ABC19980108.1830.0711_20|Nobody believe this any more .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_21|Of all of Asia 's economies , Hong Kong is the most robust .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_22|But in the past three months , stocks have plunged , interest rates have soared and the downturn all across Asia means that people are not spending here .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_23|Hotels are only thirty percent full .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_24|You can get seventy percent discounts at the shopping malls .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_25|Three thousand dollar pearls for eight hundred dollars .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_26|A two hundred dollar wool jacket for fifty dollars .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_27|Still , there are few buyers .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_28|And at the big brokerage houses , after ten years of boom , they 're talking about layoffs .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_29|I think that the mood is fairly gloomy , and I think it 's not going to change for a couple of years .
wsj_0568_7|That is at the high end of the range of 7,000 to 8,000 employees that Unisys said a month ago would be laid off .
wsj_0568_6|On top of that , the Blue Bell , Pa. , concern took a $230 million charge related to the layoffs of 8,000 employees .
wsj_0568_5|Unisys , whose revenue inched up 3.7% in the quarter to $2.35 billion from $2.27 billion in the year-earlier quarter , had an operating loss of about $30 million .
wsj_0568_4|' The quarter was terrible , and the future looks anything but encouraging . '
wsj_0568_3|Just clobbered , ' said Ulric Weil , an analyst at Weil amp Associates who had once been high on the company .
wsj_0568_2|' Unisys is getting clobbered .
wsj_0568_1|At the same time , the sheer size of the loss , coupled with a slowing of orders , made some securities analysts wonder just how strong that turnaround will be at the computer maker and defense-electronics concern .
wsj_0568_0|Unisys Corp. 's announcement Friday of a $648.2 million loss for the third quarter showed that the company is moving even faster than expected to take write-offs on its various problems and prepare for a turnaround next year .
wsj_0568_9|The company also took a write-off of $150 million to cover losses on some fixed-price defense contracts , as some new managers took a hard look at the prospects for that slow-growing business .
wsj_0568_8|Unisys said that should help it save $500 million a year in costs , again at the high end of the previously reported range of $400 million to $500 million .
wsj_0533_5|Merieux officials said last week that they are ' highly confident ' the offer will be approved once it submits details of its proposed investments to federal regulators .
wsj_0907_4|Mr. LeGere attributed the earnings increase to growth in the company 's longhaul trucking insurance lines and the ability to keep premium rates firm .
wsj_0907_2|In an interview , W. Brent LeGere , chairman and chief executive officer , said he expects revenue in the latest quarter to total about $28 million .
wsj_0907_3|The earnings-per-share figures reflect a 25% stock dividend in June 1989 .
wsj_0907_0|Chandler Insurance Co. said it expects to report third-quarter net income jumped 97% to $2.8 million , or 51 cents a share .
wsj_0907_1|In the year-earlier quarter , the automobile and trucking insurer had earnings of $1.4 million , or 48 cents a share on a restated basis , on revenue of $16.5 million .
wsj_0132_6|Also , substantially lower Dutch corporate tax rates helped the company keep its tax outlay flat relative to earnings growth , the company added .
wsj_0132_7|Sales , however , were little changed at 2.46 billion guilders , compared with 2.42 billion guilders .
wsj_0132_4|Last year , DSM had 71 million guilders of extraordinary charges for the restructuring program and other transactions .
wsj_0132_5|The earnings growth also was fueled by the company 's ability to cut net financing spending by half to around 15 million guilders .
wsj_0132_2|The 32% state-owned DSM had eight million guilders of extraordinary charges in the latest quarter , mainly to reflect one-time losses in connection with the disposal of some operations .
wsj_0132_3|The charges were offset in part by a gain from the sale of the company 's construction division .
wsj_0132_0|N.V. DSM said net income in the third quarter jumped 63% as the company had substantially lower extraordinary charges to account for a restructuring program .
wsj_0132_1|The Dutch chemical group said net income gained to 235 million guilders ( $113.2 million ) , or 6.70 guilders a share , from 144 million guilders , or 4.10 guilders a share , a year ago .
ea980120.1830.0071_7|And right across from the Cuban revolutionary icon Che Guevara , they now have a giant portrait of Jesus .
ea980120.1830.0071_6|In Revolution Square , they put up a giant cross today .
ea980120.1830.0071_1|We are here this week to witness the rendezvous that Fidel Castro and the Pope are having with history .
wsj_0184_11|An Upjohn spokesman said he had ' heard nothing ' to suggest the early retirement package was spurred by shareholder pressure or a potential bidder for the company , which occasionally has been the target of takeover speculation .
ea980120.1830.0071_0|Good evening from the central park in downtown Havana .
ea980120.1830.0071_3|Everything that happens in Cuba gets America 's attention .
ea980120.1830.0071_2|We are here because what happens on this island will also have an impact on the United States .
wsj_0175_1|Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp. , formed for the Columbia deal , will formally take ownership of the movie studio later this month , a spokesman said .
wsj_0175_0|Sony Corp. completed its tender offer for Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc. , with Columbia shareholders tendering 99.3% of all common shares outstanding by the Tuesday deadline .
wsj_0175_3|Still unresolved is Sony 's effort to hire producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio .
wsj_0175_2|Sony is paying $27 a share , or $3.55 billion , cash and is assuming $1.4 billion of long-term debt .
wsj_0175_5|Guber/Peters has been locked in litigation with Warner Communications Inc. in an attempt to get out of an exclusive production contract with Warner .
wsj_0175_4|Sony 's planned acquisition of Guber/Peters Entertainment Co. for $200 million is scheduled to close Monday .
wsj_0175_6|Both sides are in talks to settle the dispute .
wsj_0184_10|In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday , Upjohn shares rose 87.5 cents to $38.875 apiece .
wsj_0173_3|The Avon , Conn. , company 's stock hit a high in 1983 after it unveiled its Adam home computer , but the product was plagued with glitches and the company 's fortunes plunged .
wsj_0173_2|In addition , they will receive stock in the reorganized company , which will be named Ranger Industries Inc. After these payments , about $225,000 will be available for the 20 million common shares outstanding .
wsj_0173_1|Under the plan , unsecured creditors , who are owed about $430 million , would receive about $92 million , or 21 cents for each dollar they are owed .
wsj_0173_0|Coleco Industries Inc. , a once high-flying toy maker whose stock peaked at $65 a share in the early 1980s , filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that provides just 1.125 cents a share for common stockholders .
wsj_0173_6|The plan was filed jointly with unsecured creditors in federal bankruptcy court in New York and must be approved by the court .
wsj_0173_5|But as the craze died , Coleco failed to come up with another winner and filed for bankruptcy-law protection in July 1988 .
wsj_0173_4|But Coleco bounced back with the introduction of the Cabbage Patch dolls , whose sales hit $600 million in 1985 .
wsj_0184_13|The spokesman said it is the first early retirement plan offered under its two-year cost-control strategy .
wsj_1014_0|Anheuser-Busch Cos .
wsj_1014_1|said it plans to aggressively discount its major beer brands , setting the stage for a potentially bruising price war as the maturing industry 's growth continues to slow .
wsj_1014_2|Anheuser , the world 's largest brewer and U.S. market leader , has historically been reluctant to engage in price-cutting as a means of boosting sales volume .
wsj_1014_3|With the passing of the heady days of swelling industry sales , however , the once-sporadic and brief forays into discounting are becoming standard competitive weapons in the beer industry .
wsj_1014_4|Over the summer , Anheuser competitors offered more and deeper discounts than industry observers have seen for a long time .
wsj_1014_5|Some experts now predict Anheuser 's entry into the fray means near-term earnings trouble for all the industry players .
wsj_1014_6|The St. Louis company said major rivals , Philip Morris Co. 's Miller Brewing unit and Adolph Coors Co. ' have been following a policy of continuous and deep discounting for at least the past 18 months ' on their premium brands , pricing their product as much as 25 cents a 12-pack below Anheuser 's Budweiser label in many markets .
wsj_1014_7|Anheuser said it 's discounting policy basically would involve matching such moves by rivals on a market-by-market basis .
wsj_1014_8|Anheuser-Busch announced its plan at the same time it reported third-quarter net income rose a lower-than-anticipated 5.2% to $238.3 million , or 83 cents a share , from $226.5 million , or 78 cents .
wsj_1014_9|Third-period sales were $2.49 billion , up from last year 's $2.34 billion .
wsj_0135_4|The company 's stock fell $1.125 to $13.625 in over-the-counter trading yesterday .
wsj_0135_1|The Rockford , Ill. , maker of fasteners also said it expects to post sales in the current fiscal year that are ' slightly above ' fiscal 1989 sales of $155 million .
wsj_0135_0|Elco Industries Inc. said it expects net income in the year ending June 30 , 1990 , to fall below a recent analyst 's estimate of $1.65 a share .
wsj_0135_3|In fiscal 1989 , Elco earned $7.8 million , or $1.65 a share .
wsj_0135_2|The company said its industrial unit continues to face margin pressures and lower demand .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_20|Jim Teple , VOA News , Miami .
NYT19980424.0421_8|The Justice Department , which supported the statute , did not cover itself with glory either .
NYT19980424.0421_9|The department retreated from its position in the VMI case when it argued that the government could not make policy based on stereotypes ` ` even when those stereotypes reflect current realities . ' ' As for the court , it managed with its splintered ruling to cast doubt both on the constitutionality of the immigration provisions it upheld and on its true commitment to fighting gender stereotypes .
wsj_1014_23|But Smith Barney 's Mr. Doyle , who yesterday trimmed his 1990 Anheuser earnings projection to $2.95 a share from $3.10 , called the market 's reaction ' justified . '
wsj_1014_22|Mr. Thompson noted that the disappointing earnings , which fell five cents a share short of his own projections , contributed to the sell-off by an edgy and currently unforgiving investing public .
wsj_1014_21|Mr. Thompson calls discounting ' a loser 's game for anyone without a dominant market share , ' and projected that Anheuser 's statement of intent could simply be a means of warning competitors to ease up on price-cutting or face a costly and fruitless battle .
wsj_1014_20|Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. analyst George E. Thompson downplayed the importance of the announcement , and called any comparison between the coming beer-industry tiff and the seemingly unending ' cola wars , ' unwarranted .
wsj_1014_27|Both Coors and Stroh have recently been ceding market share to Miller and Anheuser .
wsj_1014_26|It 's followed by Stroh Brewery Co. , which has agreed to sell its assets to Coors .
wsj_1014_25|According to Mr. Steinman , the newsletter publisher , Anheuser 's market share is nearly twice that of its nearest competitor , Miller Brewing , which had a 21.2% stake last year .
wsj_1014_24|While the third-quarter earnings were a ' moderate disappointment , ' he said , ' the real bad news is the intensity of price competition ' in the premium-beer sector .
APW19980227.0476_2|Both U.S. and British officials filed objections to the court 's jurisdiction in 1995 , claiming Security Council resolutions imposed on Lybia to force the suspects ' extradition overruled a 1971 Convention which gives Libya the right to try the men .
wsj_0918_19|In the diversifed businesses segment , which includes herbicides , profit grew to $64 million from $27 million .
NYT19980424.0421_2|Under the statute , a child born abroad to an unwed American mother is automatically considered a U.S. citizen .
NYT19980424.0421_3|But the child of an unwed American father has no citizenship rights unless the father takes the affirmative step of acknowledging paternity and formally agrees to provide support until the child turns 18 .
wsj_0292_6|The quarter-to-quarter comparison was also enhanced by charges taken in the year-earlier period , including $11 million related to the modernization of a pulp and newsprint mill in Alabama .
wsj_0292_3|After a flat second quarter tied largely to lower newsprint earnings , Kimberly-Clark attributed the gain to improved results in its consumer businesses in North America , Brazil and Korea .
wsj_0324_0|QVC Network Inc. said it completed its acquisition of CVN Cos .
wsj_0324_3|The acquisition brings together the two largest competitors to Home Shopping Network Inc. , which now reaches more viewers than any other company in the video shopping industry .
wsj_0292_0|Despite continuing problems in its newsprint business , Kimberly-Clark Corp. posted a 20% gain in third-quarter net income .
wsj_0938_18|Michael Gifford , Rank 's chief executive , said the British theater chain 's total involvement ' would n 't exceed $100 million ' but declined to give a breakdown between the loan financing and the proposed Film House purchase .
wsj_0938_19|Cineplex shareholders responded coolly to yesterday 's announcement .
wsj_0938_12|Last April , Mr. Drabinsky and a group of financial backers planned to acquire up to 30.2% of Cineplex for C$17.50 a share from Bronfman associates .
wsj_0938_13|Mr. Drabinsky , who would have had the right to vote those shares for two years , said the purchase , subsequently rejected by regulators , was aimed at consolidating his control of the company .
wsj_0938_10|' All this has really established is that MCA and the Bronfmans have agreed on a price at which they can be bought out , ' said Jeffery Logsdon , an analyst with Crowell , Weedon in Los Angeles .
wsj_0938_11|' If a bid materializes at that price , shareholders will have every reason to be glad , but the question of financing still remains . '
wsj_0938_16|' This is being done at the suggestion of { Mr. Drabinsky } and to accommodate him , to facilitate his financing arrangements , ' Ms. Kolber said .
wsj_0938_17|In addition , the directors said if a bid by Mr. Drabinsky is successful , Cineplex expects Rank Organisation PLC to acquire the 51% of Cineplex 's Film House unit it doesn 't own , and provide Mr. Drabinsky with additional loan financing .
wsj_0938_14|MCA strongly opposed the Drabinsky group 's move .
wsj_0938_15|The directors did n 't indicate the source of financing for Mr. Drabinsky 's new proposal , but said MCA and the Bronfman associates agreed in principle to buy for $57 million and then lease back to Cineplex its 18-screen theater complex in Universal City , Calif. , if Mr. Drabinsky succeeds in an offer .
wsj_0575_37|' We 've been listed as a candidate for so long it 's not worth worrying about , ' said Mr. Price .
wsj_0575_36|Perlman nor Price said he spends much time considering the possibility of a hostile takeover .
wsj_0575_35|But while its stock is selling at about half Control Data 's estimated breakup value , neither Messrs .
wsj_0575_34|' Absolutely , ' he said .
wsj_0575_33|Reviewing the company 's scrape with disaster , Mr. Price conceded it had tried to do too much on its own .
wsj_0575_32|Utilities management is a major commercial niche .
wsj_0575_31|Control Data mainframes are designed for numerically intensive computing users , such as the scientific , engineering and academic communities .
wsj_0575_30|' We 're in environments that are going to spend a lot of money on that . '
APW19980227.0468_3|Seventy-five million copies of the rifle have been built since it entered production in February 1947 , making it history 's most widely distributed weapon .
APW19980227.0468_2|Together with its derivatives , the Kalashnikov rifle has been used by the police and armies of 55 countries and an assortment of guerrillas , terrorists and just plain thugs around the globe .
APW19980227.0468_1|Kalashnikov designed the AK-47 automatic rifle , famed for its reliability and effectiveness .
APW19980227.0468_0|MOSCOW ( AP ) _ The mayor of Moscow has allocated funds to help build a museum in honor of Mikhail Kalashnikov , the Russian who gave his name to the world 's most widely wielded weapon , according to a news agency report Friday .
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ABC19980108.1830.0711_32|Jim Laurie , ABC News , Hong Kong .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_31|To either hold on tight or get out , as much of Asia goes into recession .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_30|So for Hong Kong , it 's time , as investment bankers like to say , to reposition .
WSJ910225-0066_51|And when he and President Gorbachev spoke about the decision in a talk lasting nearly an hour , the President took pains to listen to what his counterpart had to say , although he already had decided that the Soviet alternative to the allied deadline was unacceptable .
WSJ910225-0066_50|After cabling world leaders about his intention to give Saddam Hussein a final deadline to exit Kuwait , he offered him a week to withdraw fully , instead of the four days he originally considered , because of objections from some European partners that four days seemed punitive and unrealistic .
WSJ910225-0066_53|The attack was lightning quick , as allied forces punched through tall sand berms on the border and pushed forward into Iraq and Kuwait .
WSJ910225-0066_52|Finally , when Iraq failed to respond to the U.S. ultimatum , Mr. Bush let the ground offensive begin as previously planned Saturday night .
WSJ910225-0066_55|Long columns of Iraqi prisoners of war could be seen trudging through the desert toward the allied rear .
WSJ910225-0066_54|U.S. Marines were said to have breached troublesome mine fields along the Iraqi lines but Pentagon officials said no amphibious assault on Kuwait 's beaches had begun .
WSJ910225-0066_57|The U.S. hopes its troops will drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait quickly , leaving much of Iraq 's offensive military equipment destroyed or abandoned in Kuwait .
WSJ910225-0066_56|U.S. commanders said 5,500 Iraqi prisoners were taken in the first hours of the ground war , though some military officials later said the total may have climbed above 8,000 .
wsj_0786_5|In January , American Medical brought in a new chief executive officer , Richard A. Gilleland , 45 , who will remain as chairman , president and chief executive .
wsj_0786_4|The completion of the merger agreement follows months of twists and turns .
wsj_0786_7|In March , American Medical received a $24-a-share offer to take the company private from an investor group including large holder M. Lee Pearce .
wsj_0786_6|A few days later , American Medical announced sharply lower earnings , taking charges of $24 million for insurance reserves and canceled real estate leases .
wsj_0786_1|The price also includes assumption of about $1.4 billion in debt .
wsj_0786_0|IMA Holdings Corp. completed its $3 billion acquisition of American Medical International Inc. , purchasing 63 million shares , or 86% , of the Los Angeles-based health-care services concern for $26.50 a share .
wsj_0786_3|Harry J. Gray and Melvyn N. Klein , along with five other IMA designees , were named to join American Medical 's 10-member board .
wsj_0786_2|IMA is a group that includes First Boston Corp. and the Pritzker family of Chicago through the leveraged buy-out fund Harry Gray Melvyn Klein amp Partners .
AP900815-0044_15|_The outlook darkened for about 3,000 Americans caught in Iraq and Kuwait when Saddam sent his forces into the small , oil-rich sultanate .
AP900815-0044_14|Sytenko , a former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations , is also expected to visit Baghdad , Gremitskikh said at a regular news briefing today .
AP900815-0044_17|_The Soviet Foreign Ministry said Soviet women , children and invalids would be permitted to leave Iraq .
AP900815-0044_16|The Iraqi ambassador to Greece said in Athens the Americans and other stranded foreigners could leave ` ` as soon as the threats from the United States and its allies are eliminated . ' ' ABC quoted an Iraqi Foreign Ministry official in Baghdad as saying Americans in Iraq are ` ` restrictees ' ' who will stay there until the crisis ends .
AP900815-0044_11|Saddam said he sought to ` ` turn the gulf into a lake of peace free of foreign fleets and forces that harbor ill intentions against us . ' ' In other developments : _The Pentagon said that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is considering urging Bush to order a national callup of armed forces reserves for active duty because of the drain on units sending soldiers abroad .
AP900815-0044_10|The move seemed aimed at heading off more trouble with Iran , which had condemned Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 but also criticized the multinational force dispatched to Saudi Arabia .
AP900815-0044_13|_Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Yuri Gremitskikh said special ambassador Mikhail Sytenko left Tuesday for consultations with the governments of Syria , Jordan , Egypt and other Arab countries .
AP900815-0044_12|Bush can call up to 200,000 reservists for up to 180 days without seeking congressional approval .
AP900815-0044_19|Nearly 9,000 Soviets were among the hundreds of thousands of foreigners trapped in Iraq and Kuwait .
AP900815-0044_18|Spokesman Yuri Gremitskikh said the first group of 230 evacuees was assembling in Baghdad today , but evacuation plans were hampered by desert heat and lack of transportation .
wsj_0266_2|But the Reserve Fund , America 's first money fund , was not named , nor were the creators of the money-fund concept , Harry Brown and myself .
wsj_0266_3|We innovated telephone redemptions , daily dividends , total elimination of share certificates and the constant $1 pershare pricing , all of which were painfully thought out and not the result of some inadvertence on the part of the SEC .
wsj_0266_0|I was pleased to note that your Oct. 23 Centennial Journal item recognized the money-fund concept as one of the significant events of the past century .
wsj_0266_1|Actually , about two years ago , the Journal listed the creation of the money fund as one of the 10 most significant events in the world of finance in the 20th century .
