those cuts, spurred by lower prices for Intel Corp.'s PC chips, have since begun to take effect. 
MCM's Mr. Thin agreed, saying price stability and economic growth -- not foreign-exchange levels -- are the traditional factors behind rate moves by the Fed. 
Stock-fund investors did find a few places to hide from falling prices. 
Tokyo stocks were almost flat on Thursday, as participants found no fresh incentives to trade heavily ahead of the economic summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations beginning today. 
Such stimulation should expand demand for imports. 
He said: "Whenever we can't trade, it costs us money. 
The FT 30-stock index climbed 29 points, or 1.3%, to 2324.4. 
A similar price increase, also to take effect in October, was announced June 13 by AK Steel Holding Corp., but none of the major steelmakers followed suit, as they usually do. 
"Rexrodt put an additional nail into the dollar's coffin," said Albert Soria, foreign-exchange manager at Kansallis Osake Pankki, a Finnish commercial bank in New York. 
Sold-out stadiums! 
"But it was a special year," he said, noting the European recession. 
Upjohn is expected to report 10% lower earnings per share due to the loss of patent protection of several key drugs, including anxiety drug Xanax. 
North Korea's new leader was raised in unusual circumstances at the pinnacle of that closed society, and Western analysts debate his grasp on reality. 
There, the prize was Cape Coral Hospital, a 281-bed not-for-profit that, despite its mounting debts, ruled Lee County's northern neighborhoods. 
It drew 52 Democratic signatures; that would be more than enough to block the president if joined with a united GOP. 
But this year, as the Federal Reserve has pushed up short-term rates, banks have been passing along the higher cost to customers by boosting loan rates. 
Also robust was Sprint's cellular showing: Operating income grew to $25 million in the quarter from $8 million. 
That followed the scuttling of Bell Atlantic Corp.'s plan to acquire cable giant Tele-Communications Inc. last February. 
The Army, says Brig. 
Besides foods, Borden produces consumer, packaging and industrial goods. 
Budget reform would have a real chance this year only through the personal involvement of President Clinton, who campaigned by proudly citing his support of the line-item veto as evidence he was a New Democrat. 
That's better than having no control at a merged CBS-QVC." 
Disturbance is the norm. 
In Nasdaq Stock Market trading, Diasonics closed at $5.15625, up $1.40625. 
But he's let himself be bamboozled by the Democratic leadership, which keeps promising him that someday it will allow a vote on serious mandate reform. 
The move spurred another group of Trizec creditors -- holders of its C$1.2 billion of senior debentures -- to take actions that would enable them to seize the company. 
And as we know, it hasn't worked out very well." 
The ministry said the June decline was the fourth in as many months. 
Houston will lose major sports events to Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans or other major cities that made downtown stadiums a priority. 
Muslim students have launched a high-profile drive to build a mosque on campus, saying they need a place solely for religious purposes. 
Like many states, California must borrow money at the beginning of its fiscal year in order to pay bills until its usual revenue comes in from taxes and other sources. 
But that and Columbia's other unit, a smaller osteopathic facility called Gulf Coast Hospital, accounted for only 30% of 1992 inpatient admissions in Lee County. 
As reported, Nynex plans to provide cable television, home shopping, movies on demand and other services to about 330,000 customers in eastern Massachusetts and about 60,000 customers in Warwick, R.I. 
"If you had any of these things," says Dr. Hyson, scanning the table while absently clutching a gleaming ossifying fibroma, a melange of bulging tumor, gums and teeth, "you'd be in pretty bad shape." 
"Such downward moves would help France and other countries that maintain strong links with the Deutsche mark to ease monetary conditions further." 
On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Bank of Montreal fell 37.5 Canadian cents to C$23.625 a share yesterday. 
Mr. Hilliar, the analyst, noted that some cost-cutting and new marketing approaches begun at Thorn's U.K. appliance-rental businesses, for instance, could greatly improve profits of the rental division as a whole. 
A major selling point is that the lawyers on the LRN network have experience in a particular field and aren't neophytes who must start every project from scratch. 
No written record of the talks was kept, in keeping with federation policy. 
After a busy day of juggling modern life, plenty of Americans do indeed seem happy to try just plain juggling. 
TORONTO -- David A. Nichol, Canada's guru of private-label food products, said he severed his long-standing ties with supermarket chain Loblaw Cos. to devote more time to spreading his marketing message in the U.S. and abroad. 
asks Mr. Black. 
The flood of new stock this year already has damped the overall market. 
So goes another evening with the Frysk Ljeppers Boun, or the Frisian canal-vaulters club in the local tongue. 
Recent winners: "Two Bears," "April Star" and "Skylar." 
Indeed, radio's new-found popularity transcends the airwaves. 
And that may be conservative." 
The firing of Mr. Bryant is unrelated to the firm's high-profile government-bond scandal. 
The unit, which accounted for $1.4 million, or 2.6%, of Furr's/Bishop's first-quarter revenue, operates specialty restaurants. 
In the weeks before the EPA made its final clean-air ruling, ADM also took out several newspaper and magazine ads aggressively promoting ethanol and attacking its main competitor, a methanol-based fuel. 
Heartland, which went public in April, is based in Dallas. 
Mr. Kuby said his firm expects to file papers next week that will oppose the prosecutor's move. 
"The increase in insider buying -- from 34 sectors at the end of March to 48 by the end of June -- correlated with a significant drop off in insider selling, from 28 down to 11." 
Its origins lie in the signals of the brain, he said, which misfire with too many messages urging overeaters to crave food. 
Under the agreement, Holiday Inn customers can continue to access AT&T long-distance services from their room. 
In Washington, the push to make the police force more representative has led to residency requirements, severely weakened hiring exams and flagrant racial favoritism in assignment and promotion. 
The Dutch obviously are missing the midfield creativity and rugged play of Ruud Gullit, who quit the team before the Cup started. 
"You owe me. 
The death over the weekend of the world's longest-reigning ruler, 82-year-old Kim Il Sung, might delay U.S. and South Korean efforts to resolve a dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear program. 
Each will run a maximum of four hours a week and will serve up products tailored to each network's target audience: MTV, for example, might offer rock-concert T-shirts, VH-1 might hawk blues and jazz compact disks, while Nick at Nite may sell classic TV video cassettes or funky fashions reminiscent of the 1950s. 
DSP Group Inc. will announce that Microsoft Corp. is including DSP's speech compression technology in Chicago, the next major version of Microsoft's widely-used Windows operating system. 
(One member is an independent.) 
If it can tap America's burgeoning ethnic populations and start out playing in small stadiums, he sees eventual success. 
General Electric Co.'s Kidder Peabody Group Inc. managed to hold onto its top spot despite expected mortgage losses of as much as $30 million this quarter. 
Retailers on both sides of the border have lived through exchange-rate swings, of course. 
Stock prices tumbled despite expectations that quarter-end portfolio adjustments would bolster the market. 
That means the price increase will yield an extra profit now on beans the company bought at lower prices 10 months ago. 
But the dream was dashed when the county, unable to decide on a new dump location, moved instead to expand this one -- up 200 feet and into the 21st century. 
With strong retail demand from highl-ytaxed city residents and the market chronically short of quality paper, there's no chance the issue will go begging, traders and fund managers say. 
Many of the new appointees are seasoned administrators. 
As the latter work made clear, the RB's men nowadays tend to look stronger and more interesting than the women. 
"There are undoubtedly more conservative court decisions we have to deal with," Mrs. Bingaman said. 
The agency wants to at least double the number of loans to these targeted groups by Sept. 30, 1995, says SBA deputy administrator Cassandra Pulley. 
An initial "buy" rating from Prudential Securities on Cognex sent its shares up 2 1/4, or 16%, to 16 3/4. 
And retailers like Spiegel and Pier 1 Imports are doing a brisk business selling printed fabric that appeals to shoppers who want to create lampshades or tablecloths to match bedspreads or curtains the stores sell. 
Compression is used to reduce the size of data files containing computerized speech, making it easier to store and compress them. 
The Irving, Texas, company says it expects sales to double again in fiscal 1995. 
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- $100 million of consolidated 95th series bonds tentatively priced by a Merrill Lynch & Co. group to yield from 5.6% in 2005 to 6.35% in 2029. 
Madison Avenue isn't so sure. 
"They know where the prison is going," he says. 
For a decade, scientists have been unraveling the genetic and biochemical causes of cancer but treatments have been slow to materialize. 
"The Fed didn't raise rates after the strong employment numbers. 
The company also took a $10.3 million pretax write-down of operating equipment. 
Current water sources are easily contaminated streams. 
But overall, test scores appear to be slipping. 
Grain is also a major expense for dairy producers, whose products represent about 7.5% of the U.S. food budget. 
Alberta Energy will sell about 2.4 million Chieftain shares to underwriters, who will sell them to the public at C$20.30 each. 
Royal chinook haven't been seen here for 50 years. 
Labor lawyers say that restriction puts employers in the position of having to offer jobs without knowing whether the needed accommodations are reasonable or affordable. 
CHARLES J. HOMCY, president of the medical research division of American Cyanamid Co., was recently named a director of Immunex Corp. An item in the Who's News column of July 1 misstated his name. 
The wider international context has been completely transformed since 1983. 
Saying the impact of repealing the tax exemption would fall largely on Fannie Mae, the GAO told the House D.C. panel that the tax hit on Fannie Mae could well be passed on to the company's customers and shareholders. 
Czech president Vaclav Havel has inspired millions with his calls for spiritual regeneration, most recently on July 4 in Philadelphia. 
Allen Wheat, CS First Boston's second in command, succeeds him on the board. 
"We had a lot of people from the Department of Labor who all of a sudden wanted new nannies, that used to hire illegals," says Jeff Maruyama, co-owner of A Choice Nanny referral service in suburban Roslyn, Va. 
Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, Mr. Kessel said the Justice Department was "unresponsive" to requests for similar studies of the impact of changes in crude oil futures prices on gasoline and heating oil costs. 
Students disdain school. 
"It may not be the best step to help create shareholder value," said Remy Fisher of Kemper Financial Services. 
Kenyan pillowcases account for less than 1% of the pillowcases Americans buy. 
Home Shopping Network is forming a joint venture, HSN Direct, to produce infomercials and is turning to a veteran of the format to launch the division. 
He plays basketball with them and tells stories that help them develop self-control. 
That high payout ratio is due, in part, to Kidder's longstanding policy of paying its sales force on commission, instead of salary-plus-bonus, as most Wall Street firms do. 
He said the bailout plan engineered by the government for the bank is the "least bad" arrangement for the French defense and electronics group that could be made. 
He lashed out at Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole, saying the Kansas Republican is overcome by his own political ambitions and "operating at his worst." 
Over the past month, Foster's, which bills itself as the world's fourth-biggest brewer with operations mainly in Australia, Britain and Canada, reorganized its management and restructured some of its operations, creating a fourth brewing arm for Asia. 
Primark is an information technology and services firm. 
This gag, too, wears thin after the first torrent of obscenities. 
"I don't feel really smarter than anyone else," says Cara Caputo, featured in the school's brochures as "a Renaissance Child who can do everything well." 
And he agrees that they generate some terribly low-paying jobs. 
The discount retailer said June same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, rose 11%. 
As had been rumored for months, Tom Rothman, former production chief at Samuel Goldwyn Co., was named president of the new unit, which is yet to be named. 
But yesterday's nasty conditions helped inspire a negative response as managers prepared to close their books. 
That brings its total legal bill from its partnership problems to more than $1 billion, making it the costliest investment flop in Wall Street history, and among the steepest settlements ever paid out by a brokerage firm. 
Comerica Bank is a unit of Comerica Inc.  Federal Home Loan Bank System -- $100 million of multiple step-up notes due Aug. 3, 2009, priced initially at par to yield 7.5%, according to MCM CorporateWatch. 
Mr. Sowanick of Merrill Lynch warns of another factor -- besides rate increases, inflation, and a weakening dollar -- that could push up bond yields: a possible global credit squeeze. 
The value of foreign trade moving through Oakland jumped 45% in 1993 from two years earlier. 
Several times, Mr. Mitchell expressed grave distaste for a measure before the committee, then grimly voted in favor of it, declaring his interest in "keeping the process moving." 
And Arizona, Oregon and Wyoming have requested information from Ohio about its fund idea. 
In Singapore, equities edged up in mixed trading, as blue chips recovered meekly amid a soft broader market; and though the main index rose, this came on shrunken volume. 
The final regulations generally adopt the approach that was outlined when they were proposed last fall. 
But the cost might be Ukraine's economic independence. 
Only 17% of placebo patients achieved that result. 
The talks would also provide another channel to negotiate North Korea's nuclear program, which is widely believed to be manufacturing weapons-grade material. 
A joint venture between cable-operator Tele-Communications and German record company Bertelsmann had hoped to start a music-related home-shopping network, but those plans have been scuttled. 
The tactic probably violates FCC rules, says Robert Spangler, the agency's deputy chief of enforcement, but he adds that policing porn lines is difficult. 
But Mr. Diller said that "it's not for us" to say. 
Figgie International Inc. said it expects to realize net proceeds of $119 million from the spinoff of St. Louis-based Rawlings Sporting Goods Co.  Figgie also said it completed the sale of its Safety Supply America unit to a subsidiary of Fisher Scientific International. 
This plan taxes money only once. 
As a result, these bonds have been undervalued, some analysts say. 
Textron Inc.'s Cessna Aircraft Co. unit said Executive Jet Aviation Inc. ordered 25 of its Citation V Ultra business jets for $150 million. 
HONG KONG -- Star TV intends to enter the pay-television business in Hong Kong. 
Lilly executives said the purchase price, while steep, compares favorably with the cost of similar deals. 
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. said it is increasing prices on 1995-model cars and light trucks by an average of 2.5%, or $494 a vehicle, compared with the current prices of 1994 models. 
Analysts are less enthusiastic about Hyundai Technology & Development, a fledgling aerospace company controlled by Hyundai Precision, which they say suffers from a lingering strain of the group's muscle-bound management culture. 
Past-due loans continued their downward spiral. 
STANDARD & POOR'S RATINGS GROUP says $20 billion to $25 billion of securities have received S&P's new ratings "highlighter" of "r" for risk. 
The commission said several companies that acted as "ringleaders" received the highest fines, at 9% of their sales, while some companies had their fines reduced because they cooperated with the commission investigation. 
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles has been pushing for subsidies that would help low-income workers buy health insurance. 
Certainly the most exciting trading surrounded Eli Lilly's announced plans to purchase a prescription drug unit from McKesson. 
Mr. Gorman declined to comment on those projections. 
June sales surged 21.5% to 112,956 units. 
The drop at NBC was due principally to the absence of a program comparable to the 1993 final episode of "Cheers," GE said. 
"But their stuff has been available here only under license. 
Many people, including some government officials, are more eager for the government to intervene to reduce cigarette consumption. 
John Bernbach resigned as vice chairman of Omnicom Group's DDB Needham, effective immediately, less than one month after saying he had no plans to leave the agency. 
SAN FRANCISCO -- Alan Seelenfreund, McKesson Corp.'s chairman, has a much different view of his company's future than those who worry that he has just sold McKesson's crown jewels. 
Still, the opposition from the two groups has worked to drive the debate toward the lowest common denominator of what will pass as "reform." 
Mr. Sudoplatov, in his book "Special Tasks," makes the point that these men did not spy for money or to hurt their country. 
It's an important nation with wide trade and political relations," he says. 
But it had refused to say what it would do after a meeting that ended with a vote to leave rates alone. 
The day's big loser, Summa Four, toppled 10 1/4, or 47%, to 11 3/4, sharply below its previous 52-week low of 20 1/4. 
So the stores will carry watches, leather jackets, and other macho fare -- though videos will still drive the profits. 
The fish died in droves. 
SDRs are, in essence, IMF money. 
Enter the restaurants of PepsiCo Inc.  Traditionally one of the nation's most innovative restaurant operators, Pepsi -- whose Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell chains feed 6.2 billion people world-wide each year -- has lost its footing. 
And now the Economist, surely not a sensationalist sheet, has published a violence scorecard under the headline: "Whitewater: Curiouser." 
Rather, he says, the question is whether Congress can craft legislation to ensure "that people feel comfortable we're not opening the door to banning Ma and Pa's favorite hunting gun." 
On recent Wednesday afternoons at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, the long-term and short-term parking lots on both sides of the airport have filled up, as have the breakdown lanes and illegal parking spaces along the terminal's curbs. 
Early this month, for example, the Los Angeles Times noted: "About 15% of all jobs created in the U.S. since the beginning of the recovery have been at temporary help services, even though they account for only 2% of U.S. employment overall." 
Markets have been rife with takeover speculation centering on Philip Morris Cos. of New York, whose Miller Brewing Co. unit is linked to Foster's in a three-way venture with Molson Cos. of Canada. 
Ms. O'Connell: "No, I didn't." 
Where do my thoughts fit into today's economic situation? 
Bethesda, Md.-based Comsat Corp. said its second-quarter profit slipped 6.5% and that the company may not reach its goal of double-digit growth for the year. 
Taxpayers will have to cast a broader net," Mr. Gifford says. 
In the future, "we can't create large, juicy targets," Mr. Marshall warns. 
"We had to constantly convince regulators that we could run the institution better than they could," Mr. Parsons said. 
"Our expectation is that based on this one contract alone, the company should be profitable in 1994, and significantly so in 1995 and beyond." 
Plans to turn the base into an international airport for Manila will probably have to wait until Mount Pinatubo settles down for good, perhaps in a few years. 
At "Late Night," Ms. Pinsker worked in the talent department, where she spent 80% of her time answering telephones and scanning newspapers for oddball stories that might suggest entertaining guests. 
Despite vehement denials from him, CBS has been for sale for two years for the right price, say some people familiar with the situation. 
-- RailAmerica Inc. said it entered an agreement with the state of Pennsylvania to operate about 55 miles of rail line in Pennsylvania and Delaware. 
As of June 18, sales of Classic Cola, a lower priced private-label product whose red-and-white packaging resembles that of Coca-Cola, had a 74.7% share of Sainsbury's cola sales, according to data compiled for The Wall Street Journal Europe by market-research firm Nielsen. 
General Mills said it continues to work on an application that would allow it to dispose of 15 million bushels of raw oats, which also had been sprayed with chlorpyrifos-ethyl, as animal feed. 
Increased demand in the domestic market was led by sales promotions and seasonal factors and was supported by a recovery in exports. 
Meridian Group in Los Angeles, for instance, says it can handle everything from sales and distribution to credit and shipping. 
"We saw massive selling throughout the day," mostly from speculators such as large commodity funds or from retail investors, said William Biederman, vice president of research at Allendale Inc. in Crystal Lake, Ill. 
He has fired off more than 80 phone, fax and video complaints to officials in recent months. 
Governor Thiessen said the Canadian dollar's decline against other currencies in recent months has mitigated the interest rate squeeze. 
Walter Kass, president of Curators Capital Management in New York, says that Whale is a "very controversial" brokerage house and that he often finds its stocks make good short-sale candidates. 
The statement went on to criticize the decree, saying "people with incontestable proof of serious corruption offenses now cannot be associated with prison, not even to avoid them continuing to commit crimes or plotting to block discovery of previous crimes, even paying off those conducting investigations." 
Though he will stay on at QVC to see the sale of the company through, he is unlikely to stay on at QVC if Comcast succeeds. 
Labor strife this year cost businesses 167.3 billion won ($207.6 million) in lost production as of June 3, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, down more than 80% from the year-earlier period. 
Mr. Bennett, 44 years old, has been sharing the duties since January 1992 with Gilbert H. Lamphere, who has joined the Fremont Group Inc. in San Francisco, a company that pursues equity investments and operating businesses. 
Although neither pleaded inability, both missed their tries, which turned out to be crucial. 
asks one woman, who says her friend demanded a quarter from a bummer at New York's Merc Bar. 
MG Corp., the chief U.S. unit of the troubled German metals and mining company Metallgesellschaft AG, said Karl M. von der Heyden would leave his posts as president and chief executive officer of the U.S. unit. 
Meanwhile, the Japanese currency's 48% surge since 1990 has slashed the yen value of their overseas investments. 
High River Gold Mines Ltd. -- offering of 4.2 million special warrants priced at 2.40 Canadian dollars each, through underwriters Sprott Securities Ltd., Wood Gundy Inc. and First Marathon Securities Ltd. 
The judges of incumbent audacity have already awarded it perfect 10s. 
World-wide, stock prices fell in dollar terms. 
Cyrix Corp. landed the first top-tier customer for its microprocessor chips -- AST Research Inc.  The two companies plan to announce today that AST will use Cyrix clones of Intel Corp.'s 486 chip in desktop computers. 
And Mr. Knight himself seemed to think the acquisition plausible, hinting that "you wouldn't rule it out . 
But Quantitative Boston Growth & Income Fund, which charges an identical $1.25 a year for every $100 in assets, is actually more expensive than the average growth-and-income fund investing in U.S. stocks. 
Full-year 1993 earnings before the accounting charge were $129 million, or an adjusted $1.39 a share. 
GE Capital executives fretted they would lose the profitable credit card business bought from Macy in 1991 in a merger with Federated. 
In Sydney, shares rose but ended off their highs, following a late drop in Australian bond prices. 
Mexico's government has likewise taken an interest in computers; it is spending $1 billion on a new voter-registration system, including a network of state-of-the-art workstations, that is designed to prevent the sort of fraud that tainted the 1988 presidential elections. 
If he does invade, it won't be for the sake of Haiti but for the sake of his Presidency. 
No bank offices will be closed as a result of the merger, said Fleet, based in Providence, R.I. 
Mr. Mirzayanov is a veteran Soviet chemical weapons scientist. 
Payable quarterly at three-month Libor plus 1.25. 
Shares of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cisco, a leader in the router market, slipped 5/8 to 22 15/16 on Nasdaq. 
But when a consultant put a dosimeter on one employee, the reading approached the federal limit. 
New York's Con Ed notes its measure of "degree days" -- which indicate temperatures above 65 degrees -- rose 3.5% from mid-June to mid-July. 
According to evidence from George's heirs, the family's net worth is $1.5 billion. 
In all of 1980 GE earned $1.51 billion. 
Mr. Marshall again weighed in on Korea in 1991, with a still-secret study warning that the North Koreans could sweep through South Korean defenses and win a war within 10 days, before the U.S. could do much. 
The investment banks named were Montgomery Securities, and Volpe, Welty & Co., both based in San Francisco, and New York-based Furman Selz Inc. Spokesmen for the firms could not be reached to comment. 
Even as cash flows were slowing into many U.S. stock funds, there was a significant amount of money going into stock funds investing abroad. 
Your May 11 article "Lobbyists Lose Tax Deductions on Some Costs" requires some clarification. 
MCI Communications recently got Justice Department approval to sell a 20% stake to BT (formerly British Telecom), and Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom announced that they would spend $4.2 billion to acquire 20% of Sprint. 
When the garage opened in 1990, 30 models in attendants' uniforms directed customers to spaces. 
Mr. Seow's own English queen's counsel, Colin Ross-Munro, described one such statement as "inadequate, ambiguous and useless." 
The more speculative the fund and the better it did last year, the harder it fell in the three months through June 30. 
The steel market is as strong as it has been in two decades. 
Terms for the acquisition of Survey Research Group, Hong Kong, weren't disclosed but industry sources estimated it at about $80 million. 
Moreover, the decree may end up benefiting AT&T if the Baby Bells are allowed to offer long-distance services. 
Their professionals often take little of their income as wages, and more as investment income, to reduce their Social Security and Medicare tax liability, according to various tax analysts. 
Midsize businesses typically employ between 100 and 1,000 employees, according to Sprint officials. 
A Congressional Budget Office analysis of a rival program crafted by Rep. Jim Cooper (D., Tenn.) and Sen. John Breaux (D., La.) puts the five-year price for a similar subsidy plan at $400 billion to $500 billion, depending on the scope of the benefit package. 
That's what Mr. Crandall worries will happen on an even greater scale in the second half. 
Unless the computer industry quickly takes steps to overcome the frustrations, it "may find itself blindsided by underlying consumer dissatisfaction and set itself up for a backlash in the future," warns analyst Janice Maloney in a recent issue of San Francisco-based Technology and Media newsletter in San Francisco. 
Analysts estimate Alcoa earned 28 cents a share in the quarter, compared with 40 cents a share a year ago, according to First Call, a stock-research unit of Thomson Financial Services. 
The lawmakers also asked the high tribunal to stop the initial public offering of 20% of Petron, set to start Monday, pending the resolution of their petition. 
I cannot, however, attack the Bible itself, even though King James was also guilty of changing passages to suit his cause. 
"We are disappointed by the inaction of Macy's board, which we find especially confusing in light of the fact they have absolutely no creditors' support," said Federated spokeswoman Carol Sanger. 
The 11 headliners in its single ring include the Flying Cranes and their tragic trapeze tale of Russian soldiers in World War II; the Nugzarov Djigits, whose perilous horsemanship involves the Hoop of Knives; and -- of course -- dancing, balancing and bike-riding bears. 
A sewage system costing at least $1.5 billion (U.S.) has been approved, although argument continues over whether to pipe the treated effluent out to sea or to put it through a costly second stage of processing for release into local waters. 
Mr. Merwin produced a solid version, both clearer and more faithful than the standard Roy Campbell text. 
As the Senate vote illustrates, the prospect of compromise on that key issue is increasingly bleak. 
Scott and his four-man party did make it to the South Pole -- only to freeze to death after discovering that they had been beaten there by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. 
Bulgaria's brightest light has been the bright-eyed Stoitchkov, whose day job is with the powerhouse FC Barcelona team in Spain. 
"A message saying everyone could have a perfect body doesn't wash anymore," says Sandy Silver, vice president of marketing, who joined Bally's last November from McDonald's. 
There was a time in my life when I would have pronounced those words only with a sneer, or a raised eyebrow. 
But Isabel Storey, a writer and producer in Santa Monica, Calif., who helped make "Rescue 911," thinks Dialogue can be effective. 
Sondra Weiss, a senior who works at a mall shoe store, thinks superachievers "are too sheltered, crying over A minuses. 
Recently, mainstream advertisers, including Texaco, Volvo and Norelco, a unit of Philips Electronics, began airing infomercials. 
Many millions of other Europeans, from Thuringia to the Urals, have since become freer than ever before as well. 
Some former students lament a childhood lost for little gain. 
World-wide, stock prices rose in dollar terms. 
Mellon's shares closed at $57.25, off 12.5 cents. 
"The MTV audience already knows me." 
Willie L. Brown Jr., speaker of the California Assembly, also likes the idea and is pursuing it. 
Kirby Corp. said it signed a letter of intent to purchase marine vessels from Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich., and to assume the leases of or purchase vessels in Dow's service. 
Mr. Ludwig made several calls to White House and Treasury aides that weekend to discuss what action to take. 
She is also conspicuously multitalented. 
Mr. Drauschke's three years of training, and the 13 years he has spent at the same store, allow him to discourse at length, for example, on the various types of nylon available in motorcycle jackets. 
Latino children are capped out of Mission District neighborhood schools. 
The level of members' stationery store charges can vary for several reasons. 
He forecasts the company will report revenue of $10.5 million, compared with $7.5 million. 
To stand on the moon's surface shrouded in sunlight, gazing at the Earth surrounded by the deepest blackness that one can conceive, defies imagination. 
Mr. Fiske's report, too, provides a platform for shedding further blame on us, namely in interviews directed at dismissing the chance that Whitewater "triggered" Mr. Foster's depression. 
Therefore, efficient coordinated care plans could end up paying the levy as well. 
And in Dallas, the Dream Cafe extends dinner service by an hour to 11 p.m., allowing time for the evening temperatures to cool down. 
Mistic Beverages Inc. -- initial six million shares, via Smith Barney Shearson Inc.  North American Vaccine Inc. -- 4,250,000 shares, via Merrill Lynch. 
CBS initially fell more than 10 points as the market digested Comsat's move. 
The new lineup is five independent directors and three management members. 
The subscription period closes on June 30, and listing is due Aug. 8. 
(Three students who complained about their school asked to withdraw their statements after the Journal interviewed Ms. Doman.) 
Meanwhile, the company expanded its board to 11 by naming as directors W. Peter Cooke, Joseph L. Dionne and James D. Robinson III. 
As recently as a year ago, black and white prints ads were considered an oddity; now, they're everywhere. 
"Can I be brutally frank?" 
ABR Information Services Inc., Clearwater, Fla., said group health-insurance premiums it tracks in administering certain benefits for 12,000 employers have been essentially flat since the beginning of the year and have risen less than 3.5% since January 1993. 
Mr. Perot has even begun reaching out to the social conservatives derided by Democrats as the "religious right." 
Roger Enns says he can't get refinancing or a second mortgage, which he needs to pay his lawyer to sue the county. 
That's because under the consortium's structure, there are currently legal difficulties involved when Airbus does get into the financing business. 
"Until the Republican Party addresses that, it's no drawing card for minorities." 
Stock groups that were among the weakest in the market's downturn were the strongest in yesterday's rebound. 
It would guarantee lower long-term interest rates, mortgage rates and inflation, as well as more jobs and growth. 
If the discussions drag into 1996, it would be extremely difficult to get the final system up and running on Jan.  One sticking point is likely to emerge over proposals to set up a clearing house or bilateral clearing systems to ensure that revenue is equitably returned to the member state where the goods are consumed. 
In Milan, equities dropped in extremely light turnover, as investors awaited action this week by the Italian government on the budget and credible deficit targets. 
Top place among the pros in the latest skirmish goes to Richard Schmidt, president of Stellar Management Inc., a Naples, Fla., money-management firm, and editor and publisher of Risk Report, an investment newsletter. 
The medical centers are heavily reliant on revenue from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers: A November 1992 report of the Association of American Medical Colleges found that revenues generated by the clinical practice of the full-time faculty represent 45% of total medical school revenues. 
ICC officials say a manufacturer considering locating a factory somewhere could use tariffs to check the local trucking rates. 
After a spirited advance Wednesday and strength early yesterday, many technology issues turned lower after Cisco Systems, a computer networking equipment company, told analysts its earnings may fall short of their expectations. 
Principal Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Des Moines extended the group a $11.7 million mortgage. 
"The bond market is pricing in another quarter-point increase in the federal-funds rate," Mr. Cheung said. 
"I thought the collective grade was a message," says David Stillman. 
Federal investigators maintain that the two have had frequent contacts in the past. 
Or bootlegger. 
But before he could begin construction, "wetlands" were discovered on the site. 
China has said it will station troops in the colony after 1997 but hasn't disclosed the size of its garrison. 
"We consciously went through our slides and picked out every picture we had that involved teeth," Ms. Miles says. 
The largest takuhaibin company is Yamato Transport Co., with annual revenue of nearly 500 billion yen ($5.1 billion). 
It is a matter of public record that I am recused from any matter in which I was involved in private practice, including this one. 
Meanwhile, investors shrugged off many on-target earnings reports in the banking industry. 
In recent years, these groups have supplemented their legislative lobbying with a variety of tactics aimed at ordinary people, such as newspaper ads and billboards decrying lawsuit abuse. 
Some lawyers in the case speculate the pact could even collapse because Dow Corning, whose finances are relatively limited compared with those of some other defendants, might leave the settlement and seek bankruptcy-law protection. 
"We're not captivated by the West," his wife says. 
That would correspond generally to the desires of the already elected democrats inside Haiti, who are the people we should be trying to protect and promote. 
Ms. Sommers also tears apart two high-profile studies on education: a 1991 survey by the American Association of University Women that argues that the self-esteem of adolescent girls is low; and the 1992 Wellesley Report, commissioned by the AAUW, which says schools discriminate against girls. 
I ask about a February 1993 election for half of the National Assembly, in which candidates who support the socialist system reportedly received more than 70% of the vote. 
For the group as a whole, first-half performance was "better than last year but far from satisfactory," Mr. Dormann said in an interview. 
The administration noted that U.S. exports to Chile have grown some 216% since 1986. 
In Milan, stocks fell for the third session, as lower bond prices and a weak Italian lira combined with continued political uncertainty to undermine prices. 
But his answer, which responded to a direct question about his personal knowledge, sure sounds like an evasion. 
Mr. Diller was previously chairman of Fox and while there, he recruited Ms. Salhany to head up Twentieth Television, which she ran before going FBC. 
"I am a member of the Omnicom board. 
He would also be one of five QVC-designated directors on CBS's 12-member board. 
Shares of Brock Control Systems plunged 4 11/16, or 38%, to 7 3/4. 
Volume was 597.4 million shares, compared with 764.9 million shares a day earlier. 
NEW YORK -- After their eye-catching gains in the first six months of 1994, commodity markets appear to be taking a breather. 
"They are asking us to do the impossible" by agreeing to be treated as a developed country, he said. 
Now these guns, possible targets of the White House as it decides what to do about China's "most favored nation" trade status, show signs of helping turn America's already mean streets a little meaner. 
Thus EIRF would deal with one symptom and not with the broader liability issue that is Superfund's basic flaw. 
Mr. Clinton insisted that he wasn't taking sides, but said that "the threat or implementation of replacing striking workers has a poisonous effect on the relationships between workers and employers." 
The long-awaited Certificate of Financial Responsibilty rule, which goes into effect today, enacts portions of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which Congress passed partly in response to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. 
Although it currently produces only fighter planes, the facility could be readily converted to passenger-plane manufacturing. 
Some 113 out of 1,000 black teenage males were victims of violent crimes. 
The racial justice controversy poses significant risks for Mr. Clinton and his party. 
Capacity utilization rose to 84%, the highest level since 1991. 
Scott's stock rose $1.125 to close at $53.25 a share in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange. 
"More and more of the Blues' plans are looking very seriously at the alternatives available for raising capital," Richard Schapiro, a Salomon Brothers Inc. 
Those boosters are now in production and are expected to be used in U.S. Air Force launches next year. 
Antitrust questions will surely surface as these and other industries evolve, and Judge Breyer, an authority in this field as well, would be in a strong position to propose answers. 
Ms. Bottinelli's story for NBC was about Vincent, a convicted mobster who is found dead in his prison cell. 
So Randall Robinson went on a hunger strike to attack the Clinton policy, and incredibly the President agreed in public that Mr. Robinson was right that he should probably change his policy. 
His commission amounts to about 30% of the profit in a deal after Landmark takes out a chunk. 
The tragedy of thousands of black youths killed by black youths might be expected to concentrate hearts and minds on the question of how to stop the violence. 
But the very fact that critics have different agendas splinters their arguments. 
When Lars G. Andersson, a Tetra Pak veteran who opened the company's China operations, decided the time was right to build a Chinese factory in 1984, he telephoned headquarters in Sweden. 
A spokesman notes that shares in Russian oil companies can be had for as little as a few cents per barrel of proven reserves, a fraction of the cost in the West. 
Congress's laws supersede interstate-commerce conflicts. 
Issue size depends upon extent to which holders of existing Halos stock wish to convert their holdings into GESB bonds. 
WASHINGTON -- In a large, dusty room on the fourth floor of the Interstate Commerce Commission building, paper is piling up all over the place. 
Activase sales in the quarter grew 32% to $73.5 million from $55.8 million a year earlier. 
Amalgamated, which refines sugar from beets bought from the growers, is projected to post 1994 operating profit of $33 million before interest and taxes, on sales of about $460 million, Harold Simmons, chairman and president of Valhi, said in an interview. 
That's 2.2115384 points per game -- less points than the Bulls' B.J. Armstrong can score with a single flick of the wrist from downtown! 
Also included will be Continental's foreign subsidiaries, joint ventures and the portfolio investments of those corporations. 
I suppose that these restrictions could be administered by an EPA police force. 
European markets started modestly higher in a continuation of Monday's advances, when U.S. markets were closed for the Fourth of July holiday. 
After the Comcast bid was announced, Mr. Diller said he intends to negotiate with the company but will examine other options and seek the best value for shareholders. 
Some cutbacks, the executives said, are being made this month. 
Yet Arch remains highly selective. 
Computer makers can begin modifying those portions of their contracts affected by the agreement right away. 
A company spokesman said U.S. Wireless Data's board had asked for Mr. Caldwell's resignation. 
But in 1989, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity accused Dr. Gallo of scientific misconduct by playing down the role of the French AIDS virus in claims about his lab's work. 
The planned transaction -- following the pact by Burlington Northern Inc. to acquire Santa Fe Pacific Corp. for $2.7 billion to create the largest U.S. railroad -- underscores the industry's aggressive consolidation in a bid to pare costs and win customers from truckers. 
Andrew G. Vajna, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Cinergi, said more than 400,000 units of "Tombstone" had been shipped to video stores. 
Hollywood executives say the lesson is the action audience can grow far beyond teenage boys if movies sport clever stories and violence that isn't mindless. 
Ugly incidents would be bound to occur and substantial obligations undertaken, both to sustain the occupation and to refloat the Haitian economy with further financial aid. 
Employers used to grill him over a nanny's qualifications, he says. 
Frank LaHue, a former senior vice president of operations at Exabyte Corp., was named interim chief executive until a permanent successor is found. 
"We in no way are trying to limit creativity. 
The move into China will also facilitate sourcing of low-cost products. 
Previous navigational systems were created to spotlight information pertaining to the Paula Jones, Tonya Harding and Dan Rostenkowski cases. 
A 1990 study by the Office of Technology Assessment had put the price for medical costs linked to smoking at about $22 billion, according to the CDC. 
"We're ecstatic about it." 
The RTC is also auditing the law firm's legal bills, and Ms. Black said, "we are finding some resistance in giving us material there as well." 
Inspired by stories like this, the drug industry is placing some big bets that the market for obesity pills is ready to explode. 
"I've been moving out of my cyclicals, which I've had for 2 1/2 years," says George Vanderheiden, who manages the two Fidelity Destiny funds in Boston. 
But Tambrands' new entry will have to vie with a number of new tampons hitting the market. 
Larry Tieman, chief information officer at trucking firm Schneider National Inc., says he is more worried about "Microsoft and every other vendor's tendency to push software out that's full of bugs." 
Catenaccio is the game of the weak, designed, in the words of the soccer author Paul Gardner, "not to win games but to avoid losing them." 
Sales at stores open more than a year were down 3% for the first nine months of this fiscal year, and operating earnings during the same period fell 4%. 
Mr. Neely believes Congress must reform the product-liability system -- which keeps new contraceptives off the market -- and subsidize the use of Norplant. 
BRUSSELS -- The European Commission predicted it would finish its proposals for a definitive system for collecting value-added tax, or VAT, by the end of October -- two months ahead of schedule. 
He soon lost his sight and died in 1875. 
First Call has Arco earning $1.06 a share on operations, compared with the year-ago $1.37. 
For instance, it says that employees who work more than four hours a day at video-display monitors must be reimbursed for eye examination and corrective lenses. 
The spokesman said the insurer consented to Texas Insurance Commissioner's J. Robert Hunter's order, without admitting state law violations, because it was less expensive than litigation. 
Reflecting that, she trimmed her 1995 earnings estimate for Houghton to $3.10 a share from $3.55 a share. 
One reopens the MIA/POW debate with trepidation. 
WASHINGTON -- Raw-steel production by the nation's mills increased 0.4% last week to 1,914,000 tons from 1,906,000 tons the previous week, the American Iron and Steel Institute said. 
The human species now can expand the ecological niches in which it can survive over the succeeding millennia. 
In 1991, the sisters and their brother, Stimson, 75, sold their 70%-controlled family business, which had grown from timber and real estate into a regional media empire called King Broadcasting Co. The Bullitts cleared about $300 million. 
And rising inventories may presage a slowdown in production in the coming months. 
What Europeans fear -- for sound historical reasons -- is a new struggle among European powers for continental hegemony. 
TORONTO -- The Ontario government said it plans to give its securities regulators new powers that will help them crack down on "penny-stock" dealers who hawk securities over the telephone. 
Proceeds of the issue will be used for general government purposes. 
"At all times during the time I was associated with Refco," he went on, "Red Bone had a large number of accounts that he could use to buy or sell large quantities and large numbers of contracts in place . 
Ms. Crawford -- already a $7 million-a-year industry unto herself -- will appear on all three channels as the shopping shows' sole spokeswoman. 
While the Palestinian authority remains paralyzed, hampered by financial and organizational difficulties, Hamas, the Islamic military and political resistance group, is working at full speed. 
Much of his work, the SEC said in an announcement yesterday, was carried out by his lieutenant, Thomas Murphy, while superiors looked the other way. 
Which brings us to the bottom line. 
Fees undisclosed. 
Fisons sold its North American horticulture business last year and said that negotiations continue for the company's remaining horticulture businesses in the Benelux countries and France. 
"This is a little unusual," said Joseph Goldstein, associate director of the SEC's enforcement division. 
Ten more minutes "is a big deal" in the mad rush to get accurate prices on mutual funds, says Kevin Farragher, director of operations at the ICI, a mutual fund trade group. 
"They'll work with you." 
Heir to this oppressive legacy of heroism, McGreevy is a dangerous man driven by ideals. 
In his hungry days, that surely meant dollars, but now it entails a higher order of values and the freedom to look for opportunities. 
Similarly, European government bonds ended higher, partly helped by news that Germany's broad M3 money-supply measure grew by a slower-than-expected annualized 11.3% pace in June, down from 13.4% in May and compared with forecasts of 11.9% for June. 
As we learned then, raging and destructive fires on federal lands ignite huge arguments over whether the fires should be suppressed or allowed to burn on. 
Advancing Nasdaq issues ran behind decliners, 1,493 to 1,571. 
Most stores and many movie houses are closed. 
The high provision rate and a dearth of exceptional profits led to a 53% drop in net profits for the French banking system, after a 48% drop in 1992, the report showed. 
He accused them of "a constant unremitting drumbeat of negativism," and added that the soldiers who fought at D-Day "did not die so Americans could indulge in the luxury of cynicism." 
Chevron signed an eight-year agreement to market Russian crude oil, bolstering the company's involvement in the former Soviet Union. 
Thanks to the state's very high tax rates, "there is nothing better we can invest in other than California bonds," Mr. Mann says. 
After Wednesday's close, the Fair Lawn, N.J., drug company said net income for the period fell to five cents a share from a year-earlier 27 cents a share. 
Even women who lost weight by the age of 23 continued to earn less than those who had never been obese, Mr. Blanchflower said. 
FIRST HAWAIIAN Inc. (Honolulu) -- John K. Tsui was named president and chief operating officer of this holding company's main banking unit, First Hawaiian Bank, succeeding John A. Hoag. 
The union says that number is far too high but acknowledges the number is higher than in a similar national strike against the company two years ago. 
He holds stocks for three to five years. 
The court in De Grandy answered neither these nor other equally important questions. 
Even the two presidential candidates who favor independence wonder if Belarus can sustain the project. 
Salomon itself settled related SEC and Justice Department charges in 1992, paying $290 million in fines and restitution. 
Mr. Eberling, in an interview yesterday, took pains to say that his Lehman opinions aren't personal. 
For example, kidney dialysis typically saves a life-year for about $46,000. 
"Just because you don't have public bathrooms in a garage doesn't mean people won't go to the bathroom," says Mr. Weinberg, president of Friends of Post Office Square, a business group that owns the garage. 
Upset about last-minute changes in a cargo report, he tore it up and threw it out the window. 
"There's no history to determine whether it will work or not, but that doesn't mean it can't be done." 
Even now, she is haunted by the thought of them, lying in the shroud of their collapsed tent somewhere beneath the snow in that land of luminous ice. 
Speaking in Naples, Italy, ahead of the Group of Seven industrialized nations meeting, Mr. Clinton said he wanted more than "short-term efforts" to support the dollar. 
Mr. Rhodes opposed the deals, fearing they put the company at risk and signaled a power grab. 
Mr. Farris, who in losing still received more votes than Ms. Terry, is credited with energizing the tens of thousands of new voters who helped the GOP carry the governorship and attorney generalship and pick up six new seats in the House of Delegates. 
Mr. DeFillipis, the firm's computer expert, found that his computers and printing-press computers in northern New Jersey weren't speaking to each other effectively. 
New York has the highest hotel-tax rate, 19.25%, of 50 cities surveyed by a travel-industry group, the Campaign to Keep Travel Competitive. 
But companies like Panamerican Beverages are getting around the problems by setting up private phone systems. 
Meanwhile, John Hay operates at a loss. 
But she does have gall: The impecunious daughter, fresh out of clean clothes, sent home a big box of dirty laundry. 
He has been a telecom policy consultant for business and government. 
The new verse fit right in with the McIntosh view of history: "Oh beautiful, for working folk, who forged the wealth we see. 
Let's have no more Menendez-type psychobabble about perpetrators as victims. 
The new forecast implies the administration expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates only a quarter of a percentage point for the remainder of this year and another half point in 1995. 
Those ties make a difference. 
Shares of Enquirer/Star Group lost 1 1/2, or 8.7%, to 15 3/4 after the publisher said MacFadden Holdings and Boston Ventures withdrew their previously reported offer to buy any of the company's common shares they didn't already own for $17.50 a share. 
The Army is beginning to look at marrying space surveillance systems, the digitized battlefield, instant communications and long-range precision-strike ability. 
Yet he adds, "If, among three million Sudeten Germans, even one individual was innocent, then we have to apologize." 
The idea of letting judges review how well regulators complied with the law was blocked because some feared it would lead to a flood of litigation against federal agencies. 
By the early 1980s, lead reductions in gasoline produced a sharp drop in lead contamination of wine. 
But the jury is out on KKR investors' returns on that achievement. 
However, some buying was seen as prices approached their lows for the day. 
The U.S. was helping to rebuild Europe and Japan after World War II. 
The problem, he says, is that ETI students learn the spectacular parts of courses, but have little understanding of the basics. 
For the quarter, total U.S. sales were $500 million, down 8% from a year earlier, and non-U.S. sales were $391 million, up 11%, the company said. 
It is interesting to note that no one, not even the tobacco industry, has disputed the fact that exposure to ETS can seriously and immediately affect the respiratory systems of people who have chronic respiratory diseases. 
Although it lowered Aldus's value, the settlement appeared to ease investors' concerns about the three-month delay in completing the merger. 
Funds supposed to cover the cost of relocating tenants were paid into accounts in Mr. Schneider's name. 
Assets of taxable funds open to individuals grew by about $7 billion during the quarter, to nearly $327 billion. 
They would never have to pay income taxes on your $75,000 of appreciation -- only on the gains beyond $100,000. 
This husky fellow fit the bill, only better. 
One less-expensive option would be to explore gas basins in the north that aren't associated with oil. 
Now a new stage of privatization is under way. 
Radio Pyongyang reported on Monday that the military, long regarded as Kim Jong Il's chief rival for power, had committed its allegiance to him. 
"We're seeing a phenomenal number of people coming down," says summer marketing manager Jennifer Renner. 
NEW YORK -- Companies in Switzerland and elsewhere are rushing to buy U.S. corporations before year's end, when a change in international accounting rules will end the advantage that some foreign buyers currently enjoy over U.S. rivals. 
When Caterpillar locked out UAW members in Aurora in November 1991 in retaliation for a limited strike by the UAW, Mr. Lang had thousands of dollars in savings. 
It was going all the way to Biondi." 
Under the plan, Mr. Tisch was to remain chairman of the new company for two years, but relinquish his titles of president and chief executive to Mr. Diller, widely acclaimed as an industry visionary who could lead the network into the future. 
With very little capital Migne brought it into being. 
NAPLES, Italy -- If President Clinton had his way, he'd rather visit with Boris Yeltsin than come home to Bob Dole. 
On June 30, United HealthCare fell to 45 7/8 on the day it was added to the index, down 2 for the day and down about 1% from its opening price of 46 3/8 the day after S&P announced it would be added. 
Epogen sales rose 26% to $176.5 million, "a good $10 million above what I was expecting," said Teena Lerner at Lehman Brothers Inc. 
"It doesn't necessarily matter where gold prices go," says Mr. Hanlon. 
Its headline: "Chenoweth supports out-of-state extremist agenda." 
So there. 
"`Poor' Americans live in larger houses or apartments, eat more meat, and are more likely to own cars and dishwashers than is the general population in Western Europe," wrote Robert Rector in a 1993 Heritage Foundation paper. 
When Miami Dolphins linebacker Bryan Cox gestured in Buffalo last season, the NFL slapped him with a $10,000 fine, later reduced to $3,000. 
They argued that the legislation, dubbed the Workplace Fairness Act, would give workers economic clout, while business charged that it would hamstring companies, possibly forcing them to send jobs overseas. 
He also negotiated Northwest's first airplane-leasing program, for Boeing 757s. 
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Crescent Airways said it completed the acquisition of Papillon Hawaii Helicopters, a privately held Hawaiian helicopter tour operator. 
But Mr. Blank concedes that "ultimately, we are dependent on the tastes of a 15-year-old." 
They've told them how we can make this country great again. 
Agency officials said they don't recommend the use of back belts. 
I have no plans of going where the Seagram business goes." 
All have argued against loosening the Bells' judicial reins. 
Blockbuster Entertainment will boost its equity in the Chicago-based owner and franchiser of indoor recreational facilities to 50.1% from 20%. 
Some temporary extensions will first be granted. 
Other approved American investments include the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co., which broke ground on a $20.4 million bottling plant in northern Vietnam two weeks ago, and a $9.9 million construction project in Hanoi by DeMatteis Construction Corp., Elmont, N.Y.  But Coca-Cola learned Friday that its application for a joint bottling venture in Ho Chi Minh City, in southern Vietnam, won't be considered for the time being. 
Supplying ammunition for domestic disputes wasn't what the British partners, both now 31, had in mind when they formed their company. 
In the European Parliament elections on June 12, the Free Democrats fared disastrously, falling below the 5% hurdle. 
A year earlier, public outrage forced the government to scrap plans to hand over control of the Schoenbrunn Palace to a private consortium. 
The experience with drug enforcement shows that prohibition of recreational drugs drives up prices, stimulates illegal activity, has only a moderate negative effect on consumption, and imposes unacceptable costs in terms of high crime, expansion of prison populations and deterioration of relations with the foreign countries that supply the outlawed products. 
FBI officials didn't return calls seeking comment. 
"Compliance costs for companies will also go up because companies will have to search harder to find the best method. 
Hoechst as a rule doesn't release specific first-half operating earnings. 
A major reason for the profit rise was improved earnings at the recording-company division, which has made a string of acquisitions over the past five years. 
Before ratifying the treaty, Russia and the United States must close the loopholes and include effective verification measures by using independent outside experts and nongovernmental organizations. 
She has paid her dues, worked hard and done a lot of good work." 
While he's still responsible for a lot of clerical work, he is now earning $395 a week. 
A Zapata spokesman said the spinoff is part of a long-term strategy designed to help Zapata become "a major player in natural-gas services." 
But Mr. Newhouse said Ms. Penney "will be working more closely with James than ever." 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of Bioject Inc.'s Biojector 2000 needle-free injection system for use in high-volume centers such as vaccination centers. 
LAFARGE Corp. (Reston, Va.) -- Edward T. Balfe, 52 years old, was named executive vice president, a new position at the cement and construction-materials concern. 
In theory, gels' consumer benefits should justify their premium price. 
Under a strict "originalist" argument, renewed use of the whip would probably survive a constitutional challenge, since the Framers presumably did not intend to invalidate a then-common punishment. 
The court fight sundered a family once bound by Old World values of trust and respect. 
What has hamstrung Prudential is the settlement that it reached with federal and state regulators in October. 
"They never tried to micro-manage," Mr. Smith says. 