AP900815-0044_47|Bush told a news conference on Tuesday that the naval barricade now in force might be extended to Jordan 's Aqaba ` ` if it is a hole through which commerce flows ' ' in and out of Iraq .
wsj_0266_4|BRUCE R. BENT President The Reserve Fund New York
CNN19980213.2130.0155_14|Steve Hurst , CNN , the state department .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_13|Meanwhile , secretary of state Madeleine Albright , Berger and defense secretary William Cohen announced plans to travel to an unnamed city in the US heartland next week , to explain to the American people just why military force will be necessary if diplomacy fails .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_12|Annan has no trip planned so far .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_11|The Russian foreign minister , meanwhile , sought to soften the harsh words of his military counterpart , saying on Friday that Russia now feels the US must hold off at least until UN secretary general Kofi Annan visits Baghdad in a last-ditch effort at diplomacy .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_10|Nevertheless , the president said Washington would use force if diplomacy fails to force Saddam Hussein to back down .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_18|Ned Potter , ABC News .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_12|In space , some say female pilots were held up until now by the lack of piloting opportunities for them in the military .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_13|Once Colonel Collins was picked as a NASA astronaut , she followed a normal progression within NASA .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_10|It means supervising the rest of the crew in training and leading them in flight .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_11|It is , in short , the kind of management job many American women say they 've had to fight for .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_16|Many NASA watchers say female astronauts have become part of the agency 's routine .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_17|But they still have catching up to do two hundred and thirty four Americans have flown in space , only twenty six of them women .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_14|Nobody hurried her up .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_15|No one held her back .
wsj_0585_16|Shearson , Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs say they do so only for customers , however .
wsj_0585_17|Kidder Peabody does program trading for its own as well as clients ' accounts .
wsj_0585_14|Shearson Lehman , however , executes program trades for clients .
wsj_0585_15|Merrill Lynch , Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody , in addition to Shearson , do program-trade OTC stocks .
wsj_0585_12|Peter DaPuzzo , head of retail equity trading at Shearson Lehman Hutton , acknowledges that he wasn 't troubled by program trading when it began in the pre-crash bull market because it added liquidity and people were pleased to see stock prices rising .
wsj_0585_13|' We were n 't as concerned until they became sell programs , ' says Mr. DaPuzzo , who now thinks it adds unnecessary volatility .
wsj_0585_10|Some of these problems are neither new nor unique to the OTC market .
wsj_0585_11|But the big , often tumultuous slide in stock prices this month has turned some of those who have been profiting from the practice against it .
wsj_0585_18|Of course , there were sell programs in past years , too , but they seem to hurt market makers more painfully these days .
wsj_0585_19|That 's largely because of defensive measures they adopted after the 1987 crash , when individual investors fled the market and trading activity dwindled .
wsj_0346_5|The company , which currently has 13.5 million common shares outstanding , said it has no specific plans for the shares .
wsj_0346_4|Separately , Cilcorp said it plans to purchase as many as 1.4 million shares , or 10% of its common stock outstanding from time to time on the open market and through privately negotiated transactions .
wsj_0346_1|Cilcorp will also assume $22 million of Hunter 's existing debt .
wsj_0346_0|Cilcorp Inc. , Peoria , Ill. , said it agreed to acquire the environmental consulting and analytical service businesses of Hunter Environmental Services Inc. of Southport , Conn. The utility holding company said Hunter will receive 390,000 shares of a new series of Cilcorp convertible preferred stock with a face value of $39 million for the businesses .
wsj_0346_3|Cilcorp said the businesses to be acquired had revenue of $76 million for the year ended March 31 .
wsj_0346_2|As part of the agreement , Cilcorp said it will pay Hunter $4 million in exchange for agreements not to compete .
wsj_0187_8|Customers holding contracts for Waertsilae Marine 's undelivered ships are expected to subscribe most of the remaining 170 million markkaa in share capital , government officials said .
wsj_0187_9|Waertsilae Marine 's biggest creditor is Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. Carnival , which has three ships on order from Waertsilae Marine , presented claims for $1.5 billion damages in the bankruptcy court this week .
wsj_0187_6|Under an accord signed yesterday , the government and Union Bank of Finland would become major shareholders in the new company , each injecting 100 million Finnish markkaa ( $23.5 million ) .
wsj_0348_6|Meanwhile , Ogden Corp. , which also has interests in building maintenance and management , reported third-quarter net income of $27.1 million , or 67 cents a share , more than twice the $13.5 million , or 34 cents a share , a year earlier .
wsj_0187_4|Once its ownership is finalized , the new company will open talks with state-appointed receivers to buy or lease Waertsilae Marine 's shipyard facilities .
wsj_0348_4|The stock began trading this summer at $14 apiece .
wsj_0348_3|Ogden Projects , whose shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in August , closed yesterday at $26.875 , down 75 cents .
wsj_0348_2|Revenue soared to $101.7 million from $39.5 million .
wsj_0348_1|The Fairfield , N.J. , company , which is 92%-owned by Ogden Corp. , New York , had net of $1.1 million , or four cents a share , a year ago .
wsj_0187_1|The new company will attempt to limit the shipyard 's losses , participants said .
wsj_0745_14|The government retained the single share after selling its stake in Jaguar in 1984 -- part of a nationalistic practice of protecting former government-owned enterprises to deflect criticism of privatization .
APW19980322.0749_19|Earlier Sunday , police and militant Protestants clashed in a religiously polarized part of north Belfast .
APW19980322.0749_18|Riot police in armored cars , shields and helmets prevented a few hundred Protestants , many waving British and Ulster flags , from interfering with the Catholics as they marched within Portadown 's few Catholic streets .
APW19980322.0749_17|` ` Small nationalist communities are not going to be left on their own this summer , ' ' said Gerard Rice , a former IRA prisoner who leads anti-Orange protests in a Catholic neighborhood of south Belfast .
APW19980322.0749_16|Protesters from several Catholic communities crowded into Portadown 's Catholic Garvaghy Road to hear speakers demand negotiations with Orange Order leaders , and pledge to participate in each others ' road-blocking protests this summer .
APW19980322.0749_15|The crucible is Portadown , 30 miles ( 50 kms ) southwest of Belfast , where Orangemen march each July from their rural church back downtown _ through the town 's main Catholic area .
APW19980322.0749_14|Confrontations among Catholic protesters , Protestant marchers and the police have provoked widespread violence in Northern Ireland for the past three summers .
APW19980322.0749_13|Also Sunday , more than 2,000 Catholic protesters rallied in Portadown against the annual parades by the Orange Order , Northern Ireland 's dominant Protestant fraternal group .
APW19980322.0749_12|They say IRA commanders are responsible for the recent bomb attacks .
APW19980322.0749_11|Northern Ireland 's biggest Protestant party , the Ulster Unionists , is threatening to push for Sinn Fein 's expulsion once again .
APW19980322.0749_10|We are Irish citizens , living in our own country , ' ' Adams said , adding : ` ` Nationalists want to move towards Irish unity and see this process as a bridge in that direction . ' ' But the north 's pro-British Protestant majority is bitterly opposed to uniting Ireland and instead wants a strong government for Northern Ireland , which has been ruled directly by London since 1972 .
wsj_1013_19|The price of Columbia shares has been cut nearly in half since August , when they traded at about $10 , as investors apparently realized that the thrift would be forced to take a big write-down .
wsj_1013_18|Its shares closed at $5.125 each in composite New York Stock Exchange trading , down 37.5 cents .
wsj_1013_13|For its future strategy , Columbia officials said the thrift may branch out into commercial lending or managing outside investments , as well as beefing up more traditional thrift activities .
wsj_1013_12|Because Columbia now must sell the bonds within five years , accounting rules require the thrift to value the bonds at the lower of cost or market prices .
wsj_1013_11|Previously , Columbia did n 't have to adjust the book value of its junk-bond holdings to reflect declines in market prices , because it held the bonds as long-term investments .
wsj_1013_10|The adjustments result from the recently passed thrift-industry bailout legislation , which requires thrifts to divest all high-yield bond investments by 1994 .
wsj_1013_17|Columbia announced the results after the close of the stock market .
wsj_1013_16|But he said Columbia remains ' one of the most strongly capitalized thrifts in the industry , ' based on the economic value of its assets and tangible capital .
wsj_1013_15|Thomas Spiegel , Columbia 's chairman , said in a statement that the thrift was ' disappointed ' by the effects of the accounting changes .
wsj_1013_14|The quarterly results also reflected $21.4 million in non-recurring losses from commercial real-estate activities in California .
wsj_0376_14|The sharper definition and the autonomy which each will thereby gain will benefit shareholders , customers and employees . '
wsj_0376_15|Courtaulds Chairman and Chief Executive Sir Christopher Hogg will remain in both posts at the surviving chemical company after the spinoff .
wsj_0376_12|Even without a specific takeover threat , Courtaulds is giving shareholders ' choice and value , ' said Julia Blake , an analyst at London stockbrokers Barclays de Zoete Wedd .
wsj_0376_13|In a statement , the company said : ' Both parts can only realize their full potential and be appropriately valued by the market if they are separately quoted companies .
wsj_0376_10|Courtaulds has been under pressure to enhance shareholder value since takeover speculators -- including Australian financier Kerry Packer -- surfaced holding small stakes last year .
wsj_0376_11|Though Mr. Packer has since sold his stake , Courtaulds is moving to keep its institutional shareholders happy .
wsj_0329_0|Coda Energy Inc. said it arranged a $50 million credit facility with NCNB Texas National Bank , a unit of NCNB Corp. , of Charlotte , N.C. The Dallas oil and gas concern said that $10 million of the facility would be used to consolidate the company 's $8.1 million of existing bank debt , to repurchase 4 million of its 4.9 million shares outstanding of Series D convertible preferred stock , and to purchase a 10% net-profits interest in certain oil and gas properties from one of its existing lenders , National Canada Corp. The remaining $40 million can be used over three years for oil and gas acquisitions , the company said .
wsj_0329_1|Ted Eubank , Coda 's president , said the loan carries an interest rate of prime plus one percentage point , with 85% of the company 's net oil and gas revenue each month dedicated to repayment .
wsj_0570_12|Earlier this month , Milton Roy signed a letter of intent to acquire Automated Custom Systems Inc. , Orange , Calif. , and its sister operation , Environmental Testing Co. , in Aurora , Colo. The companies are automotive-emissions-testing concerns .
wsj_0570_13|Under the terms , Milton Roy will pay an initial $4 million for the operations and additional payments during the next four years based on the earnings performance of the businesses .
wsj_0570_10|Gabelli Group began raising its Milton Roy stake in July , and holds 14.6% , according to a recent SEC filing .
wsj_0570_11|It has n 't made merger overtures to the board .
wsj_0329_2|The company put up ' virtually all ' of its oil and gas properties as collateral , he said .
wsj_0570_14|In the nine months , Milton Roy earned $6.6 million , or $1.18 a share , on sales of $94.3 million .
wsj_0938_20|In trading on the New York Stock Exchange , Cineplex closed at $11 , down 25 cents , with more than a million shares changing hands .
wsj_0575_28|Asked how the company hopes to expand its computer hardware business , Mr. Ousley said it sees good opportunities in systems integration .
wsj_0575_29|' We think we 're getting only 10% of the integration dollars our customers are spending , ' he said .
wsj_0575_24|Control Data recently announced an agreement with MIPS Computer Systems Inc. to jointly develop machines with simplified operating software .
wsj_0575_25|James E. Ousley , computer products group president , said such arrangements could help slash Control Data 's computer research and development costs in half by the end of 1990 .
wsj_0575_26|He disclosed that before Control Data scrapped its ETA Systems Inc. supercomputer business this past spring , those costs were running at nearly 35% of group revenue .
wsj_0575_27|At the same time four of six design projects were spiked , he said .
wsj_0575_20|He would n 't elaborate .
wsj_0575_21|Control Data 's semiconductor business , VTC Inc. , continues to lose money , the executives acknowledged , but they said they consider some of the technology vital to national defense and so are reluctant to dispose of it .
wsj_0575_22|The company 's strategy for keeping its computer products business profitable -- it recently achieved profitability after several quarters of losses -- calls for a narrow focus and a lid on expenses .
wsj_0575_23|Partly , costs will be held down through strategic technology alliances , management said .
wsj_0736_4|Among other reasons , high fees regulators imposed on certain transfers of thrift deposits to commercial banks ' substantially altered the economics of the transaction for both parties , ' Poughkeepsie said .
wsj_0736_5|Additionally , the bank is increasing its loan-loss reserves for the third quarter by $8.5 million before taxes .
wsj_0736_6|In the year-earlier third quarter , Poughkeepsie Savings had net income of $2.8 million , or 77 cents a share .
wsj_0736_7|Poughkeepsie said it is continuing to try to sell itself , under a June agreement with a dissident-shareholder group .
wsj_0736_0|Poughkeepsie Savings Bank said a plan to sell its South Carolina branch offices to First Citizens Bank , of Columbia , S.C. , fell through .
wsj_0736_1|Poughkeepsie also expects to post a one-time charge of $8.3 million , resulting in a net loss for the third quarter .
wsj_0736_2|The charge represents a write-down of the goodwill associated with Poughkeepsie 's investment in the banks it is trying to sell and its North Carolina branches as well .
wsj_0736_3|The thrift announced the plan Aug. 21 .
wsj_0736_8|The bank also said its effort would continue past the Nov. 1 deadline set in that agreement and that the litigation between the two sides might resume as a result .
wsj_0736_9|The thrift and the holders had suspended their lawsuits as part of the agreement .
APW19980418.0210_0|BUDAPEST , Hungary ( AP ) _ Tired of being sidelined , Hungarian astronaut Bertalan Farkas is leaving for the United States to start a new career , he said Saturday .
APW19980418.0210_1|` ` Being 48 is too early to be retired , ' ' a fit-looking Farkas said on state TV 's morning talk show .
APW19980418.0210_2|With American astronaut Jon McBride , Farkas set up an American-Hungarian joint venture called Orion 1980 , manufacturing space-travel related technology .
APW19980418.0210_3|Farkas will move to the company 's U.S. headquarters .
APW19980418.0210_4|Farkas , an air force captain , was sent into space on board the Soyuz 36 on May 26 , 1980 .
APW19980418.0210_5|He spent six days aboard the Salyut 6 spacecraft with three Soviet astronauts , Valery Kubasov , Leonid Popov and Valery Riumin .
APW19980418.0210_6|McBride , 54 , of Lewisburg , West Virginia , was part of a seven-member crew aboard the Orbiter Challenger in October 1984 and later served as assistant administrator for congressional relations for NASA .
APW19980418.0210_7|Farkas expressed the hope he one day follow in the footsteps of fellow astronaut John Glenn , who at 77 is about to go into space again .
APW19980418.0210_8|On May 22 , 1995 , Farkas was made a brigadier general , and the following year he was appointed military attache at the Hungarian embassy in Washington .
APW19980418.0210_9|However , cited by District of Columbia traffic police in December for driving under the influence of alcohol , Farkas was ordered home and retired .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_3|Organizers state the two days of music , dancing , and speeches is expected to draw some two million people .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_2|Nigeria state radio says thousands of people began gathering in the capital Abuja early Tuesday for the two day rally supporting General Sani Abacha 's candidacy .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_1|Meanwhile , as VOA West Africa Correspondent Purnell Murdock reports , General Abacha 's supporters began a two day rally in the capital , Abuja , to urge him to compete in this year 's election .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_0|Nigerian security forces clashed in Lagos with anti-government demonstrators who were protesting calls for military leader Sani Abacha to run for president .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_7|Purnell Murdock , VOA News .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_6|Some analysts say the outcome of a face off between the police and anti Abacha political groups will be a test of the opposition 's resolve .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_5|Although General Abacha had not publicly announced his candidacy , many people believe an Abacha presidency is a foregone conclusion .
VOA19980303.1600.0917_4|But as supporters of the military leader gathered in the north , riot police deployed in Nigeria 's southern commercial capital Lagos , to break up a protest rally called by the political opposition .
WSJ910225-0066_48|He argued setting an explicit deadline for Saddam Hussein to break would , when it was broken , give the U.S. military a clear green light to proceed .
WSJ910225-0066_49|In setting out his final challenge to Saddam Hussein , Mr. Bush continued the intensive personal diplomacy he began after the invasion llast August .
wsj_0316_1|for stock valued at about $18 million .
AP900816-0139_46|The Jordanian monarch met this week with Saddam , but he told reporters he had no message from Baghdad .
AP900816-0139_47|` ` I am not talking on behalf of anyone in the area . . .
AP900816-0139_44|` ` It 's our only outlet to the sea and the rest of the world , ' ' Hussein said .
AP900816-0139_45|He also said of trade with Iraq : ` ` There are no shipments at the moment . ' ' A day earlier , scores of trucks , many with Iraqi license plates , streamed north out of Aqaba to Amman and onto the desert highway bound for Iraq .
AP900816-0139_42|Bush has indicated the U.S. Navy will barricade the port from Iraqi ships .
AP900816-0139_43|The president also has offered to help offset Jordan 's costs because 40 percent of its exports go to Iraq and 90 percent of its oil comes from there .
AP900816-0139_40|Bush 's chief objective in his meeting with Hussein was to press the king to shut down Iraq 's food and oil supply route from Aqaba on the Red Sea .
AP900816-0139_41|Aqaba is Iraq 's only outlet now that an international noose has tightened .
APW19980626.0364_0|BONN , Germany ( AP ) _ A phony address listed on disclosure forms for a French donor will cost the far-right German People 's Union about 549,000 marks ( dlrs 305,000 ) , parliament said Friday .
AP900816-0139_48|but myself , ' ' Hussein said .
AP900816-0139_49|In the United Nations , Libya called for the replacement of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf with Arab League forces and U.N. soldiers .
APW19980227.0494_10|In their joint statement issued after the talks , Yeltsin and Kuchma called for the fastest possible ratification of the treaty , saying it would create a ` ` strong legal foundation ' ' for bilateral ties and help stability in Europe .
APW19980227.0494_11|Kuchma assured Yeltsin that Ukraine would not join NATO , Yeltsin 's spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said , according to the Interfax news agency .
APW19980227.0494_12|The Russian leadership has staunchly opposed the western alliance 's expansion into Eastern Europe .
APW19980227.0494_13|In their joint statement , released by the Kremlin , the two leaders also pledged to consult each other regularly on their approaches to relations with NATO and , in particular , their action within the framework of NATO 's Partnership for Peace program .
APW19980227.0494_14|Last year , Russian officials assailed Ukraine for holding joint naval exercises with NATO in the Black Sea _ an area Moscow considers its own turf .
APW19980227.0494_15|Kuchma has said repeatedly that Ukraine would remain neutral for the foreseeable future .
APW19980227.0494_16|Yeltsin and Kuchma also called for developing the stagnant relations between the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States , a loose coalition of former Soviet republics .
APW19980227.0494_17|In the past , Russia has often claimed that Ukraine was undermining efforts at closer cooperation within the CIS .
APW19980227.0494_18|A major goal of Kuchma 's four-day state visit was the signing of a 10-year economic program aimed at doubling the two nations ' trade turnover , which fell to dlrs 14 billion last year , down dlrs 2.5 billion from 1996 .
APW19980227.0494_19|The two presidents on Friday signed the plan , which calls for cooperation in the metallurgy , fuel , energy , aircraft building , missile , space and chemical industries .
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wsj_0542_0|Dow Jones amp Co. extended its tender offer of $18 a share , or about $576 million , for the 33% of Telerate Inc. that it does n 't already own until 5 p.m. EST , Nov. 6 . The offer , which Telerate 's two independent directors have rejected as inadequate , previously had been scheduled to expire at midnight Friday .
wsj_0816_9|The number of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange that fell in price yesterday exceeded 1,000 , a key measure of underlying sentiment among technical analysts .
wsj_0816_8|Taken together , the worries prompted a broad sell-off of stocks .
ea980120.1830.0071_9|Not all Cubans believe , but Castro has invited everyone to welcome the man who has been one of Communism 's most effective adversaries , and that 's why there is suspense .
ea980120.1830.0071_8|Above it in Spanish , Jesus , in you we believe .
wsj_0542_6|Dow Jones shares also fell 50 cents to close at $36.125 in Big Board composite trading .
wsj_0816_1|The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 39.55 points , to 2613.73 , in active trading .
ea980120.1830.0071_4|Incidentally , we just show up to do the broadcast , and Cubans want to know what we ' re going to tell Americans , in many cases , what their relatives in the United States are going to hear .
wsj_0816_3|The dollar rose modestly against the mark and the yen , but soared against the pound following the resignation of Britain 's chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson .
wsj_0816_2|Long-term Treasury bonds ended slightly higher .
wsj_0816_5|Compaq Computer nose-dived $8.625 a share , to $100 , and pulled other technology issues lower after reporting lower-than-expected earnings after the stock market closed Wednesday .
wsj_0816_4|Analysts have complained that third-quarter corporate earnings have n 't been very good , but the effect hit home particularly hard yesterday .
wsj_0816_7|The less-than-robust third-quarter results came amid renewed concern about the volatility of stock prices and the role of computer-aided program trading .
wsj_0816_6|Later yesterday the nation 's major auto makers added to the gloom when they each reported their core auto operations were net losers in the third quarter .
AP900815-0044_24|_The Iraqi ambassador to Venezuela said on Tuesday that Iraq would retaliate against Venezuela and other OPEC oil cartel members if they boost oil production to fill the gap created by blocked supplies from Iraq and Kuwait .
AP900815-0044_25|With Kuwait now ` ` annexed , ' ' Iraq has control of 20 percent of the world 's oil reserves .
AP900815-0044_26|A steep rise in world oil prices followed the Kuwait invasion .
wsj_0151_0|Intelogic Trace Inc. , San Antonio , Texas , said it bought 2.7 million shares , or about 18% , of its common stock from an unaffiliated shareholder for $3.625 a share , or $9.9 million .
AP900815-0044_20|Iraq has agreed to allow all 880 Soviets in Kuwait to leave , but only by a 1,200-mile road route through Iraq and to the Iraq-Jordan border .
AP900815-0044_21|_The British Foreign Office said today conditions in Kuwait appear to be deteriorating .
wsj_0542_4|In the tender offer supplement , Dow Jones discloses the different growth forecasts but says it views the 20% growth rate ' as a hoped-for goal ' of Telerate 's management ' and not as a realistic basis on which to project the company 's likely future performance . '
AP900815-0044_22|There have been reports of wholesale looting but food and gasoline were still available , said a spokesman , who by custom was not identified .
AP900815-0044_23|Banks remained closed .
wsj_0675_8|Factory owners are buying new machinery at a healthy rate this fall , machine-tool makers say .
wsj_0675_9|But weak car sales raise questions about future demand from the auto sector .
wsj_0675_6|The slowdown raises questions about the economy 's strength because spending fueled much of the third-quarter GNP growth .
wsj_0675_7|Meanwhile , personal income edged up 0.3% .
wsj_0675_4|The effort is being led by Contel .
wsj_0675_5|--- Personal spending rose 0.2% in September , the smallest gain in a year .
wsj_0675_2|Still , stock-index funds are expected to continue launching big programs through the market .
wsj_0675_3|Several Big Board firms are organizing to complain about program trading and the exchange 's role in it .
wsj_0675_0|PROGRAM TRADING is being curbed by more securities firms , but big institutional investors are expected to continue the practice , further roiling the stock market .
wsj_0675_1|Bowing to criticism , Bear Stearns , Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer joined PaineWebber in suspending stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts .
AP900816-0139_38|The Lloyd 's List International newspaper , which monitors worldwide shipping , said Iraq 's fleet of 80 tankers and cargo ships has stopped regular trading .
wsj_0144_5|Travelers 's employee benefits group , which includes its group health insurance operations , posted earnings of $24 million , compared with a loss of $3 million last year .
wsj_0144_4|The insurer 's earnings from commercial property/casualty lines fell 59% in the latest quarter , while it lost $7.2 million in its personal property/casualty business , compared with earnings of $6.1 million a year ago .
wsj_0144_7|The year-ago results included a $415 million charge in the 1988 second quarter for underperforming real estate and mortgage loans .
wsj_0144_6|In the first nine months , net was $306 million , compared with a loss of $195 million in the 1988 period .
wsj_0144_1|Net advanced to $94.2 million , or 89 cents a share , from $85 million , or 83 cents a share , including net realized investment gains of $31 million , up from $10 million a year ago .
wsj_0144_0|Travelers Corp. 's third-quarter net income rose 11% , even though claims stemming from Hurricane Hugo reduced results $40 million .
wsj_0144_3|Travelers estimated that the California earthquake last month will result in a fourth-quarter pre-tax charge of less than $10 million .
wsj_0144_2|But revenue declined to $3 billion from $3.2 billion .
AP900816-0139_32|The Iraqis also possess chemical weapons .
wsj_0187_7|Oy Waertsilae is to contribute 200 million markkaa , most of it as subordinated debt , and take a minority stake in the new company .
wsj_0584_19|' This game is n 't over yet , ' said Joel D. Gross , a vice president at Donaldson , Lufkin amp Jenrette Securities Corp. ' At some point , it will become non-economical for one company .
wsj_0584_18|Analysts said they expect McCaw to escalate the bidding again .
wsj_0575_5|Now , following asset sales that shrank revenue by more than one-third this year alone , Control Data is flush with cash .
wsj_0575_4|During that time , Control Data had losses of more than $1 billion .
wsj_0575_7|' We 'd like to continue to reduce debt , ' President Lawrence Perlman said .
wsj_0575_6|So its senior executives are talking openly about possibly buying back some of the company 's $172.5 million in subordinated convertible debentures next year .
wsj_0575_1|Moreover , the company , whose go-it-alone approach nearly proved fatal , now sees alliances with others as the way back to prosperity in what it calls ' the data solutions ' business .
wsj_0575_0|Control Data Corp. , which just months ago was hemorrhaging financially , thinks it will be healthy enough soon to consider repurchasing public debt .
wsj_0575_3|' Transition ' is a reference to the company 's five-year restructuring effort .
wsj_0575_2|' I 'm not saying everything is hunky-dory , but we have completed the transition , ' Robert M. Price , chairman and chief executive , said in an interview .
wsj_0575_9|The offer was automatically triggered by the recent sale of Control Data 's Imprimis disk-drive business to Seagate Technology Inc. Mr. Perlman , who is also acting chief financial officer and the odds-on favorite to become the next chief executive , said the company is achieving ' modest positive cash flow from operations , and we expect that to continue into 1990 . '
wsj_0575_8|Noting that the company is offering to buy back $154.2 million in senior notes paying 12 3/4% , he said the response will help determine future debt-reduction efforts .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_10|um So it 's a- it 's a fallacy that they 're doing this because um the sickest patients are n 't being served .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_11|Doctor James Burdick , the Professor of Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore , Maryland , and former President of UNOS , said the current system has evolved over several years and it works well .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_12|You may , in a year or two , save a few more lives if you do sickest first .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_13|But the number of patients waiting then begins to increase , um and , in fact , um over the years many more patients who are about to die of liver tra- uh without a liver transplant would accumulate .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_14|If you do the uh alternative extreme , you do n 't save as many lives in the early years , by a small fraction .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_15|Our system is balanced , it 's right in the middle .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_16|And , therefore , it works very well .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_17|Nationwide , there are about ten thousand patients waiting for liver transplants each year and only four thousand organs become available for transplants .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_18|Secretary Shalala says UNOS five months ago , or gave them five months to develop a new plan to distribute livers which are in the shortest supply .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_19|This is VOA Today .
wsj_0584_11|Although he expressed confidence that the proposed new company 's cash flow would be sufficient to cover interest payments on the debt , he estimated that the company would n 't be profitable until 1994 or later .
wsj_0675_20|--- Sansui Electric agreed to sell a 51% stake to Polly Peck of Britain for $110 million .
wsj_0584_10|' We 're taking on more debt than we would have liked to , ' acknowledged Michael Plouf , LIN 's vice president and treasurer .
wsj_0584_13|They value McCaw 's bid at $112 to $118 a share .
wsj_0584_12|Analyst estimate the value of the BellSouth proposal at about $115 to $125 a share .
APW19980219.0476_9|` ` We will continue to do everything we can to establish what has happened . ' ' Thai military officials who monitor Cambodian affairs said privately Thursday that Britain , through its embassies in Thailand and Cambodia , has been pushing hard to resolve the Howes case as the second anniversary of his abduction nears .
APW19980219.0476_8|But there is no evidence in either direction _ that there is proof of life or death , ' ' said a Foreign Office spokesman , speaking with customary anonymity .
wsj_0575_11|Sometime next year , Control Data will ' develop a new bank relationship , ' Mr. Perlman said .
wsj_0575_10|He said the company has no intention of tapping its short-term bank lines ' for a good part of 1990 . '
wsj_0575_13|Loan covenants require that the company achieve specified levels of operating earnings and meet a rolling four-quarter profitability test .
wsj_0575_12|In recent months a group of lenders , led by Bank of America , has extended Control Data up to $90 million in revolving loans through January , as well as $115 million in standby letters of credit .
wsj_0575_15|Through the first nine months , the company had a loss of $484 million , largely reflecting the closing of its supercomputer unit .
wsj_0575_14|Last week Control Data reported third-quarter earnings of $9.8 million , or 23 cents a share , on revenue of $763 million .
wsj_0575_17|' We do n 't need the cash . '
wsj_0575_16|While a few assets are still being shopped -- including the sports and entertainment ticketing portion of the company 's Ticketron unit -- Mr. Price said future restructuring would be a question of strategy .
wsj_0575_19|Rather , Mr. Perlman said , Control Data intends to bid for the coming Minnesota lottery contract and is seeking new applications for the technology overseas , where ' there is great interest in games of skill . '
wsj_0575_18|Ticketron 's automated wagering business , which operates lotteries in a half dozen states , is not for sale , the company said .
wsj_0027_9|They expect him to cut costs throughout the organization .
wsj_0027_8|Analysts said Mr. Stronach wants to resume a more influential role in running the company .
wsj_0027_1|Mr. Stronach will direct an effort to reduce overhead and curb capital spending ' until a more satisfactory level of profit is achieved and maintained , ' Magna said .
wsj_0027_0|Magna International Inc. 's chief financial officer , James McAlpine , resigned and its chairman , Frank Stronach , is stepping in to help turn the automotive-parts manufacturer around , the company said .
wsj_0027_3|An ambitious expansion has left Magna with excess capacity and a heavy debt load as the automotive industry enters a downturn .
wsj_0027_2|Stephen Akerfeldt , currently vice president finance , will succeed Mr. McAlpine .
wsj_0027_5|Magna recently cut its quarterly dividend in half and the company 's Class A shares are wallowing far below their 52-week high of 16.125 Canadian dollars ( US$13.73 ) .
wsj_0027_4|The company has reported declines in operating profit in each of the past three years , despite steady sales growth .
wsj_0027_7|Mr. Stronach , founder and controlling shareholder of Magna , resigned as chief executive officer last year to seek , unsuccessfully , a seat in Canada 's Parliament .
wsj_0027_6|On the Toronto Stock Exchange yesterday , Magna shares closed up 37.5 Canadian cents to C$9.625 .
wsj_0534_0|Conseco Inc. said it is calling for the redemption on Dec. 7 of all the 800,000 remaining shares outstanding of its $1.875 Series A convertible preferred stock at $26.805 a share .
wsj_0534_1|The insurance concern said all conversion rights on the stock will terminate on Nov. 30 .
wsj_0534_2|Until then , Conseco said the stock remains convertible into common stock at the rate of 1.439 shares of common stock for each share of preferred stock , which is equivalent to a conversion price of $17.50 a common share .
wsj_0534_3|In New York Stock Exchange trading Friday , Conseco closed at $19.50 , down 25 cents .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_19|They believe ah it will be always up going up and up ah forever .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_18|She estimates her properties , worth a hundred thirty million dollars in October , are worth only half that now .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_11|He sold the property to five buyers and said he 'd double his money .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_10|So when Wong Kwan spent seventy million dollars for this house , he thought it was a great deal .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_13|Now with new construction under way , three of his buyers have backed out .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_12|In Hong Kong , is always belongs to the seller 's market .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_15|All across Hong Kong , the property market has crashed .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_14|And Wong Kwan will be lucky to break even .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_17|Pak ca n 't find buyers .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_16|Pamela Pak owns eight condominiums here .
WSJ910225-0066_75|--- Geraldine Brooks in Amman , Jordan , and Craig Forman in Cairo , Egypt , contributed to this article .
WSJ910225-0066_74|For the first time in history , the U.S. has gone to war with an Arab and Muslim nation , and we know a peaceful solution was in reach . '
WSJ910225-0066_73|For me , it is a great tragedy .
WSJ910225-0066_72|' Now we see that edge eroded .
WSJ910225-0066_71|' We looked to the United States , we expected you to have the moral edge , ' says Nasser Tahboub , a Jerusalem-born Jordanian who has an American wife and a doctorate in political science from Duke University .
WSJ910225-0066_70|And the U.S. now will face sharper questions in the Arab world since it did n 't back the peace proposals worked out in Moscow .
AP900816-0139_58|There was no independent confirmation of the report by the government-run news agency , which did not say when the reported attempt occurred .
AP900816-0139_51|There was no decision on a meeting .
AP900816-0139_50|Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi , in a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General , also called for an emergency Security Council meeting in Geneva to remove U.S. forces .
AP900816-0139_53|Also Thursday , Saudi Arabia called for an emergency conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to discuss how much oil to pump .
AP900816-0139_52|Thirty-two of the 159 U.N. members had filed compliance reports by Wednesday , and all were honoring the sanctions Iraq .
AP900816-0139_55|Reports attributed to the Japanese foreign ministry said Saudi Arabia told U.S. , European and Japanese oil companies of a 15-20 percent cutback in its oil supply in September .
AP900816-0139_54|The minister denied the kingdom had notified notified any of its customers of any cutbacks in oil supply .
AP900816-0139_57|The agency quoted witnesses as saying tanks and armored cars are patrolling the streets of Baghdad .
AP900816-0139_56|Meanwhile , Egypt 's official Middle East News Agency said Thursday that Saddam was the target of an assassination attempt , which led to ` ` large-scale ' ' arrests , including some close associates of the Iraqi strongman .
APW19980227.0494_21|The program also calls for coordination of economic reforms and joint improvement of social programs in the two countries , where many people have become impoverished during the chaotic post-Soviet transition to capitalism .
APW19980227.0494_20|A major project is joint manufacturing of An-70 cargo planes , the Kremlin statement said .
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APW19980227.0494_22|Kuchma also planned to visit Russian gas giant Gazprom , most likely to discuss Ukraine 's dlrs 1.2 billion debt to the company .
wsj_0068_4|The company also adopted an anti-takeover plan .
wsj_0068_2|The Kearny , N.J.-based maker of hair accessories and other cosmetic products said it cut the dividend due to its third-quarter loss of $992,000 , or 15 cents a share .
wsj_0068_3|In the year-ago quarter , the company reported net income of $1.9 million , or 29 cents a share .
wsj_0068_0|GOODY PRODUCTS Inc. cut its quarterly dividend to five cents a share from 11.5 cents a share .
wsj_0068_1|The reduced dividend is payable Jan. 2 to stock of record Dec. 15 .
wsj_0811_2|The gross proceeds from the sale of the notes , which will be due on Nov. 1 , 2004 , will be used to reduce existing debt and for general corporate purposes , the company said .
wsj_0811_3|The debt reduction is expected to save the Fort Lauderdale , Fla. home video concern about $2 million a year in interest expense .
wsj_0811_0|BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT CORP .
wsj_0811_1|said it raised $92 million from an offering of liquid yield option notes .
wsj_0811_6|In addition , each note can be converted into Blockbuster Entertainment common stock at a rate of 13.851 shares per note .
wsj_0811_7|Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Inc. is the sole underwriter for the offering .
wsj_0811_4|The zero-coupon subordinated notes have no periodic interest payments .
wsj_0811_5|Each note is being offered at $308.32 per $1,000 principal amount at maturity , representing an 8% yield to maturity .
wsj_0811_8|The notes will have a principal amount of $300 million at maturity .
wsj_0811_9|Blockbuster shares closed yesterday at $18.75 , down $1.125 , in New York Stock Exchange trading .
wsj_0313_3|The latest period had profit from continuing operations of $4 million .
wsj_0313_2|In the third quarter , the company , which is 61%-owned by Murphy Oil Corp. of Arkansas , had a net loss of $46.9 million , or 91 cents a share , compared with a restated loss of $9 million , or 18 cents a share , a year ago .
wsj_0313_1|The New Orleans oil and gas exploration and diving operations company added that it does n 't expect any further adverse financial impact from the restructuring .
wsj_0313_0|Ocean Drilling amp Exploration Co. will sell its contract-drilling business , and took a $50.9 million loss from discontinued operations in the third quarter because of the planned sale .
wsj_0313_7|Ocean Drilling said it wo n 't hold any shares of the new company after the restructuring .
wsj_0313_6|It has long been rumored that Ocean Drilling would sell the unit to concentrate on its core oil and gas business .
wsj_0313_5|Ocean Drilling said it will offer 15% to 20% of the contract-drilling business through an initial public offering in the near future .
wsj_0313_4|Revenue gained 13% to $77.3 million from $68.5 million .
wsj_0674_10|A joint venture involving units of Innopac and Mobil Corp. earlier this year opened the first U.S. polystyrene recycling plant , in Leominster , Mass.
wsj_0973_19|Company officials also said that any gain from the sale of Westinghouse 's 55% stake in its transmission and distribution venture with the Swiss firm of Asea Brown Boveri will be offset by a restructuring charge in the fourth quarter .
wsj_0973_18|The deal , which will involve an initial $20 million investment , was struck with a handshake , he added .
wsj_0973_13|The company 's ability to respond to energy needs world-wide will be enhanced through a recently announced venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , Mr. Lego said .
wsj_0973_12|Westinghouse also is well positioned to sell steam turbine and gas turbine plants to independent power producers .
wsj_0973_11|Mr. Lego said the company foresees the need for a major boost in new-generation capability throughout the 1990s .
wsj_0973_10|While Westinghouse hasn 't had a nuclear power plant order from a U.S. utility in about a decade , excess capacity is beginning to shrink .
wsj_0973_17|Mr. Marous said Westinghouse would own 70% of the facility .
wsj_0973_16|The company is negotiating with the Soviets to build a Thermo King truck-refrigeration plant that would produce about 10,000 units annually .
wsj_0973_15|Westinghouse also expects its international sales to soon grow to 25% of total corporate sales from 20% last year .
wsj_0973_14|He said the independent power segment could grow to provide as much as 50% of near-term generation capacity , adding : ' We expect to supply a significant share of this market . '
wsj_0695_8|For the year ended July 2 , Rally had net income of $2.4 million , or 34 cents a share , on revenue of $52.9 million .
wsj_0695_0|A group of investors led by Giant Group Ltd. and its chairman , Burt Sugarman , said it filed with federal antitrust regulators for clearance to buy more than 50% of the stock of Rally 's Inc. , a fast-food company based in Louisville , Ky. Rally 's operates and franchises about 160 fast-food restaurants throughout the U.S. The company went public earlier this month , offering 1,745,000 shares of common stock at $15 a share .
wsj_0695_1|Giant has interests in cement making and newsprint .
wsj_0695_2|The investor group includes Restaurant Investment Partnership , a California general partnership , and three Rally 's directors : Mr. Sugarman , James M. Trotter III and William E. Trotter II .
wsj_0695_3|The group currently holds 3,027,330 Rally 's shares , or 45.2% of its commmon shares outstanding .
wsj_0695_4|Giant Group owned 22% of Rally 's shares before the initial public offering .
wsj_0695_5|A second group of three company directors , aligned with Rally 's founder James Patterson , also is seeking control of the fast-food chain .
wsj_0695_6|It is estimated that the Patterson group controls more than 40% of Rally 's stock .
wsj_0695_7|Rally officials weren 't available to comment late yesterday .
wsj_1014_18|' Anheuser is the biggest guy in the bar , and he just decided to join in the barroom brawl , ' said Joseph J. Doyle , an analyst with Smith Barney , Harris Upham amp Co. ' It 's going to get bloody . '
wsj_1014_19|Jerry Steinman , publisher of Beer Marketers Insights , a trade newsletter , said Anheuser 's announcement means ' everybody else in the industry is going to have a difficult time reaching their profit objectives . '
wsj_0584_9|In effect , McCaw has forced LIN 's hand by bidding $1.9 billion for the stake earlier this month .
wsj_0584_8|That money also would have to be borrowed .
wsj_0584_5|LIN said it expects to borrow the money to pay the dividend , but commitments from banks still have n 't been obtained .
wsj_0584_4|But under new terms of the agreement , announced Friday , LIN holders would receive a special cash dividend of $42 a share , representing a payout of about $2.23 billion , shortly before the proposed merger .
wsj_0584_7|In addition , New York-based LIN would exercise its right to buy out for $1.9 billion the 55% equity interest of its partner , Metromedia Co. , in a New York cellular franchise .
wsj_0584_6|Under previous terms , holders would have received a dividend of only $20 a share .
wsj_0584_1|Moreover , the amended pact shows how McCaw 's persistence has pushed LIN and BellSouth into a corner , forcing huge debt on the proposed new company .
wsj_0584_0|The bolstered cellular agreement between BellSouth Corp. and LIN Broadcasting Corp. carries heightened risks and could fail to fend off McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. , the rival suitor for LIN .
wsj_0584_3|The plan still calls for LIN to combine its cellular telephone properties with BellSouth 's and to spin off its broadcasting operations .
wsj_0584_2|The debt , estimated at $4.7 billion , could mortgage the cellular company 's future earning power in order to placate some LIN holders in the short term .
wsj_0904_11|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday , Compaq shares fell $1.625 to $108.625 .
wsj_0904_10|Mr. Swavely said the new space will allow Compaq to increase the manufacturing capacity of its plant in Erskine , Scotland .
wsj_0542_10|Dow Jones , which owns 67% of Telerate , publishes The Wall Street Journal , Barron 's magazine , community newspapers and operates financial news services and computer data bases .