Mr. Medford expects the company's revenue to be at least 14% higher than the $80.9 million reported for the year-earlier quarter. 
WASHINGTON -- MCI Communications Corp. said it received a four-year, $153 million contract to sell long-distance and other phone services to Holiday Inn Worldwide, a unit of U.K.-based Bass PLC. 
Spencer Plavoukos, who had been running Lintas's New York operation, will continue as chief executive of Lintas Americas. 
The companies also will each contribute at least $250 million to buy new stations, said executives involved in the deal. 
Stocks often rise when they are placed in the index on buying by index fund managers. 
Much-discussed welfare reform, too, is only in its beginning stages, with most states holding benefits steady during 1995 and planning expensive jobs programs to reintegrate recipients into the work force. 
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index eased 0.11 to 447.95 and the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index inched down 0.03 to 247.47. 
"She's being forced into it," Ms. Pruitt says. 
"I am not intending to retire or to leave," he said. 
"I think coffee should see $3.00 or higher, but I'm advising my retail customers to just stay out and leave it to the pro traders and the hedgers," said Scott Meyers, senior technical analyst at Redel Trading Ltd. in New York. 
Forty friends and relatives watched the event from California; 27 saw it in New York. 
There is good reason, however, for a little celebration. 
(Don't count income from trust funds or investments. 
The presence of the Italians in the quarterfinals is a surprise, as the team has played some of the most lackluster soccer in the tournament despite a wealth of skill and experience. 
But Will Marshall, head of the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, said it's important that Mr. Clinton "has a rapport and respect" of the Russian leader. 
The president's advisers acknowledge that success is far from assured. 
Traders said dealers' short positions became too large to be sustained. 
Bank of Montreal said it will merge Toronto-based Burns Fry with the bank's existing brokerage subsidiary, Nesbitt Thomson Corp., and call the new subsidiary Nesbitt Burns. 
That's essentially what the court told multinational companies to do when they argued that California's tax-accounting method reached too deeply into their pockets. 
The magazine had a great launch 15 years ago, then a sort of midlife crisis. 
Rabin said the Israeli opposition was using the Arafat visit to incite unrest against the center-left government. 
Howard Curd, chairman, said the company is in the final stages of concluding negotiations for a $100 million financing agreement in connection with its reorganization plan. 
Before old paint can be removed, the water has to be completely shrouded to keep paint flakes from polluting it. 
They even have a song demonstrating their commitment to global expansion, if not to good verse:  Fierljeppen is what we need for the modern woman and man. 
The affair cast doubt on recent statements by U.S. and French officials that the two sides were moving ever closer on foreign affairs and trade. 
"I'm laughing out of sheer frustration," he says. 
It's second only to the common cold as the reason for patients seeking medical care, and the annual medical cost for treating back pain exceeds $8 billion. 
The Netherlands is currently the only EU country with a fully privatized postal service, and by most accounts it has been a success. 
And the railroad has good traffic density, wellhoned management, and a more modern locomotive fleet. 
In fact, Mr. Cohen says the promotions with Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite are the "core" of the marketing push. 
"When I came here, this looked like one of those religious shrines -- you know, the kind people think is always crying," says Ms. Waggoner, pointing to a painting of the Madonna near the main stairway. 
Hollywood Park Inc., owner and operator of a horse racetrack in southern California, gambled that the newspaper would succeed, however. 
"If this kind of thing happens once every five years, it happens. 
Ms. Nishikawaji's parents at first objected to her choice of profession. 
The Treasury 30-year bond dipped 1/8 point, and its yield rose to 7.60%. 
MILAN -- Bowing to union pressure on parts of its severe restructuring plan, Italian national airline Alitalia SpA said it reached a tentative agreement with unions to accept the main financial targets of the package. 
The four-week average is considered a better gauge of the labor market than the weekly figure, but analysts say the situation in the unemployment offices doesn't always track the national job statistics. 
Mocatta, which dates back to 1671, is one of the world's largest gold and silver brokers and is involved in the daily fixing of gold and silver prices in London. 
The consideration of the deal could prove tricky, because the board includes both the Robertses and Mr. Diller as well as other QVC insiders. 
"As other ones come on, consumers will make a market for them just based on spreading the risk," she predicts. 
It unionized 1,000 chicken-plant workers in Mississippi. 
For the past two years, waves of cotton-eating boll worms, which aren't related to boll weevils, have chomped through millions of acres stretching from Beijing to Shanghai. 
Citicorp of the U.S. has made an aggressive push with its credit cards and 24-hour telephone-banking service, while Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. and Standard Chartered Bank have targeted home mortgages. 
"There's room for honesty," says Jimmy. 
Further, Vaccine for Children would go out of existence when health care reforms added immunization to a standard benefits package. 
Even so, the government is expected to propose a minor revolution in September with a bill to overhaul the country's aging criminal code. 
"It wouldn't last very long -- that takes two people who are very, very fond of each other," says a director, who adds that the two men clash personally. 
Demonstrating an apparent addiction to publicity-seeking political tourism, Jimmy Carter followed up his dubious visit to North Korea with a five-day trip to Managua, Nicaragua, beginning June 22. 
A Needham spokesman declined to comment beyond the official statement in which Bruce Crawford, president and chief executive officer of Omnicom, said, "We are saddened Mr. Bernbach has chosen to leave . 
Whirlpool, which already has a 51% interest in another Indian company that makes and exports washing machines, said the latest acquisition would enable it to build new Whirlpool refrigerators in India, and possibly export them to other Asian nations. 
In his speech, Mr. Tietmeyer reiterated the central bank's commitment to targeting the broad-based M3 aggregate, alluding to signs that the tempo would slow in the coming months. 
Among 10-year benchmark European government bonds, the 6.75% coupon German government issue maturing in 2004 was quoted in Europe at 97.70, down 0.31 from the previous session. 
Asked what makes Belarus distinct from Russia, a local photographer, Yuri Ivanov, thinks for a while, then comes up with "Chernobyl"; the reactor accident in 1986 dropped 70% of its fallout on southeastern Belarus. 
(Who knows how many Brooklynites have been spared slipping on banana peels since I began collecting castoff banana epidermises on Flatbush Avenue?) 
But the IMF came through with a new argument that seems to be making headway. 
The study also looked at 1,100 out-of-court settlements and found that they averaged 28% less than jury awards. 
Payable quarterly at three-month pound London Interbank Offered Rate plus 20 basis points. 
"Many were blindsided in April by the size of their tax bill from last year, and they are cutting back spending wherever possible," says Mr. Moskowitz, who conducted a survey several weeks ago among his firm's money management clients. 
In 1991, the Oakland fires killed 25 people and destroyed nearly 3,000 homes. 
The low-profile Mr. Marshall battles by proxy, recruiting allies to take the fight public. 
Half an hour later we started to descend, skipping and running down the mountainside, high on the clean air and the stunning views. 
Messrs. Wolf and Petrantis were suspended from acting in a supervisory capacity with any NASD member firm for two years, and Mr. Sullivan was suspended for one year. 
Bruce C. Edwards, 40, a senior vice president, was named to the new post of executive vice president. 
Mr. Wells never functioned as a day-to-day operating manager, anyway. 
Dime and Anchor have faced a difficult decade, but for different reasons. 
But finally she did, and he quickly took her off the drugs. 
We don't have space for all the reasons, but one of them is surely the kind of double-somersault with a political twist just executed by Congressman Peter Hoagland of Omaha, Neb. 
"I recommend people give themselves an annual IRA checkup," says Kaycee Krysty, executive director of the Personal Finance Network, a division of accounting firm Moss Adams in Seattle. 
JT's Japanese market share has fallen 18 percentage points since 1985, says JT spokesman Akira Watanabe. 
These increases aren't funded separately; they come directly out of his Operations and Maintenance budget, which is supposed to go for training and upkeep. 
Although companies' legal needs vary widely, Ms. Hale said that many general counsels believe they can reduce legal costs by handling more employment litigation in-house, from sexual-harassment suits to discrimination claims. 
He predicts that Starbucks stock will hit $38 a share within a year. 
The number of companies boosting their dividends was 105 this month, the most for any June since 1988, and up from 90 dividend increases in June 1993. 
But some lawyers who have been asked to implement task-based billing complain about costs of new software and training. 
But a group of Manpower officials recently gathered around a conference table in Zeeland, Mich., to come up with more innovative ways to boost recruiting. 
"Hmm, that's not so good," says Dr. King, anticipating how the FDA might respond to that side-effect profile. 
Molson also stumbled when it tried to expand internationally. 
Many of those toys, however, were bought by retailers before the quarter. 
Among the concerns are the chain's lackluster dinner business. 
A top TCI executive who declines to be named says, "Think about running a 30-second ad after a top-rated show like `Northern Exposure.' 
In fact, Ms. Curtis has Helen doing a skillful sendup of the roles women usually play in action pictures. 
For investors, fund expenses aren't an esoteric issue. 
At most fund groups, you've got a good menu of funds to nourish your IRA. 
And Andres "Gooooooal" Cantor, delivering play-by-play from a Miami studio, has become a cult hero who has spilled over to ESPN, the cable sports purveyor, and ABC, the network -- both broadcasting in English, both beside themselves with "surprisingly strong" ratings. 
And homeowners and businesses are being forced to sift through confusing bills to dispute calls with local phone companies. 
At which point in the deposition Phil Baechler, our founder and my ex-husband, jumped up and showed him that our Baby Jogger did indeed fold, using simple quick-release pins. 
While other battles against dumps are waged using public-interest lawyers, residents here retained some of the area's top condemnation attorneys. 
The ATF -- which traces only about 10% of guns used in crimes -- reports a sharp rise in SKS traces, to 790 last year from 433 in 1992. 
The school has just begun a pilot apprenticeship project to teach a dozen such students trades. 
There's been nothing like that since Dick Vitale sound-alike contests began making the rounds of the nation's campuses a few years ago. 
For the six months, Intel said its net income rose 13% to $1.26 billion, or $2.86 a share, from $1.12 billion, or $2.53 a share. 
Paris is next. 
near the intraday high of 20684.14. 
The WTO, by contrast, is an institution, not an agreement. 
At her salon, called the Pearly Gates, Sister Bonnie and 10 volunteers provide free perms, shampoos, cuts and comfort to Cincinnati's indigent. 
WASHINGTON -- Democratic congressional leaders, scrambling to save healthcare reform legislation this summer, are pursuing new compromises that would ease the burden on business. 
The executive added that he expects SunAmerica's board "to give serious consideration" to a dividend increase before the end of the calendar year. 
A better strategy might be one that focused on consumers' inflationary expectations. 
"Kidder Peabody assured Buch that if he maintained the assets under management and had above average investment performance for 1993, his total compensation in 1993 would exceed what he had earned in 1992," according to his arbitration claim. 
OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Integrated Health Services Inc. said it raised about $200 million in stock and debt offerings. 
Each person in Russia and China, for instance, drinks just two Cokes a year on average, compared with more than 300 in the U.S. and Mexico. 
She ordered him held without bail and set arraignment for July 22. 
Edward Carlough, 62, former president of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, of cancer. 
King and Carlson listen impassively. 
He tells us that he chose to stay in office "nine days longer than his term, until the minutes of the FOMC {December meeting} were published." 
"In 1959 it wouldn't have worked, because too many people supported the revolution. 
That measure also has been knocked down in the courts, though its fate is being appealed. 
"And that should prompt a very good rally in the bond market. 
The IRS already produces many television, radio and print advertisements to help filers with specific questions. 
Although Pepsi expects to post gains in domestic soft-drink profit, the company said fierce price competition will hurt its bottom line. 
"If another freeze does happen, the markets could get quite explosive." 
The unfortunate transformation did not happen by accident. 
involves the willingness to sacrifice now in order to make a dramatic change in one's standard of living," says Princeton historian Daniel Rogers. 
Authorities have three days to register new firms after applicants provide basic documents and prove that at least half their capital has been paid in. 
Mr. Tietmeyer also played down any economic implications of the weak dollar, saying it hasn't endangered European recovery. 
"You can use the G-7 as a catalyst for further trade liberalization beyond" the world trade pact now being considered by Congress. 
The unit will be responsible for the yet-to-be opened assembly plant 37 miles west of Mexico City, BMW said. 
It reported a small loss for its fiscal second quarter compared with a gain the year before. 
KERRVILLE -- You may not know it, looking at the empty storefronts downtown and the boots-and-jeans casualness of people on the streets, but in many ways this is the Palm Springs of Texas. 
Political leaders praise America's "civic religion," that bundle of beliefs, symbols and rituals that have long inspired Americans to think of themselves as a unique people with an obligation to set a special example for the world. 
All my maternal instinct mixed with that Flash Gordon you-saved-me adolescent worship, and I turned my virtual self in his direction and pressed my run button. 
Each one-rupee increase in the price of a bag of cement will add 220 million rupees a year to ACC's revenue, calculates Pravin Shah, vice president of equities research at the Bombay representative office of Morgan Stanley Asia Holdings Inc. He said a one-rupee increase translates to 20 rupees more for each ton of cement, and ACC will by 1995 have annual capacity of 11 million tons. 
The justices voted 7-2 to revoke a $5 million personal-injury award imposed on Honda by an Oregon state-court jury. 
Worse, they say, it will be controlled by "faceless bureaucrats" in Geneva who make their decisions in secret. 
The low airfares have hit Greyhound particularly hard on trips of 600 to 1,000 miles. 
Moreover, UAL said yesterday it would use $300 million of cash reserves to compensate for the shortfall off proceeds from the offerings. 
They hadn't read the annual report, and one candidate didn't even know that Hess was an oil company. 
Stoitchkov also tends toward verbal bluntness: When asked about his team's victory chances against home-team France in its fateful qualifying match, he said they were so slim he'd walk barefoot from Paris to Sofia if his crew won. 
As a result, the song fell on a top-40 chart published by Billboard when it should have risen. 
Many of us hoped he had kicked his cocaine habit years ago, and it's a personal tragedy for Mr. Gooden that he apparently hasn't been able to do so. 
The company said it aims to open 30 clinics in 1994. 
Plucking her information from courtroom proceedings, confidential Interpol memos and interviews with named sources, Ms. Sterling has done formidable research, and even if her organizational skills are not those of the Organizatsiya, her detailed portrait of the criminal bands that now circle our planet is sobering to say the least. 
PaineWebber's Mr. Terreson said no. 
In the end, the earlier version of the will was used to settle her father's estate, and Ms. Traber's mother was the sole executor. 
The Murphy Browns of the world do manage to balance career and home. 
But whatever the outcome, the battle itself has exposed a continental divide in how Americans view their past. 
Baxter competitor Owens & Minor Inc. also is engaged in talks that would lead to such relationships. 
A bill in Congress would make such tax collection illegal. 
U.S. consumer prices varied in a 26% range in those 62 years, and stood at almost exactly the same level at the beginning and end of both periods. 
Mr. Wheatcroft lives in Bath, England. 
The colorfully painted Haitian "tap tap" buses are gone, as are the Haitian peasants and middlemen who had turned Jimani into a mecca of trade in both legal and contraband commodities. 
"In elementary school, I felt like Miss Brilliant," she says, but now that everyone her age knows trigonometry and advanced math, "I don't feel like I have that much knowledge now." 
In 1987, several Moche burial chambers were discovered near Sipan, Peru, containing hundreds of artifacts -- including a necklace of 10 enormous, intricately carved gold beads, each depicting a spider shaped like a human head clinging to an ornate web. 
With food, water and medicine running low in Aden, relief officials warned of possible catastrophic health problems in the port city. 
At the Tanya Tucker concert at the opening game June 17 in Dallas, "Suddenly we got an emergency request to translate for a load of soccer officials from Russia," says Anoma Amerasekera, head of interpreting services for the World Cup in Dallas. 
National City Bank, Cleveland, is trustee. 
Some of them have been replaced for arranging to have friends call on the toll-free number or for making personal use of postage. 
ORRVILLE, Ohio -- J.M. Smucker Co. said it completed the acquisition of After the Fall Products Inc.'s fruit juice and juice beverage business. 
Japan Finance Corp. for Municipal Enterprises (Japanese agency) -- 150 million Swiss francs of 5.5% public bonds due Aug. 24, 2004, priced at 102.75, via Industrial Bank of Japan. 
More important, Democratic party leaders are hoping to score some legislative triumphs in Congress, particularly on health care and crime, between now and November, precisely in hopes of exciting the Democratic base. 
The provision for credit losses declined to $23.7 million, or 0.32% of average loans and leases, compared with $39.4 million, or 0.61% of average loans and leases. 
"If you're looking for high returns, you're going to be disappointed" in a money-market fund. 
The fines dwarfed the EU's previous record fine of 104 million ECUs, set just five months ago in a case involving 14 producers of steel beams. 
Cantor's regular U.S. audience comes from all over the Spanish-speaking world, so he must tread a fine line when he broadcasts contests involving those nations. 
In some cases, investors have simply cleared out a few of the more liquid stocks trading at high P/E ratios in order to pick up the new issues. 
Amid overcapacity and decreasing domestic sales, Nissan also has been furloughing its line workers for a few days every month since last year. 
The El Segundo, Calif., company is expected to post earnings per share of 30 cents, up 30% from 23 cents a share in the year-ago quarter, Ms. Krutick said. 
But so far only three are definite attendees -- and one, Gov. Ann Richards, doesn't have much choice: She's the keynote speaker. 
The aim is to go further in the direction of curing genetic diseases as fast as we can," Mr. Biranbeau explained. 
Network officials decline to cite which commercials were pulled. 
Michael G. Semmens, Electrosource's president and chief executive officer, believes his company will produce between 35,000 and 50,000 of its lead-acid batteries next year from its San Marcos, Texas, plant, and expects to make as many as 100,000 batteries a year by the decade's end. 
He recently ordered the parties to come up with a better argument for why the merger serves the public interest before ruling on whether to clear the deal. 
Mr. Thomas declined to predict future earnings, but he did say "the underlying trends are positive." 
Reps. Charles Stenholm (D., Texas), Tim Penny (D., Minn.) and John Kasich (R., Ohio) are sponsoring a bill to restore a little sanity to the budget process. 
But San Antonio is really the wake-up call." 
Currently, all long-distance calls made on cellular phones controlled by McCaw's service move on AT&T's global network. 
Longer-term U.S. Treasury funds lost 4.45% in the first quarter, according to Lipper Analytical Services Inc. 
Technicians aren't always right, and their charts aren't foolproof. 
Black middle-class families also continue to move into predominantly white suburban neighborhoods. 
The Justice Department began its inquiry last August, after the Federal Trade Commission deadlocked on whether to bring a case against Microsoft following an investigation that lasted more than three years. 
A recent battle between the government and Venezuelan pharmaceutical makers may be a preview of coming supply problems provoked by government intervention. 
In trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the company's stock closed at $5.125, down 37.5 cents. 
Even aspirin originated in a plant. 
Cultural conservatives bemoan the eclipse of one type of American personality -- self-reliant, self-controlled, hard-working and patriotic -- and its apparent replacement by another: dependent, hedonistic, narcissistic and whiny. 
Thereafter bonds callable at par. 
Don't skip meals. 
Korman Property Trust -- initial 12.5 million shares, via Merrill Lynch. 
North Korean propaganda portrays him as demigod. 
Both Ms. Foster and Mr. Kushen are 52 years old. 
The hundreds of volumes that make up the "Patrologia" were only a part of Migne's stupendous plan to publish a cheap, uniform edition of church writings. 
Under the agreement, Mellon Mortgage Co., the Pittsburgh-based bank's mortgage-banking subsidiary, will buy more than 50 wholesale and retail loan-origination offices in 10 states -- mainly in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain region and Hawaii. 
That's a mistake, advisers say. 
Mr. MacIntyre, a management consultant, succeeds Henry P. Holland, 45, who left to pursue other business opportunities. 
Dr. Jaffe is a former president of the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, the research and development arm of Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical and health-care products concern. 
Hardest hit by the 24-hour walkout were domestic flights. 
In what is essentially a propaganda film projected on a planetarium ceiling, the visitor is treated to images of exploring vessels and American Indians. 
Unlike Domino's previous ads that spurred impulse buying, the new campaign aims to "make people call us for days after they've seen the ads." 
The DAX 30-stock index rose 4.58 points to 2098.19, 
The loan was secured by Elektra stock held by the Salinas family, according to the prospectus for the offering. 
Although its second-quarter report, released late Monday, met most expectations, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker said its profit margins shrank. 
In April 1992, the UAW quit a national strike against Caterpillar after the Peoria, Ill., maker of construction equipment and diesel engines threatened to replace the strikers permanently. 
Parishioners in the new world continued the tradition of donating jewels for the icon, either in thanks or in supplication. 
Traders and analysts now are awaiting Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's semiannual testimony on monetary policy and economic conditions before Senate and House banking committees tomorrow and Friday, respectively. 
Comanangement fee 1.375. 
Inflation remains the biggest threat to the Asian giant's fast-moving economy. 
The strikers were demanding a three-year package of increased pay and benefits totaling almost $60 million. 
Others, though, think the biggest violators had already been scared off by federal prosecutions and the wave of bad publicity. 
Shares of Chieftain, an Edmonton, Alberta-based oil and gas concern, closed at $15.25, down 87.5 cents in American Stock Exchange trading. 
They make the TV sets down there, he says. 
One room of the cabin is plastered with faded photographs of people who have seen the Wild Man, along with descriptions of their encounters. 
"You have to trust that they're going to be fair." 
It can take two years or more for that tree to produce coffee beans in any quantity again, analysts note. 
The moves are part of a plan to eliminate several thousand workers from IBM's PC operation. 
Pager orders from China rebounded from the sharp dip they took in the first quarter, but they remained below last year's second quarter, Motorola said. 
Consumer loans grew the most, increasing to $19.1 billion from $18.7 billion at the end of the first quarter. 
Before 1914, high-powered money meant metal and paper currency held by banks and the public. 
In the last few weeks, the FCC staff has been discussing various options for obtaining payment for the licenses. 
"But believe me, that's catastrophic to a customer," he says. 
Shareholders of the newly privatized Banca Commerciale Italiana authorized a capital increase expected to raise 2.36 trillion lire ($1.52 billion), to ensure "adequate capitalization" and "future expansion as a universal bank," the bank said. 
The company has made adamant reassurances that its campaign is on schedule for taking out $3 billion of annual expenses this year, including the axing of 35,000 jobs by year-end. 
P&I clubs have long said they would no longer insure vessels shipping oil to the U.S. if the Coast Guard issued regulations allowing individuals seeking damages to sue insurers. 
"Our restructuring and recapitalization program is on plan," said Mr. Blankley. 
Cities with predominantly Protestant populations might not want an excess of Madonnas or saints; Kress gave them still lifes and landscapes. 
Besides local newscasts, the ads also appear during local station breaks on such shows as "Today," "Good Morning America," "The David Letterman Show" and "Hard Copy." 
Whatever follows, "this is definitely a major, positive development in a softening of North Korea's aggressive stance," says Marc Faber, managing director of Marc Faber Ltd., a Hong Kong fund-management company with $100 million under management. 
Named co-executor, Ms. Traber went to probate court with her father's will, only to discover it was a duplicate and inadmissible. 
"I had taught for years without talking about women in history. 
At issue is an arcane but financially significant dispute over how to finance local phone service throughout Britain. 
Joseph Hu, senior vice president at Oppenheimer & Co., says the failure of dealers to recognize that the loan pools will prepay faster means the discount securities are priced too low. 
Like the rest of the stock market, these funds haven't performed well lately. 
In retrospect, he says, the reason for his success was his lack of funds. 
The contracts are part of the Clinton administration's Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, the so-called "super car" program between Washington and Detroit that promises to deliver a prototype of a family sedan that is ultraclean, with three-times the fuel efficiency of its present gasoline-powered predecessor. 
The recapture rules are designed to prevent couples from frontloading alimony payments in the first years after a divorce. 
The transracial adoption issue, as important as it is, is only a small part of the overall adoption problem in America. 
Mr. Reynolds is the founder of the anti-smoking group, Citizens for a Smokefree America. 
NV Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (Netherlands) -- $1 billion of 7% Eurobonds due Aug. 23, 1999, at issue price 100.939 
They advocate fundamental changes in what students learn; history, for example, should be "the history of inclusion" -- a history that heralds the doings of ordinary people (often women and minorities) doing ordinary, unheralded things. 
Merrill Lynch late Wednesday raised its long-term rating on the food company to "buy" from "above average." 
The victims were promised exclusive territories, logistical support, timely delivery of the machines and gross revenue of $300 to $350 a week per machine, the charges add. 
Today, Belarus is on its way to making history as the former Soviet republic most willing to shrug off sovereignty and re-submit to Russian rule. 
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Training "responsible" liquor servers gains ground. 
Further, some writers bristle at the notion -- advocated by some historians -- that westerns should make up for the genre's past glorification of white settlers by now painting them as evil exploiters. 
Frank Mancuso, MGM's chairman and chief executive, said the money is the first outside bank funding MGM has had access to since Credit Lyonnais SA formally took control of the troubled studio from Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti in 1992. 
But the company's factory capacity to make the 486 chip has peaked at about one million units a quarter until Digital Equipment Corp. begins producing chips for Advanced Micro in the fourth quarter. 
On the Big Board, Advanced Micro Devices eased 1/4 to 26 3/4, Texas Instruments rose 3/8 to 83 and National Semiconductor slid 1/2 to 17 7/8. 
The positions are new. 
Jump too fast, too slow or off-center and you're in the soup. 
Mr. Seidman's plan is for LRN to develop its own database. 
"What we're seeing right now is a consolidation type of move, ahead of some upward pressure," he says. 
That's welcome news to the agencies, which had been forced to squeeze out earnings last year mainly through cost-cutting measures. 
Officials in Pyongyang were likely caught off guard by Kim Il Sung's death Friday, and for now they are going out of their way to give North Koreans the impression of a calm and stable transfer of power. 