APW19980219.0476_19|But in June last year , the remaining leadership had a falling out , and Pol Pot was arrested .
APW19980219.0476_18|A small hardcore group under Pol Pot continued to hold out at their headquarters at Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia near the Thai border .
APW19980219.0476_17|Other commanders , and thousands of guerrillas , followed him .
APW19980219.0476_16|But the group began to fall apart in mid-1996 after the defection of one of its top leaders , Ieng Sary .
APW19980219.0476_15|At the time Howes was captured , the Khmer Rouge were a more or less united guerrilla force with more than 10,000 men under arms .
APW19980219.0476_14|Pol Pot is considered responsible for the radical policies that led to the deaths of as many as 1.7 million Cambodians when the communist group held power in the late 1970s .
APW19980219.0476_13|Nhek Bunchhay said he now believed Howes had been killed within a week of his capture by a Khmer Rouge faction loyal to Pol Pot , then the guerrilla group 's leader .
APW19980219.0476_12|If and when the remains are found , he said , they would be turned over to the British Embassy , apparently meaning they would be sent across the border into Thailand and onward to Bangkok .
APW19980219.0476_11|He said he received information from Khmer Rouge guerrillas on where the body had been buried , and recently ordered 10 of his men from a force of 500 near Khmer Rouge headquarters in Anlong Veng to conduct the search .
APW19980219.0476_10|Nhek Bunchhay , who had been closely involved in the search for Howes before having to flee the Cambodian capital after a coup d'etat last year , appeared confident he would find Howes ' remains .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_5|Most of the city 's monuments were destroyed , including a magnificent tiled mosque , which dominated the skyline for centuries .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_4|The city could have used some special protection in nineteen seventy-nine when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_7|Some families have kept their glass working secrets for more than two thousand years .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_6|The people here are famous throughout central Asia for their skill in fashioning pottery and tile , glass too .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_1|We 're off in search of an ancient and exotic city .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_0|Now for today 's geography quiz .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_3|UNESCO declared it a protected site for its beauty and its historical significance .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_2|An officially sanctioned one , too .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_9|Think you got it ?
PRI19980121.2000.2591_8|Even though this city is in Afghanistan , most people here speak a dialect of the Persian language , and have long standing cultural ties with neighboring Iran .
wsj_0027_12|Magna said Mr. McAlpine resigned to pursue a consulting career , with Magna as one of his clients .
wsj_0924_3|Once triggered , the rights allow holders to buy additional shares at 50% of the then current market price or , at the board 's discretion , to receive securities or assets .
wsj_0924_2|Rights attached to the company 's common shares were issued that are triggered if a hostile bidder acquires more than 20% of the shares outstanding .
wsj_0924_1|The so-called poison pill took effect Aug. 9 pending ratification by holders .
wsj_0924_0|Dominion Textile Inc. holders adopted a shareholder-rights plan at the annual meeting .
wsj_0924_6|Sales were C$348.2 million compared with C$307.2 a year earlier .
wsj_0924_5|The company had a net loss of C$2.3 million , or 14 Canadian cents a share , a year ago .
wsj_0924_4|Separately , Dominion Textile posted net income of 4.7 million Canadian dollars ( $4 million ) , or 12 Canadian cents a share , for the fiscal-first quarter ended Sept. 30 .
wsj_0928_9|These problems also resulted in Sun reporting a $20.3 million loss for its fourth quarter ended June 30 .
wsj_0928_8|But problems in manufacturing , forecasting demand and getting the bugs out of a new management information system made it extremely difficult for Sun to meet demand for its newest computers well into the summer .
wsj_0928_7|More than two-thirds of the systems shipped , meanwhile , were products introduced in April .
wsj_0928_6|One of those new computers , called Sparcstation 1 , accounted for nearly half of the 28,000 systems Sun shipped in the quarter , he said .
wsj_0928_5|In a statement , Scott McNealy , Sun 's chief executive officer , said the company 's performance was hampered by problems tied to the introduction of a major new family of computers in April .
wsj_0928_4|Earlier this month , the company said it expected to break even for the quarter on sales of $530 million .
wsj_0928_3|Sun 's results were slightly better than expectations .
wsj_0928_2|In the 1988 period , the company earned $20.6 million , or 26 cents a share .
wsj_0928_1|Sun , a maker of computer workstations , reported sales of $538.5 million for the quarter ended Sept. 29 , up 39% from $388.5 million a year earlier .
wsj_0928_0|Sun Microsystems Inc. , snapping back to profitability after its first quarterly loss as a public firm , said it earned $5.2 million , or seven cents a share , in the fiscal first quarter .
wsj_0950_8|Profit at the unit fell to $110.6 million , or 37 cents a share , from $142.4 million , or 45 cents a share , largely because of a $24 million one-time charge associated with Hughes 's previously announced plan to reduce employment by at least 6,000 people by year end .
wsj_0950_9|Even excluding the charge , however , net fell 5% .
wsj_0950_2|By contrast , Electronic Data Systems Corp. , GM 's data processing subsidiary , boosted net 16% .
wsj_0950_3|GM closed down $1.875 at $44.875 in New York Stock Exchange trading yesterday .
wsj_0950_0|General Motors Corp. 's big defense and automotive electronics unit , GM Hughes Electronics , said net income fell 22% in the third quarter , reflecting declining military spending and slumping GM vehicle production .
wsj_0950_1|Meanwhile , net at GM 's finance arm , General Motors Acceptance Corp. , fell 3.1% .
wsj_0950_6|GM Class E , which represents a dividend interest in EDS profit , fell 75 cents to $52.25 on the Big Board .
wsj_0950_7|The earnings drop at GM Hughes Electronics is a sign of tough times at both the defense operations of Hughes Aircraft Co. and GM 's North American automotive operations , which are a primary customer for the Delco Electronics Corp. side of the GM Hughes unit .
wsj_0950_4|Earnings for GM common stock , reflecting the performance of GM 's core automotive operations , will be disclosed this morning .
wsj_0950_5|GM Class H , which represents a dividend interest in Hughes earnings , closed at $29 , up 25 cents in Big Board composite trading .
WSJ910225-0066_68|If that 's true , the narrowing of his support would make it easier for someone to push him aside from within .
WSJ910225-0066_69|Yet , paradoxically , the perception that the U.S. wants to destroy Iraq may increase Saddam Hussein 's support within the Iraqi military .
wsj_0583_8|But by all accounts foreign companies have bought only a relative handful of Japanese companies this year , while Japanese companies have acquired hundreds of foreign companies .
wsj_0583_9|Nor do analysts expect the Sansui deal to touch off a fresh wave of foreign purchases .
WSJ910225-0066_60|Meanwhile , the U.S. hopes , economic sanctions and an international arms embargo will remain in effect until Iraq pays war reparations to Kuwait to cover war damages .
WSJ910225-0066_61|That would undermine any chances of rebuilding either Iraq or its armed forces in short order as long as Saddam Hussein remains in power .
WSJ910225-0066_62|The American hope is that someone from within Iraq , perhaps from the army 's professional ranks , will step forward and push Saddam Hussein aside so that the country can begin recovering from the disaster .
wsj_0583_5|But analysts say Sansui is a special case .
WSJ910225-0066_64|' I think frankly Saddam is finished , no matter what happens , ' says Christine Helms , a Middle East scholar who has written extensively about Iraq .
WSJ910225-0066_65|' These guys simply do n 't retire to condos over the Euphrates . '
wsj_0583_0|Polly Peck International Inc. 's agreement to acquire 51% of Sansui Electric Co. proves that foreign companies can acquire Japanese companies -- if the alternative for the Japanese company is extinction .
WSJ910225-0066_67|Some analysts say he appeared to be relying on a smaller and smaller circle of close advisers and relatives .
AP900816-0139_28|In the air , U.S. Air Force fliers say they have engaged in ` ` a little cat and mouse ' ' with Iraqi warplanes , which have retreated when weapons radar locks onto them .
AP900816-0139_29|` ` They do n 't want to play with us , ' ' one U.S. crew chief said .
AP900816-0139_24|The U.S. Navy has 27 ships in the maritime barricade of Iraq .
AP900816-0139_25|They are aided by Britain , West Germany , Australia , Canada , the Netherlands and Belgium .
AP900816-0139_26|Bush was expected to authorize naval commanders to use ` ` the minimum force necessary ' ' to interdict shipments to and from Iraq , a U.S. official said .
AP900816-0139_27|That could include firing across the bow to halt a ship .
AP900816-0139_20|` ` We believe that his words cannot distract the world from the facts of Iraqi aggression . ' ' An international land , sea and air force has mobilized since Iraq 's invasion , which was sparked by disputes over oil , land and repayment of war loans .
AP900816-0139_21|In the largest U.S. military operation since Vietnam , an estimated 20,000 American GIs have already massed to defend Saudi Arabia .
AP900816-0139_22|` ` We do n 't just arrive , ' ' said four-star Gen. John Dailey , assistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps .
AP900816-0139_23|` ` We 're there to stay for a fairly lengthy period . ' ' Egypt , Syria , Morocco and Bangladesh also committed ground troops , to a much lesser degree .
wsj_0159_3|Acquisition said 2.2 million shares , or about 38.5% of the shares outstanding , have been tendered under its offer .
wsj_0159_2|Acquisition has launched a suit in a Delaware court seeking the withdrawal of Dunkin 's poison pill rights and employee stock ownership plans , which it claims were put in place to deter bidders .
wsj_0159_1|The offer , which was due to expire yesterday , is conditional on 50.1% of Dunkin ' common shares , on a fully diluted basis , being tendered and on the withdrawal of the company 's poison pill rights plan .
wsj_0159_0|DD Acquisition Corp. , a partnership of Unicorp Canada Corp. 's Kingsbridge Capital Group and Cara Operations Ltd. , extended to Nov. 20 its $45-a-share offer for all Dunkin ' Donuts Inc. shares outstanding .
wsj_0159_7|Dunkin ' is based in Randolph , Mass. Cara , a food services chain operator and Unicorp , a holding company , are based in Toronto .
wsj_0159_6|DD Acquisition said the extension is to allow this process to be completed .
wsj_0159_5|Dunkin ' has set Nov. 10 as the deadline for the receipt of any competing bids .
wsj_0159_4|The partners said they already hold 15% of all shares outstanding .
wsj_0806_4|Home Nutritional currently has 10 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0806_5|It will have 11.8 million shares outstanding after the offering , with Healthdyne owning about 65% of the total .
wsj_0806_2|The company estimates the offering price at between $14 and $16 a share .
wsj_0806_3|The company said it expects to use the proceeds to repay certain bank debt and for general corporate purposes , including establishing new operating centers and possible acquisitions .
wsj_0806_0|HEALTHDYNE Inc. , Atlanta , said its subsidiary , Home Nutritional Services Inc. , registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission an initial public offering of four million shares of common .
wsj_0806_1|The in-home health care services provider said it will sell 1.8 million of the new shares , while Home Nutritional Services will sell the remaining 2.2 million .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_2|And many of them are using the Internet to spread their messages of racial superiority .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_3|VOA 's Jim Teple has details from our southeast news bureau .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_0|While the expansion of the Internet has been a blessing for researchers , students and the just plain curious , the new opportunities mentioned by Mr. Gates are also being used by some rather unsavory characters .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_1|A new report says there has been a dramatic rise in the growth of hate groups in the United States over the past year .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_6|The new study written by Mark Potach , who edits the Southern Poverty Law Center 's Intelligence Report , warns that such groups grew rapidly last year , mostly by recruiting younger members .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_7|Mr. Potach says the growth is surprising since membership in hate groups usually declines during periods of economic prosperity .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_4|The Southern Poverty Law Center , a civil rights monitoring group based in Montgomery , Alabama , has long monitored such groups as the Ku Klux Klan .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_5|More recently it has followed the growth of the militia movement and church groups that preach a message of white supremacy and anti-semitism .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_8|We in fact have seen hate group numbers dropping through the nineties , uh but this year they jumped up uh twenty percent , quite a dramatic rise .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_9|Mark Potach says over four hundred hate groups have been identified and many are becoming increasingly successful at recruiting younger members through the use of Internet web pages and the promotion of racist rock music .
wsj_0950_18|In the first nine months , GMAC 's earnings fell 8% to $859.5 million from $930.2 million .
wsj_0950_19|At EDS , third-quarter profit jumped 16% to a record $110.9 million , or 93 cents a share , from $95.9 million , or 79 cents a share .
wsj_0950_10|In addition , GM 's North American vehicle production fell 8.4% from a year ago , which hurt Delco Electronic 's earnings , a company spokesman said .
wsj_0950_11|That decline was reflected in revenue for the GM Hughes unit , which edged down to $2.58 billion from $2.63 billion .
wsj_0950_12|In the nine months , GM Hughes net fell 6.6% to $486.6 million , or $1.48 a share , from $521 million , or $1.58 a share .
wsj_0950_13|Revenue rose 3.5% to $8.47 billion from $8.18 billion .
wsj_0950_14|At GMAC , net dropped 3.1% to $234.5 million from $241.9 million .
wsj_0950_15|The finance unit attributed the decline to higher borrowing costs compared with a year earlier .
wsj_0950_16|GMAC said its automotive financing and leasing business rose 35% in the U.S. , largely because of dealer and customer incentives used to boost sales .
wsj_0950_17|GMAC profits are combined with earnings from the rest of GM 's operations and attributed to the company 's traditional common stock .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_0|Finally today , we learned that the space agency has finally taken a giant leap forward .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_1|Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins will be named commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia for a mission in December .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_2|Colonel Collins has been the co-pilot before , but this time she 's the boss .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_3|Here 's ABC 's Ned Potter .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_4|Even two hundred miles up in space , there has been a glass ceiling .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_5|It wasn 't until twenty years after the first astronauts were chosen that NASA finally included six women , and they were all scientists , not pilots .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_6|No woman has actually been in charge of a mission until now .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_7|Just the fact that we ' re doing the job that we ' re doing makes us role models .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_8|That was Eileen Collins , after she flew as the first ever co-pilot .
ABC19980304.1830.1636_9|Being commander is different .
wsj_0533_13|The university had sought an injunction blocking Connaught 's board from recommending or supporting an offer for the company by Merieux .
wsj_0533_12|Lawyers for the two sides weren 't immediately available for comment .
wsj_0533_11|In a statement prepared by lawyers for the university and Connaught , the parties said they agreed that as a result of reaching a C415 million research accord , ' It is unnecessary that there be a judgment on the merits { of the case } at this time . '
wsj_0533_10|Separately , the Ontario Supreme Court said it will postpone indefinitely a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid .
wsj_0667_3|In addition , the effective interest rate on the $410 million of total remaining bank debt after the restructuring is 10.66% .
wsj_0667_2|The write-off will be reported as an extraordinary item in the company 's 1989 operating results .
wsj_0667_1|The restaurant operator cited transaction costs from its 1988 recapitalization as a result of a $160 million restructuring of its bank debt .
wsj_0667_0|Shoney 's Inc. said it will report a write-off of $2.5 million , or seven cents a share , for its fourth quarter ended yesterday .
wsj_0150_2|The financial-services company will pay 0.82 share for each Williams share .
wsj_0150_3|Williams shares , which were to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after the close of composite trading yesterday , closed at $23.25 , off 12.5 cents .
wsj_0150_0|A.L. Williams Corp. was merged into Primerica Corp. , New York , after a special meeting of Williams shareholders cleared the transaction , the companies said .
wsj_0150_1|Primerica , which had owned nearly 70% of Williams , will pay about 16.7 million shares , currently valued at almost $472 million , for the rest of Williams .
wsj_0150_6|Its subsidiaries ' services are marketed by closely held A.L. Williams amp Associates .
wsj_0150_7|Primerica , as expected , also acquired certain assets of the agency and assumed certain of its liabilities .
wsj_0150_4|Primerica closed at $28.25 , down 50 cents .
wsj_0150_5|Williams , Duluth , Ga. , is an insurance and financial-services holding company .
wsj_1073_1|The unit makes intravenous pumps used by hospitals and had more than $110 million in sales last year , according to Advanced Medical .
wsj_1073_0|Advanced Medical Technologies Inc. said it purchased 93% of a unit of Henley Group Inc. Advanced Medical paid $106 million in cash for its share in a unit of Henley 's Fisher Scientific subsidiary .
wsj_0150_8|Terms were n 't disclosed .
wsj_0661_9|Dataproducts has since started a restructuring , and has said it is not for sale .
wsj_0661_8|Earlier this year , DPC Acquisition made a $15-a-share offer for Dataproducts , which the Dataproducts board said it rejected because the $283.7 million offer was not fully financed .
wsj_0927_28|James E. Bacon , 58 , executive vice president , who has directed the funds-service group , will retire .
wsj_0152_4|Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal , Barron 's magazine , and community newspapers and operates financial news services and computer data bases .
wsj_0661_4|DPC Acquisition said it had received the reasonable assurance of Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. that the financing can be obtained .
wsj_0661_7|Dataproducts officials declined to comment , and said they had not yet seen a suit filed in federal court by DPC Acquisition that seeks to nullify a standstill agreement between DPC Acquisition and Dataproducts .
wsj_0661_6|DPC Acquisition added that it has not begun discussions with financing sources , and said it expected to repay the amounts borrowed through proceeds of the liquidation .
wsj_0152_0|Dow Jones amp Co. said it extended its $18-a-share offer for Telerate Inc. common stock until 5 p.m. EST Nov. 9 . The offer , valued at about $576 million for the 33% of Telerate that Dow Jones does n 't already own , had been set to expire Nov. 6 . Dow Jones , which owns about 64 million of Telerate 's 95 million common shares outstanding , said that about 24,000 shares have been tendered under its offer .
wsj_0152_1|Telerate 's two independent directors have rejected the offer as inadequate .
wsj_0927_21|U.S. Trust also created a four-member office of the chairman , effective Feb. 1 . It will include Messrs .
wsj_0152_3|Telerate provides an electronic financial information network .
AP900815-0044_46|U.S. allies and other U.N. members have objected that the Security Council embargo resolution did not specifically authorize such a naval operation .
wsj_0706_4|As of Sept. 30 , the bank had assets of $511 million and deposits of $469 million , Security Pacific said .
APW19980213.1380_2|Hernandez was kidnapped from his small , neighborhood store in the town of Trujillo Alto at 10 p.m. Wednesday , police said .
APW19980213.1380_3|His kidnappers demanded a ransom of dlrs 1 million , but negotiations broke off at noon Thursday .
APW19980213.1380_0|CAGUAS , Puerto Rico ( AP ) _ Kidnappers kept their promise to kill a store owner they took hostage and police found the man 's dismembered and decapitated body Friday wrapped in plastic garbage bags .
APW19980213.1380_1|Police confirmed Friday that the body found along a highway in this municipality 15 miles south of San Juan belonged to Jorge Hernandez , 49 .
APW19980213.1380_6|A passerby called police to report the body alongside the road .
APW19980213.1380_7|Puerto Rico Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo urged people who might be targeted by kidnappers to be alert .
APW19980213.1380_4|Police gave no details about the negotiations with the kidnappers for the return of Hernandez .
APW19980213.1380_5|The store owner 's body was found with the arms and head cut off and the parts stuffed in separate garbage bags .
AP900815-0044_42|On Tuesday , the United States and Soviet Union conferred in Washington on putting an anti-Iraq naval blockade under a United Nations umbrella .
APW19980213.1380_8|` ` There has been an increase in Puerto Rico in this kind of thing and some of these bands of kidnappers are made up of foreigners , ' ' Toledo said .
APW19980213.1380_9|While some Latin American countries such as Mexico and Colombia have suffered from a rash of kidnappings in recent years , the crime has not been common in this U.S. commonwealth .
AP900815-0044_43|The United States has provided most of the naval vessels so far to block Iraqi trade , with Britain , West Germany and Australia among the other nations lending support at sea .
AP900815-0044_40|Bush , however , says he sees no short-term hope for a diplomatic solution to the gulf crisis _ at least until economic sanctions force Saddam to withdraw his army .