It also emphasizes finance, with both MBIA, a municipal-bond insurer, and MBNA, a bank that does a big credit-card business. 
Oppenheimer's Mr. Ting, however, expects Exxon to earn 69 cents and NatWest's Ms. Gustafson projects 70 cents. 
For higher-grade gasoline, the total tax burden is almost 150%. 
Load factor for the period climbed to 64.7% from 60%. 
Philip Morris cigarette brands controlled 46.6% of the market in May , an increase of five share points from March 1993, before the company announced it was slashing premium cigarette prices. 
Mr. Wright points to the Houston area as a good example of how Texas could benefit from more state involvement in water management. 
From February to May, there were reports of 295 murders, 91 abductions, and 66 rapes committed by armed thugs against Haitian citizens. 
In an interview, Mr. Price said that he and Jim Sinegal, the former Costco chief executive who holds that position at the merged companies, "have a lot of philosophical differences." 
Still, a split vote by the trade panel will be a victory for Canadian negotiators, and would make sanctions hard to justify for President Clinton. 
FEDERAL EXPRESS Corp.'s domestic revenue-per-pound has dropped to $2.48 from $2.60 in the past year. 
Stephen Potts, the Bush appointee who runs the ethics shop, confirms he wrote no legal opinion either and advised the White House only "in general terms." 
CBS said it would buy back 22.6% of its shares for $1.1 billion, or $325 a share, after its planned merger with QVC was scuttled. 
Salomon expects to report a second-quarter loss of about $200 million, its largest quarterly loss ever. 
The report showed that unfilled orders increased in May for the second straight month. 
Frieda Zames of Disabled in Action, a civil-rights group, uses a motorized scooter to get around. 
Among them are statements made by a co-worker of Mr. Aburto and his family in Los Angeles County. 
That's down from the $120 million record set last year. 
In return, EAI would attempt to wring savings from the system and keep some as profit, perhaps 3% to 5% of the operating budget. 
Michigan Municipal Bond Authority -- $240 million of Series 1994-B revenue notes priced by a CS First Boston Inc. group. 
Fees 1.875. 
The FCC said Mtel won't have to bid for its license. 
The $1 million that Arch invested now is worth more than $8 million. 
Fees 1.136. 
We just assume now that if we go to a trade show, there will be about three imitators. 
"This acquisition is a major step forward in our focused fluids management strategy," said Robbins & Myers' Daniel W. Duval, president and chief executive officer, in a statement. 
"There have been some signs of recovery in the last few months, but it's too early to say if it will be solid and continue," Mr. Marzotto says. 
Recreation division sales and operating profit both rose by around 5%. 
The FDA says it will take at least a year to review the 40,000 pages of data submitted by Nabisco. 
Merck & Co. is expected to post flat earnings per share (excluding last year's restructuring charge), although its sales will be much higher because of the addition of Medco Containment Services Inc., which it acquired last year. 
Also in the group, Brooktrout Technology, Needham, Mass., lost 1 to 11 3/4, and State of the Art, based in Irvine, Calif., moved 3/4 lower to 6. 
We hope that Mr. Clinton's week in Europe has made that clear to him. 
It didn't. 
The president acts on the advice of the cabinet on any petition for clemency. 
said Mr. Suard, who strongly proclaims his innocence. 
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- For the third time in seven months, Malaysian tycoons Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng and Robert Kuok Hock Nien are teaming up in an offshore investment, this time in Philippine property. 
Edwin L. Yoder, 42, was appointed vice president of AlliedSignal Environmental Catalysts. 
And William Kristol's Project for the Republican Future, which ran an earlier ad sharply critical of the Clinton package, also is thinking of doing another. 
In Hong Kong, shares ended mostly flat in thin trading, as most investors stayed on the sidelines amid worries about U.S. interest rates. 
But while Mr. Reed attempts to reach out to new followers, he needs to keep his eye on his original flock. 
With bigger research and development budgets, they might come up with better systems than Cellular Technical. 
In other words, with a million recalcitrant Ulster Protestants forcibly incorporated, the Irish state could not possibly have achieved its remarkable political stability and tranquillity. 
-- When Walt Disney Co. announced plans last fall to build a theme park near this Civil War battleground, executives braced for the usual debate over urban sprawl and other local issues. 
The movie, which stars an eighth-generation "blood relative" of the original Lassie, is due in theaters July 22. 
CAR ACCOUNT: Nissan Motor Co.'s Danish unit tapped TBWA Copenhagen to handle its $3.2 million account, previously held by Grey Advertising's Danish agency. 
That is because Salomon, owing to its heavy reliance on bond trading and underwriting, was particularly affected in the second quarter by the surge in interest rates. 
Mr. Eberling, 37 years old, joined Prudential Securities in mid-May along with colleague Jennifer Scutti. 
On Monday, Lilly stock took a battering, losing 13% of its value before closing at $50 in composite New York Stock Exchange trading. 
Can we not pledge ourselves to an educational effort to extol the wisdom of a permanent strategy of monetary neutrality? 
(Last year, the million-visitor mark wasn't reached until November.) 
Nor were museums in this country much better off. 
The partnership is a 50-50 joint vetnure with Rochester Telephone as manager, covering a population base of four million. 
Fees 0.9375. 
Mr. Zimmerman, who was by then president and chief operating officer of Federated, became Mr. Questrom's No. 2 again. 
Cutting costs means fewer jobs. 
Microsoft's competitors and industry analysts are certainly unimpressed with the settlement. 
Mr. Craib said yesterday he stands by an earlier forecast that TWA will break even on an operating basis this year. 
The combined firm will have 3,700 employees. 
State Street is paying a multiple of about 2.2 times Investors Fiduciary's book value of $101 million, but analysts favored the move, which they reckon will add to State Street's earnings per share. 
One of the easiest ways to water down costs, of course, is to water down quality. 
Late in New York, the dollar was quoted at 1.5777 marks, down from 1.5804 marks late Tuesday in New York. 
"A lot of us wonder why they can't just build hospitals like other wealthy people," says a retired timber executive who has known the family for decades. 
But he believes the pressure results from companies paying more to valued workers, not from any shortage of labor overall. 
While attending a close friend's dinner party in Manhattan last December, Mr. Puris was so distracted he couldn't enjoy the Chinese food prepared by the friend's personal chef. 
The rising yen makes prices abroad seem cheaper than ever. 
Ironically, President Clinton's original health plan of last fall called for many of these work-force changes and oversight boards. 
If they win that one they'll meet the winner of tomorrow's Brazil-Sweden semi in the Rose Bowl on Sunday for what's called -- rightly, given the extent of participation -- the biggest prize in sports. 
Its Hyundai Motor Co. unit, once beset by quality-control problems, is enjoying a successful comeback in the U.S.; labor unrest, though lingering, has peaked from the violent strikes that roiled the group in the 1980s; and a badly needed expansion plan is expected to receive a boost from renewed Korean government funding. 
WASHINGTON -- Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., which was awarded a license by the Federal Communications Commission to offer a nationwide advanced paging service, plans to bid in the FCC auctions later this month for additional nationwide licenses, Jai Bhagat, executive vice president, said. 
In 1993, Lincoln had sales of $57.6 million. 
While Hispanics in Florida often are better off than elsewhere, White House officials said the same problems exist in Florida. 
The province wound up selling the stake and other asbestos-mining interests two years ago, after racking up heavy losses on the investments. 
But at 4.5% to 5% a year, raising money through bonds will cost the company roughly half what its bankers would charge. 
Mr. Hayre says homeowners who have decided to move won't be dissuaded by rising mortgage rates -- which now are in the neighborhood of 8.75% to 9% -- even if they recently refinanced their loan. 
Mr. Carter announced fatuously: "I've only just returned from North Korea. 
Mercer said that as part of the agreement, the German privatization agency and German state and local governments will forgive Zellstoff's $76 million term debt, and contribute about $43.7 million in cash by 1998. 
He pointed out that 44% of the company's sales happen abroad, and noted that many countries overseas are only now beginning to emerge from recession. 
With legislation coming to a head in Congress, more than a dozen cabinet and subcabinet officers will be sent around the country to boost universal health-care coverage. 
The State Committee said the soft drink market is saturated in the south. 
Twenty-eight years after leading England to a World Cup triumph, he is making his living mixing pleasure with business. 
The additional credit line is critical because MGM has embarked on a comeback plan designed to clean up the studio for future sale. 
Afterward, Sen. Bradley, who voted for it, said he was "concerned that this bill is short on funding." 
Once infected, a plant's leaves curl severely and it starves. 
John Teets, who also is president and chief executive officer, said revenue rose substantially to more than $920 million, compared with restated quarterly revenue of $774 million a year earlier. 
"There's no question Macy's is a world-class name in retailing and one which Federated will take advantage of," said Gilbert Harrison, chairman of Financo Inc., one of the investment banking firms advising Federated. 
Amid speculation that Colonial Group might be acquired, its stock price has been gaining in active trading. 
Eric Gleacher, an investment banker with Gleacher Morgan Grenfell, New York, says publicly traded companies often buy a company "based on what the purchase will do to reported earnings." 
"You can sleep when you're dead." 
The country, a cradle of ancient civilization, didn't indicate whether illegal antiquities exports had increased. 
Although it is the employee's responsibility to tell the employer about his disability and ask for accommodation, this situation is still potential quicksand for the unaware manager. 
His profane harangues were publishing-industry legend. 
You can also sit outside and watch the pedicabs and hawkers ply the tree-lined street. 
Also, the company said it hopes to cut its costs per package to $8 from $12 by the year 2000. 
When Texans grouse that "foreigners" have hijacked the local banking system, they usually mean out-of-state companies such as NationsBank Corp. that muscled into the market by buying failed Texas institutions during the '80s. 
In our Macungie plant, the line is stopped every day at 10:30 a.m. for a five-minute staff meeting in which employees can ask about anything that's on their minds. 
"This is our first licensing arrangement," she said. 
You may see it argued in pro-IRA sheets in Boston and New York that the Protestants have no right to live in Ulster because their ancestors did not live there 500 years earlier. 
Federated operates more than 200 stores under such names as Bloomingdale's, Burdines and Rich's. 
In ecology, in history, in psychological outlookours, Dr. Worster has written, is a "postmodernist, poststructuralist age, when all that has seemed solid melts into the air . 
Then drug use and philandering will catch up to you. 
NEW YORK -- Dime Bancorp, a big savings and loan, agreed to merge with Anchor Bancorp for stock valued at about $551 million. 
"Our reasons were more to do with the fact we didn't see a compelling need from our customers," a Compaq spokesman said. 
The prime rate is the interest rate banks use as a base for a wide range of loans to medium-size and small businesses and to individuals. 
Flowers made its forecast after markets closed Friday. 
They had a loss of 7.58% in the first quarter and fell further in the second quarter, for a 1994 loss of 11.92% through June 23. 
His time: 9.18 minutes. 
And it was our laboratory that was the first to demonstrate that a new virus was the cause of AIDS, to explain how to mass produce that virus, and to develop a workable blood test." 
As much as it dislikes the finance panel's bill, the Senate Democratic leadership can't afford to move too far to the left for fear of losing party conservatives, who may hold the key to the outcome. 
MG's lawyers are seeking to move the case, which Mr. Benson filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, to industry arbitration. 
To watch the sun set on one continent and rise on another is more like peering through time than across space. 
That would be good news for investors in funds with longer-term securities. 
Foreign ministers of Germany, France, Britain, the U.S. and Russia approved the plan to give the new Bosnian-Croat federation 51% of Bosnia's territory and the Serbs 49%. 
And those consequences will be apparent in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99." 
What are friends for? 
With the overnight-package market maturing, and fierce competition driving down prices, Federal Express's vaunted profit margins are coming down. 
The plan to "lock in" spending cuts is considered too radical. 
He said the group could still pursue other legal avenues or a "political" settlement, pending review of the Ontario ruling. 
"This was the most popular exhibit we ever hosted," says Linda Johnson, a museum program director. 
An item in yesterday's Labor Letter column incorrectly stated that Mr. Heston supports the bill. 
The Journal has reported on that excess capacity from time to time, most recently in its astounding story on the Gamma Knife (April 20). 
Lately the view on International Business Machines has gone from a glass half-full to one that's half-empty. 
"As a pharmaceutical company, it could be valued by the market at 1.2 million yen a share," or $12,182 a share, says Takefumi Suzuki, senior analyst at Barings Securities (Japan) Ltd. 
NEW YORK -- Alexander & Alexander Services Inc. said insurer American International Group Inc. completed its $200 million investment in the insurance brokerage and consulting company, purchasing four million newly issued convertible preferred shares. 
Mr. Pesatori said the hierarchical management of the Computer Systems Division represents a rejection of Digital's past matrix management in which every action had to be approved by people in several different operations. 
Export specialists say entrepreneurs typically underestimate the time and expertise needed to cultivate business overseas. 
Its membership is 90% white. 
However, while 92% of the parents felt strongly that the child should be able to take turns and share, only 56% of the teachers held this very important. 
But even as he plots the future, Mr. Guarino is dogged by his past. 
"Obviously the trend in volume is down," said a Schwab spokesman. 
Falcon's chief executive, Marc Nathanson, noted the disconnect between the administration, on the one hand, advocating the information superhighway and, on the other, imposing costly and erratic new rules. 
Mr. Bark is a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. 
Mr. Murayama's trip to Naples was overshadowed in Japan by headline-grabbing news such as the death of Kim Il Sung. 
5443. 
Separately, PepsiCo reported flat second-quarter earnings. 
"We're not talking millions," Mr. McFarlane said. 
Both companies are among the top hospital suppliers. 
The money went to repay unsecured personal notes guaranteed by Mr. Clinton, whose salary was $35,000 a year. 
Early versions of P&G's Olestra, which is not digested at all, caused such problems in some people. 
The Korowai, we learn, build treehouses that can rise as high as a six-story building -- which Dr. Taylor describes as "a major architectural achievement for anyplace in the world." 
In neighboring Zaire, transport planes flew in more aid for the refugees after an airport reopened. 
"He went into Japan this year in a timely fashion and that's helped him a lot," she said. 
The overall growth in housing starts during May follows a 12% increase reported for April. 
AT&T "can claim better geographic spread than Concert at this stage, while Concert is trying to major on the fact that it's more unified than the others," said Keith Mallinson, research director of Yankee Group Europe, a telecommunications consulting firm. 
Where is his evidence? 
Gainers topped losers, 579-393. 
In Taipei, prices sank after an early spike by plastics and electronics shares, which have been outperforming the market recently. 
Mr. du Pont, former governor of Delaware, is policy chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas. 
But the multilateral lending institutions would rather not hear such subversive talk. 
In buying financial futures without hedging them, the company essentially would be betting that bond prices would rise. 
In Amsterdam, prices rose slightly in trading kept quiet by the absence of U.S. investors. 
Small stocks have tended to do better than big stocks in Japan. 
In addition, the agency would no longer have to bring cases involving repetitivestress injuries under its general authority to regulate workplace safety. 
The world is probably better off without this illusion. 
Bloated staffing and generous benefits mean Alitalia's operating costs have become about 25% higher than competitors such as British Airways. 
Cowen & Co. analyst Ann Pluemer said the new hospital-supply relationships are likely to mean that profit margins for suppliers "will continue to get tighter, but they can mean greater volume" of a hospital's business to a supplier. 
However, Frederick A.O. 
Challenger Leonid Kuchma exploited that disillusionment by calling for Ukraine to enter into economic union with Russia. 
It follows that the Democrats will try to manipulate the base closings to soften the blow in areas where they need the support most, mainly California. 
Reoffered at 99.525 to yield 10.63%. 
At American's offices at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, the mathematical information was copied from American computers onto a diskette on March 20, 1991 -- and then the diskette disappeared. 
Gracechurch Mortgage Finance No. 3 PLC (special-purpose vehicle) -- #300 million of global, asset-backed, floating-rate notes due September 2029 at issue price par via Barclays de Zoete Wedd Securities Ltd and Lehman Brothers International. 
The Lilly chief executive officer also predicted his company "will overcome the dilution from this transaction by year-end 1996, and our dividend is secure." 
Municipal bonds finished narrowly mixed after a day of listless dealings. 
The proposed rules would require that birds initially identified as contaminated be reinspected and that birds be sprayed with antibacterial rinses. 
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said the Air Force awarded it four contracts valued at a total of $375 million. 
Edison is continuing to negotiate with school districts around the country, typically promising costly investments in technology, even though the funds aren't yet assured. 
Fees 1.25. 
By the end of the quarter, most carriers, including Yellow, Roadway, Consolidated Freightways and Arkansas Best said they have regained tonnage levels equal to about 95% of year-earlier levels. 
"Tell me, why don't you gringos invade the island?" 
Maybe they should. 
The provision for credit losses dropped to $25 million from $54 million the year-earlier quarter. 
How long did it take to realize the full impact of the discovery of the New World? 
Few have landing systems that can handle all weather conditions, experts say. 
Its companies have invested heavily in such places as the Czech Republic and Hungary and are forging into the former Soviet bloc. 
"The days of people loading their families in the car to come to the mall" from Canada are gone, laments Mr. Warriner. 
Since the acquisition was announced, Lilly's stock has fallen from more than $57 to Friday's close of $50.50, down 12.5 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange. 
Kanzaki, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Oji Paper Co. of Japan, agreed to pay a $4.5 million criminal fine. 
We want a bill." 
But it also will mean some wrenching changes at Sanofi, which could mean that the French concern will wait a while before making other significant U.S. purchases. 
"That makes the 1996 crop the worst since the 1986-1987 drought," Ms. Kaul added. 
The Labor Department reported that 379,000 jobs were created in June. 
Indeed, in an interview in early June, Fran Tarkenton, the company's founder, chairman and chief executive, said, "We like our position and think we're in great shape to go forward." 
Among its heaviest weapons is the use of special lights that lure and zap boll worms, along with bugs that are beneficial to cotton plants, while they're still moths. 
Justice Blackmun, joined by Justice Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg, would have allowed the statutory claim against the one-commissioner structure. 
Steady expansion of dollar reserves contributed to rising prices, and rising prices steadily diminished the supply of new gold. 
JT hasn't had a single health-related lawsuit. 
In its request to the court, the FCC said it "now has a fuller understanding of the competitive implications of one licensee receiving its license without payment while its competitors, under an auction process, must pay significant amounts for their licenses." 
The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index dropped to 88.9 in July from 91.2 in June, and the index for consumers' expectations fell to 77.9 from 82.7. 
The unexpected June surge in exports to the U.S. stems from robust growth in North America. 
"Using the blocking mechanism will eliminate someone else knowing where you're calling from," U S West Corp. spokesman Ron Dulle says. 
Demand for gold remains relatively strong, propped recently by new buyers in the Far East and the former Soviet Union. 
Bally's and its 12 subsidiaries, which include Jack LaLanne, Vic Tanny, Vertical Clubs, Sports Connection and Nautilus Plus, have a total membership of 4.5 million in 44 states, up from 4.2 million in 1993. 
The company had sales of $3.7 million in the 1993 second quarter. 
NutraSweet itself began underselling Equal in a pre-emptive move. 
Mr. Puckett joined Mtel in January from International Business Machines Corp. and was installed as chief executive at SkyTel. 
With the addition of Mr. Murdoch, three media titans now own pieces of Fairfax, whose respected dailies include the Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age and Australian Financial Review. 
Participants waited anxiously for the weekend G-7 summit in Naples, Italy, to have some impact on the direction of the yen. 
London shares were hardly changed as the G-7 meeting kept the market subdued. 
Now that many dealers have evened out their positions in the currency markets, they are better prepared for more selling. 
St. Louis-based May is known among suppliers for its hard-nosed tactics in dealing with suppliers, which allowed it at times to get goods in its stores earlier than competitors did. 
Much of the plant's production has been idled in recent years, and Samara wants to start aluminum-can production there by the end of 1995. 
Despite a difficult quarter, he said, rising crude oil and pump prices and improving economic fundamentals were grounds for optimism. 
Others aren't so sure a compromise can be worked out for the information highway, since "payment for use" of information is believed to inhibit browsing. 
Mitsubishi has branches in 28 countries. 
They'll ask to be allowed to hand out more Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). 
These swings slow economic growth and help generate protectionist trade pressures, the group argued. 
Eli Lilly & Co. vaulted into the managed-care business in a giant way with its agreement to buy the biggest U.S. prescription-benefit manager, the PCS Health Systems Inc. unit of McKesson Corp., for $4 billion. 
The next morning, destruction surrounded his cave hideout: Trees were torn clear from their roots and scattered in the fresh white snow. 
Yesterday, Mr. Aristide, who lives in exile in the Washington area, was on a trip to Nicaragua and unavailable to comment on the U.S. shift in refugee policy. 
Judge Duffy pointed out that federal courts have been divided over applying antitrust laws to professional sports where no collective-bargaining agreements exist. 
Federal officials are pushing Amtrak and other passenger-rail systems to give riders more instruction on how to evacuate trains in an emergency. 
While shutdowns of both engines are rare, such heart-stopping events do occur. 
After the Hibbing-bound passengers were aboard, Mr. Falitz insisted on bumping one passenger to meet the weight limit; a woman traveling with her family volunteered to get off. 
Interestingly, Tokyo Business Today's latest list of top 300 foreign-capitalized companies in Japan shows a rising presence of the medium-sized. 
For that reason, the Fed can't completely ignore the dollar, particularly if more signs of mounting inflation pressures appear. 
Those tempted to disguise child support as deductible alimony will almost certainly have the effort vetoed by the IRS, advisers say. 
Regardless of which side you believe, experts say gold stocks are a good bet. 
We do more than Carbide did." 
One regrets only that this all-too-human catalog of failings and peccadilloes gives so little insight into how Einstein, by dint of sheer thought, reinvented the universe. 
The EU, which had planned to eliminate duty-free sales within its boundaries two years ago, instead extended them through 1999. 
As a result, resorts have been able to hire more year-round employees, keep their restaurants and hotels open and get some extra income from their millions of dollars of fixed investments -- all with little expense. 
The deal outlined in a letter of intent between the two companies isn't a sure thing. 
While driving his imported convertible at high speeds through the North Korean countryside, the story goes, he ran down and killed a group of pedestrians. 
RICHMOND, Va. 
The family used the funds to buy a controlling interest in a media company, Controladora Mexicana de Comunicaciones (CMC). 
He grew up overcoming challenges, including poor hearing and a "pretty serious stammer and stutter," which he ascribes to a sock that his mother placed over his left hand to stop him from writing with it. 
asks an official close to Belgian employer organizations. 
The restaurateurs attribute their success to a Malaysian hunger for new American concepts in food. 
"People say in 18 months the only results are that the earnings are down," he scoffs. 
Germany's highest court issued a landmark ruling that could open the way for the country to send troops and other aid to U.N. peacekeeping efforts and international military missions. 
Holograms are definitely out, but another likely feature will be tiny iridescent disks of colored tissue paper that can be embedded in the bills. 
They are muffling debate on contentious issues they care about and stressing instead mainstream topics such as taxes and crime. 
Analysts estimate the proposed phone network will reach a book value of $2 billion to $5 billion by 1998, when its backers aim to have 35% of the market. 
Problem with services. 
Both he and Mr. Heron feel that the British postal service will be better able to cope with rising competitive pressures from electronic forms of communication if it is operated as a commercial, rather than a government, enterprise. 
NEW YORK -- PaineWebber Inc. 
The new board was set to begin evaluating candidates yesterday, said Roger Hall, the chairman of the United pilots union who was elected a director as part of the buyout. 
Most recently, Mr. Harrington was executive vice president of National Media, a Philadelphia company that produces infomercials, which are half-hour sales pitches disguised as entertainment. 
Analysts touted a restructuring that's slicing costs. 
But that is changing now. 
But economists say much of that activity will come from cost-conscious major corporations seeking greater productivity and efficiency at the expense of employment growth. 
Most of the changes announced will be visible to the naked eye. 
It was another light-volume day, suggesting that many investors continue to stick to the sidelines. 
Seagate Technology Inc. said it agreed to buy 25% of Dragon Systems Inc., a Newton, Mass.-based developer of speech recognition products for personal computers and workstations. 
Digital Equipment bonds gained in light trading, following Tuesday's news that the Maynard, Mass., computer company is considering bids for its disk-drive business. 
Nearby, rows of speakers play Dvorak as boarding music. 
Instead, he is a likable loser who runs into old western celebrities like Billy the Kid and the Jesse James gang, and barely escapes. 
Practically anyone who owns a phone has reason to worry. 
As a result, proving that a company such as Microsoft has an illegal lock on the market has become increasingly difficult. 
HSN Direct will employ only eight to 10 people, says Mr. Harrington. 
"We're always asked if the financial sector is prepared to live with monetary stability," says Mr. Brandao. 
The decision by the popular judicial team to seek reassignment is likely to sour the Italian public's opinion of the government, which rode to power in March on a wave of protest against the corruption-tainted former leadership. 
Ford is asking customers to schedule an engine inspection at a Ford dealership. 
"It going to come back," says Peter Stokes, a spokesman for Coca-Cola Great Britain and Ireland. 
That proposal is still being reviewed in the Clinton administration, and also needs the backing of Congress before being implemented. 
Mr. Platin says he is planning to invest in new software for a "just-in-time" inventory system that minimizes unproductive storage space. 
Early on, they say, they had started juggling to meet women, enliven parties and get rides while hitchhiking in college. 
Immunex dropped 1 3/4 to 11 3/4. 
It is unclear what CBS will charge for Mr. Snyder, but it presumably will be higher than the $4,300 its current post-Letterman shows fetch. 
The FT 30-stock index rose 7.2 points to 2400.6. 
Antoine Moreb, 33 years old, a former foreign-exchange marketing officer for the Citicorp unit, was sentenced here by U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood, who also ordered him to pay $1.6 million in restitution. 
U.S. officials concede privately that whether it takes six, 12 or perhaps 18 months, Iraq's oil is likely to resume flowing, putting Saddam Hussein back in business. 