AP900815-0044_41|Bush held out the prospect of more aid to Jordan if it cooperates with the trade embargo .
wsj_0541_4|If all the debt is converted to common , Automatic Data will issue about 3.6 million shares ; last Monday , the company had nearly 73 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0541_5|Automatic Data is redeeming the bonds because the after-tax cost of the interest on the bonds is higher than the dividend yield on the common , a spokesman said .
wsj_0541_0|Automatic Data Processing Inc. plans to redeem on Nov. 16 its $150 million of 6.5% convertible subordinated debentures due March 1 , 2011 .
wsj_0541_1|The computing-services concern will pay $1,059.04 for each $1,000 face amount of debt .
wsj_0541_2|The conversion price for the debentures is $41.725 a share .
wsj_0541_3|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday , Automatic Data closed at $46.50 a share , down $2.25 .
wsj_1011_11|America West would n 't identify the entity , but said the payment was for the foreign company 's use of certain tax benefits in connection with America West plane purchases .
wsj_1011_10|The latest results include a $2.6 million one-time payment from a ' foreign entity . '
wsj_1011_13|Revenue rose 21% to $243.4 million from $201.2 million .
wsj_1011_12|Year-earlier results included an extraordinary gain of $1.6 million from a buy-back of convertible subordinated debentures .
wsj_1011_15|Revenue rose 27% to $715.1 million from $563.8 million .
wsj_1011_14|For the nine months , America West posted earnings of $18.9 million , or 97 cents a share , compared with a loss of $9.7 million , or 74 cents a share , a year earlier .
APW19980322.0749_24|( sp/eml )
APW19980322.0749_22|An elderly Catholic man was hospitalized from cuts after a Protestant gasoline bomb landed in his back yard .
APW19980322.0749_23|Police arrested six Protestants on suspicion of rioting .
APW19980322.0749_20|Police said an unmarked police car was hit with gasoline bombs from the Protestant side .
APW19980322.0749_21|Riot police responded with a volley of plastic bullets that scattered a 50-strong mob .
wsj_1013_22|Its ratio of tangible equity to total assets as of Sept. 30 was 3.6% , and total equity was $457.9 million .
wsj_1013_23|The thrift emphasized that it has a large portfolio of equity securities issued in connection with corporate restructurings and leveraged buy-outs , which has a book value of $90 million .
wsj_1013_20|The stock 's decline accelerated in the past two weeks , from a price of $8 a share on Oct. 9 . Columbia officials said they do n 't know how quickly they will dispose of the thrift 's junk bonds , because federal regulations , such as those that would allow thrifts to continue holding the bonds in separately capitalized subsidiaries , have n 't yet been completed .
wsj_1013_21|Columbia officials also said the thrift should n 't face problems meeting regulatory capital requirements , despite the large reserves and write-downs and stiffer regulatory requirements that should be in place by year 's end .
wsj_1013_26|--- David B. Hilder in New York contributed to this article .
wsj_1013_24|Although many of the transactions related to those securities have n 't been completed , Columbia said the ultimate gain on the sale of those assets will range from $200 million to $300 million .
wsj_1013_25|Columbia also has unrealized gains in its public equity securities portfolio of more than $70 million .
wsj_1039_3|Amdahl 's results were somewhat worse than expected .
wsj_1039_2|Revenue rose 15% to $534.3 million from $464.7 million .
wsj_1039_1|Net income fell 37% to $32.9 million , or 30 cents a share , from $52.2 million , or 48 cents a share , in the year-ago period .
wsj_1039_0|Amdahl Corp. , a maker of mainframe computers , reported a sharp decline in net income for its third quarter , citing pricecutting by competitors and adverse effects from a strong U.S. dollar .
wsj_1039_4|Jay Stevens , an analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds , said he expected the Sunnyvale , Calif. , company to earn 35 cents a share for the quarter and said the firm 's weaker profit was partly the result of increased competition from International Business Machines Corp. , Amdahl 's principal competitor for mainframe sales .
wsj_0768_33|Fidelity 's junk fund has fallen 2.08% this year through Oct. 19 , Lipper says ; the Vanguard fund rose 1.84% ; and the T. Rowe Price fund edged up 0.66% .
wsj_0768_32|That 's even less than the 4.35% total return of the Merrill Lynch High-Yield Index .
wsj_0768_31|Through Oct. 19 , high-yield funds had an average 0.85% total return ( the price change plus dividends on fund shares ) , according to Lipper Analytical Services Inc.
wsj_0768_30|Junk-fund holders have barely broken even this year , as fat interest payments barely managed to offset declining prices .
wsj_0768_37|And then , asset values of the funds could plunge more than they have so far .
wsj_0768_36|Funds might be forced to accept lower prices if they expand their selling to the securities of less-creditworthy borrowers .
wsj_0768_35|Many funds in recent weeks and months have been selling their highest-quality junk issues , such as RJR Nabisco , to raise cash to meet expected redemptions .
wsj_0768_34|People who remain in junk funds now could get hit again , some analysts and fund specialists say .
wsj_0768_38|Says Michael Hirsch , chief investment officer of Republic National Bank and manager of the FundTrust Group in New York : ' It 's a time bomb just waiting to go off . '
wsj_0316_6|Salt Lake City-based First Security , with $5.4 billion in assets , said the agreement is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval , and that it hopes to complete the transaction early next year .
APW19980213.1310_15|` ` She is , I can assure you , from what I 've been told , she 's following the thing very closely and taking the view it 's our business .
APW19980213.1310_14|Howard said Queen Elizabeth II is taking a great interest in the convention .
APW19980213.1310_17|she is a 20th century democrat , understands that the role of the crown in Australia rests in the hands of the Australian people as it has for almost a hundred years . ' ' The model for a republic , adopted over bitter objections from those advocating direct election of a president , is for presidential nominations to be made with public input and the winning candidate decided by a two-thirds majority of Parliament .
APW19980213.1310_16|` ` It 's no secret that she 's indicated to me . . .
APW19980213.1310_11|` ` Well may we say ` God save the Queen , ' for nothing will save the republic , ' ' outraged monarchist delegate David Mitchell said .
APW19980213.1310_10|` ` The phony war has finished and the real referendum campaign has clearly begun , ' ' Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy executive director Kerry Jones said .
APW19980213.1310_13|Australia has been independent since 1901 , but like many Commonwealth nations it still recognizes the British monarch as its head of state .
APW19980213.1310_12|` ` The idea of a republic will fall to dust through the grace of almighty God . ' ' Polls have shown public support for a republic increasing , rising from about 35 percent several years ago to about 51 percent this year , as pro-monarchist sentiment diminishes .
APW19980213.1310_19|` ` This is an important step along the path towards Australia claiming its full sovereignty , and due recognition that the monarchy can no longer serve us appropriately , ' ' Keating said .
APW19980213.1310_18|Former prime minister Paul Keating , who put the republic issue in the spotlight in his unsuccessful 1996 campaign for re-election , welcomed the result .
WSJ910225-0066_66|Despite the lack of any obvious successors , the Iraqi leader 's internal power base appeared to be narrowing even before the war began .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_1|The move had been widely expected after northern Ireland police said they believe the IRA was behind two killings in Belfast last week .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_0|The British government has formally called for Sinn Fein , the IRA 's political wing , to be expelled from the multiparty peace talks on northern Ireland .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_3|We ' re going to fight it .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_2|Sinn Fein chairman Mitchell McLaughlin says the party will challenge the move by legal means if they have to .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_5|But we ' re challenging it on the ground that uh the RUC uh have offered an opinion , and this opinion is going to be used as a mechanism for ejecting us from the talks , and uh that 's a very serious .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_4|And uh we ' ve already challenged , very strongly , the uh the terms in which this has been presented .
PRI19980216.2000.0170_6|Any decision to expel Sinn Fein must be agreed jointly by the governments of both Britain and the Irish Republic .
wsj_0122_1|Under terms of the agreement , shareholders other than the Underwoods will receive $3,500 a share at closing , which is expected in December .
WSJ910225-0066_19|Gen. Walter Boomer , the top Marine in the Persian Gulf , told U.S. Marines that their goal is to ' restore { Kuwait } to its citizens . '
WSJ910225-0066_18|In a pre-attack message , Lt .
wsj_0122_0|Young 's Market Co. , a wholesaler of spirits , wines and other goods , said it will merge with a new corporation formed by the Underwood family , which controls Young 's .
WSJ910225-0066_15|The Americans say their battle plans call for operating against forces inside Iraq as far north as the city of Basra , about 30 miles north of Kuwait , but say there is n 't any plan to drive beyond that .
WSJ910225-0066_14|American officials staunchly disavow any interest in driving through Iraq toward Baghdad , either in pursuit of Saddam Hussein himself or to set up some American-controlled government inside Iraq .
WSJ910225-0066_17|Nevertheless , American officials over the weekend became more open in declaring that by destroying Saddam Hussein 's military machine they hope to destroy his regime -- a goal likely to be supported by most Americans .
WSJ910225-0066_16|Indeed , French President Francois Mitterrand said yesterday that some allied forces are crossing Iraqi territory as part of a ' pincer ' movement to trap the soldiers occupying Kuwait , but insisted , ' The purpose isn 't to invade Iraqi territory , that 's not the aim , that isn 't the mandate . '
WSJ910225-0066_11|Despite the early indications of success , the allied forces could still suffer greater casualties and become bogged down militarily , especially when they encounter the tough Republican Guard , which is entrenched along the Iraq-Kuwait border .
WSJ910225-0066_10|Now , he says , ' it looks like the West just wants to destroy Iraq . '
WSJ910225-0066_13|But , he notes , ' If everything crumbles totally , that won 't be such a problem . '
WSJ910225-0066_12|If so , and if it appears that the American goal actually is to destroy the Iraqi regime even at the cost of badly hurting Iraqi society , ' the lingering cost of that could be high , ' worries former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski .
wsj_0904_1|The computer maker said net jumped to $87 million , or $2.02 a share , from $58 million , or $1.40 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_0122_2|The Underwood family said that holders of more than a majority of the stock of the company have approved the transaction by written consent .
AP900816-0139_39|John Prescott , a shipping correspondent , said there was no shipping in Kuwaiti or Iraqi ports and that activity was trailing off in the Jordanian port of Aqaba .
wsj_0904_0|Compaq Computer Corp. said that its net income rose 51% in the third quarter , bolstered by unusual gains from its investment in a disk-drive maker and reflecting continued growth in its European operations .
AP900816-0139_37|The economic chokehold appears to be working .
AP900816-0139_36|Only Saudi Arabia has more oil reserves .
AP900816-0139_35|Iraq now controls 20 percent of the world 's oil reserves with its conquest of Kuwait .
AP900816-0139_34|The quarantine hopes to staunch the flow of Iraqi oil , which is Iraq 's economic lifeblood , and clamp down on food and supplies going in .
AP900816-0139_33|The combined operations are designed to isolate and strangle Iraq until it retreats from Kuwait .
wsj_0904_3|The latest quarter 's results , however , included a pretax gain of $13.7 million , or 20 cents a share , in the carrying value of the company 's investment in Conner Peripherals Inc. and a $7.6 million gain , or 11 cents a share , from the sale of one million Conner shares .
AP900816-0139_31|He declined to say if the weapons included missiles , but the Iraqis have them in their arsenal .
AP900816-0139_30|In Kuwait , the Iraqis have rimmed the capital city with an air-defense system , according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity .
wsj_0904_2|Sales increased 36% to $683 million from $502 million .
wsj_0584_33|But Kenneth Leon , a telecommunications analyst with Bear , Stearns amp Co. , finds the BellSouth proposal still flawed because the company does n 't have to wait five years to begin buying more LIN shares .
wsj_0584_32|We did n 't think a sleeping { Bell } mentality would be willing to take on dilution . '
PRI19980115.2000.0186_8|That means the convictions stand , a ruling likely to send Keating 's lawyers back to state court where they must start over with a new appeal .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_9|Elaine Corey , NPR news , San Francisco .
wsj_0904_7|Michael Swavely , president of Compaq 's North America division , attributed the company 's third-quarter performance to continued increases in international sales , which accounted for 43% of the company 's sales , a 74% increase from a year earlier .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_2|NPR 's Elaine Corey has more from San Francisco .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_3|In nineteen ninety-one Charles Keating was convicted in state court of helping to defraud thousands of investors who bought high risk junk bonds sold by Keating 's employees at Lincoln savings and loan .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_0|Former savings and loan chief , Charles Keating , is facing more legal troubles in California .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_1|A federal appeals court has reinstated his state convictions for securities fraud .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_6|And on that basis Keating was released from prison before he was eligible for parole .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_7|Now the ninth US circuit court of appeals has ruled that the original appeal was flawed since it brought up issues that had not been raised before .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_4|The bonds became worthless when the bankrupt thrift was seized by government regulators .
PRI19980115.2000.0186_5|Keating 's convictions were thrown out in nineteen ninety-six on a technicality .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_3|There was no hint of trouble in the last conversation between controllers and TWA pilot Steven Snyder TWA eight hundred climb maintain one five thousand .
wsj_0325_4|The restructuring program is designed to increase the company 's tangible capital ratio .
wsj_0325_5|It includes removing $242 million in good will from the books , issuing $150 million in preferred stock and commencing an exchange offer for $52 million in convertible bonds .
wsj_0325_6|During the third quarter , the company charged about $46 million against earnings in reducing goodwill , added $20 million to its general loan loss reserves and established a $30 million reserve for its high-yield bond portfolio .
wsj_0325_7|The company said its junk-bond portfolio after these moves had been reduced to less than 1% of assets .
wsj_0325_0|Coast Savings Financial Inc. reported a third-quarter loss , citing a previously announced capital restructuring program .
wsj_0325_1|The Los Angeles thrift holding company said it had a loss of $92.2 million , or $6.98 a share , for the quarter ended Sept. 30 .
wsj_0325_2|Coast earned $10.2 million , or 67 cents a share , in the year-ago quarter .
wsj_0325_3|The year-ago results have been restated to comply with government regulations .
wsj_0950_24|The company has said it wants to boost non-GM revenue to at least 50% of its total business by the end of 1990 .
wsj_0950_21|In the nine months , EDS earned $315.8 million , or $2.62 a share , up 13% from $280.7 million , or $2.30 a share .
wsj_0950_20|Revenue rose 12% to $1.37 billion from $1.22 billion .
wsj_0950_23|Revenue from non-GM accounts was 45% of EDS 's total business in the latest nine months , compared with 40% a year earlier .
wsj_0950_22|Revenue rose 14% to $4.03 billion from $3.54 billion .
wsj_0760_11|Norton had operating profit of $76.8 million , or $3.66 a share , up 11% from $69.5 million , or $3.31 a share .
wsj_0760_10|In the year-earlier period , the company had net of $77.2 million , or $3.68 a share , and a tax credit of $7.7 million .
wsj_0760_12|Sales rose 8% to $1.15 billion from $1.06 billion .
wsj_0928_12|While this indicates continued strong demand for the company 's desk-top computers , Sun faces increasing competition from Digital Equipment Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Recently , analysts have said Sun also is vulnerable to competition from International Business Machines Corp. , which plans to introduce a group of workstations early next year , and Next Inc.
wsj_0928_11|Sun also reported a record backlog of orders .
wsj_0928_10|Mr. McNealy said the issues that hurt Sun 's performance earlier this year are now ' largely ' behind the firm , and he indicated that Sun 's profitability should increase throughout the fiscal year .
wsj_0321_0|StatesWest Airlines , Phoenix , Ariz. , said it withdrew its offer to acquire Mesa Airlines because the Farmington , N.M. , carrier did n 't respond to its offer by the close of business yesterday , a deadline StatesWest had set for a response .
wsj_0321_1|However , StatesWest is n 't abandoning its pursuit of the much-larger Mesa .
wsj_0321_2|StatesWest , which has a 7.25% stake in Mesa , said it may purchase more Mesa stock or make a tender offer directly to Mesa shareholders .
wsj_0321_3|StatesWest had proposed acquiring Mesa for $7 a share and one share of a new series of StatesWest 6% convertible preferred stock it values at $3 a share .
wsj_0321_4|Earlier , Mesa had rejected a general proposal from StatesWest to combine the two carriers in some way .
wsj_0321_5|StatesWest serves 10 cities in California , Arizona and Nevada .
wsj_0321_6|Mesa flies to 42 cities in New Mexico , Arizona , Wyoming , Colorado and Texas .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_8|Caroline Wyatt , BBC news , Bonn .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_4|Joblessness is now at its highest level in Germany since the second world war .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_5|With the general election due this September , record figures could n 't have come at a worst time for Chancellor Kohl .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_6|His promise to half unemployment by the year two thousand has now been abandoned .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_7|And the German electorate appears increasingly eager to dispense with the services of Europe 's longest serving leader .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_0|Thousands of people in Germany have been demonstrating today against the high level of unemployment in the country .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_1|Latest figures show a sharp rise , with nearly five million Germans out of work .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_2|Caroline Wyatt reports .
PRI19980205.2000.1998_3|Chanting Helmut Kohl must go the unemployed took to the streets of the German capital , Berlin , mirroring protests around the country .
wsj_1008_3|Lawrence Insurance underwrites mostly primary insurance , a company spokesman said .
wsj_1008_2|By acquiring the shares , Lawrence Group increased its stake in Lawrence Insurance to 93.2% from 91.2% .
wsj_1008_1|Lawrence Insurance also sold 3.2 million of its shares for $7.125 each to its parent , Lawrence Group Inc. Lawrence Insurance , based in Albany , N.Y. , plans to use the $22.5 million in proceeds to help finance the acquisition of United Republic .
wsj_1008_0|Lawrence Insurance Group Inc. said it acquired United Republic Reinsurance Co. , a Houston property and casualty reinsurance company , from United Savings Association of Texas for $28 million .
wsj_1008_5|Lawrence Group also owns Lawrence Agency Corp. , Schenectady , N.Y. , an insurance agency and brokerage .
wsj_1008_4|A reinsurance company effectively insures insurance companies that wish to spread the risk of a particular policy .
wsj_0584_35|he asked .
wsj_0675_14|--- Unisys posted a $648.2 million loss for the third quarter as it moved quickly to take write-offs for various problems and prepare for a turnaround .
wsj_0675_15|But some analysts wonder how strong the recovery will be .
wsj_0675_16|--- RJR Nabisco agreed to sell three candy businesses to Nestle for $370 million .
wsj_0675_17|The accord helps RJR pay off debt and boosts Nestle 's 7% share of the U.S. candy market to 12% .
wsj_0675_10|--- Southern 's Gulf Power unit may plead guilty this week to charges it illegally steered company money to politicians through third parties .
wsj_0675_11|The tentative pact would resolve part of a broad investigation of the Atlanta-based company in the past year .
wsj_0675_12|--- LIN Broadcasting and BellSouth sweetened their plan to merge cellular phone operations , offering LIN holders a special $42-a-share payout .
wsj_0675_13|But the new pact will force huge debt on the new firm and could still fail to thwart rival suitor McCaw Cellular .
wsj_0675_18|---GM and Ford are expected to go head to head in the markets to buy up rival 15% stakes in Jaguar .
wsj_0675_19|GM confirmed it received U.S. antitrust clearance to boost its holding .
wsj_0551_2|The transaction is expected to close around year end .
wsj_0551_1|Society Corp. , which is also a bank , agreed in June to buy Trustcorp for 12.4 million shares of stock with a market value of about $450 million .
wsj_0551_0|Trustcorp Inc. will become Society Bank amp Trust when its merger is completed with Society Corp. of Cleveland , the bank said .
wsj_0555_3|Waxman sells a variety of hardware products for the home repair market .
wsj_0555_2|The company said the holders represent 52% of the face amount of the debentures .
wsj_0555_1|The conversion price is $9.58 a share .
wsj_0555_0|Waxman Industries Inc. said holders of $6,542,000 face amount of its 6 1/4% convertible subordinated debentures , due March 15 , 2007 , have elected to convert the debt into about 683,000 common shares .
wsj_0557_9|Since KKR bought RJR in February for $25 billion of debt , it has agreed to sell nearly $5 billion of RJR assets .
wsj_0557_8|Louis Gerstner Jr. , chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based RJR , called the sale a ' significant step ' in the company 's divestiture program , as well as a ' a strategic divestiture . '
wsj_0557_5|Roughly $2 billion of that debt has already been repaid from previous asset sales , and RJR expects to use another $2 billion from the pending , two-part sale of most of its Del Monte unit .
wsj_0557_4|The sale , which had been expected , is part of KKR 's program to pay down $5 billion of a $6 billion bridge loan by February .
wsj_0557_7|Thus , it remains crucial for RJR to obtain top dollar for its smaller assets like the candy brands .
wsj_0557_6|That sale , however , could still fall through if financing problems develop .
wsj_0557_1|The sale , at a higher price than some analysts had expected , helps the food and tobacco giant raise funds to pay debt and boosts Nestle 's 7% share of the U.S. candy market to about 12% .
wsj_0557_0|RJR Nabisco Inc. said it agreed to sell its Baby Ruth , Butterfinger and Pearson candy businesses to Nestle S.A. 's Nestle Foods unit for $370 million .
wsj_0557_3|The Nestle acquisition includes a candy plant in Franklin Park , Ill. , which employs about 800 workers .
wsj_0557_2|The candy businesses had sales of about $154 million last year , which was roughly 12% of total revenue for RJR 's Planters LifeSavers unit , according to a memorandum distributed by RJR 's owner , Kohlberg Kravis Roberts amp Co. , to bankers last December .
wsj_0713_4|In addition , the bank has an option to buy a 30.84% stake in BIP from Societe Generale after Jan. 1 , 1990 at 1,015 francs a share .
wsj_0713_3|Dresdner Bank said it will also buy all shares tendered by shareholders on the Paris Stock Exchange at the same price from today through Nov. 17 .
wsj_0713_2|In a first step , Dresdner Bank will buy 32.99% of BIP for 1,015 French francs ( $162 ) a share , or 528 million francs ( $84.7 million ) .
wsj_0713_1|The approval , which had been expected , permits West Germany 's second-largest bank to acquire shares of the French investment bank .
wsj_0713_0|West German and French authorities have cleared Dresdner Bank AG 's takeover of a majority stake in Banque Internationale de Placement ( BIP ) , Dresdner Bank said .