Some of the governments were socialist or communist, dedicated to using funds for government enterprises. 
Prime Minister Bhutto at a news conference in Karachi in November 1993 said that "rolling back the nuclear program {of Pakistan} is not feasible. 
In 1993, Houghton earned $30.4 million, or $2.20 a share, on sales of $463 million, including a $10.6 million charge. 
(When I recognized `Cecile Brunner,' a climbing polyantha, in a catalog 10 years ago, I ordered two.) 
The expensive visitors of the G-7 are not arriving, like 18th-century milords on the grand tour, curious for important surprises: They bring their importance with them, and feel no need of fresh supplies. 
The move came as a surprise, considering that the magazine has flourished during the five years Ms. Penney has been editor, with advertising soaring in a time of stagnation or worse for most women's magazines. 
They still have several steps to go to demonstrate there is a sensible policy that will work in all this." 
The man, Anthony Brindle, and his brother, Patrick, were acquitted in May 1992. 
No, the friend doesn't have a B.A. 
GDP may be as much as 40% higher than the official numbers, estimate some economists, including the new president of Goskomstat himself, Yuri Yurkov. 
But he argues that "many of the firms that got burned in derivatives probably shouldn't have been there" in the first place. 
The Nikkei moved in a tight range of 115.52 points as many investors kept to the sidelines amid a lack of fresh, marketmoving incentives. 
Mr. Weiss's biggest complaint, echoed by other recruiters: The graduates lack communications skills and poise. 
The North-South summit had been agreed upon by Kim Il Sung and his South Korean counterpart, Kim Young Sam, on June 28. 
Same-store sales, or sales in stores open at least a year, fell 13%. 
"You should submit this letter together with the Proof of Claim form," the mailing said, offering no other option. 
In one case, a champion body-builder was used to show rapid muscle gain. 
Like much of the old money in the Northwest, the Bullitts' grew on trees, cultivated by the sisters' one-armed, cigar-smoking timberman grandfather, C.D. 
"Their representation was totally untrue." 
The bill, sent to the Senate late Wednesday on a 330-91 vote, would provide $250 million to ensure that U.S. forces in South Korea "have the resources to meet any contingency that might rise." 
Japan's new prime minister became ill at a G-7 dinner Friday night and was hospitalized with diarrhea and fatigue. 
"I really don't want my last act in public life to be to create something that turns out to be a monster without some mechanism to control the cost of it," he said. 
The second tranche, $371 million due May 1, 2014, was priced at par to yield 11.21%. 
The Federal Communications Commission, dutifully fulfilling its congressional mandate, applied price caps on Sept. 1, 1993, reducing basic cable rates by up to 10% on a price-per-channel basis. 
Early in the narrative, Ms. Brady was having trouble with a scene in which a Kansas farmer set out to find a child for sale. 
President Kennedy had a vision, and he was willing to take a risk. 
Mr. Clinton's G-7 telecommunications proposals are consistent with his political and economic strategy that aims to create the largest possible marketplace overseas for U.S. products, so that new jobs -- which may translate into political success at home -- can be generated. 
All the companies involved operate "wireless-cable" television systems, which resemble conventional cable-TV systems but trasmit their programming via microwave technology instead of through wiring. 
Nomura Research Institute Europe Ltd., saying the pharmaceutical company's expectations for costcutting benefits are too high, reiterated a "sell" recommendation on the stock. 
Among the regional carriers, the biggest winners this quarter will be American Freightways Corp. and Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., both nonunion, less-than-truckload carriers that benefited from the strike, according to Jeffrey Medford, an analyst at Wheat First Butcher & Singer. 
Revenue rose to about $8 million from $2.9 million, said Curtis Rocca III, Bio-Dental's president and chief executive officer. 
Mr. Trump said he will continue to manage the development, which is to include some 5,700 apartments in 16 high-rise buildings, plus 1.8 million square feet of commercial space. 
"Even if the Fed does tighten, it won't be very much and we're really very close to the end of it," Mr. Keane says. 
"The votes aren't there, employer mandates are dead," said Rep. Charles Stenholm (D., Texas), following a meeting of House conservatives. 
"It's a matter of opinion," says Marian Billings, safety representative for North Coast Medical Inc., a San Jose, Calif., firm that markets wrist rests. 
This is life!" 
"Pornographers call themselves businessmen to appear legitimate," says Norma Ramos, counsel for Women Against Pornography in New York. 
Late last night, some of Mr. Diller's partisans also confirmed that Mr. Tisch was miffed about the issue. 
He notes that in 1990 and 1991 the default rate was above 10%. 
Mr. DeRose, 63 years old, succeeds David Katz, who resigned from the five-member board in May. 
It's a haunted game in which every player is measured by the ghosts of all who have gone before." 
"To borrow a line from Cole Porter, growth was too hot not to cool down," said Barry Rogstad, the group's president. 
Most Sarajevans, in fact, prefer to talk about their prison over a cup of espresso. 
The small $320 million portfolio has beaten all other funds for the second consecutive quarter. 
The proceeds will be used to redeem C$650 million of maturing government bonds and for general government purposes. 
Britain was cited favorably for curbing union power and giving employers more control over pay and work practices. 
Law-enforcement officials were told to enforce the order. 
But by 1980, when he graduated from the University of Texas, "civil rights was no longer a growth industry," he says, and he chose consumer law instead. 
This also helped scoring to rise by some 18% over the 1990 event. 
"But I don't think there will be a Christian majority in Bethlehem ever again. 
The drugs will be priced about 20% below national brands, giving the company a push in the $2.38 billion analgesic market, where its only current product is the giant Tylenol brand. 
The issue will be sold through underwriters led by Morgan Stanley & Co.  Philadelphia School District -- $200 million of tax and revenue anticipation notes due June 30, 1995, priced by a Merrill Lynch & Co. group as 4.75s to yield 4.2%. 
Mr. Peralta said that dozens of other on-line investors may have been conned by the same scam artist, and the investigation continues. 
LITITZ, Pa. -- Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. said it completed its previously announced acquisition of eight Allegany County, Md.-branches of First National Bank of Maryland, Baltimore. 
But Petr Pithart, who had to face these painful memories as Czech prime minister before Czechoslovakia split, has another view: "It's a fear of our own past." 
This coming event can offer none of those private encounters, dear to the Neapolitan genius, in which mutual humanity is for an instant established against the odds. 
He doesn't foresee any immediate layoffs even though there are inevitable redundancies within the two agencies. 
The announcement was made after the close of trading. 
And opposition members accused Mr. Berlusconi of trying to help the discredited political old guard. 
In the last six months of 1993, foreigners spent $1 billion buying up shares from individual Czechs, so the companies themselves didn't get a dime. 
Mr. Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, is reluctant to scale back the benefits package. 
It seems AP has uncovered an official memo from Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig on Renaissance Weekend festivities, including a Presidential request for help on Whitewater's Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, and Presidential assurances he'd done nothing to violate the laws the comptroller is supposed to enforce. 
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Transmation Inc. said William J. Berk resigned as president and chief executive because of health reasons. 
-- Most of the dozens of vendors who occupy the back lot at Happy's Flea Market here each weekend peddle the usual yard-sale fare. 
The goal was to turn inventions into prototypes and create new companies to market the resulting products. 
Some companies, including Sara Lee Corp.'s bakeries, have reported major improvements after making ergonomic changes. 
Bosnia's warring parties met with the British and French foreign ministers, who warned of the possible pullout of U.N. peacekeepers if a new peace proposal is rejected. 
(Better to legislate vouchers to those who really can't afford enough kilowatts to get by.) 
Even the ancient city wall that once ringed Beijing was dismantled during the ideological campaigns of the Cultural Revolution. 
It is different today. 
The banking giant said year-to-year loan growth was 7.4%, or almost nothing, in inflation-adjusted terms. 
The hand-held computer will allow users to communicate with or without wire lines, and over any telephone network. 
But they leave the impression that the caller was Fermi associate Bruno Pontecorvo (who, however, seems to have been working for an oil company in Tulsa at the time). 
"I can't imagine what makes that an attractive investment to an entrepreneur like Trump," said Stephen Siegel, president of Edward S. Gordon & Co., a New York brokerage firm. 
Mr. Coleman is being put forward by the state's senior senator, Republican John Warner, who attended D-day celebrations in preference to the internecine warfare on display here in the state capital. 
Analysts said the government might address that question in early August or might wait until after the presidential elections Aug. 21, because Telmex's fate is politically sensitive. 
Last year, about 91% of the state's 5.5 million residents had coverage. 
The stock portion of the amended bid valued Timonium, Md.-based Kirschner at about $31.9 million. 
Every time a Spaniard so much as nudged him, he cried out, made a face and gesticulated wildly, claiming foul. 
"These pills are a godsend," she says wistfully. 
Despite the presidential wisecrack, Mr. Clinton seemed to be charmed by the bushy-eyebrowed Japanese leader -- a potential boon for the testy Japan-U.S. relationship. 
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- "We have a vision," Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, tells his predominantly black audience here. 
LEGENT Corp. (Herndon, Va.) -- Max D. Hopper, 59 years old, was elected a director at this computer software and services supplier, increasing the board to nine members. 
Forstmann & Co., a designer and manufacturer of fabrics, signed a letter of intent to acquire certain assets of Marion Fabrics, a maker of fabrics for apparel and home furnishings, from Texfi Industries Inc., Raleigh, N.C., for about $15 million. 
Clouding the offering, the state's debt just last Friday was downgraded. 
Yesterday, despite the fact that Mr. Diller was no longer coming on board, CBS and Group W were still poised to conclude an agreement for Group W to affiliate its stations with CBS, industry executives said. 
QVC climbed 6 to 42 on 7.3 million shares, compared with average daily volume of 351,000 shares, and Comsat fell 1 1/2 to 15 1/8 on 7.4 million shares, up from average daily volume of 300,000 shares. 
Air freight stocks trailed at 153.38, down 3.10, or 2%, with Airborne Freight of the U.S. sliding 11% in local currency. 
Yields range from 4.85% in 1997 to 6.528% in 2024. 
That means China would have been better off borrowing money in dollars rather than in yen during the 15 years of the Japanese loans. 
The reporter, Rafio Mughal, argued that working at a computer terminal caused pain in his fingers, hands, arms and shoulders. 
Surveys of prison inmates don't shed much light on the matter. 
Even that effort would suffice to only stablize gross public debt levels, which average as much as 75% in the OECD as a whole, up from 60% in the late 1980s. 
Both sock and bag carry recycling chic beyond where Heller, New York, brought it early in the decade. 
The ministry also is underwriting $350 million of the development costs of Japanese firms supplying parts for Boeing Co.'s new 777 jetliner, the GAO said. 
The hole was finally dug June 30, but it will be mid-August before the pool is finished -- about the time the kids go back to school. 
Based in Cleveland, Premier is a leading distributor of electronic parts. 
Mr. Walton adds, "I know somebody in the private sector will succeed" in operating public schools at a profit, but "whether it's Whittle, I just don't know." 
Mr. Gifford says many companies also will try to take advantage of advance pricing agreements with the IRS to help limit chances of being audited. 
Even when (in one of many flashback scenes) Josie's husband learns she's been unfaithful and flies into a brutal rage, Ms. O'Brien's prose remains maddeningly lugubrious. 
While the greenback will remain primarily green, a color-shifting ink -- that looks gold when viewed directly, but darkgreen when viewed at an angle -- might be used on part of the bill. 
Payable semiannually. 
He declined to identify the individual investors, but added that he was unaware of any prior deals between them and Mr. Trump. 
Also Friday, the credit-rating service Standard & Poor's Ratings Group downgraded Wilmington Trust's Rodney Square Fund U.S. Government Portfolio money-market fund to single-Am from triple-Am. 
Nuclearcontrol, the German company said. 
After Naples was chosen late last year as the site for the G-7, public funds were assigned, under rigorous supervision, for an ambitious program of repair and embellishment of prominent streets and buildings. 
Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor joined all or most of the Kennedy opinion. 
If he had, his critics might well make the case that he did so to sell books in the West. 
Now, Ruth is dying of breast cancer. 
"If U.S. consumption is to increase, evidence from other countries suggests that net effective prices will have to fall further -- either by price cuts and or increased promotional spending." 
Citing the rifle's 7.62 x 39 cartridge, he notes: "They're the biggest bullets I've ever seen." 
The stock plunged to a low of 8 3/4. 
"I don't like the cold." 
The more optimistic analysts contend that things will begin to look better this quarter. 
Not a penny of the fund's money could go into a stock unless the company had 100 or more employees in Ohio. 
And earlier this month, Seagram severed its 32-year relationship with Needham, further fueling the belief that Mr. Bernbach's days at the agency were numbered. 
"I am opposed" to the measure, the majority leader said, but added that because it was "important to the mainstream group," he wanted to switch his vote in favor of it. 
Some analysts initially had predicted that Prudential could end up paying far more than that -- assertions that Prudential had vehemently denied. 
Other Intel lines, such as flash memory products, have much lower profit margins. 
"But we still are hoping a reasonable settlement can be worked out among the various groups, Congress, the administration and the FCC." 
Anti-abortion forces could take some solace, however, in a separate Supreme Court decision yesterday that made it tougher for lower courts to use large contempt fines as a way of punishing protesters or others who disobey judicial orders. 
Still, Mr. Fiske's report yesterday contained mostly good news for the president, even as it put the spotlight on the Whitewater affair once again. 
That's like black militants charging that anyone who opposes racial quotas or laments the breakdown of family structure is a racist. 
NBA, with assets of about $95 million, had 1993 earnings of $1.9 million, Amcore said. 
In a rare public split in the Japanese government, Sozaburo Okamatsu, MITI's vice minister, said the new government probably would approve the Clinton plan. 
Mr. Hall wouldn't comment for the record on how light Morgan Grenfell's dollar-denominated holdings have become, but suffice it to say that they are far below the nearly 40% weighting they have in the Salomon index. 
Gone is the monolithic structure that once made Hyundai one of the most cohesive and fraternal among Korea's huge conglomerates. 
Others believe the markets could remain soft for the rest of the year. 
KeyCorp said it will issue common shares for each share of First Citizens Bancorp common stock outstanding, to equal a value of $37 a share. 
Such a power struggle might involve not only incumbent leaders but perhaps also some former ones such as Zhao Ziyang, deposed as head of the Communist Party after the 1989 crackdown on dissent at Tiananmen. 
"Wow, I bet," Burns says. 
NWNL Cos. (Minneapolis) -- Wayne R. Huneke, 43 years old, vice president, treasurer and chief accounting officer of this insurance holding company, was named senior vice president and chief financial officer. 
Stock prices rose. 
The helmsman of these sounds of surprise is Billy Taylor, a jazz pianist for half a century and a persistent educator of music educators in jazz matters. 
This January -- 12 days after hosting a visit by President Clinton -- Mr. Shushkevich was forced by pro-Russian opponents to resign. 
The Nasdaq Composite shed 2.59 to 701. 
Gary Black, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. said, "You need a catalyst. 
SMU grads are also models of sartorial suitability -- perhaps because the school is so small that students are individually coached before interviews. 
"Geographically and culturally, this makes good sense," he said. 
The three charges reduced second-quarter profit by $46.9 million, or $1.44 a share, on an after-tax basis. 
He neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. 
Nonetheless, at the end of May stocks were 60 million barrels, or 2% less than a year earlier. 
The rating service also placed BankAmerica's Pacific Horizon Government Fund on its CreditWatch list, meaning the fund could be lowered from its current rating of triple-Am. 
Like the earlier ad, Mr. Harvey noted that the American Petroleum Institute had admitted that inhalation of methanol vapors can be fatal, and that ingestion of even small amounts could lead to blindness or death. 
Elsewhere, Boston Chicken gained 2 to 37 3/4 after Alex. Brown upgraded the stock to "strong buy" from "buy." 
Terms weren't disclosed. 
Assuming no last-minute bids appear, a big question remains whether Conseco, a little-known Carmel, Ind., insurance company, can raise the money to acquire Kemper, a big mutual fund, life insurance and brokerage concern based in Long Grove, Ill. 
The agency's future growth is tied to servicing clients internationally, says one industry official. 
The surprise loss was an embarrassment for Digital and Mr. Palmer and led to several high-profile resignations. 
Such equipment can improve a dentist's efficiency and revenues, he said. 
And no issue has been so hopelessly politicized over the years, inextricably linked as it is with the U.S. coming to terms with its first battlefield defeat and the twin questions of lifting the economic embargo and establishing diplomatic relations with Vietnam. 
In recent years, the self-employed have been allowed to deduct only 25% of their insurance costs. 
Apollo was head-on competition with the Soviet Union, and I believed, then as now, that it's better to compete in space than on the battlefield. 
New York-based TBWA Advertising, an Omnicom Group agency, recently increased its presence in Denmark. 
It's not as clear, however, if the collection and the landmark home on one of the historic 36 streets that make up the city's original ancient quarter north of Hoan Kiem Lake, the Lake of the Restored Sword, will fare as well in the '90s. 
It is neither thematic nor formal. 
Now, however, those adolescent icons produce in me no emotion at all; they stand for little more than a lapsed era. 
Finally, a few items listed under Miscellaneous R&D Programs/R&D Earmarks: $20 million for AIDS research; $149 million for Navy and Army "Industrial Preparedness"; $9 million for the Medical Free Electron Laser; $25 million for Historically Black Colleges & Universities; $613 million for Experimental Evaluation of Innovative Technology, and $117 million for Manufacturing Technology. 
"I thought they'd be nervous about Greenspan," said Oppenheimer's Mr. Gallagher, who added that the rise in the Treasury 30-year bond shows that such fears have yet to manifest themselves. 
Parents are discovering that their children can once more call porn lines. 
Mr. Norquist is political editor of the American Spectator. 
Furthermore, no banks failed in the first quarter of the year. 
The culture Mr. Snyder fostered at Simon & Schuster was one of lavish rewards for editors and bestselling authors who pleased, and hardball with almost everybody else. 
Owens & Minor distributes medical and surgical supplies and other products to hospitals and alternate-care facilities. 
Simultaneous filing of the complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington, the big Santa Monica, Calif.-based hospital chain consented, without admitting or denying liability, to a permanent injunction against future violations of certain federal securities laws. 
Yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan said he also favored quick action. 
Evidently so, for in the late 1980s the FCC forced a wealthy Mexican family to sell its interests in Spanish-language television stations in the Southwest. 
(Most policies cover rentals.) 
Whereas it's fair to say that simply making money is Hong Kong's general preoccupation, Jimmy -- it's all to formal to call him "Mr. Lai" -- wants a good life. 
Such comments don't trouble her committed backers. 
Assets of 669 retail money market mutual funds increased by $1.24 billion to $423.29 billion, the trade group said. 
Mr. Haynes, serving a 15-month sentence at a federal prison camp in Petersburg, Va., declined to be interviewed, as did Carl Miller, who is serving 25 months in federal prison in Ashland, Ky.  Despite growing criticism of gun shows and flea markets, the private commerce in guns remains brisk and open, as F.J. Dwyer, chairman of the Hampton, Va., coliseum's board of advisers, recently found. 
Gary Fries, RAB president, says even through the 1980s radio was shunned by many major brand advertisers in favor of television. 
Combat soldiers could be sharper and have greater stamina if their diet was supplemented with six specific food components, a committee of the Institute of Medicine recommends. 
But she spent a week recently trying to shave $1,000 off the center's insurance costs. 
Four years later, after Kendall lost some business in Russia and the Food and Drug Administration rejected a new line of antibiotics, Kendall filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. 
"The basic market held up pretty well, despite what happened with Cisco," said Patrick Davis, manager of Nasdaq trading at Salomon Brothers. 
Alcan Aluminium Ltd. said it agreed to sell its building-products units in the U.S. and Canada to Genstar Capital Corp.  Terms weren't disclosed. 
Jimmy shared "the impulse that Chinese felt . 
Mobil has maintained in court that Mr. Mehlman was fired for legitimate reasons, and that it doesn't owe him any damages. 
Still, it was not Warner Brothers (which had got rid of her, only a year before) but Twentieth Century-Fox that made the film that may have been her greatest and that ranks with the best Hollywood ever produced -- "All About Eve" (1950). 
Mr. Witter has been out on bond since his arrest. 
The case also raises the issue of whether agents can intentionally remain ignorant about a property's value and whether some deception is inevitable while negotiating a sale. 
Notes convertible from Aug. 8 to Sept. 16, 1998 at 2.5% premium above closing share price July 12, when terms fixed. 
In a statement in London, Thorn added it will pay an additional deferred consideration of up to #6 million depending on Intercord's performance over the next four years. 
"We saw ourselves as a weaker player," he said. 
They didn't want to relive the frustrating Japanese experience. 
Ms. Gill also says the single market is helping bring down prices in the republic, although she worries that many companies may resist passing on savings they have gleaned from the single market. 
"This is hallowed ground." 
But for several centuries, the idea of eating anything that came out of those waters was Greek to most people who live here. 
Mailings now go out within 48 hours of a request, and because inmate employees earn only 42 cents to 65 cents an hour, the state saves about 25 cents a call. 
"They moved up into Minas Gerais, and to higher altitudes, to reduce the risk of frost," said Sandra Kaul, senior analyst at Smith Barney in New York. 
The improvement in total group sales and order inflows was due largely to overseas operations that were buoyed by some large projects and by the first-time consolidation of the recently formed Osram Sylvania Inc. subsidiary in the U.S.  The picture was worse in Germany, which is slowly pulling out of its severest recession since the end of World War II. 
But this is not a prosaic catalog of everything on the Internet. 
He said he expects to see further declines in grain prices if the latest six-day to 10-day forecasts prove to be correct in predicting an end to the hot weather. 
It remains to be seen whether Sprint's bigger rivals, AT&T Corp. and MCI Communications Corp., will follow with similar plans. 
Subordinated debt holders will get less than 10 cents on the dollar. 
In response, federal retirees contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to congressional campaigns, and the president of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees warned Congress that cutting COLAs "will hurt the major players all the way to the polls in November." 
Several analysts suggested that the Fed is waiting to see more economic data before making any move. 
Slow speed on CD-ROM is another big drawback, especially when playing video games and combing through computerized books. 
The game plan involved "reverse repurchase agreements" in conjunction with the futures. 
The Marshall paper "played a significant role," Mr. Brown recalls. 
Some students who tried high school found they couldn't keep up. 
Among the top-selling hardbacks last year were Mr. Stern's "Private Parts" and Mr. Limbaugh's "See, I Told You So." 
Both issues are dated July 14. 
Their joint campaign reflects concern that if Congress doesn't act, all three groups could suffer. 
If the family has medical expenses during the year, it pays for them out of the MSA. 
The issue is noncallable for six months and was priced at a spread of 18 basis points above Treasurys. 
Ms. McCaslin had been vice president, human resources, at Avery Dennison Corp., Pasadena, Calif. 
At the same time, Mr. Sadler, an attorney, spends time every day working on his own revision of the vast education code. 
Shares of Milpitas, Calif., Quantum climbed 1/4 to 13 1/4 on Nasdaq. 
MTA spokesman Tito Davila said it wasn't clear on what basis a lawsuit might proceed. 
But they have recently stayed in the $2 to $2.20 range for a thousand cubic feet, a warning that the system is unusually tight. 
That way, there's room for pleasant surprises. 
They are, instead, encoded in the fabric of individual hearts and experience -- with a potency incomprehensible to cynics and critics. 
Mr. Smith's reading: "This stock is headed to the upside. 
Reached at his home in Vermont, Mr. Ash called Kemper "a fine company," but said he left because of differences "about what I thought the company needed and what they thought it needed." 
As to Errol Flynn, she reported on one interview show that he once told her he knew nothing about acting -- and he was absolutely right, Davis averred. 
Consultants think the Kentucky cooperative could have one million members a few years after its 1995 start. 
Mr. Wetzler is president of Nautica Enterprises Inc.'s retail unit. 
Some traders said the price drop was triggered by rumors of a large liquidation of mortgage derivative securities. 
The retirements signaled that investor Dieter Bock appeared to be winning his power struggle with his co-chief executive officer, Roland Rowland. 
His call Tuesday night for a stronger dollar had been his most adamant statement to date. 
Best Co. 
"We're very cautious in Mexico." 
FTC staff examined whether Microsoft engaged in predatory pricing to undercut its competitors and used its licensing agreements to prevent computer makers from using rival operating systems to Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows. 
One of the day's gainers included Colonial Group, a Boston fund group that is the subject of takeover rumors. 
Simpson's preliminary hearing. 
partly on expectations that Pyongyang was about to announce good news regarding Mr. Kim's summit meeting with South Korean President Kim Young Sam, scheduled for later this month. 
Mr. Ash joined Kemper Financial as an executive vice president in 1992 and was named chairman with responsibility for the distribution of packaged investment products such as mutual funds and annuities, to broker/dealers, financial planners and other financial intermediaries last September. 
On Friday, EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., reported second-quarter net income of 26 cents a share, compared with 14 cents a share a year earlier. 
Boston was treated to a telemarketing campaign, and drivers could stop by a parkside booth "where you could talk to a parking specialist about your parking needs," says Paul McGinn, vice president of the friends group. 
A spokesman at PepsiCo, in Purchase, N.Y., declined to comment. 
When the company ended the lockout, the union turned it into a strike. 
And while the company is seeing some recovery in sales, gross margins are suffering. 
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Communication Intelligence Corp. said it filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to restructure its debt. 
ENERGY: Crude-oil prices fell amid unconfirmed reports from Nigeria that an oil workers strike ended. 
The decree was approved last week by all members of the cabinet. 
Let's take a moment to review the reasons for this change. 
Mr. Leclezio said in March that his departure would occur "sometime this year." 
The little speakers that come with multimedia machines often have volume dials, but in many cases they're useless because the software program controls the sound. 
The rest will be laid off or will otherwise leave the company. 