NYT19980212.0019_0|NEW YORK _ A Brooklyn woman who was watching her clothes dry in a laundromat was killed Thursday evening when two would-be robbers emptied their pistols into the store , the police said .
NYT19980212.0019_1|The men appeared in the store at 469 Vermont St. in Brownsville around 7:15 p.m. , after the victim , Linda Sanders , 35 , had finished her cleaning and was waiting for her clothes to dry , detectives said .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_6|By mid afternoon , official Serb sources were saying the operation was over , but that has not yet been confirmed from Belgrade , the capital of Serbia , which is where the whole attack is thought to have been planned .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_7|The ethnic Albanians here in Kosovo are considerably worried about the future and fear they are witnessing the beginnings of a much wider conflict .
wsj_0768_22|The fund , with a cash cushion of more than 10% , has ' met all the redemptions without having to sell one thing , ' Mr. Litvack says .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_5|They were too afraid to stay , fearing the forces may also move their operations further afield .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_2|It 's the second day of an offensive by the security forces against villages populated by ethnic Albanians .
wsj_0768_25|Still , two-thirds of the outflow has been steered into other Vanguard portfolios , says Brian Mattes , a vice president .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_0|For The World , this is Pamela McCall in the BBC news room in London .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_1|More heavy gunfire in the Serbian province of Kosovo .
wsj_0768_28|Those withdrawals , most of which were transferred to other T. Rowe Price funds , followed little change in the fund 's sales picture this year through August .
wsj_0768_29|' The last two months have been the whole ball game , ' says Steven Norwitz , a vice president .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_8|Karyn Coleman , BBC news , Pristina .
wsj_0752_2|After the split , the company will have more than 4.7 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0752_3|In national over-the-counter trading yesterday , AEP shares closed at $21.25 , down 50 cents .
wsj_0752_0|AEP INDUSTRIES Inc. directors authorized a 3-for-2 split of the common , payable Dec. 7 to stock of record Nov. 22 .
wsj_0752_1|The split was aimed at boosting the stock 's liquidity , said Brendan Barba , chairman of the Moonachie , N.J. , maker of plastic film products .
APW19980213.1310_5|Even in his own Cabinet , Howard is becoming increasingly isolated with his monarchist stance .
APW19980213.1310_4|` ` The Australian people are owed the opportunity of expressing an opinion on this . ' ' ` ` It would be a travesty in common sense terms of Australian democracy for that proposition not to be put to the Australian people , ' ' Howard said .
APW19980213.1310_9|Calling for an amended constitution with a new preamble , to be written by Australian poets , republican Janet Holmes a Court said , ` ` We need the smell of eucalyptus in this , and the feel of red dust . ' ' Monarchists hope to defeat the republic at the referendum .
APW19980213.1310_8|Pro-republicans hope to have an Australian president by the opening of the 2000 Olympics and the 100th anniversary of Australian federation .
APW19980501.0480_8|Intranets , through the use of Internet technology , are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise , expand and transform new channels of business .
APW19980501.0480_9|When strategically implemented , an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical , decision support functions in organisations .
APW19980501.0480_4|The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor ( MSC ) project .
APW19980501.0480_5|The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce ( e-commerce ) initiatives in the country .
APW19980501.0480_6|However , it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology 's sake would not ensure instant success .
APW19980501.0480_7|For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions , strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment .
APW19980501.0480_0|MALAYSIA 's aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time .
APW19980501.0480_1|With the convergence of communications and information technologies ( IT ) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet and its related technologies , the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become worthy opponents/players in the global market space .
APW19980501.0480_2|The Internet , the global network of computers , is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people 's lives .
APW19980501.0480_3|In the business world , the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge .
wsj_0610_5|But the Memphis , Tenn. , facility wasn 't to begin turning out product until 1993 , so the decision may reveal a more pessimistic long-term outlook as well .
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SJMN91-06338157_6|the handwriting was on the wall , ' the source said Monday . ; That , the source said , was when Sununu started calling congressional Republicans and asking them to tell Bush that the conservative wing of the party , in particular , would object if he were fired . ; Officials said the president himself met with Sununu Sunday .
SJMN91-06338157_7|A source said the outcome of that session was unclear .
wsj_0610_1|The oat-bran craze has cost the world 's largest cereal maker market share .
SJMN91-06338157_1|Instead , Sununu sought to prove to the president that his supporters outnumber his critics and that he should remain in his post . ; One senior official Monday described the White House as ' a collection of small groups of aides holding their breaths , ' waiting to see whether Sununu survives .
wsj_0610_3|And now Kellogg is indefinitely suspending work on what was to be a $1 billion cereal plant .
SJMN91-06338157_3|The source said the younger Bush ' sketched out for Sununu ' problems the president is encountering because of the chief of staff 's tenure . ; ' He was told .
wsj_0610_9|Each share point is worth about $60 million in sales .
wsj_0610_8|Led by its oat-based Cheerios line , General Mills has gained an estimated 2% share so far this year , mostly at the expense of Kellogg .
wsj_1003_8|Third-quarter sales dropped 11% to $1.27 billion from $1.43 billion a year ago .
wsj_1003_9|In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange , Bethlehem shares rose 50 cents to $17.375 .
wsj_1003_4|In fact , he thinks several steelmakers will report actual losses through the third quarter of 1990 .
wsj_1003_5|Bethlehem , the nation 's second largest steelmaker , earned $46.9 million , or 54 cents a share .
wsj_1003_6|The figures include $15 million in costs related to a blast furnace outage and $8 million in losses from unauthorized work outages at the company 's coal operations .
wsj_1003_7|In the year-ago period , Bethlehem earned $101.4 million , or $1.27 a share , including a $3.8 million gain from early retirement of debt .
wsj_1003_0|Bethlehem Steel Corp. , hammered by higher costs and lower shipments to key automotive and service-center customers , posted a 54% drop in third-quarter profit .
wsj_1003_1|Separately , two more of the nation 's top steelmakers -- Armco Inc. and National Intergroup Inc. -- reported lower operating earnings in their steel businesses , marking what is generally believed to be the end of a two-year boom in the industry .
wsj_1003_2|Wall Street analysts expect the disappointing trend to continue into the fourth quarter and through at least the first two quarters of 1990 , when the industry will increasingly see the effect of price erosion in major product lines , such as rolled sheet used for cars , appliances and construction .
wsj_1003_3|' It does n 't bode well for coming quarters , ' said John Jacobson , who follows the steel industry for AUS Consultants .
wsj_0610_31|The company had retained the Fluor Daniel unit of Fluor Corp. as general contractor .
wsj_0612_3|Rated single-B-1 by Moody 's Investors Service Inc. and single-B-plus by Standard amp Poor 's Corp. , the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Goldman , Sachs amp Co. Hertz Corp. -- $100 million of senior notes due Nov. 1 , 2009 , priced at par to yield 9% .
wsj_0612_2|The debentures are convertible into common stock at $25 a share , representing a 24% conversion premium over Thursday 's closing price .
wsj_0612_1|capital markets , with terms and syndicate manager , as compiled by Dow Jones Capital Markets Report : @ CORPORATES Sun Microsystems Inc. -- $125 million of 6 3/8% convertible subordinated debentures due Oct. 15 , 1999 , priced at 84.90 to yield 7.51% .
wsj_0612_0|The following were among Friday 's offerings and pricings in the U.S. and non-U.S .
wsj_0612_6|@ EUROBONDS Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ( Canada ) -- 10 billion yen of 5.7% bonds due Nov. 17 , 1992 , priced at 101 1/4 to yield 5.75% less full fees , via LTCB International Ltd. Fees 1 3/8 .
wsj_0612_5|Rated single-A-3 by Moody 's and triple-B by SampP , the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Merrill Lynch Capital Markets .
wsj_0612_4|The issue , which is puttable back to the company in 1999 , was priced at a spread of 110 basis points above the Treasury 's 10-year note .
wsj_0160_3|Revenue declined 8% to $85.7 million , from $93.3 million a year earlier .
wsj_0160_2|The charges were partly offset by a $2 million gain on the sale of investments of two joint ventures , he said .
wsj_0160_1|A spokesman for the Stamford , Conn.based company said operations had a loss of $5.5 million for the quarter ; in addition , the loss was magnified by nonrecurring charges totaling $23.5 million and $8.2 million in asset-valuation adjustments that he described as ' unusual . '
wsj_0160_0|Savin Corp. reported a third-quarter net loss of $35.2 million , or 31 cents a share , compared with year-earlier profit of $3.8 million , or one cent a share .
wsj_0160_4|Savin cited ' a general softening in the demand for office products in the market segments in which Savin competes . '
wsj_0127_3|And while there was no profit this year from discontinued operations , last year they contributed #34 million , before tax .
WSJ910225-0066_42|Then , a week or so ago , Gen. Schwarzkopf secretly picked Saturday night as the optimal time to start the offensive .
wsj_0816_20|The Treasury 's benchmark 30-year rose fractionally .
wsj_0816_21|Yield on the issue was 7.88% .
wsj_0816_22|The dollar rose modestly against most major currencies .
wsj_0816_23|In late New York trading the dollar was at 1.8400 marks and 142.10 yen compared with 1.8353 marks and 141.52 yen Wednesday .
wsj_0816_24|The dollar soared against the pound , which was at $1.5765 compared with $1.6145 Wednesday .
wsj_0675_21|Still , analysts said the accord does n 't suggest Japan is opening up to more foreign takeovers .
wsj_0973_20|The executives did n 't disclose the size of the expected gain .
wsj_0973_21|Capital expenditure in 1990 will rise slightly , Mr. Marous said , from an estimated $470 million this year .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_13|It- It just blew up in the air , and then we saw two fireballs go down to the , to the water , and there was a big small , ah , smoke , from ah , coming up from that .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_12|Ah yes , sir .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_11|Later , the controller asks the Eastwind pilot for more details .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_10|There is no response .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_17|God bless him .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_16|I think so .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_15|TWA eight hundred , center I think that was him .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_14|At one point , when it became clear controllers could not contact the plane , someone said a prayer .
WSJ910225-0066_40|The president and his top aides tentatively decided on Feb. 11 that a ground war would be necessary .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_18|Lisa Stark ABC news Washington
wsj_0169_2|Ratners 's chairman , Gerald Ratner , said the deal remains of ' substantial benefit to Ratners . '
wsj_0169_3|In London at mid-afternoon yesterday , Ratners 's shares were up 2 pence ( 1.26 cents ) , at 260 pence ( $1.64 ) .
wsj_0169_0|Ratners Group PLC , a fast-growing , acquisition-minded London-based jeweler , raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield 's Inc. to $57.50 a share , or $62.1 million , from $50 a share , or $55 million , after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners 's initial offer .
wsj_0169_1|The other concern was n 't identified .
wsj_0169_6|About 30% of Ratners 's profit already is derived from the U.S.
wsj_0169_4|The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield 's shareholders , and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10 .
wsj_0169_5|The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield 's raises Ratners 's U.S. presence to 450 stores .
wsj_0124_3|Edward L. Kane succeeded Mr. Taylor as chairman .
wsj_0124_2|He succeeds James A. Taylor , who stepped down as chairman , president and chief executive in March for health reasons .
wsj_0124_1|The appointment takes effect Nov. 13 .
wsj_0124_0|William C. Walbrecher Jr. , an executive at San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank , was named president and chief executive officer of Citadel Holding Corp. and its principal operating unit , Fidelity Federal Bank .
wsj_0124_7|In addition , operating results were hit by an increase in loan and real estate loss reserves .
wsj_0124_6|Those included costs associated with the potential Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association acquisition , which was terminated on Sept. 27 , 1989 .
wsj_0124_5|The latest results include some unusual write-downs , which had an after-tax impact of $4.9 million .
wsj_0124_4|Separately , Citadel posted a third-quarter net loss of $2.3 million , or 68 cents a share , versus net income of $5.3 million , or $1.61 a share , a year earlier .
APW19980227.0487_11|She also denied accusations made by Amir 's brother , Hagai , that she joined an anti-Arab underground movement .
APW19980219.0476_24|They have been aided by Khmer Rouge guerrillas from Anlong Veng , who have formed an alliance with Ranariddh 's resistance forces to oppose Hun Sen .
APW19980219.0476_22|Nhek Bunchhay , evading an intensive manhunt , made his way to O'Smach , the last major outpost held by Ranariddh 's forces .
APW19980219.0476_23|His men have held the stronghold _ which is on the border just opposite the Thai province of Surin _ against repeated intense attacks by Hun Sen 's troops .
APW19980219.0476_20|In July last year in Phnom Penh , Cambodia 's capital , Second Prime Minister Hun Sen staged a successful coup d'etat against First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh .
APW19980219.0476_21|Ranariddh 's loyalists , including Nhek Bunchhay , his top military commander , went into hiding or fled the capital .
APW19980227.0487_9|The rabbi said called the talk about killing Rabin ` ` nonsense , ' ' and said Jews are prohibited from killing one another , the radio reports said .
wsj_0768_20|About 98% of the outflow was transferred to other Fidelity funds , says Neal Litvack , a Fidelity vice president , marketing , with most going into money market funds .
wsj_0768_21|' You get a news item , it hits , you have strong redemptions that day and for two days following -- then go back to normal , ' says Mr. Litvack .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_4|There were more accounts of people fleeing from the villages near where the offensive was taking place .
wsj_0768_23|He adds : ' Our fund has had { positive } net sales every month for the last three years -- until this month . '
wsj_0768_24|Vanguard 's $1 billion High Yield Bond Portfolio has seen $161 million flow out since early September ; $14 million of that seeped out Friday Oct. 13 alone .
PRI19980306.2000.1675_3|BBC correspondent Karyn Coleman reports from Kosovo .
wsj_0768_26|The fund now holds a cash position of about 15% .
wsj_0768_27|At the $932 million T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund , investors yanked out about $182 million in the past two months .
WSJ910225-0066_45|The Bush administration considers the sanctions essential to keeping Saddam Hussein under control should he survive the war .
wsj_0768_15|Mutual funds are the among the largest holders of junk , accounting for more than a quarter of the entire high-yield , high-risk market .
wsj_0768_14|But tremors are likely in the junk-bond market , which has helped to finance the takeover boom of recent years .
wsj_0768_17|Other funds hold a smattering of junk bonds , too .
wsj_0768_16|The 88 mutual funds investing solely in junk bonds hold assets of about $32 billion .
wsj_0768_11|Mutual fund groups have n 't lost control of much of the outgoing money , says Louis Harvey , Dalbar 's president .
wsj_0768_10|Such selling could erode prices of high-yield junk bonds , already weakened by a rash of corporate credit problems .
wsj_0768_13|So the impact on the $950 billion mutual fund industry as a whole probably will be slight .
wsj_0768_12|Mutual fund officials say that investors have transferred most of it into their money market accounts , and to a lesser extent , government-bond funds .
wsj_0786_9|A group including several members of the the Bass family of Texas urged the company to take some steps to maximize shareholder value .
wsj_0768_19|About $60 million streamed out last week alone , double the level of the week following last month 's Campeau Corp. credit squeeze .
wsj_0768_18|The $1.5 billion Fidelity High Income Fund has had a net outflow of about $150 million in the past two months .
wsj_0786_8|It also was considering a restructuring to help boost the stock price .
AP900815-0044_9|Iran said an Iraqi diplomatic delegation was en route to Tehran to deliver Saddam 's message , which it said it would review ` ` with optimism . ' ' Saddam appeared to accept a border demarcation treaty he had rejected in peace talks following the August 1988 cease-fire of the eight-year war with Iran .
WSJ910225-0066_59|If the allies succeed , Saddam Hussein will have plunged his country first into a fruitless eight-year-long war against Iran and then into a humiliating war against the U.S. and the allies to defend his conquest of Kuwait , leaving much of his country 's military establishment and modern infrastructure in ruins .
WSJ910225-0066_58|It expects that tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers will surrender to the U.S. and its allies over the the next few days .
AP900815-0044_1|Also today , King Hussein of Jordan arrived in Washington seeking to mediate the Persian Gulf crisis .
AP900815-0044_0|Iraq 's Saddam Hussein , facing U.S. and Arab troops at the Saudi border , today sought peace on another front by promising to withdraw from Iranian territory and release soldiers captured during the Iran-Iraq war .
AP900815-0044_3|In another mediation effort , the Soviet Union said today it had sent an envoy to the Middle East on a series of stops to include Baghdad .
AP900815-0044_2|President Bush on Tuesday said the United States may extend its naval quarantine to Jordan 's Red Sea port of Aqaba to shut off Iraq 's last unhindered trade route .
AP900815-0044_5|President Bush today denounced Saddam 's ` ` ruinous policies of war , ' ' and said the United States is ` ` striking a blow for the principle that might does not make right . ' ' In a speech delivered at the Pentagon , Bush seemed to suggest that American forces could be in the gulf region for some time .
AP900815-0044_4|Soviet officials also said Soviet women , children and invalids would be allowed to leave Iraq .
AP900815-0044_7|The U.S. military buildup in Saudi Arabia continued at fever pace , with Syrian troops now part of a multinational force camped out in the desert to guard the Saudi kingdom from any new thrust by Iraq .
AP900815-0044_6|` ` No one should doubt our staying power or determination , ' ' he said .
wsj_0584_42|In composite trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange , BellSouth shares fell 87.5 cents to $52.125 .
wsj_0584_43|In national over-the-counter trading , LIN shares soared $4.625 to closed at $112.625 , while McCaw fell $2.50 a share to $37.75 .
wsj_0584_40|For 1988 , BellSouth earned $1.7 billion , or $3.51 a share , on revenue of $13.6 billion .
wsj_0584_41|Analysts were predicting 1990 BellSouth earnings in the range of $3.90 a share , or $1.9 billion , but now those estimates are being scaled back .
wsj_0584_46|Indeed , McCaw seemed to hint at that option in a brief statement .
wsj_0584_47|Urging LIN directors to conduct ' a fair auction on a level playing field , ' McCaw asked how well the public interest would be served ' with the Bell operating companies controlling over 94% of all cellular { potential customers } in the nation 's top 10 markets . '
wsj_0584_44|The proposed BellSouth-LIN cellular company , including the newly acquired Metromedia stake , would give the new entity 55 million potential customers , including about 35 million in the nation 's top 10 markets .
wsj_0584_45|Mr. Leon of Bear Stearns speculated that McCaw , in an attempt to buy time , might consider filing an antitrust suit against BellSouth with the Justice Department and U.S. District Judge Harold Greene , who oversees enforcement of the consent decree that broke up the Bell system in 1984 .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_9|For NPR news , I 'm Auncil Martinez reporting .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_8|Forecasters say the picture will get worse because more rains are on the way .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_3|So that means soil will fall off in chunks and destroy anything in its path .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_2|Experts say the ground is so saturated it cannot absorb any more water .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_1|From member station KQED , Auncil Martinez reports .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_0|Officials in California are warning residents that oncoming rains will cause dangerous and unpredictable landslides .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_7|And in San Francisco , a mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge is slipping toward the sea .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_6|In the northern California town of Rio Nido , officials say a football field sized slab of hillside could still break loose at any time and destroy an entire neighborhood .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_5|No one was hurt , but firefighters ordered the evacuation of nearby homes and said they 'll monitor the shifting ground .
PRI19980213.2000.0313_4|In Los Angeles that lesson was brought home today when tons of earth cascaded down a hillside , ripping two houses from their foundations .
NYT19980206.0460_13|After accounting for a small downward revision Friday to December 's figures , the economy has been creating jobs at a rate of 358,000 a month for the last four months _ and 381,000 over the last three months _ after averaging 242,000 for the first nine months of 1997 .