Some of these efforts have begun to pay off. 
The $4 million of subordinate-lien fixed-rate bonds are 6.5s priced at par to yield 6.5% in 2004. 
Texaco said it will cut its work force by 2,500, or 7.8%, and try to sell half of its 600 producing U.S. oil fields. 
But politicians are vain people who live in hope, even if sometimes at the expense of others. 
"There is no underestimating the power of a short squeeze," he said. 
Sharon Hamilton, the 29-year-old manager of Gloria Jean's, says Kari and her other teenage workers, while subject to the usual adolescent ups and downs, are motivated and hard-working. 
"Ultimately, it got to the point of how much of the Price family's pet projects Costco was willing to underwrite." 
Chance phrases gleaned from their letters and diaries helped bring them to life, such as the comment by one party member that "Scott was a dreadful man for blubbing" (Britspeak for crying). 
A number of over-the-counter drugs to treat yeast infections came on the market in 1990, available as creams and vaginal suppositories. 
MILL RUN, Pa. -- When Frank Lloyd Wright built a house over a stream here 60 years ago, he gave it a fitting name: Fallingwater. 
Once just a nuisance, dial-a-porn has become a menace to phone owners all over the country. 
"But it's a fantastic way of distributing samples," he says, adding that "it's about time" P&G began using the medium. 
Closely held Carlyle Group, Washington, had paid $38 million in August 1992 for its 51% stake in Vought, an aircraft-parts maker and former LTV Corp. holding based in Dallas. 
But a well-publicized deal also tends to boost the share prices of related companies. 
In different hands, "Forrest Gump" might have been interpreted as a satire of recent American history (the film flies through the 1950s, '60s and '70s). 
Midlantic posted a gain of 7/8, or 3%, to 30 3/8 following second-quarter earnings of $1.33 a share, which compared with expectations of 99 cents a share. 
It allows a client's accounting department to use a new electronic Sprint billing system to crunch monthly traffic patterns and other data found in the monthly statement. 
"All of this may be a pack of cards piled up by overeager conspiracy theorists and ideological opponents of the president," the Economist warns. 
In Manila, shares slumped 1.9% in light volume as market participants remained defensive ahead of action on U.S. interest rates. 
This isn't the only loan Elektra has made to the Salinas family's media company. 
Currently, federal inspectors weed out birds that are diseased or contaminated. 
Executives at Monsanto's NutraSweet unit infuriated FDA officials by announcing at a news conference that its Simplesse fat substitute didn't need FDA review. 
Mr. and Mrs. Renoir, who according to an associate currently reside in London and New York, couldn't be reached. 
Base cleanup is not funded by the training budget, as you suggested, but in a separate and distinct account. 
Vested interests will fear the loss of such breaks as the home mortgage deduction. 
Pressure mounted for U.S. military action in Haiti as Panama withdrew from its recent agreement to set up havens for Haitian refugees. 
ORTHOPEDIC TECHNOLOGY Inc. (Tracy, Calif.) -- Calvin G. Andre, 45 years old, president of this maker of orthopedic products, was named to the additional post of chief executive officer. 
"The new code inexplicably leaves out age as a protected category," Mr. Karp testified. 
Cash flow rose to $748 million from $711 million, while revenue increased to $3.73 billion from $3.43 billion. 
Eurotunnel PLC says duty-free sales give ferries on the English Channel a $192 million subsidy each year. 
PETSTUFF Inc. (Roswell, Ga.) -- Daryl L. Lansdale, 53 years old, was elected a director of this pet supply retailer. 
Across the top of its pink pages were small cartoons meant to illustrate the national characters of the 24 contending soccer teams. 
In fact, sales of private-label charcoal have dropped sharply in recent months, according to Information Resources Inc.'s InfoScan service. 
More and more, legislators are under pressure to begin the regular session with the tough questions explored, debated and, if possible, resolved. 
While everyone concerned is heartbroken, Alice, understandably, suffers the burden of guilt in addition to grief, despite Theresa's assurance that she doesn't blame her for the accident. 
But party Chairman Haley Barbour said in an interview that over the next few weeks he intends to push donors to drive donations 25% higher than budgeted, arguing that 1994 has presented Republicans with far more opportunities to win elections than once thought. 
As prices rose again, the yield on the 30-year government security dropped to 7.51% from Friday's 7.55%, and from 7.75% a week ago. 
"Before there was much more fighting. 
Several other small companies are also hoping to use technology to shake up the decades-old royalty-payment system in the music industry, and some of them are a few steps ahead of Infobased. 
In what would be an unusual move, Trizec hopes to convince the judge that its plan is fair despite the objections of the junior creditors, who are owed about C$300 million. 
BEI changed its name to Amresco in May. 
Does the agency have the right to issue summonses requiring that company's U.S. competitors, customers or vendors to disclose sensitive pricing information that could help the IRS? 
Salomon Brothers Inc. was the lead manager of the subordinate certificates. 
FEES CHARGED by consultants specializing in workplace diversity issues vary dramatically, a new study shows. 
Gtech gained 1 1/2 to 19 1/4. 
A number of very useful pages are devoted to making sense of such items as U.S. Geological Survey seismology reports, congressional committee assignments, resumes and contact information for members of the president's cabinet and the texts of United Nations resolutions. 
Recruiters also gripe that SMU students are not all that, well, enthusiastic about hard work. 
"This is hard evidence, confirmed by forensic scientists," says one report. 
Pons and Fleischmann. 
In buying power, a Czech's output is worth $11,300. 
Terms were not disclosed. 
The scope of the declines that Treasury securities suffered and an unwillingness by investors to commit new cash in such a turbulent environment raised fears that the bond market is on the verge of a renewed climb in interest rates. 
First Interstate Bancorp's earnings jumped 53% and Wells Fargo & Co. reported a 38% rise in net income. 
Banc One commented on its derivatives portfolio, saying it entered into "a series of transactions" to reduce its exposure to rising interest rates. 
The company said the new unit, which combines Telxon's existing manufacturing and customer-service operations, will be responsible for managing the company's four manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Canada, and will also be responsible for contract manufacturing for other units, including Aironet Wireless Communications Inc., Teletransaction Inc. and Metanetics Corp., in addition to procurement at Telxon's facilities in the U.S., Canada and Singapore. 
Until the auctions are held, it is impossible to tell precisely how much each license will fetch, but analysts predict each could raise tens of millions of dollars. 
That is a level that's neither stimulating or restraining the economy. 
With some doubtful that three key meetings this week will result in action to prop up the dollar, technical factors dominated yesterday's session. 
Reached at the U.N. mission, Mr. Rassi said he had no comment on Mr. Khilewi's charges other than to say that "I serve my country as a diplomat and that's all." 
The case arose from a decision last month by the regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, requiring Canada's cable networks to carry 10 new Canadian channels including a country music station known as the Country Network. 
That was the issue addressed by Justice Clarence Thomas in a long and eloquent concurring opinion in Holder v. Hall, also decided last week. 
"Cleo is not a particularly attractive business," he said. 
Christopher Merrill, an American poet and soccer enthusiast, looked at the young squad we sent to the 1990 Cup in Italy, and, in his otherwise quite-good book on the sport, "The Grass of Another Country," wrote: "Ours is a relatively young culture . 
Just so, Dr. McIntosh dismisses critics as merely "oppressors" reacting when their "world falls apart." 
The Homestead Act was reaffirmed in the Texas Constitution of 1845 in anticipation of annexation, and again in the 1861-65 Constitution. 
Bud Adams will take his Houston Oilers to the greener fields of Montgomery County, where he can tap the public till for perhaps half of the $235 million cost of a new stadium. 
"Be very careful of any funds that carry a lot of derivatives," says Alan Kral, a fund manager at Trevor Stewart Burton & Jacobsen Inc. of New York. 
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on the day of Mr. Clinton's visit that German troops can be deployed outside the country's borders. 
Likewise, Telmex failed in its attempt to prevent customers from signing up to have a particular long-distance carrier handle all their calls. 
Most of the world's auto makers have tried to get partners in China, which it is predicted will become one of the largest markets within a decade. 
A child with OME may have temporary hearing difficulties or discomfort. 
They know that these kinds of charades happen all the time. 
From the start, the private automobile was massively subsidized in a way that far surpassed any help granted by government to railroads. 
Domestic rating agencies set up to evaluate companies planning to issue bonds locally are springing up around the region to facilitate markets by giving investors a gauge of risk. 
But the worst effects of reregulation are seen in another statistic: Growth in both cable subscribership and viewership has slowed since reregulation. 
He doesn't believe the Fed needs to raise rates at all -- because the damage has already been done. 
When Ms. Pierson showed up in the crew room before a flight, she says, a first officer once noted: "I've never flown with a girl before." 
Midland Walwyn stock closed at C$9.25, down 87.5 Canadian cents, on the Toronto Stock Exchange after reporting sharply lower second-quarter earnings. 
The investment firm sold its stake. 
How such mismanagement could have occurred under the eyes of numerous state administrators is still an unanswered question. 
Last night one person close to Federated said, "Federated is moving forward. 
Frantz Voltaire, Mr. Malval's chief of staff, says simply: "He is an existentialist." 
Among the success stories is Cortefiel, a Spanish clothing retailer which sold 25% of the company to individual investors earlier this month. 
The move comes as Nintendo suffered a downturn in machine and game sales world-wide last year and as the growing strength of the yen has pushed its production abroad. 
TOKYO -- Japan's housing starts in May were up 14% from the year-earlier month, the Construction Ministry reported. 
In the NMES report, 35,000 people in 14,000 households were interviewed four times between February 1987 and May 1988. 
A license was first awarded in mid-1992 by then-president Roh Tae Woo to a consortium led by the country's fifth-largest conglomerate, Sunkyong Group, which beat out runnerup Pohang Iron & Steel Co., or Posco. 
As higher taxes propel more people into the suburbs, and property values decline, Houston will be stuck with shrinking tax revenue. 
But Arvind Mathur, senior investment officer at the Asian Development Bank, which strongly supports bond markets as a key to future regional development, dismisses such concerns. 
Tell him to make sure that all his listeners buy a copy of The Internet Yellow Pages." 
He especially likes its new Blackbird service, intended not only to detect fraud in cellular-phone use but to stop fraudulent calls from being completed. 
"Let's face it, most people need a job," says a worker who has refused to honor the UAW's strike but asks not to be named because he fears union reprisals. 
Nynex's option expires when the deal is closed, or if the Bells enter "serious" discussions with another partner, Bell Atlantic's Mr. Babbio said. 
It now appears set to beat that deadline. 
Another small-cap that benefited from talk of a potential sale was Liberty Bancorp, which jumped 2, or 7.1%, to 30 1/4. 
Pons and Fleischmann -- and everyone else -- could think of. 
If history is any guide, it will be a hard sell. 
"Periods of great innovation almost always come in resource-poor periods," observes Paul Kaminski, an old friend of Mr. Marshall's who is expected to become the Defense Department's next acquisition chief. 
That compares with year-earlier earnings of 69 cents a share. 
But now, shippers just call a rival if they don't like a trucker's prices. 
The market for such networks is currently growing at about 50% a year. 
At the same time, however, he says his record speaks for itself. 
NEW YORK -- Mutual funds are speeding up plans for transmitting more accurate daily prices to newspapers and other media. 
One boy volunteers that his hero is Sheik Ahmad Yassin, the Hamas spiritual mentor who is still in an Israeli prison. 
The company's stock has been stagnant during the past three years, reflecting sluggish growth in the U.S. soft-drink market and economic troubles in some of Coke's most profitable markets overseas. 
In Singapore, equities fell, marking four straight declining sessions this week as traders waited for signals on foreign exchange and interest rates; market sentiment has turned so negative that investors are seeking to lock in profits rather than risk more paper losses. 
Meanwhile, some of Mr. Williams's friends say he appears to be getting over his disastrous gubernatorial race, and the waves of critical media scrutiny that accompanied it. 
The collapse of an agreement between the Singapore carrier and the Cambodian government is a setback to SIA's new strategy to enter fledgling aviation markets in Asia. 
By the way, neither these executives' desks nor any other desks at Bradesco have drawers. 
In their studies, those scruffy pioneer plants didn't obligingly yield to something "higher" and "better." 
Amid allegations that it fradulently required customers to buy credit insurance from a company that kicked back some of the premiums to the bank, Mr. Williams's bank pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor. 
That helped moderate the yen's strength against the dollar and other major currencies. 
According to its suit filed in April, the Rose firm challenged an RTC subpoena asking for any "documents listing the names of any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other person or entity to whom the Rose Law firm. 
Last year, the Bank for International Settlements proposed new capital standards for market risks -- that is, risks from fluctuating currencies, interest rates and derivatives. 
All of which helps account for the lack of traffic outside Bob Johnston's office window on a recent weekday afternoon. 
Rest assured that the spirit of James Bond lives on -- in the famously sculptured body of Arnold Schwarzenegger. 
Advanced Micro Devices lost 3/4 to 24 3/4, Texas Instruments shed 1 1/8 to 79 1/2 and Micron Technology slipped 5/8 to 35 7/8. 
A mutated gene, however, produces a defective protein unable to quell cell division, thereby unleashing the growth of cells with many rogue genes. 
Wall Street, which sometimes worries that Mr. Eisner isn't attentive enough to its concerns, liked Mr. Wells. 
Even so, Mr. Shah said, "Imagine the impact on the bottom line" of a 220 million-rupee infusion of revenue. 
Now, it is here in trade paperback (Fawcett Columbine, 257 pages, $11) and, after a glittering success abroad, may have a brighter future. 
In the first six months this year, Alco said it had a loss of $1.9 million from the venture. 
If the family has a medical catastrophe, it's covered by the insurance. 
EMC attributed the results to continued strong sales of its data-storage products. 
While the dollar amount seems large, counterfeit notes account for only 0.5% of all circulating U.S. currency. 
To mark the occasion in April 1991, Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev awarded the coveted Lenin Prize to Generals Anatoly Kuntsevich, Igor Yefstafiev and Aleksandr Fokin, Deputy Minister of Chemical Industry Sergei Golubkov and Mr. Petrunin. 
And while the president's own standing in the polls appears to be a damper on his effort, there are hints the White House is at least succeeding in stirring the public's desire to see action on health care this year. 
The Land Registry put the total number of sales and purchase agreements at 7,129 during June, representing transaction value at 29.85 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$6.06 billion). 
Referring to the Nabisco strategy of filing a GRAS petition, Dr. George Pauli, an FDA official, says, "If they are right, they are in great shape, and if they are wrong, they have a PR disaster." 
In Indonesia, he owns cable companies Voksel Electric and PT Supreme Cable Manufacturing Corp., which should benefit from the country's plan to electrify rural areas. 
Though U.S. consumer prices were in line with expectations, the London market considers a U.S. interest-rate increase inevitable, the timing of which has kept British investors anxiously guessing. 
The hearing is expected to conclude today with testimony from other witnesses. 
With an additional $270 million shortfall looming, the board voted in March to transfer $103 million from budget cuts it ordered for other agencies to accelerate prison construction. 
CBS shares jumped $50 a share to close at $313 in New York Stock Exchange trading. 
"Many public jobs were busy work because the municipal unions guarded their turf," she says. 
Mr. Bibb says Starbucks's fiscal third-quarter earnings, which will be announced tomorrow, are likely to be about 7 cents a share, up from the year-earlier 6 cents a share, or $1.8 million, on revenue of $40.6 million. 
Boeing Chairman Frank Shrontz acknowledges that the early over-water approval for the 777 "is very important to us." 
But the researchers said their study doesn't have any conclusive evidence of a problem with the vaccines, and they recommended that parents continue to vaccinate their children. 
The crisis has been aggravated by a hot, dry spring. 
The General Accounting Office, the Congress's watchdog agency, warned in a recent study that the lack of regulation could create a systemwide financial problem. 
Before that, he was executive vice president of Florida Power & Light Co. 
Stock prices rose. 
As a percentage of the gross national product, our expenditures on medical research and development have been falling until their present level is about 1.8%, considerably below that of Germany (2.67%) and Japan (3.04%). 
TOKYO -- Japanese scientists said they identified an enzyme that may help the rapid spread of cancer cells, raising the prospect of possible treatments to slow or prevent that process. 
Still, Mr. Kaneko's statement about earnings is unusual in Japan, and marks a particularly remarkable stance, given that NEC only recently has returned to profitability. 
Simpson beat his wife because of what some politician said about women. 
TORONTO -- Canada's major banks reduced their prime lending rates to 7.50% from 7.75%, effective today. 
A spokesman for the Seattle Police Department says that drivers may indeed be ticketed if they've declined to buy insurance from the rental company and they aren't carrying proof of personal insurance. 
Asia's dominant satellite-TV broadcaster notified the Hong Kong government this week that it has withdrawn from talks with its one-time distribution partner in the colony, Hong Kong-based Wharf Cable Ltd., and intends to formally apply for a license to operate pay-TV in the territory on a "nonexclusive" basis, Gary Davey, Star's chief executive officer said in an interview. 
Miller Brewing profit increased nearly 11% in the quarter, helped by strong sales of the company's ice beer products. 
Outside central Moscow, in a cramped suburban office, Roustem Akhiarov also has tapped into the global market. 
Other marketers have been slow to pick up on the change in consumer psychology. 
The dollar dropped to a 14-month low of 1.5665 marks, and was changing hands at 98.95 yen, a hair up from 98.90 yen a day earlier. 
The estimated size of this year's cotton crop, which the USDA set at 18 million bales, is large, Ms. Ganes said, but not as large as some investors had anticipated. 
PepsiCo, in a bid to energize beverage sales, named Brian Swette executive vice president of marketing for the company's domestic beverages. 
Commodities: Oil $19.53 a barrel, up 16 cents. 
"They are tolerant and respectful of others' beliefs. 
The NASD says it can roll back the deadline 10 minutes without missing newspaper deadlines. 
The name is quaint, heroic. 
Another First Amendment lawyer, Lee Levine at Ross, Dixon & Masback in Washington, said the judge may have a compelling reason to safeguard jurors' privacy, but "the law is moving in a direction where the burden is on the judge" to justify his order. 
At the meeting today in Washington, each of the trade panel's six commissioners probably will issue individual statements about their findings and any recommendations about how the White House should respond. 
If you have a lot of conventional stores, it's cans, packets and 69-cent chicken -- your basic middle-of-the-road promotions." 
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said it posted record earnings and revenue for its second quarter, ended July 4.  The semiconductor concern said strong growth in sales of its high-speed static RAM products, which are increasingly used in personal computers, boosted results. 
German companies typically aim to pay stable dividends. 
Now that John and Lorena Bobbitt have again expanded the state's erotic reputation, what better way to mark the anniversary than with an exhibition of 35 creative acts of passion -- including a 4,000-year-old Egyptian couple couched in limestone, an 18th-century Indian watercolor divinely titled "Krishna and Radha Make Love," and a 14th-century Italian wedding chest showing how a vestal virgin proved her status (by carrying a sieve of water without spilling a drop). 
Both the Bush and Clinton administrations already have tried and failed to end support payments for wealthy farmers. 
The RAV4 -- the name stands for for recreational active vehicle with four-wheel drive -- is competitively priced at 1.5 million yen ($15,200) to 1.8 million yen. 
The year-earlier figure included charges of $7.5 million, or 11 cents a share, for unusual items. 
She once was asked to pick up a box of dead cockroaches for transport to Hokkaido, where "they don't have big cockroaches," she says. 
Still, the careful coaching feeds into the stereotype that SMU is filled with preppy sons and daughters of rich Dallasites. 
It seemed he would be let alone and appreciated, and he grabbed his company back with relish. 
Burns Fry is 75%-owned by its employees and 25%-owned by BankAmerica Corp., which will receive "just over" C$100 million in cash and won't participate in the share exchange, said Burns Fry President John MacNaughton. 
Circus's future direction depends largely on whether Mr. Bennett, who holds a 7.8% stake in Circus, agrees to retire or insists on retaining a major operating role at the company. 
And there is little chance of losing sight of balls on the fairway; each landing kicks up a plume of white dust visible from several hundred yards away. 
LOS ANGELES -- American CinemaStores Inc. said it reached an agreement with Cineplex Odeon Co. to install its modular stores, or "mini-stores," in five Cineplex theaters. 
Tout le monde in Washington professes to be simply amazed by the kick-the-bums-out mood in the country. 
DISCOUNT AUTO PARTS Inc. (Lakeland, Fla.) -- This auto-parts retailer named Peter J. Fontaine as president and chief executive. 
To back up that rather sweeping assertion, Mr. Neely undertakes a calm, cant-free and (as befits his job) judicious survey of public policy in areas ranging from education to law enforcement to welfare. 
TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co., two big Japanese trading companies, said they plan to set up holding companies in China to invest in and oversee their expanding businesses there. 
Apple in the past has also demanded unacceptable restrictions on licenses, including a promise not to undersell the Mac. 
"We just don't know at this point," said a spokesman. 
Experiences like Mr. Karger's aren't uncommon among college and graduate students who seek summer apprenticeships. 
Higher prices at Cushing translate into higher prices throughout the world. 
The former congressman's appointment as U.S. special adviser on Haiti was part of a major strategy shift by Mr. Clinton last spring that was shaped largely by pressure from critics such as the Congressional Black Caucus. 
We will have to reunite." 
Mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Shirai and pianist Hartmut Holl kick off the new Schubert Series; three chamber works by Alfred Schnittke, dean of contemporary Russian composers, mark his 60th birthday; and vocalist Anita O'Day continues the festival's jazz spotlight. 
An argument ensued. 
The aid package agreed on for Ukraine at the G-7 summit over the weekend may help. 
"No, I don't like soccer," she says. 
Mr. Perkins doesn't foresee any product conflicts, "since QVC doesn't air the same products as HSN." 
Across the plant, a dozen or so women are watching timers and fussing over common kitchen ovens. 
Liberals in particular could learn why liberal jurisprudence on matters of race is eroding Democratic control of Congress. 
The subcommittee was expected to take up franchising a year ago, but environmental issues put the topic on hold until now. 
So if Perotians in the "radical middle" can be convinced that the GOP is run by Jerry Falwell, they'll stick with Democrats this autumn. 
They include potential acquisitions and mergers, the people said. 
Celtrix, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said it will receive unspecified fees and payments and that it retained rights to the drug outside of Japan. 
A spokesman said Future Now expects "no significant net change in the number of jobs" at the company, since reductions in some locations will be linked to new positions in others. 
About three dozen waiters and waitresses from several restaurants participated in the race from Dominique restaurant to the White House and back, giving new meaning to the term fast service. 
In Virginia alone, reporters can pick and choose among Mr. Sabato, Robert Holsworth at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Mark Rozell at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, and Thomas Morris, president of Emory and Henry College in western Virginia. 
BONN -- A Mercedes-Benz AG engineer was arrested on suspicion of industrial spying for the Romanian secret service, German federal prosecutors said. 
While Mr. Katzenberg had expressed interest in the job following Mr. Wells's death, Mr. Eisner told him that he hadn't made a decision. 
WASTED EFFORT? 
Dividing the annual cost by the tiny mortality risk yields the huge cost-benefit ratio. 
"History has given us a chance to try ourselves as an independent state. 
In the first quarter, Endosonics reported a loss of $2.4 million, or 25 cents a share, on revenue of $1.4 million. 
Borden previously completed the sales of its food service, seafood, Bennett's sauces and Japan ice cream businesses. 
That's the message of things like Post Office Square." 
But Rep. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), a key architect of the House crime bill, believes that even a little bit of education, training and public attention could go a long way: "There's less resistance than there is ignorance." 
"There's an increasing sense of optimism in Baghdad that they can ride this thing out," says Kenneth Katzman, a Persian Gulf specialist at the Congressional Research Service. 
Hong Kong's gains also came as the market discounted factors such as currency movements and a potential rise in interest rates. 
Love, as usual, is at the root of everything: not the standard illicit entanglements and unrequited passions, but the more complex, less clearly defined varieties of love that blur the distinctions among attraction, attachment, familial feelings, friendship and romance. 
Another step taken by the state to ensure high ratings on the short-term borrowings is a draconian spending-cuts trigger, says Mr. Davis of the state controller's office. 
"They don't coddle them," says Rolf Russart, a Ford Motor Co. controller in Detroit. 
A July 6 page-one article about the Czech Republic incorrectly said Portugal joined NATO in the 1980s, when it was admitted to the European Community. 
The result has been a growing reliance on short-term borrowing and a variety of one-time budget moves. 
Five years ago, by contrast, they were exporting savings because of large debt burdens and capital fleeing hyperinflation and confiscatory tax regimes. 
Mattel Inc. said the board of J.W. 
"Good luck to you" in trying to figure out which poll to believe, says M. Delal Baer, a senior fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies. 
I have long been skeptical of the assertion that U.S. intelligence makes clear that Vietnam can rapidly account for hundreds of missing Americans. 
via IBJ International PLC. 
It is a problem that raises profound questions about accountability in the American system. 
The natural-gas-distribution company said it is offering the voluntary program to 46 of about 340 employees of its Greeley Gas Co. operating division, which it acquired in December 1993. 
"In our situation, we take money from anywhere. 
"Appearances are everything." 
The new policy also allows people suffering damage from a spill to sue the responsible party's insurance company for damages. 
The new plant is expected to have a 45,000-square-foot clean room for making chips, Mr. Perham said. 
"That's a strong recommendation not only for institutional investors but also for individuals." 
With 16 matches left, is this like a scratchy throat that could turn into something really serious? 
Let's avoid prejudging the rest. 
The FT 30-stock index slipped 1.0 point to 2404.3. 
For the 44 weeks ended July 4 , the company said sales rose 6%, to $13.68 billion from $12.85 billion last year. 
The council will have authority to transfer resources of stronger banks to weaker institutions. 
Sybase Inc., Emeryville, Calif., benefiting from demand for its software and services, said net income rose 72% in the second quarter. 