NYT19980206.0460_12|The job figures for January extended a surge in employment gains that began last fall , just when the labor market had showed signs of cooling .
NYT19980206.0460_11|` ` The bottom line is that we 've got a lovely economy . ' ' With potential inflation counterbalanced by worries about possible price declines , the Fed and its chairman , Alan Greenspan , have suggested that they intend to keep interest rates unchanged until the economy tilts clearly in one direction or another .
NYT19980206.0460_10|` ` Job creation is sturdy and we have effective price stability , ' ' said Paul McCulley , an economist at UBS Securities .
NYT19980206.0460_17|Long-term interest rates , an important indicator of economic stability , have fallen in the last few months .
NYT19980206.0460_16|After a short , sharp drop when Asia 's financial problems first became clear , the stock market has rebounded and corporate profits have remained healthy .
NYT19980206.0460_15|Inflation has been almost nonexistent , and consumer confidence has been extremely strong .
NYT19980206.0460_14|The surge in jobs reflects a remarkable confluence of positive and self-reinforcing economic forces .
NYT19980206.0460_19|The likelihood that the federal budget will soon move from deficit into surplus has further improved the outlook .
NYT19980206.0460_18|Lower rates have helped invigorate housing and other interest-sensitive sectors of the economy by making loans more affordable , and have allowed companies to continue investing heavily in more efficient equipment .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_8|There are not huge waiting uh disparit- waiting time disparities amongst the very uh sickest patients .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_9|It 's between two to six days for every one uh of the sickest patients across the country .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_6|UNOS spokeswoman Donna Henry Wright says the new policy would not necessarily be more fair or effective because allowances are already made for the most needy patients .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_7|The sickest patients are already treated first .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_4|UNOS says the regulations put the federal government in charge of deciding who gets transplants and that many hospital transplant centers would be forced to close .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_5|Health and Human Services Secretary Do- Donna Shalala says patients who need an organ transplant should not have to take a chance that an organ will become available in their local area , nor should patients have to travel to transplant centers far from their homes to improve their chances of getting an organ .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_2|Currently , transplant organs are rationed through a regional system of distribution .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_3|The private group that runs the current system , United Network for Organ Sharing , or UNOS , objects to the new regulations .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_0|The US government recently announced new regulations designed to change the way transplant organs are made available to sick patients .
VOA19980331.1700.1533_1|Under the new guidelines , donor organs will be made available to the sickest people first , wherever they live in the country .
wsj_0376_8|Some analysts have said Courtaulds ' moves could boost the company 's value by 5% to 10% , because the two entities separately will carry a higher price earnings multiple than they did combined .
wsj_0376_9|In addition , Courtaulds said the moves are logical because they will allow both the chemicals and textile businesses to focus more closely on core activities .
wsj_0376_4|Courtaulds ' shares rose 15 pence to 362 pence , valuing the entire company at about #1.44 billion .
wsj_0376_5|Courtaulds ' spinoff reflects pressure on British industry to boost share prices beyond the reach of corporate raiders .
wsj_0376_6|Courtaulds ' restructuring is among the largest thus far in Britain , though it is dwarfed by B.A.T Industries PLC 's plans to spin roughly off #4 billion in assets to help fend off a takeover bid from Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith .
wsj_0376_7|The divested Courtaulds textile operations had operating profit of #50 million on #980 million in revenue in the year ended March 31 .
wsj_0376_0|Courtaulds PLC announced plans to spin off its textiles operations to existing shareholders in a restructuring to boost shareholder value .
wsj_0376_1|The British chemical and textile company 's plan , which requires shareholder approval , would create a new , listed U.K. stock with a probable market capitalization between #300 million ( $473 million ) and #400 million , analysts said .
wsj_0376_2|The establishment of the separate company , to be called Courtaulds Textiles , could be effective as early as next year 's first quarter .
wsj_0376_3|Investors welcomed the move .
wsj_0568_19|That means Unisys must pay about $100 million in interest every quarter , on top of $27 million in dividends on preferred stock .
wsj_0568_18|Debt has risen to around $4 billion , or about 50% of total capitalization .
wsj_0568_17|In addition , Unisys must deal with its increasingly oppressive debt load .
wsj_0568_16|That would be a huge problem if it were to continue , because Unisys is betting its business on the assumption that customers want to move away from using operating systems that run on only one manufacturer 's equipment and toward systems -- mainly Unix -- that work on almost anyone 's machines .
wsj_0568_15|The company also reported slower growth in another important business : systems that use the Unix operating system .
wsj_0568_14|Still , Unisys said its European business was weak during the quarter , a worrisome sign given that the company has relied on solid results overseas to overcome weakness in the U.S. over the past several quarters .
wsj_0568_13|In addition , Unisys said it reduced computer inventories a further $100 million during the quarter , leaving it within $100 million of its goal of a reduction of $500 million by the end of the year .
wsj_0568_12|The tax payments will leave Unisys with $225 million in loss carry-forwards that will cut tax payments in future quarters .
wsj_0568_11|Unisys also noted that it paid $78.8 million in taxes during the quarter , even though tax payments normally would be minimal in a quarter that produced such a big loss .
wsj_0568_10|In addition , Unisys set up an unspecified reserve -- apparently $60 million to $70 million -- to cover the minimum amount it will have to pay the government because of its involvement in the defense-procurement scandal .
AP900816-0139_15|Saddam has been under international quarantine since his Aug. 2 power-grab , or what he calls an ` ` eternal merger ' ' with Kuwait .
AP900816-0139_14|In Washington , Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said Iraq has continued to increase its armed forces in Kuwait and they now number about 160,000 .
AP900816-0139_17|` ` We continue to pray and pray hard to God so that there will be no confrontation whereby you will receive thousands of Americans wrapped in sad coffins after you had pushed them into a dark tunnel , ' ' Saddam said .
AP900816-0139_16|In a long verbal attack read on Iraqi television Thursday , Saddam repeatedly called Bush ` ` a liar ' ' and said a shooting war could produce body bags courtesy of Baghdad .
AP900816-0139_11|A total of about 3,000 Americans , 3,000 Britons and more than 450 Japanese are in Iraq and Kuwait .
AP900816-0139_10|Iraq said the roundup was to protect them from unspecified threats ; British Foreign Office minister William Waldegrave called the order ` ` grave and sinister . ' ' ` ` What we fear is that they will be interned somewhere , most likely in Iraq , ' ' Waldegrave said .
AP900816-0139_13|Iraq has called them ` ` restrictees . ' ' In addition to the estimated 45,000 Marines to ultimately be part of Operation Desert Shield , Stealth fighter planes and the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy are also headed to Saudi Arabia to protect it from Iraqi expansionism .
AP900816-0139_12|Overall , more than 2 million foreigners are in both countries .
AP900816-0139_19|Replied State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher , ` ` We have n 't really analyzed the statement in detail but it appears to be just another example of his outlandish rhetoric and his attempts to distort the truth .
AP900816-0139_18|He called U.S. soldiers massing in Saudi Arabia the real occupiers in the Persian Gulf .
wsj_0557_18|The new candy bars , ' make an important contribution to our Nestle Foods commitment to this very important strategic unit , ' said C. Alan MacDonald , president of Nestle Foods in Purchase , N.Y.
wsj_0557_11|' RJR Nabisco and Planters LifeSavers will concentrate more on our own core businesses , ' Mr. Gerstner said Friday .
wsj_0557_10|RJR 's executives have said they will dispense with certain brands , in particular , that are n 't leaders in their markets .
wsj_0557_13|Nestle 's share of 7% before Friday 's purchases is far below the shares of market leaders Hershey Foods Corp. and Mars Inc. , which have about 40% and 36% of the market , respectively .
wsj_0557_12|Baby Ruth and Butterfinger are both among the top-selling 15 chocolate bars in the U.S. , but RJR 's overall share of the roughly $5.1 billion market is less than 5% .
wsj_0557_15|' For them , it makes all kinds of sense .
wsj_0557_14|' This means Nestle is now in the candybar business in a big way , ' said Lisbeth Echeandia , publisher of Orlando , Fla.-based Confectioner Magazine .
wsj_0557_17|Nestle S.A. is based in Vevey , Switzerland .
wsj_0557_16|They 've been given a mandate from Switzerland ' to expand their U.S. chocolate operations .
WSJ910225-0066_33|Despite these early successes , the mere fact that a ground campaign has begun almost guarantees that the Bush administration will face fresh problems growing out of the military situation .
WSJ910225-0066_32|American war planners have long assumed that the early stage of the ground attack , in which American forces would use their speed to sweep around Iraqi defenses and their strength to punch through the relatively weak Iraqi front line , would be the easiest part .
WSJ910225-0066_31|' All Iraqis , fight them with all the power you have , and all struggle for everything . '
WSJ910225-0066_30|' Fight them , ' he urged Iraqis in a radio address .
WSJ910225-0066_37|U.S. officials say that hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells now may have been set afire .
WSJ910225-0066_36|President Bush 's political argument for going to a ground war has been strengthened by the growing stream of reports of wanton Iraqi destruction inside Kuwait .
WSJ910225-0066_35|U.S. and Kuwaiti officials say there are reports that large numbers of civilians from Kuwait City are being rounded up and held by Iraqi troops , apparently either for use as human shields or for use later in bargaining once the war is over .
WSJ910225-0066_34|There are likely to be additional American prisoners of war taken , and there are signs that President Hussein is taking Kuwaiti hostages .
WSJ910225-0066_39|Mr. Bush and his aides were leaning toward a military conclusion of the crisis even before the latest reports of Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait came to light .
WSJ910225-0066_38|And Robert Gates , Mr. Bush 's deputy national security adviser , asserted in an interview on the Cable News Network that Iraqi troops have set fire to ' large sections ' of Kuwait City .
wsj_1006_20|Mr. Nadeau said he could n 't yet say if the sale prices would match book values .
wsj_1006_21|He said all three non-food operations are profitable .
wsj_1006_22|Mr. Nadeau said discussions are under way with potential purchasers of each of the units .
wsj_1006_23|He declined to confirm or deny reports that Provigo executive Henri Roy is trying to put together a management buy-out of the catalogue showroom unit .
wsj_1006_24|Mr. Roy could n 't be reached .
wsj_1006_25|Yvon Bussieres was named senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of Provigo , a new position .
wsj_1006_26|Mr. Bussieres was president and chief operating officer of Provigo 's Quebec retail and wholesale grocery unit .
wsj_1006_27|Mr. Nadeau said he intends to remain Provigo 's chief executive only until the non-food businesses are sold , after a which a new chief executive will be named .
wsj_0816_19|Bond prices were barely higher .
wsj_0816_18|Declining issues on the Big Board outstripped gainers 1,141 to 406 .
wsj_0816_15|That is another small encouragement for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in coming weeks , they reasoned .
wsj_0816_14|While bond investors would have preferred growth to be a little slower , they were cheered by inflation measures in the data that showed prices rising at a modest annual rate of 2.9% .
wsj_0816_17|Volume on the New York Stock Exchange totaled 175.2 million shares .
wsj_0816_16|In major market activity : Stock prices fell sharply in active trading .
wsj_0816_11|' There are a lot more downward revisions of earnings forecasts than upward revisions , ' said Abby Joseph Cohen , a market strategist at Drexel Burnham Lambert .
wsj_0816_10|Although the government said the economy grew an estimated 2.5% in the third quarter , in line with expectations , analysts are increasingly predicting much more sluggish growth -- and therefore more corporate earnings disappointments -- for the fourth quarter .
wsj_0816_13|The bond market was unmoved by the economic statistics .
wsj_0816_12|' People are questioning corporate profits as a pillar of support for the equity market . '
wsj_0927_16|Assets as of Sept. 30 fell to $2.46 billion from about $2.77 billion .
wsj_0927_17|' We will have a reasonably flat year this year , ' Mr. Schwarz says .
wsj_0927_14|Quarterly net income this year has risen just over comparable periods in 1988 , when year-end net was below the 1987 level .
wsj_0927_15|In this year 's third quarter , for example , net was $10.5 million , or $1.05 a share , compared with $10.3 million , or $1.02 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_0927_12|' Our bread and butter is still the $2 million to $20 million account , ' he says .
wsj_0927_13|The new services allow U.S. Trust to cater to the ' new wealth , ' Mr. Schwarz says .
wsj_0927_10|Previously , the company advertised at the $2 million level .
wsj_0927_11|' We have always taken smaller accounts , but now we are looking for smaller accounts that will grow , ' Mr. Schwarz says .
wsj_0927_18|Mr. Schwarz also said costs associated with U.S. Trust 's planned move to midtown Manhattan from Wall Street will continue to be a drag on earnings through 1990 .
wsj_0927_19|Mr. Schwarz 's great-grandfather founded the New York toy store F.A.O. Schwarz , but his family no longer has ties to the company .
wsj_0136_5|In anticipation of the start-up of its new factory , the company said a larger-than-normal chassis supply has been built to carry it through the transition period .
wsj_0585_45|The average daily share turnover for October is almost 148 million shares .
wsj_0585_44|Friday 's trading volume totaled 132.8 million shares .
wsj_0585_47|McCaw , which dropped 2 1/2 to 37 3/4 , has offered $125 a share for a majority of LIN 's shares .
wsj_0675_30|Dollar : 141.65 yen , off 0.45 ; 1.8300 marks , off 0.0100 .
wsj_0585_46|LIN Broadcasting surged 4 5/8 to 112 5/8 ; LIN and BellSouth sweetened their merger agreement in an attempt to keep shareholders from tendering their shares to McCaw Cellular Communications .
wsj_0585_41|For the week , the index dropped 3.8% .
wsj_0585_40|--- Friday 's Market Activity The Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 5.39 , or 1.2% to 452.76 on Friday .
wsj_0585_43|The Nasdaq Financial Index lost about 1% , or 3.95 , to 448.80 .
wsj_0762_4|In national over-the-counter trading yesterday , Cambrex shares rose 50 cents to close at $13 a share .
wsj_0762_3|Although profits were ' squeezed ' in 1989 , mainly as a result of higher raw-material costs , the company said it is confident about future earnings and cash flow for 1990 and beyond .
wsj_0762_2|The company said the move recognizes its strong financial position .
wsj_0762_1|The maker of specialty chemicals has about 5.9 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0762_0|CAMBREX Corp. , Bayonne , N.J. , declared its initial quarterly of five cents a share , payable Dec. 1 to stock of record Nov. 10 .
wsj_0760_9|For the nine months , Norton had net of $81.2 million , or $3.87 a share , and a tax credit of $4.4 million .
wsj_0760_8|Norton announced earlier this month that it was exploring the possible sale of all or part of Eastman Christensen .
wsj_0760_1|Operating profit for the abrasives , engineering materials and petroleum services concern was $19.2 million , or 91 cents a share , up 3% from $18.7 million , or 87 cents a share .
wsj_0760_0|Norton Co. said net income for the third quarter fell 6% to $20.6 million , or 98 cents a share , from $22 million , or $1.03 a share .
wsj_0760_3|In the year-earlier quarter , the tax credit was $3.3 million .
wsj_0760_2|The company had a tax credit of $1.4 million .
wsj_0760_5|Operating profit in the company 's abrasives segment rose 16% while operating profit in the engineering materials segment rose 2% .
wsj_0760_4|Sales rose 8% to $368.5 million from $340.7 million .
wsj_0760_7|Norton and Texas Eastern had each held a 50% stake in Eastman in a joint venture .
wsj_0760_6|However , the company 's petroleum services segment , while profitable , was hurt by high financing costs associated with the company 's buy-out of a 50% stake in Eastman Christensen Co. from Texas Eastern Corp. last June .
wsj_0810_19|Once he realized that Paribas 's intentions weren 't friendly , he said , but before the bid was launched , he sought approval to boost his Paribas stake above 10% .
wsj_0810_18|Mr. Fournier also noted that Navigation Mixte joined Paribas 's core of shareholders when Paribas was denationalized in 1987 , and said it now holds just under 5% of Paribas 's shares .
wsj_0810_13|Analysts noted that over the past 20 years , Mr. Fournier has built his company through astute stock-market activity and has warded off at least three takeover attempts .
wsj_0810_12|If holders avoid tendering to Paribas , he added , they can expect strong dividends again next year .
wsj_0810_11|Mr. Fournier said the exceptional gain would mean nearly twice as high a dividend this year as last .
wsj_0810_10|That is due mostly to payments from Allianz for most of the 50% stake it has agreed to acquire in Navigation Mixte 's insurance business .
wsj_0810_17|Paribas still needs the go-ahead from the Commission des Operations de Bourse , a government regulatory agency , but analysts said that is considered likely .
wsj_0810_16|Mr. de Cholet said Mr. Fournier 's biggest hope was to somehow persuade regulatory authorities to block the bid .
wsj_0810_15|' Without some unexpected ' coup de theatre ' , I do n 't see what will block the Paribas bid , ' said Philippe de Cholet , analyst at the brokerage Cholet-Dupont amp Cie .
wsj_0810_14|This time , however , some analysts think he could face a real battle .
wsj_0768_1|Last week alone , an eye-popping $1.6 billion flowed out of the junk funds , or nearly 5% of their total assets , according to estimates by Dalbar Financial Services Inc. , a Boston research firm .
wsj_0768_0|Billions of investors ' dollars are pouring out of the nation 's junk-bond mutual funds , undermining a pillar of support in the already reeling junk market .
wsj_0768_3|It made the estimates based on data collected from more than a dozen big junk funds .
wsj_0768_2|In the past two months the nation 's 88 junk funds have lost a total of about $6 billion -- more than 15% of assets -- through sales or transfers of junk-fund shares , Dalbar says .
wsj_0768_5|Their junk funds combined have had net outflows totaling nearly $500 million , or about 13% of their junk fund assets , in the past two months .
wsj_0768_4|Interviews with three major fund groups -- Fidelity Investments , Vanguard Group Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. -- confirm the trend .
wsj_0768_7|' People have been seeing headline after headline after headline and saying : ` I ca n 't take it anymore -- I 'm getting out , ' ' says Kurt Brouwer of Brouwer amp Janachowski , a San Francisco investment adviser .
wsj_0768_6|Some fund managers say negative publicity has exacerbated investors ' concern about recent declines in junk-bond prices .
wsj_0768_9|If the heavy outflows continue , fund managers will face increasing pressure to sell off some of their junk to pay departing investors in the weeks ahead .
wsj_0768_8|The withdrawals could spell trouble for the $200 billion junk market .
wsj_1014_12|The stock closed at $38.50 on heavy volume of about 3.5 million shares .
wsj_1014_13|Shares of Coors , the company 's sole publicly traded major competitor , fell $1.50 apiece to $19.125 in national over-the-counter trading , apparently on investor concerns over potential fallout from the coming pricing struggle .
wsj_1014_10|Anheuser said its new strategy -- started in some markets last month and expected to be applied soon in selected markets nationwide -- will mean lower-than-anticipated earnings for the last half of 1989 and for 1990 .
wsj_1014_11|The projection sent Anheuser shares plunging $4.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday .
wsj_1014_16|Anheuser said it continues to hold to its earlier-announced goal of a 50% U.S. market share by the mid-1990s .
wsj_1014_17|Beneath the tepid news-release jargon lies a powerful threat from the brewing giant , which last year accounted for about 41% of all U.S. beer sales and is expected to see that grow to 42.5% in the current year .
wsj_1014_14|Anheuser noted that ' beer industry sales volume is 1989 is following the trend that has characterized the last half of the ' 80s , with sales volume being essentially flat ' while consolidation creates fewer , bigger players .
wsj_1014_15|' We cannot permit a further slowing in our volume trend , ' Anheuser said , adding it will take ' appropriate competitive pricing actions to support our long-term market share growth strategy ' for the premium brands .
wsj_0906_3|The agreement is subject to regulatory approval and resolution of lawsuits brought by certain Diversified holders in connection with the proposed merger .
wsj_0906_2|The acquisition would give Wilmington , Del.-based Star States access to the Pennsylvania market .
wsj_0906_1|Diversified , the holding company for Fidelity Federal Savings amp Loan Association , said the agreement also gives Star States the option to acquire 588,300 of Diversified 's 1,774,326 shares outstanding ' under certain circumstances . '
wsj_0906_0|Diversified Investment Group Inc. said it agreed to be acquired by Star States Corp. for stock valued at $13.75 a share , or about $24.4 million .
wsj_0584_37|BellSouth 's revised proposal surprised many industry analysts , especially because of the company 's willingness to accept some dilution of future earnings .
wsj_0745_15|The 15% restriction covers any would-be suitor , British or foreign .
wsj_0745_16|Ford is willing to bid for 100% of Jaguar 's shares if both the government and Jaguar shareholders agree to relax the anti-takeover barrier prematurely .
wsj_0584_34|' How many shares will be around in 1995 ? '
wsj_0745_10|He would n 't specify what it was .
wsj_0904_4|Net for the nine months was $254 million , or $5.94 a share , up 56% from $163 million , or $4.06 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_0584_31|We 're surprised .
wsj_0584_30|We think this is a superior deal to McCaw 's .
wsj_0904_9|During the third quarter , Compaq purchased a former Wang Laboratories manufacturing facility in Stirling , Scotland , which will be used for international service and repair operations .
wsj_0904_8|' Over the next couple of years we would not be surprised to see Europe and international { sales } represent 50% of the company 's revenues , ' he said .
wsj_0745_18|Ford might succeed because many shareholders are speculators keen for a full bid or institutional investors unhappy over Jaguar management 's handling of its current financial difficulties .
wsj_0745_19|The government probably would n 't give in readily to a hostile foray by Ford , however .
wsj_0584_39|Indeed , BellSouth 's cellular operations were among the first in the country to become profitable .
wsj_0584_38|William O. McCoy , president of the company 's BellSouth Enterprises Inc. unit , said the revised agreement with LIN would dilute BellSouth earnings by about 9% in both 1990 and 1991 and by significantly less thereafter .