This "dual-screen" analysis has paid off for the firm's investors -- it handles $2.5 billion mostly for institutional customers such as foundations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and bank trust departments. 
RJR Nabisco, which some analysts think could exceed the flat consensus view, is still feeling the pinch in its R.J. 
Analysts say the truly scary part of the polling problem is evident when people look at the changes being made in this year's elections to ensure that the results can't be manipulated; exit polls are being relied on as one of the major new guarantees of an untainted election. 
Once those dollars get into the IRA, they can grow tax-deferred for years. 
Despite waging lethal price wars, Mr. Gates has kept the company's net profit margin at an extraordinarily high 25% by cutting production and distribution costs and attacking overhead. 
In midrange systems, the AS/400 is another cause for concern. 
"If I can be considered on the same level as a writer in Denmark, I'm happy." 
Electronics and stone, clay and glass orders fell. 
In the future, analysts say, the headhunting trend may even extend to huge Japanese companies, which will eventually switch from a traditional, seniority-based promotion system to one based more on ability and performance. 
Actor Heston, a former union president, lobbied senators to support labor's effort and starred in television and radio ads. 
Walkmans are appearing on the heads of workers of all ages, not just the 20-something crowd. 
The prime-time infomercial still is under production, and the RNC hasn't reached an agreement with a major network to carry it; but the RNC would like to get the ad aired before the end of this month. 
The parade is the most visible sign yet of Franco-German reconciliation. 
Mexican companies, if they want the highest price for their offerings, "are having to be much more careful about public perception of their procedures," says Jorge Suarez-Velez, managing director at Afin Securities International. 
On Monday, Pyongyang postponed the scheduled North-South summit indefinitely. 
Motorola Inc. agreed to buy International Business Machines Corp.'s 50% interest in Ardis, a nationwide wireless network, for an estimated $35 million. 
But Ms. Palmer said Russian exports appear to be booming in spite of a pledge to cut production under an accord signed by several nations. 
"I don't know what it will take to give the dollar a boost." 
Nike's reason for interest in the operation is obvious. 
Gov. Ruffo accused the federal attorney general of "abusing his authority," and state police with automatic weapons massed in front of the federal courthouse where the detained man was being held. 
More than a million people in Argentina are waiting for telephones. 
Revenue grew only 7% to $60.5 million from $56.5 million as Micrografx has struggled with glitches in new versions of two programs introduced last year, which proved to be too powerful to run on many customers' existing machines. 
Mr. Pederson, 45 years old, faces a sentence of as much as 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines, according to the Associated Press. 
In late 1991, for instance, the agency took up this sticky question: Should candy canes have a classification separate from candy, in a rate table that some truckers use? 
Mr. Conrad says he has spent about $5,500 so far on machine guards, magnetic starters, eyewash stations and rewiring. 
The drive goes deep into the poor southern state of Oaxaca to the village of Jalapa de Diaz. 
If Mr. Blattman is named to succeed Mr. Thomas, analysts say the succession will be a smooth one. 
Insignia and Cardinal manage multifamily apartment complexes. 
"The only problem is it's still at a low level." 
"Specification standards can lock you into time and technology and inhibit innovation." 
The collection represents several generations of Vietnamese painters and is a lesson not just in art, but also in Vietnamese history. 
And, in a separate Maryland state test, the percentage of students scoring "satisfactory" at EAI schools is slipping faster than it is for the district as a whole. 
After the letdown of having to cancel a planned offering for Grupo Elektra this week, Goldman must have known that pricing any Mexican shares this close to the most hotly contested presidential election in Mexico's history would be tough. 
Farmers have seeded 20,615,300 acres of spring wheat this year, a 26% decline from 27,781,800 acres last year, Statistics Canada, a government agency, reported. 
Official censors will be able to block the release of movies co-produced in China by Chinese and foreign studios, the official China Daily newspaper reported. 
Stock-index funds are simple portfolios that invest in all the stocks in an index, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. 
Dr. Baker said Dragon's revenue has grown more than 50% in each of the past three years. 
Rated single-A-2 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. and single-A-minus by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Lehman Brothers Inc. 
"I hope they find someone as capable as Garrison." 
In long-distance services, Sprint posted a 31% boost in operating income to $158 million and a 13% rise in revenue to $1.7 billion. 
He wants to replace the Title XX Adolescent Family Life program, set up by the Bush administration, with something called the Office of Adolescent Health. 
In April, Miles paid $605,000 to settle claims by 11 states, including Massachusetts, that PIP violated patient privacy. 
The sharp animosities of his first six months in office, particularly over the issue of homosexuals in the military, have evolved into a lingering unease. 
WASHINGTON -- Armco Inc. agreed to pay $27.5 million into two underfunded pension plans to settle a government lawsuit involving one of those plans, which was terminated by a former Armco unit. 
In an industry where volume growth has slowed to less than 2% in recent years, the company has picked up strong volume gains this year, helped in part by its alternative-drink lines, new package designs such as the plastic contoured bottle, and a highly visible advertising campaign for Coca-Cola. 
Lists of assets and their value also need to be compiled. 
HOMEOWNERS IN Lansing, Mich.; Pittsburgh, Pa., and Syracuse, N.Y., pay among the highest real-estate taxes in the nation, measured as a percent of home value, while those in Baton Rouge, La.; Montgomery, Ala., and Honolulu, Hawaii, pay the least, according to Runzheimer International. 
Britain joined Luxembourg in opposing a European Union withholding tax of between 15% and 25% on savings, saying this could cause the financial-services business to flee the 12-nation bloc. 
For instance, there is "All About Bette" (Davis, that is) on TNT Sunday (8-10 p.m. EDT), which is, in addition to being a distraction from current events, a film biography written with flair (by David Ansen) and narrated by a very smooth Jodie Foster. 
The shares traded around $17 when Columbia entered the Southwest Florida market in mid-1992. 
Other Nasdaq systems, designed to direct and receive orders from the New York Stock Exchange floor, were out of commission all day. 
"But Welch basically believed the overall outlook for the company was still positive, and that caused him to step up to the plate. 
Anyone familiar with it knows that much of what he does is take liberal positions to their logical end to demonstrate their implausibility. 
Payable semiannually. 
On weekends, the cafe fills up with tourists "who eat and leave at a faster pace," says owner Danny Meyer. 
The interior minister, a member of one of the coalition's three parties, said Saturday he was tricked into backing the decree. 
But advocates for the disabled say that children with disabilities often receive incomplete educations because of discrimination or a lack of equipment and personnel, so the children need all the time in school they can get. 
Sales growth was highest in the Asian market, Dow Corning said, and Europe "strengthened noticeably," while U.S. sales "remained strong across a wide range of products." 
FIFA, the outfit that runs the World Cup, later said it probably will adopt sudden-death overtime instead of shootouts in future events, but that'd come too late to save this one from its lead-balloon ending. 
"That they can't make it at home. 
The Japan Soft Drink Association says sales of canned Japanese green tea surged 65% in the past year because of growing interest in sugar-free drinks. 
Overall, bookings for June, based on a three-month average, totaled $2.89 billion, down from $2.96 billion in May. 
Investors who go to a broker for advice usually wind up in load funds; many other investors try to stick to no-loads. 
Traditionally a strong performer, the pizza chain is expected to report a decline in same-store sales during the second quarter -- the second consecutive quarterly decline. 
Earlier this year, yet another patent-holding company, Thomson SA of France, filed a federal patent-infringement lawsuit against a raft of CD companies. 
Others think it may be part of a strategy to put pressure on Mr. Black at a time when the two media moguls are engaged in a bitter newspaper price-cutting war in Britain, where Mr. Black publishes the Daily Telegraph. 
Members voted to ban them from holding union office, voting or participating in union functions. 
Voters have repeatedly rejected efforts to lengthen the session -- most recently in 1973. 
"You'll never again be around such an all-star cast of great conservative thinkers. 
Of Texas' eight major ports, only Corpus Christi and Galveston are self-sufficient. 
"We might see gold move up into the low $390s, but there's no reason to break out of that range," Mr. MacDonald added. 
A combination of the two companies would create a department-store giant with projected annual sales of more than $13 billion. 
The company said 55 of the wells are in Ashtabula County, Ohio, where it already has well properties. 
Mr. Cook has been succeeded by Joseph Huber, the asset-management group's vice chairman and chief operating officer, and Robert Parker, the division's president. 
The move, which would put U S West in direct competition with BellSouth Corp., marks the second time that a regional Bell company has launched an effort to invade the local telephone monopoly of another. 
For the period ended June 25, the Rochester, N.Y.-based company said it expects to post net income of 53 cents to 55 cents a share, compared with earnings of $47 million, or 78 cents a share, a year earlier. 
"A new area for me is REITs," Mr. Ryan says. 
But Mr. Markell of Nextel says the problem of a "several-week delay is behind us." 
If Los Angeles Municipal County Judge Ronald Schoenberg had sentenced repeated abuser O.J. 
Finding a site to satisfy federal officials wasn't easy, either. 
Analysts expect the lack of action to send the dollar still lower against the yen. 
But Jimmy, a great believer in trial and error, hit on the right concept eventually. 
We have laptop computers today because of that. 
When the schedule says Germany vs. Bulgaria or Holland vs. Brazil, as it will in this weekend's quarterfinals, it will mean just that. 
NETWORK LONG DISTANCE Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.) -- Robert E. Yaw II, 48 years old, was elected a director of this long-distance telephone company, increasing the size of the board to four members. 
This division produced a half-century of Unionist misrule in Northern Ireland and the treatment of the Catholics as second-class citizens. 
managing director, says. 
"We just don't have the connections with the international and national associations that Adidas has," says a Puma spokesman. 
This chapter is closed." 
The new package, on shelves in a few weeks, will retail for $2.69 to $2.89, compared with $2.99 to $3.39 for the outgoing version. 
The finance minister backed away from calling the move a nationalization. 
The job cuts, largely at the hospital chain's headquarters here, shrink the corporate staff to about 700 people. 
Individuals familiar with the process said the commissioners are likely to require payments from the pioneers, but haven't decided the amount of payments. 
Given the competitive pressures of a global economy, they argue that school is where a new "high performance" work ethic should be germinating. 
What helps most, though, is that her promise as a golfer has remained bright even as her pursuit of a professional victory has been fruitless. 
ICICLE CANYON, Wash. -- The Bullitt sisters of Seattle are out to save the planet. 
S.G. Warburg's Mr. Magnus called the many official comments emanating from the summit "a substantial public-relations exercise to ensure that markets understand there's official concern about the dollar." 
Electrical wires jut from windows, tractors have ruined old foot paths and a 700-year-old bridge is overgrown and dilapidated. 
FAA managers say the worry is legitimate, although it is offset partly by rules that force each new owner to prove an ability to fly and maintain the jet. 
The company denied the speculation, but some insiders do question whether Bacardi's tight-knit ranks and tradition-bound culture are causing the company to lag behind the times. 
Akebono Brake Industry Co. Ltd. (Japan) -- 100 million Swiss francs of privately-placed 0.5% convertible notes due Sept. 30, 1998, at par, via Nomura Bank (Switzerland). 
Even caviar could no doubt be added to fishmeal with good effect." 
Amid today's fare wars, analysts say, such systems make the difference between millions of dollars of profits -- or losses. 
Still, last October's bloody assassination of Justice Minister Guy Malary, a good friend of Mr. Malval, is a fresh and disquieting memory for the prime minister and his aides. 
A woman's work is never done, and many of us are working overtime these days trying to figure out just exactly what to call ourselves. 
Federal Signal had its ninth consecutive year of record earnings in 1993, when profit rose 15% to $39.8 million, or 86 cents a share, and sales increased 9% to $565 million. 
but they are never either high or low; every honest calling is honorable." 
CINCINNATI -- Herbert Steindler pleaded guilty to four felony counts involving a scheme to divert funds from defense contracts between General Electric Co. and the Israeli government, the Justice Department said. 
A major roadblock has been that "there is no overarching, federally mandated conflict-of-interest policy for federally funded researchers today," says Nelson Dong, a Minneapolis attorney who specializes in technology-transfer issues. 
-- An End to Indiscriminate Regulations. 
Normally, restructuring a Canadian company's debt requires approval by two-thirds of each class of stakeholders. 
"The Spanish around here is some kind of hybrid language that I fear no one really understands," says Enrique Ortego, a reporter for the Madrid-based newspaper ABC. 
Such sales could help Conseco complete the Kemper deal by bolstering its credit rating. 
F. William Sawyer, who remains at John Hancock, was indicted on 33 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and use of interstate travel to commit bribery as part of a crackdown by federal and state authorities on lobbying abuse. 
And he doesn't think conditions will improve soon. 
Mr. Thorne says he expects events such as his teleconferenced wedding to become more common. 
The company said it will allocate two-thirds of the charge to Met Ed and one-third to Pennsylvania Electric Co., its other Pennsylvania unit, for the second quarter ended June 30, 1994. 
Meanwhile, U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor's move Thursday to extend for another month the deadline imposed on Japan for settling government procurement policies was largely taken as evidence of U.S. weakness when it comes to trade negotiations. 
Nonperforming assets declined during the quarter to $943 million, the lowest levels since 1990. 
Local beauticians sometimes donate a chair or other equipment. 
"As we grow the business we have a lot of opportunity to keep a lot more traffic on the ground, especially intrastate," Mr. Graf said. 
Her editor, Jeff Gauger, says he "waves his hand" when he needs her attention. 
One lawyer familiar with the investigation predicted that one or two more embarrassing revelations are likely about the handling of the contents of Mr. Foster's office. 
MILAN -- Public prosecutors here abruptly asked to be removed from their historic two-year corruption probe, after Silvio Berlusconi's new government adopted measures diminishing their powers in the investigations. 
(505) 983-2075. 
Investment bankers say some companies have preferred to cut the share price rather than delay the issue and risk the hassle and expense of having their figures re-audited. 
These and other assurances were passed along by realtors and others to families buying in the area. 
Everything we're doing is with the objective of getting the quickest possible resolution of this matter." 
The EEOC filed a still-pending federal lawsuit in New Orleans to enforce its ruling against the company. 
He romps around a farm eating bananas. 
The testimony of the ethnic Chinese man at a House subcommittee hearing -- during which he was hooded to protect his identity -- created a sensation only five years after the end of the war. 
Compaq Computer Corp., continuing its push into the realm of centralized corporate computing, formed a broad alliance with Oracle Corp., the leading maker of database software for groups of computers. 
Earlier this year, Mr. Hundt shepherded a second round of rate cuts through the agency. 
But when the World Cup comes, soccer will take over the United States." 
And S.G. Warburg's Paul Raman said the industry will report earnings that "are likely to be in line with or higher than our increasing expectations." 
It is responsible annually for 69.4 billion of those squishy, brick-shaped drink cartons made from paper laminated with plastic and aluminum. 
Investors may be more eager to buy tax-exempt debt generally because of this year's lower new-issue volume and higher income taxes, but they are more likely to snap up New York's securities before those sold by California, investors and traders said. 
In jobs that require teamwork and communication, Walkmans "can be a real obstacle," agrees Frank Landy, director of Pennsylvania State University's Center for Applied Behavioral Science. 
The U.N. General Assembly is expected to officially adopt the new contribution levels in September. 
But while conspiracies abound in a story that ranges roughly across the 20th century, a tragic brand of political folly uniquely American in its naive, reckless self-assurance stands equally to blame. 
Attorney Mark Dombroff's new Washington law firm will start a frequent-litigant club, under which he hopes to build his market share of insurance-defense cases by rewarding repeat purchasers of his legal services with future freebies. 
Thus, the Koreans privately are rethinking this 1996 deadline. 
Traders said futures were sold heavily by nonresident, particularly U.S., institutional accounts, which overwhelmed domestic fund buying in cash and caused the market to close at the lows, sending a bearish signal for today . 
Meanwhile, Daimler-Benz AG and Green Tree Financial Corp. are expected to launch asset-backed offerings today into a sector that has seen few offerings this month. 
Syntex Corp.'s arthritis drug Naprosyn lost patent protection late last year and within a month, two-thirds of the prescriptions were filled with generics and the price plunged more than 80%. 
Homeowners in the next "tier" closest to the dump repeatedly were told in writing by county officials that offers to buy their property were being prepared, subject to Board of Supervisors approval. 
Of the 39 other firefighters who were part of the group trapped on Storm King Mountain, four were injured and two remained missing. 
As part of a nationwide settlement with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Met Life earlier agreed to pay as much as $76 million in refunds to 60,000 policyholders and $20 million in fines, including $1.1 million to California. 
Stepan Pachikov, ParaGraph's founder and president, attributes the Newton's problems instead to marketing miscalculations. 
"A lot of companies remain unaware that this is required of them," says Ms. Kelley, in New York. 
The church contends it has suffered a huge loss, and says there has been a big misunderstanding about the proof it submitted to the insurance company. 
Bonds callable from Sept. 30, 1999, at par plus accrued if share price exceeds 140% of conversion price. 
Media innovator Christopher Whittle's Edison Project has contracts to run six schools in Kansas and Massachusetts, and aims to land 15 more for September 1995. 
And more savings are coming. 
The decision to sell one of the most sought-after businesses in the country came down to two things: the wealth it would bring McKesson's shareholders, who will get 85% of the proceeds of the PCS sale, and Mr. Seelenfreund's confidence that he and his team are now experienced venture capitalists in the health-care business, capable of building another business like PCS. 
"My only crime," he says, "was that for 800 years my ancestors lived in that place." 
First, their population growth produced a demographic problem with the court's quota system. 
"The fact that we have a Detroit refinery, we figured we ought to help those seven counties," says Richard White, Marathon's marketing vice president. 
Mr. Clinton sent the six other summit leaders a letter outlining his plan a mere 10 days ago, and U.S. trade officials have been furiously lobbying their counterparts abroad for the past few weeks. 
Just as significant, traders say, is the steady decline in open interest, or the number of futures contracts outstanding, for September coffee. 
As one of the few remaining private partnerships on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs doesn't disclose its earnings to the public. 
The news wasn't all bad, however. 
Others familiar with the situation said Comcast also believed QVC was being valued too cheaply in the transaction. 
The settlement gives IBM a chance to sell more of its rival OS/2 operating system and boosts the prospects for a Novell system that is functionally compatible with Microsoft's MS-DOS. 
"I count on the funds being returned to Germany within the foreseeable future, in 1994," he said. 
He's just a giver." 
NTT is two-thirds owned by the Japanese government and accounts for roughly 3% of the Tokyo stock market's total capitalization. 
It has claimed since 1981 that U.S. fruit was infested with Mediterranean fruit flies and could devastate China's own production, the world's largest. 
Meanwhile, because Investors Equity characterized its futures trading as a hedging strategy, rather than as speculation, it would have continued to qualify for lenient margin requirements. 
Even if strikes, expansion and other blights diminish baseball, he adds, "the pure game will never die." 
Bonds of R.H. Macy & Co. rose on news that it reached an agreement in principal to merge with Federated Department Stores Inc. The bonds of Nextel Communications Inc. and OneComm Corp. also traded up after the two companies announced merger plans. 
To help ensure stronger growth, better employment and lower inflation, Washington should be mindful that the carrot of market incentives, rather than the stick of controls, will result in a far more satisfactory solution to any future raw material shortages and energy pressures. 
In a survey just last month, health care had slipped to third place on the public's issue agenda, behind crime and the economy. 
He's right. 
brings enhancement to our brand and world-wide message." 
Fidelity Investments, already Federated's largest shareholder with 10.14 million shares, may ultimately be the biggest beneficiary of the merger. 
Some parents buy bit cards at the Better Baby Bookstore, which sells 10-card packs for $10.95. 
I'm one of those people who always gets a chill down the spine and a tear in the eye when the "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at public gatherings. 
The consent decree, signed in 1982 with the breakup of the old AT&T telephone monopoly, bars the seven Baby Bells from offering long-distance services or manufacturing telecommunications equipment. 
Congressional hearings have probed cigarette manufacturers' practices, and David Kessler, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has considered regulating cigarettes as a drug. 
Mr. Hoagland cast that vote as part of a conscious Democratic strategy called the "rolling 20" votes. 
Mr. Choy has health insurance and gets a paid vacation. 
In Taipei, prices rose, starting with an early jump that was partially offset by late profit-taking; the rally was led by Taiwanese fund managers, who bought petrochemical and electronic shares. 
The total value of the acquisition was $10 billion. 
Construction is just now beginning on most athletic facilities. 
He added that the U.S. would provide $10 million so the Baltic nations could take part in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization military exercise, and will provide $2 million to help clean up a military nuclear site in Estonia. 
What upset Mr. Falitz more than the pay cut, friends say, was having to fly a smaller plane, the 19-seat Jetstream. 
Thus, with land prices skyrocketing and eager developers desperate to secure space in downtown Hanoi, construction cranes now crowd the skyline. 
Investors also migrated to gold funds, viewing the group as a hedge against inflation. 
They are beliefs no government agency prescribed. 
Soon he opened his own bookstore. 
Direct talks were regarded as a possible first step toward reunification of the Korean peninsula. 
Mr. Ehinger says he expects turmoil in the new-issue market to continue in the third quarter as volatile markets and skittish investors make it more difficult for underwriters to sell stock. 
"The numbers were weaker than we thought," said Frank DeSantis, banking analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Co. 
"It's clear we're living in a difficult political period," the governor says. 
The robust second-quarter results will compare with year-earlier earnings of $2.35 billion. 
As a result, Wall Street firms are less willing to carry inventories of unsold portions of CMOs. 
A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile. 
Mr. Murray was named chairman last month after Michael A. Miles resigned under pressure from shareholders. 
And the merger underscores rising pressure on the two as their growth -- while still strong -- has cooled from the blistering pace of the past five years, just as competition forced down prices. 
It could all happen again. 
Yesterday, Mr. Dammerman told employees in a statement that the firm "appreciated that Mike agreed to take on the special assignment to assist us with the management transition." 
Analysts cited the German central bank's statement that it doesn't consider supporting the dollar crucial, depressing hopes for a coordinated dollar-defending effort that could spring from this weekend's Group of Seven meeting in Naples, Italy. 
Mr. Bennett, 69 years old, didn't return telephone calls seeking comment. 
Of the five most-active firms, UBS Securities and Nomura Securities executed all or most of their program trading for their own accounts, while Morgan Stanley, Kidder Peabody and Salomon Brothers did most of their trading for their customers. 
But Mr. Guarino's hopes for a cleaner image for South Pointe could be spoiled by the conspiracy charge against him. 
Melbourne, Australia-based Western Mining would pay Alcoa about $360 million, though that figure is subject to a final agreement on the assets to be included, among other things. 
The chastened insurers have responded by reducing their holdings of foreign securities to less than 9% of total assets from about 15% in 1990. 
In numerous cases where residents have been given the opportunity to take control, the conditions of their communities have improved impressively -- as measured not only by physical appearance but also by a decrease in crime, a drop in rates of teen pregnancy and a reduction in drug-related activity. 
For instance, what methods of election qualify as "democratic"? 
For the year, ConAgra said earnings rose to $437.1 million, or $1.81 a share, from $270.3 million, or $1.06 a share. 
Also, Wheat First Butcher & Singer analyst Jeffrey Medford said he expects American Freightways Corp. to report second-quarter revenue that is at least 45% higher than the $80.9 million of the year-earlier quarter. 
Some companies are even using the kits as training tools. 
Pfizer and Shiley agreed in August 1992 to an out-of-court settlement of all present and future claims over the device. 
For more than 150 years Texans have enjoyed the right to claim as much water from beneath their land as they wanted. 
Wellfleet Communications Inc. said it and Microsoft Corp. agreed to jointly develop and market computer networking products. 
The panel, without comment, awarded Mr. Buch $99,990. 
Discount margin nine basis points above Libor. 
It was the Sudeten Germans that Hitler was "protecting" in 1938, when Britain and France indulged his hunger for acreage and whet his appetite for more. 
Within the Pentagon, says Andrew Krepinevich, a former aide, "Everybody knows who he is, but very few people actually know him." 
But they could have a significant impact on Starbucks's bottom line, especially in the short term. 
"This is the wave of the future," says antitrust attorney Robert Pitofsky. 
Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 0.11 to 447.95, but the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 2.76 to 709.59. 
The partners will also try to get users of computers made by other makers to switch to IBM models. 
The fans are there for fun, sure, and they're having it; but the business of winning and losing is serious. 
When the two-year expansion is complete, DuPont plans to close its adipic acid facility in Teesside, England. 
Don't you ever get tired of the same story?" he asked. 
Blockbuster controls Spelling Entertainment Group Inc., which produces "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place," among other programs. 
This makes no sense. 
Mr. Gibson had a better finger on the future. 
But Evan was vexed. 
HEADING TO THE GAMES: Businesses, absentee employees catch World Cup fever. 
This isn't a common disease, he says. 
The EEOC says that such questioning enabled companies to discriminate against disabled people under the guise of rejecting them as unqualified. 
It maximizes pilot effort, workload, and fatigue." 
Crescent said the purchase of Papillon, a helicopter tour company in the Hawaiian islands, will nearly double its annual revenue. 
Labor costs make up about two-thirds of what consumers pay for goods and services. 
The Dow Jones World Stock Index lost 0.34 to 114.26. 
They question whether a denture adhesive lends itself to a lengthy pitch, and whether viewers would consider demonstrations tasteful. 
Mr. Ludwig gave details of the president's unusual request, along with his own warning to the White House in December of intensifying press inquiries about Madison, in a memo prepared last March in compliance with grand jury subpoenas issued as part of an investigation by special counsel Robert Fiske. 
That has some investors upset. 
And the Liberal Democratic Party was willing to offer him the key post to pursue their own goal of getting power." 
AK shares rose 50 cents to $26.50 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, while Inland stock fell 37.5 cents to $38.125 in late New York Stock Exchange trading. 
Yesterday, the ADRs closed at $45.875, up 50 cents. 
Republicans understand all of this, which is why some have cynically gone along with racial gerrymanders. 
The move gives Nielsen a leg up on IRI in their overseas battle for multinational customers wanting market and sales data on a variety of products, as well as other related data services. 
Rumors are swirling that 67-year-old Juan Grau, president of Bacardi Imports since 1988, will retire next year and that the company will replace him with someone who will stir things up. 
One is defaulted North Korean bank debt. 
The FTC has appealed the judge's opinion; a hearing is scheduled in federal appeals court. 
The newly won stake increased Samsung's equity holding in the company to 67%, making it the largest single holder. 
Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., said the acquisition will enable it to expand its network of remote-access routers to include small- and medium-size companies in addition to larger companies it already serves. 
The bank has had a return on equity ratio of at least 20% every year since going public in 1982. 
Cabletron Systems jumped 4 1/4 to 110 1/4 on the Big Board. 
I wonder if my father will believe me when I tell him the players are fighting for their own independence from a tyrannical system. 
Such activity has unnerved local physicians trying to decide on which side to bet their futures. 
"There is no work in my country," she says. 
"We're very excited," said Paul Levy, Littlejohn managing director. 
The FCC must decide that case soon, because other licenses for the service will be put on the auction block at the end of this month. 
Junda Woo contributed to this article. 
The seniors are far more serious. 
Why so much seesawing? 
The NYSE Composite Index was 247.57, up 1.03. 
The term `group' has less and less relevance." 
NEW YORK -- With 46 states and many cities having started their financial years Friday, budgets are balanced and taxes are on the wane, as better economic conditions lift most areas. 
Mr. Vajna holds 60%. 
But the prime minister helped himself by drawing on that wellspring of Japanese greatness, rugged educationalism. 
As it became clear his initiative was collapsing, Mr. Clinton lobbied the leaders individually to strengthen their pledges of support for Ukrainian economic reform and their willingness to focus on long-term institutional changes at next year's summit. 
The morning lights in Kota Kinabalu danced in the distance, and the lands off the coast rose out of the morning mist. 
The consent decree spells out in great detail how "equal access" will be achieved. 
They settled in California in 1937, when things were heating up in Europe. 
For instance, he said, many investors hope to see some intervention in support of the dollar. 
We can understand why Bill Clinton felt obliged to show up and honor him. 
In particular, they fear that Washington will agree to a peace treaty to the Korean War that could lead to the U.S. withdrawing its troops and its nuclear umbrella from South Korea. 
Mr. Miller maintains that looking back at existing twin-jets or trying to peer into the future through testing simply can't duplicate the unexpected combinations of weather, vibration, malfunctions and crew decisions that converge in real service. 
One industry expert says P&G is entering the infomercial arena in a category that has actually been quite successful. 
Creating a healthful ingredient that makes mayonnaise slippery or chocolate cake moist and chewy has proven far more difficult than expected. 
This year, there have been plenty of opportunities to play the S&P game as the number of mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings rose. 
Kohler claims a strong but quiet flush for its new Trocadero toilet, which uses a pump powered by an Emerson electric motor. 
Also, the volume of new stocks and bonds sold in the first six months dropped to $437.8 billion, down 18% from $533.6 billion a year earlier, according to Securities Data Co. Bleak Outlook As a result, earnings estimates are bleak for the securities industry. 
On Monday, Kirschner's board directed its management to negotiate a definitive agreement to be acquired by Biomet Inc. of Warsaw, Ind. Under the agreement, Biomet would swap 1.05 Biomet shares for each of Kirschner's roughly 3.5 million common shares outstanding. 
Mall owners foresee mixed results from the merger. 
They noted that if K-III found a big new acquisition to make, a public offering could make it harder for KKR to make a new equity infusion into the company. 
I am very much in favor of going further. 
They argue belts, sold with such flashy names as The Power Belt, increase intra-abdominal pressure and stabilize the spine, among other things. 
The dollar hit a new post-war low against the yen and the bond market, already nervous about rising commodities prices and inflationary pressures, followed the dollar lower. 
Kim's neighbors looked to Kim to deliver them from the dangers posed by Kim. 
Too many corn muffins. 
According to Mr. Strange, he wasn't the only beneficiary of his mentor's goodwill. 
DuPont said the British facility, which has about 700 employees, is operating at a substantial cost disadvantage. 
Depressing the shares is the fear that Federated will issue so much stock to Macy creditors that current shareholders will see their holdings extremely diluted. 
In March, Figgie said it'd shed businesses valued at $379 million -- or about one-third of its $1.1 billion in 1993 sales -- as part of a restructuring. 
For next five years and three months, coupon is 0.395 point under six-month yen Libor. 
In all, the FCC plans to auction about 2,000 licenses for the new services, which will compete with existing cellular phone service and an updated version of traditional dispatch services used by taxicab and construction companies. 
The Fed said interested parties should submit comments on the proposed regulation by Aug. 15, 1994. 
Terms were not disclosed. 
William Flaherty, Gibson's chief financial officer, said the company "only discovered and quantified" the problem "late yesterday Thursday and will soon "release further information" from a continuing investigation. 
However, he has had some big successes, including record ratings for the 1994 Winter Olympics and luring Mr. Letterman away from NBC. 
For adults, he adds, it offers escape from the violence and clock-driven nature of modern life. 
Legislators and congressional staffers expect some combination of these measures to reach President Clinton's desk in any final health-care bill. 
The Tokyo Stock Price Index, or Topix, of all first-section issues, which added 10.57 points on Monday, rose 10.76 to 1683.49. 
None of those seems to attract a majority in the Senate, so the alternative is to offer subsidies to encourage the uninsured to buy insurance. 
Over the weekend, the main partners in the ruling coalition withdrew their support for the decree and Interior Minister Roberto Maroni threatened to resign. 
HEALTH-BILL STRATEGY: Wary that a House bill would be undercut by the Senate, Democratic strategists consider starting the health debate in the Senate. 
Recent issues of Details, a magazine aimed at cutting-edge young men, contain shot after shot of models smoking. 
But Senate Republicans are leading a filibuster to block a vote. Democratic supporters of the striker-replacement bill aren't expected to break the filibuster. 
James Smith of the University of North Carolina's KenanFlagler Business School is one of the nine favoring Europe, because "Continental Europe is entering a fast-growth mode while Japan continues to stagnate." 
MANASSAS, Va. 
A SynOptics spokesman declined to comment. 
In 1988 the two men caused a stir by drawing thousands of worshipers to St. Irene's to welcome what many thought was a famous icon from Greece. 
Net income in the 1993 six months included $80 million from the sale of assets and $52.1 million from extinguishment of debt. 
"I do mostly vertebrae, pelvises and skulls," says veteran bone-maker Mike Garrity as he conducts a lunchtime tour of his workplace. 
Derivatives are financial arrangements whose value is linked to, or derived from, the performance of some underlying asset, such as bonds, currencies or commodities. 
In Japan, people talk warmly about how he carries his own briefcase and hates to buy suits. 
Of course, at a recent price of $1.625, Digicon trades barely above its tangible book value of $1.50. 
New Jersey Economic Development Authority 6.40s of 2032 were up 1/4 to yield 6.56%, while Newark, N.J., Health Care Facilities were 1/4 lower at 94 3/4 to yield 6.38%. 
The position is effective Aug. 1. 
"But international earnings for these multinationals are now a positive." 
"I find it amazing that they would say that." 
He said net income for the current fiscal year, which ends next Jan. 28, is expected to be below the $2.5 million, or 19 cents a share, earned in the 1993 fiscal second quarter. 
It could be the only big oil company, beside Amerada Hess, to post an operating loss for the quarter. 
Petro-Canada acquired its holding in Penn West as a result of earlier asset sales. 
One medical-journal study, for example, found that men with varicose veins are 12 times as likely to have carpal-tunnel syndrome as those without. 
Haiti in 1994 does not fit into any such strategy to protect vital U.S. interests. 
"They recognize us, I think," says Mr. Meerding, who appears to have come to the game looking for trouble but can't find any. 
Financial losses at closely held Steelcase, declining North American market share and an effort by the United Auto Workers to unionize Steelcase employees all contributed to Mr. Myers's departure, industry analysts said. 
The following is the full text of a "press guidance" note the ministers agreed on:  "The underlying fundamentals of our economies are sound and the conditions for strong and lasting noninflationary growth are now in place. 
The Gonzalez argument goes like this. 
Sharing power "is a new experience," Mr. Testwuide adds. 
The flight attendants bowed out of the talks after United last September opened a cabin attendant base in Taiwan, which the union saw as an attempt to rid the company of higher-paid senior flight attendants. 
But he balks at the notion that his is a high-pressure dealership. 
In the villages there are snakebite victims with withered limbs; in one town last year, an anaconda swallowed a toddler. 
Mr. Clements regarded this final stage, called the "climax" community, as self-sustaining and self-replicating. 
There's no need to emphasize an incident such as this." 
In his inaugural policy speech to Japan's parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama told the world his Japan won't upset the apple cart: The government won't swing to the left, won't backtrack on political and economic reforms -- and won't scuttle the Japan-U.S. defense alliance, as the Socialists often demanded when they were in the political opposition. 
They don't exist in the G-7. 
Most of the ICC's legal work still emerges from the tariff filing room. 
"Companies like International Business Machines, Kodak, McDonald's and Caterpillar got hurt last year because of poor economies in Japan and Europe," Mr. Sohn says. 
Mr. Burton formerly was director of Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality. 
Roche, based in Basel, said 130 million shares, or about 59% of Syntex shares outstanding, have been tendered to date. 
"Using rail traffic as a barometer of the economy, one would conclude that we remain on a steadily increasing course of expansion," said Tom Galvin, an analyst at C.J. Lawrence/Deutscher Bank Securities Corp.  Rail traffic, measured in carloadings on the major railroads, rose 4.4% in the 11-week period ending June 18, according to the Association of American Railroads. 
Mr. Robb's fortunes have been in decline as he has fought off stories about his alleged relationships with other women and his attendance at beach parties where drugs reportedly were used. 
The pact replaces a 1987 agreement under which Pasteur and the U.S. each received 37.5% of the royalties after the initial 20%, with the remainder going to the Foundation. 
Under EU law, the commission can fine companies as much as 10% of their yearly revenue for operating a cartel. 
Still, this relative optimism is tempered by a built-in sense of limitations. 
In fact, 10 million Nasdaq shares were traded before the market's open. 
But price controls would not be the answer. 
There is an abbreviated trading session slated for today in advance of the July Fourth holiday on Monday. 
Analysts expect companies that report below-estimate earnings will be severely punished by investors. 
But Pentagon officials are still scratching their heads over what approach to take with several other sectors of the defense industry. 
How's that? 
As president, he succeeds James P. Mooney, 46, who continues as chairman and chief executive officer. 
"A decision to settle is a difficult choice when you believe your position is correct," Litton Chairman Alton J. Brann said in a statement. 
"It's kind of the couch-potato way to keep track" of your IRAs, says Ms. Krysty. 
Industry spending on track and locomotives, including an expected 25% boost at Burlington, is expected to rise 10% this year from healthy 1993 levels. 
BEAVERTON, Ore. 
But the managed-care industry is concerned that health maintenance organizations could be affected too. 
JT's pharmaceuticals business, which Japanese newspapers have been trumpeting in the lead-up to the share auction, has never turned a profit. 
Operating losses reached 368 billion lire last year, the sixth consecutive year of negative operating results. 
Sales at the arts and crafts retailer for the 21 weeks ended June 30 were $39.8 million, up 18% from $33.6 million a year earlier. 
In an article Monday about a newsletter that shows writers how to avoid violent confrontations on screen, it was incorrectly stated that the unit of General Electric Co. did buy the script. 
While many nuclear-cleanup projects may still require cost-plus contracts that reflect their complexity, much of the related work involves groundskeeping, maintenance, guards, secretarial duties and other relatively simple chores, said the budget office's Mr. Kelman. 
As expected, he said that in general, imposition of the death penalty isn't unconstitutional -- a position shared by all of the current members of the Supreme Court other than Justice Blackmun. 
There may be some surprises there for us." 
Big money-center banks are under pressure for a different reason. 
Mr. Mandle said the bank's loan volume is likely to continue to grow throughout this year. 
That "is why stocks world-wide were sold indiscriminately," says Ms. Voute. 
When Evanthea learned that he was married," he adds, "the relationship was ended." 
Stuart Wallis, an executive director of paper and packaging company Bowater PLC, will assume the role on Sept. 1. 
Instead, it usually helps a customer get together with a bank or other lending institution. 
Small businesses are hoping to take advantage of the boom. 
By oilfield tradition, Phillips as operator of the wells would normally speak for the partners, although Anadarko has done most of the talking. 
According to a filing by Merrill Lynch with the Securities and Exchange Commission, there is a "governmental investigation of Mr. McNall in connection with loan applications submitted to various financial institutions." 
Local phone revenue climbed 6% to $1.08 billion. 
It also would put the president in the position of pushing a crime bill that has little support from House Democrats who represent some of the districts hit hardest by crime. 
(The memo was dated March 11.) 
Mr. Falitz replied, "Yes." 
Daniel Pearl contributed to this article. 
Barnett's net of $121.2 million, or $1.19 a share, increased from $104.2 million, or $1.01 a share, a year ago. 
Revenues rose 3% in the second quarter to $2.49 billion from $2.43 billion. 
The FDIC can, and regularly does, violate agreements between borrowers and lenders under special doctrines granted by the courts. 
A recent convert to fish eating, she now finds herself trying new recipes. 
Tom Barman, Glaxo's internal portfolio manager, has been asked to resign after the portfolio is wound down and the control of the funds is fully transferred to an external fund manager based in London. 
She came up and hugged him tightly for six minutes. 
The committee's brief three days of voting took on a surreal, almost farcical tone, with Democrats, under instructions from the leadership and encouragement from the White House, voting repeatedly in favor of measures they abhorred. 
The regulator postponed a decision on what BT's biggest rival, the Mercury Communications Ltd. unit of Cable & Wireless PLC, must pay. 
The Dow Jones World Stock Index was at 116.59, down 0.58, reflecting lower markets in all regions. 
"The stock market is probably locked into a fairly flattish trend," says Jack Ryan, who is co-manager of the Vanguard/Wellesley Income Fund in Malvern, Pa. 
Thousands of bore holes were logged with the instrument he helped develop. 
We suspect this has something to do with the frequency of bizarre outcomes in courtrooms nowadays. 
Residents are urged to shut off air conditioners for 15 minutes every hour. 
The protracted litigation delayed the Bells' entry into the market by several years. 
What the traveler sees as stuffy airports and lonely hotels the spouse envisions as fancy dinners and five-star adventures. 
She was hired several years ago to address Brookline staff-development conferences; later a then-assistant superintendent for curriculum praised her ideas at length before a League of Women Voters forum. 
The flackmeisters and politicos who command the president's ear have convinced him that cosmetic wreath-laying ceremonies and platitudinous speeches are sufficient to bolster his standing as commander in chief. 
Before Mahogany, Anadarko's stock traded closer to $40. 
Terms weren't disclosed. 
But FDA officials say they were disappointed in Reality's high failure rate. 
"They're better positioned to show profits quicker because of the way they're structured." 
"Nobody in his right mind should be buying these on a cost-reimbursement basis," he said. 
WASHINGTON -- When Warren Christopher became secretary of state, he had both a complaint and a promise about the conduct of American diplomacy. 
They cooperated, for instance, by instituting service from California to the South using tracks of both systems, and gained market share from trucking companies. 
The decision has national implications because abortion-rights advocates have obtained similar protection against protesters from judges and local governments in many states. 
Many see the Real Plan as the last chance for the Brazilian political and business establishment to thwart the presidential ambitions of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, candidate of the leftist Workers' Party. 
Attorneys for Mitsubishi couldn't be reached. 
Akorn is a pharmaceutical and surgical supply company. 
CONSULTING ALLIANCE: Hildebrandt, a consulting firm specializing in the legal profession, has joined forces with accounting giant Ernst & Young. 
Gordon Hawkins booms forth as the Herald and Gabor Andrasy sings Heinrich. 
That bomber, the California Democrat announced, "can deliver a large payroll, precision or carpet." 
Just three weeks before the start of this year's World Cup, a company spokesman was "pretty sure" the Cameroon team would be kicking with Pumas. 
"Two-thirds of the Baby Boom generation dropped out of traditional religious involvement along the way to their mid-life crises; now 40% are returning," writes Ms. Huffington. 
The improvement was spread across all industries, but was generally seen as temporary or seasonal. 
"We may have to come up with a different way of dealing with p53." 
The GS Capital Partners fund was set up by Goldman to invest in leveraged acquisitions, reorganizations and other private equity investments. 
Defending the decision to fire Ms. Perryman, John Williams, a member of the Pauls Valley school board, says, "When you've got a teacher handling children, it's our duty to make sure that the teacher is able and not posing a danger." 
"But there's also the restructuring story. 
Taxable bond mutual funds ended the second quarter with a 1.34% loss, compared with a 2.46% loss in the first quarter. 
While results were mostly robust across the board, Motorola's strongest growth came from its cellular telephone unit, which posted a 75% increase in sales to $2.1 billion. 
Mr. Chen, who heads Heinz's baby-cereal plant here, contends that traditional Chinese breakfast food -- such as congee, a sort of rice porridge -- "does not have enough nutrition and nourishment" to allow Chinese babies to bulk up as fast as their Western counterparts. 
"We don't automatically throw a report out the window just because it mentions cold fusion," says Gene L. Wells, an editor of Physical Review Letters, the leading U.S. journal in physics. 
So he tries to understand why it's important to stay out, even at the risk of financial ruin. 
The sale is contingent on a definitive agreement. 
In his old age, Kim Il Sung was hardly building nuclear weapons just to dissolve into an embrace with Mr. Carter and declare the last half-century a horrible misunderstanding. 
Tokyo shares rose sharply Thursday, as investors were relieved by the U.S. dollar's rebound against the Japanese yen and hunted for bargains among blue chips. 
New York-based Transatlantic Holdings Inc., a property-casualty reinsurer with strong international operations, should report income from operations of $1.05 compared with 90 cents a year ago, Mr. Cholnoky said. 
"Every year since the decree was announced the Bells have argued that the consent decree is obsolete. 
"We'll get 100% of nothing." 
The potential candidate, Celerino Vargas Lopez, stood nearby with a black eye. 
In the process, he's offering Japan's consumers a better deal. 
All critics of Mr. Sudoplatov dance around one important fact: Mr. Sudoplatov did not reveal spying by America's scientists for the first time in his book in 1994. 
Traders say the drug company began to invest its short-term corporate funds in esoteric bonds backed by home mortgages and other assets. 
Today I'm introducing the Freedom and Fairness Restoration Act. 
Mr. Leuffer believes that the $300 million savings will put $195 million after taxes, or about 76 cents a share, in Texaco's pocket. 
At the same time, quality concerns have delayed the launch of the Chrysler Cirrus, a compact car intended for sale in late September. 
It foils offenses by always outnumbering them around the goal, and if it produces a lot of 0-0, 1-0 or 1-1 outcomes, so be it, because it gives a lesser unit a chance. 
Each of the SBA's 68 district directors has been asked to sign an agreement committing the district to meet higher lending targets for minorities and women. 
But, in an effort to pander to you readers and get an easy source of material for another column, I invite you to send me your own lists of little things about computers that make you crazy. 
For example, the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction works in more than a dozen countries, concentrating on the Philippines, training local groups to improve rural living conditions and small-scale farming. 
Merely transferring the ICC's functions to Transportation would do nothing to change the underlying regulatory laws that have been administered by the ICC. 
The Russell 2000 yesterday edged up 0.11 point, or 0.05%, to 240.29 on the day, while the Nasdaq Stock Market's Composite Index advanced 1.95 points, or 0.28%, to 705.96, on "window dressing," or the end-of-quarter efforts by some money managers to buy certain strong issues to make their portfolios look good in quarterly reports. 
In 1970 he and a colleague, Frank Holmes, left and founded Golle & Holmes Cos., a training firm based in Minneapolis. 
But recent freight-train accidents give ammunition to union leaders and others who back the train-control systems. 
These included: Abolition of the oppressive "section chief" system and institution of elected civilian administrators; judicial reforms that replaced corrupt appointees with respected judges; collaboration with parliament in the passage of legal reforms of the civil and criminal codes; improvement of prison systems; professionalization of the military; and a massive reduction in drug trafficking, which has since increased dramatically under the military regime. 
But there was a silver lining for these liberal activists in yesterday's high court interpretations of the Voting Rights Act. 
The purpose of flogging is to impose pain. 
Since cars were all but useless on America's abysmal roadways, Washington took on the task of financing and maintaining a highway network -- an expenditure amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars to date, and still ticking away at the rate of millions each day. 
Cisco was quoted in the Abreast of the Market and the Small Stock Focus columns Friday telling analysts that such gains may not occur. 
In Seattle, brothers Bill and John Schwartz plan to expand their Cucina Cucina Italian Cafes across the Pacific Northwest. 
Gunmen killed seven foreigners in Algeria, shooting five in a bus ambush and killing two in a restaurant near the capital. 
Treasurers noted the association has no enforcement power, but said they expect the standards to be followed widely and likely strengthened by some states through such means as civil penalties or forfeiture of fees. 
At last weekend's economic summit meeting, President Clinton and leaders of the six other major industrial economies pledged to ratify the world-trade pact, known as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, by Jan. 1. 
And when you're doing it on a citywide basis, there's a bonus: Businesses -- which want to be where their workers are -- will follow. 
While Dr. Mirzayanov describes a source of potential concern, very few Western disarmament professionals ever felt the treaty would result in effortless elimination of chemical weapons. 
The letter reminded the jurors that a "criminal organization" was involved in the case. 
The rate has declined in most months since January, when it reached 11.4%. 
As to the opponents, we draw attention to Sen. Don Riegle (D., Keating Five) and even one of the bill's co-sponsors, Sen. Larry Pressler (R., S.D.); both voted with the reform forces last Tuesday night but defected the next day. 
While focusing most of his time on marketing the company's core brands, Mr. Campbell was considered a key executive in pushing Pepsi's freshness-dating initiative. 
Effective Aug. 26, 1996. 
According to the commission, it operated from 1986 to 1991 and involved twice-yearly coordinated price increases of 6% to 10%. 
Banks are expected to report stronger second-quarter earnings despite rising short-term interest rates. 
Elemental. 
Yet in what appears to be the most recent court case on the issue, Delaware v. Cannon (1963), the Delaware Supreme Court upheld flogging: "It does not seem to us that a punishment so recently in use in the country that leads the world in the administration of justice. 
But the public won't tolerate outsize personal gains, warns Denis Doyle, an analyst at the Hudson Institute in Washington who supports school privatization. 
"Tony knows his way around the firm, he is very well respected and he knows the investment-banking products down pat," said Mr. Wheat. 
Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb became such forceful postwar American expressionists in part because in the '30s Milton Avery, nearly two decades their senior, offered some shelter from a storm of -isms: social realism, regionalism, traditionalism, modernism. 
Their "Common Cents Budget Reform Act" would target four of the biggest frauds in town:  Under "Common Cents," Congress would have to compare "discretionary" spending -- entitlements like welfare and Medicare unfortunately would be excluded -- with the previous year's expenditures. 
You would think that would help, Social Security-wise, wouldn't you? 
Mr. Graetz owns big export-driven companies such as Toshiba Corp., Sony Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. 
As expected, the proposal includes a "zero tolerance" standard for fecal matter, a mandatory antimicrobial wash and a visual check by an Agriculture Department inspector in the last stage of the process. 
In Colorado, the Grand Junction Visitors and Convention Bureau made dinosaurs the centerpiece of its marketing efforts three years ago. 
From former oil-company executives to those who made a fortune in the stock market, they're flocking here in surprisingly high numbers -- giving a big boost to this small-town economy. 
Rather than "going fast" on government-mandated health reform, the wiser course is to begin the incremental changes now and allow the marketplace to set the pace. 
Timonium, Md.-based Kirschner rose 3/8 to 9 1/8. 
Before they were frozen, Mr. Schneider apparently succeeded in cashing checks worth 15 million marks on the account. 
Some observers contend that that may be happening in Fort Myers, where Columbia and its locally based competitors are brawling for market share. 
Other officials are less certain. 
The former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, who was instrumental in increasing the use of mediation and arbitration in the state, will join a private firm that specializes in these alternatives to litigation. 
A captain called her "a space cadet" and a "little blond thing." 
"I have heard nothing about any deal between Barry Diller and John Malone to control CBS," he said. 
Like Mr. Grace, the Asian and European group is keeping a low profile. 
The result was bad news for most bond-fund investors. 
Metzenbaum's interrogation prompted repeated denials of any conflict from Breyer. 
Counting network shows (such as "The Osgood File" on the CBS radio network) and syndicated programs (featuring such personalities as Messrs. Stern and Limbaugh, as well as G. Gordon Liddy and Don Imus), the New York-based trade association estimates that total revenue in May was $1.07 billion. 
Social or not, the rate of smoking among the MTV generation is rising. 
So companies that have products trucked don't protest the rates. 
"There seems to be a bit of a rally in large cyclical issues based on the belief that the Fed may not raise rates anymore," said Peter Canelo, chief investment strategist at NatWest Securities. 
A USAir spokeswoman said the Delta offer is "under review." 
Only if the Serbs still resist peace plans would a lifting of the arms embargo be considered. 
Supreme Court nominee Breyer argued that critics were wrong to portray him as a defender of big business. 
Half of Hasbro's revenue decline was due to the fading popularity of Barney and "Jurassic Park," last summer's blockbuster, Ms. Krutick said. 
Now their baby, Sanofi SA, is taking a big step in that direction by agreeing to buy the Sterling Winthrop prescription-drug business from Eastman Kodak Co. The move will finally make Sanofi an independent player in the U.S. market. 
"We reject slogans about the `social market' that would attract headlines," says his chief