APW19980227.0494_2|But while the two Slavic neighbors see themselves as natural partners , their relations since the breakup of the Soviet Union have been bedeviled by a number of disputes _ Black Sea naval bases , border problems and Ukraine 's natural gas debts .
APW19980227.0494_3|` ` We have covered the entire list of questions and discussed how we will be tackling them , ' ' Yeltsin was quoted as saying by the ITAR-Tass news agency .
APW19980227.0494_0|MOSCOW ( AP ) _ Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Boris Yeltsin of Russia signed an economic cooperation plan Friday , and Yeltsin claimed they resolved even more nagging problems .
APW19980227.0494_1|Russia and Ukraine share similar cultures and languages , and Ukraine was ruled from Moscow for centuries .
APW19980227.0494_6|Their solution would require a compromise between the two nations ' parliaments .
APW19980227.0494_7|A major dispute concerns a broad political treaty calling for border demarcation , which the two presidents signed last May .
APW19980227.0494_4|` ` I must say there are no unsettled problems any more .
APW19980227.0494_5|We have solved them all . ' ' But his sweeping statement contained no details , and gave no indication of how the disputes could be resolved .
wsj_0542_9|Telerate provides information about financial markets through an electronic network .
APW19980227.0494_8|In effect , the treaty amounts to Russian recognition of Ukraine 's sovereignty and borders , and the Ukrainian parliament has already ratified it .
APW19980227.0494_9|However , Russia has stalled ratification , trying to tie it to an agreement that would permit the Russian navy to use a naval base on Ukraine 's Crimean peninsula for at least 20 more years .
wsj_1011_5|' The key to Delta 's record earnings continued to be excellent passenger revenue growth , ' said Thomas Roeck , chief financial officer .
wsj_1011_4|During the quarter , Delta issued 2.5 million shares of common stock to Swissair , and repurchased 1.1 million shares for use in a company employee stock ownership plan .
wsj_1011_7|Delta has benefited more than other carriers from the weakness of Eastern Airlines , which shares the Atlanta hub .
wsj_1011_6|Passenger traffic jumped 14% in the quarter , while profit per passenger grew 2% .
wsj_1011_1|The Atlanta-based airline , the third largest in the U.S. , attributed the increase to higher passenger traffic , new international routes and reduced service by rival Eastern Airlines , which is in bankruptcy proceedings in the wake of a strike that began last spring .
wsj_1011_0|Delta Air Lines earnings soared 33% to a record in the fiscal first quarter , bucking the industry trend toward declining profits .
wsj_1011_3|Revenue rose 15% to $2.17 billion from $1.89 billion .
wsj_1011_2|For the quarter ended Sept. 30 , Delta posted net income of $133.1 million , or $2.53 a share , up from $100 million , or $2.03 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_1011_9|Separately , America West Airlines , Phoenix , Ariz. , reported third-quarter profit jumped 45% to $5.8 million , or 28 cents a share , from $4 million , or 24 cents a share , a year earlier .
wsj_1011_8|Although Eastern is back to about 80% of its pre-strike schedule now , the Texas Air Corp. subsidiary was only beginning to get back on its feet during the quarter .
wsj_0583_1|Polly Peck , a fast-growing British conglomerate , will pay 15.6 billion yen ( $110 million ) for 39 million new shares of Sansui , a well-known maker of high-fidelity audio equipment that failed to adjust to changing market conditions .
wsj_0340_3|Both companies are allies of Navigation Mixte in its fight against a hostile takeover bid launched last week by Cie .
wsj_1006_18|Last month , Canadian Bond Rating Service downgraded Provigo 's commercial paper and debentures because of its lackluster performance .
wsj_0184_14|Earlier staff-reduction moves have trimmed about 300 jobs , the spokesman said .
wsj_0172_2|Midwest Financial has $2.3 billion in assets and eight banks .
wsj_0172_3|The Midwest Financial subsidiary banks will continue to operate under their current names until early 1990 , when each will adopt the First of America name .
wsj_0172_0|First of America Bank Corp. said it completed its acquisition of Midwest Financial Group Inc. for about $250 million .
wsj_0172_1|First of America , which now has 45 banks and $12.5 billion in assets , announced an agreement to acquire the Peoria , Ill. , bank holding company in January .
wsj_0172_6|But it said that severance payments to those executives not staying with the company will reduce First of America 's operating results for 1989 by $3 million to $4 million , or 15 cents to 20 cents a share .
wsj_0172_4|Kalamazoo , Mich.-based First of America said it will eliminate the 13 management positions of the former Midwest Financial parent company .
wsj_0172_5|First of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America .
WSJ910225-0066_24|For one thing , Iraq still apparently has n 't unleashed its stockpile of chemical weapons .
WSJ910225-0066_25|Gen. Schwarzkopf said that some early reports that chemical weapons were used against allied troops turned out to be ' bogus . '
WSJ910225-0066_26|Iraq is believed to have the ability to deliver chemical weapons in artillery shells or , perhaps , atop Soviet-made Frog7 missiles .
WSJ910225-0066_27|Perhaps more important , it appears that allied troops have n 't yet fully engaged Iraq 's vaunted Republican Guard , which has been sitting just north of the Iraq-Kuwait border and is considered the most potent element in the Iraqi defense .
WSJ910225-0066_20|He went on to add that ' in so doing you not only return a nation to its people , but you will destroy the war machine of a ruthless dictator . '
WSJ910225-0066_21|Secretary of State James Baker said on ABC-TV 's ' This Week With David Brinkley ' that the series of United Nations resolutions condemning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait ' imply that the restoration of peace and stability in the Gulf would be a heck of a lot easier if he and that leadership were not in power in Iraq . '
WSJ910225-0066_22|Of course , it is still far too early to assume that the military situation on the ground will stay as smooth for allied forces as it appears to have been so far .
WSJ910225-0066_23|Iraq still has the potential to cause significant problems by using forces and weapons that don 't yet seem fully engaged .
wsj_0184_12|The company earlier this year adopted a shareholder-rights plan to ward off unwanted suitors .
WSJ910225-0066_28|It remains to be seen how much damage the allied air campaign was able to inflict on the Guard , and whether President Hussein will commit his most valued troops to a fight-to-the-death finish .
WSJ910225-0066_29|Certainly Saddam Hussein continues to implore his country to fight on .
wsj_1013_9|Thrift officials said the $300 million reserve will be adjusted quarterly and will reflect the rate of dispositions and market conditions .
wsj_1013_8|On June 30 , loss reserves stood at $108.3 million .
wsj_1013_3|The loss stems from $357.5 million of write-downs on Columbia 's $4.4 billion high-yield investment securities portfolio , which includes about $3.7 billion of junk bonds , $400 million of preferred stock , and Treasury securities .
wsj_1013_2|Total assets increased to $12.7 billion in the latest quarter from $12.4 billion a year earlier .
wsj_1013_1|For the quarter a year ago , Columbia reported earnings of $16.3 million , or 37 cents a share .
wsj_1013_0|Columbia Savings amp Loan Association , reeling from thrift-accounting changes mandated by Congress and the recent collapse of the junk-bond market , announced a loss for the third quarter of $226.3 million , or $11.57 a share .
wsj_1013_7|Columbia also added $227.3 million to reserves for losses on the portfolio , increasing general reserves to $300 million , or about 6.7% of the total portfolio , as of Sept. 30 .
wsj_1013_6|The results include a $130.2 million write-down of the securities in the high-yield portfolio to the lower of their cost or market value .
wsj_1013_5|Much of Columbia 's junk-bond trading has been done through the high-yield department of its Beverly Hills neighbor , Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. For the nine months , losses totaled $212 million , or $10.83 a share , compared with net income of $48.7 million , or $1.11 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_1013_4|Columbia owes its spectacular growth in recent years to its junk-bond portfolio , the largest of any U.S. thrift .
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APW19980501.0480_18|However , its value and benefits are only as good as how we use it .
wsj_0610_4|The company said it was delaying construction because of current market conditions .
APW19980501.0480_16|Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be seen .
APW19980501.0480_17|All in all , the Internet has a lot to offer .
APW19980501.0480_14|` ` Smart homes ' ' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines .
APW19980501.0480_15|The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships .
APW19980501.0480_12|While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises , security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures , and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them .
APW19980501.0480_13|Other than usage in business , Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain .
APW19980501.0480_10|It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation .
APW19980501.0480_11|With intranets in place , it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies ' for extended business purposes through extranets .
wsj_0610_6|Kellogg , which has n 't been as successful in capitalizing on the public 's health-oriented desire for oat bran as rival General Mills Inc. , has been losing share in the $6 billion ready-to-eat cereal market .
SJMN91-06338157_0|The message to the chief of staff was meant to be taken as a suggestion that Sununu offer to resign , one highly placed source said .
wsj_0176_4|Earnings at Xerox 's financial-services operations actually rose slightly , but that was largely because capital gains at Crum amp Forster offset Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to cover future payments .
wsj_0176_5|Property/casualty insurance has been a tough business in recent quarters , as pricing has been cutthroat and natural disasters such as Hurricane Hugo and the California earthquake have resulted in huge payments .
wsj_0176_2|She said the move would result in a after-tax charge of less than $4 million to be spread over the next three quarters .
wsj_0176_3|By comparison , for the first nine months , Xerox earned $492 million , or $4.55 a share , on revenue of $12.97 billion .
wsj_0176_0|Xerox Corp. has told employees in its Crum amp Forster personal insurance operations that it is laying off about 300 people , or 25% of the staff .
wsj_0176_1|A spokeswoman for Crum amp Forster said employees were told early this week that numerous staff functions for the personal insurance lines were going to be centralized as a cost-cutting move .
SJMN91-06338157_2|One GOP source , reporting on a call from the chief of staff to a Republican leader , said Sununu lamented that ' the noose is tightening around my neck , and I need your help . ' ; Another highly placed source said the president 's son met with Sununu last week after holding a series of conversations about the structure of the White House staff and of the campaign with other Bush loyalists and GOP activists .
wsj_0610_2|The company 's president quit suddenly .
wsj_0340_6|The Credit Lyonnais purchase , for 33,000 regular common shares and 10,000 newly created shares , is valued at about slightly more than 80 million French francs .
wsj_0340_5|Navigation Mixte 's chairman had suggested that friendly institutions were likely to buy its stock as soon as trading opened Monday .
wsj_0340_4|Financiere de Paribas at 1,850 French francs ( $297 ) a share .
wsj_1006_19|Analysts are skeptical Provigo will be able to sell the non-food businesses as a group for at least book value , and are expecting write-downs .
wsj_0340_2|Earlier yesterday , the Societe de Bourses Francaises was told that a unit of Framatome S.A. also bought Navigation Mixte shares , this purchase covering more than 160,000 shares .
wsj_0340_1|de Navigation Mixte , apparently to help fend off an unwelcome takeover bid for the company .
wsj_0340_0|The portfolio unit of the French bank group Credit Lyonnais told stock market regulators that it bought 43,000 shares of Cie .
wsj_1006_15|' The non-food operations were largely Mr. Lortie 's creation { and } his strategy did n 't work , ' said Steven Holt , a financial analyst with Midland Doherty Ltd. Provigo 's profit record over the past two years tarnished the company 's and Mr. Lortie 's reputations .
wsj_1006_14|Mr. Lortie 's departure , while sudden , was seen as inevitable in light of the shift in strategy .
wsj_1006_17|Sales were C$4.2 billion compared with C$3.7 billion .
wsj_1006_16|For the six months ended Aug. 12 , Provigo posted net income of C$6.5 million , or eight Canadian cents a share , compared with C$18.1 million , or 21 Canadian cents a share , a year earlier .
wsj_1006_11|Investors and analysts applauded the news .
wsj_1006_10|The three units are a nationwide pharmaceutical and health-products distributor , a small sporting-goods chain , and a combination catalog showroom and toy-store chain .
wsj_1006_13|' I think it 's a pretty positive development , ' said Ross Cowan , a financial analyst with Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc. , of the decision to concentrate on groceries .
wsj_1006_12|Provigo was the most active industrial stock on the Montreal Exchange , where it closed at C$9.75 ( US$8.32 ) , up 75 Canadian cents .
wsj_0136_2|In fiscal 1988 , the company earned $17.3 million , or $1.92 a share , on revenue of $352.9 million .
wsj_0136_3|Oshkosh Truck attributed the downturn in its earnings to higher start-up costs of its new chassis division , a softer motor-home market and higher administrative costs of compliance with government contractor regulations .
wsj_0344_1|These results compare with net income of $1.8 million , or 44 cents a share , for the corresponding period last year .
wsj_0344_3|The publishing concern said it retained the investment banking firm of Donaldson , Lufkin amp Jenrette Securities Inc. to act as its financial adviser , assisting in the evaluation of various financial and strategic alternatives , including debt refinancing , raising capital , recapitalization , a merger or sale of the company .
wsj_0344_2|This quarter 's loss includes pretax charges of $4.9 million on the proposed discontinuation of the company 's troubled British subsidiary , and $3.7 million of other write-offs the company said were non-recurring and principally related to inventory , publishing advances and pre-publication costs .
wsj_0136_0|Oshkosh Truck Corp. , Oshkosh , Wis. , estimated earnings for its fourth quarter ended Sept. 30 fell 50% to 75% below the year-earlier $4.5 million , or 51 cents a share .
wsj_0136_1|The truck maker said the significant drop in net income will result in lower earnings for the fiscal year .
wsj_0344_7|U.K. sales for last year 's quarter were about $3 million .
wsj_0344_6|The company attributed the decrease in part to the exclusion of the company 's British sales from the current year 's figures as a result of the subsidiary 's status as a proposed discontinued operation and , in part , to lower sales in certain key foreign and domestic accounts .
wsj_0136_4|The company said it is in the process of phasing out John Deere , its current source of production for midsized motor home chassis .
wsj_0344_4|The company also retained attorney Martin P. Levin , a director of the company and former head of the Times-Mirror Publishing Group , as an adviser .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_9|Not that long ago , before the Chinese takeover , the news about real estate here was that the sky was the limit the highest prices in the world .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_8|Here 's ABC 's Jim Laurie .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_5|In the Philippines , a four year low .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_4|In Singapore , stocks hit a five year low .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_7|More problems in Hong Kong for a place , for an economy , that many experts thought was once invincible .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_6|And in Hong Kong , a three percent drop .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_1|The financial assistance from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are not helping .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_0|On the other hand , it 's turning out to be another very bad financial week for Asia .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_3|The Indonesian currency has lost twenty six percent of its value .
ABC19980108.1830.0711_2|In the last twenty four hours , the value of the Indonesian stock market has fallen by twelve percent .
wsj_0171_8|The thrift has assets of $3.2 billion .
wsj_0171_5|The thrift said that ' after these charges and assuming no dramatic fluctuation in interest rates , the association expects to achieve near record earnings in 1990 . '
wsj_0171_4|Valley Federal also added $18 million to realestate loan reserves and eliminated $9.9 million of good will .
wsj_0171_7|New loans continue to slow ; they were $6.6 million in the quarter compared with $361.8 million a year ago .
wsj_0171_6|Valley Federal is currently being examined by regulators .
wsj_0171_1|The Van Nuys , Calif. , thrift had net income of $132,000 , or three cents a share , a year ago .
wsj_0171_0|Valley Federal Savings amp Loan Association took an $89.9 million charge as it reported a third-quarter loss of $70.7 million , or $12.09 a share .
wsj_0171_3|The company said the one-time provision would substantially eliminate all future losses at the unit .
wsj_0171_2|The bulk of the pretax charge is a $62 million write-off of capitalized servicing at the mobile home financing subsidiary , which the company said had been a big drain on earnings .
APW19980213.1320_4|In a joint statement with Tourism Minister Andrew Thomson , it said two new flights would leave Bombay on Monday and Tuesday nights from March 30 , with the third departing each Thursday from August 6 . This will add nearly 700 seats a week on the route .
APW19980213.1320_5|Thomson , in India to talk to tourism leaders , said the flights would provide extra support to the growing tourism market .
APW19980213.1320_6|Qantas ' India manager Khursheed Lam said the airline was working closely with the Australian Tourist Commission to develop greater awareness of Australia in the Indian market .
APW19980213.1320_7|Qantas will also appoint a Bombay-based public relations consultant .
APW19980213.1320_0|CANBERRA , Australia ( AP ) _ Qantas will almost double its flights between Australia and India by August in the search for new markets untouched by the crippling Asian financial crisis .
APW19980213.1320_1|This move comes barely a month after Qantas suspended a number of services between Australia , Indonesia , Thailand and Malaysia in the wake of the Asian economic crisis .
APW19980213.1320_2|The airline has also cut all flights to South Korea .
APW19980213.1320_3|Qantas plans daily flights between Sydney and Bombay , up from the current four flights a week , to boost business and tourism ties with India , the airline announced Friday .
wsj_0189_8|Ralston attributed its fourth-quarter slump partly to higher costs of ingredients in the pet food business as well as competitive pressures , which required higher advertising spending .
wsj_0189_9|For the year , pet food volume was flat , the company said .
wsj_0637_4|The shares are redeemable after the end of 1994 .
wsj_0189_5|Sales for the full year were $6.6 billion , up 13% from $5.8 billion .
wsj_0189_6|Ralston said its restructuring costs include the phase-out of a battery facility in Greenville , N.C. , the recent closing of a Hostess cake bakery in Cincinnati and a reduction in staff throughout the company .
wsj_0189_7|The battery plant , which makes rechargeable nickel cadmium and carbon zinc products , will be closed over the next year or so , a spokesman said .
wsj_0189_0|Ralston Purina Co. reported a 47% decline in fourth-quarter earnings , reflecting restructuring costs as well as a more difficult pet food market .
wsj_0189_1|The St. Louis company earned $45.2 million , or 65 cents a share , compared with $84.9 million , or $1.24 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_0189_2|Sales in the latest period were $1.76 billion , a 13% increase from last year 's $1.55 billion .
wsj_0189_3|For the year ended Sept. 30 , Ralston earned $422.5 million , or $6.44 a share , up 8.9% from $387.8 million , or $5.63 a share .
wsj_0661_5|In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission , DPC Acquisition said it expects it will need about $215 million to buy the shares and pay related fees and expenses .
wsj_0610_37|Although he called current market conditions ' highly competitive , ' Mr. LaMothe , Kellogg 's chairman and chief executive officer , forecast an earnings increase for the full year .
wsj_0610_36|Until recently , Kellogg had been telling its sales force and Wall Street that by 1992 it intended to achieve a 50% share of market , measured in dollar volume .
wsj_0610_35|Last Friday 's announcement was the first official word that the project was in trouble and that the company 's plans for a surge in market share may have been overly optimistic .
wsj_0610_34|Fluor Daniel already has reassigned most of its work crew , the sources said .
wsj_0610_33|Subcontractors said they were told that equipment orders would be delayed .
wsj_0263_7|Sales rose to $52.4 million from $50.1 million .
wsj_0263_6|A year earlier UniFirst earned $2.4 million , or 24 cents a share adjusted for the split .
wsj_0263_5|Separately , UniFirst reported that net income rose 21% to $3 million , or 29 cents a share adjusted for the split , for the fourth quarter ended Aug. 26 .
wsj_0263_4|The split will raise the number of shares outstanding to about 10.2 million .
wsj_0263_3|The split and quarterly dividend will be payable Jan. 3 to stock of record Nov. 16 , the company said .
wsj_0263_2|The dividend had been five cents a share .
wsj_0263_1|The Wilmington , Mass. , garment service company also boosted its quarterly dividend 20% to three cents a share adjusted for the split .
wsj_0263_0|UNIFIRST Corp. declared a 2-for-1 stock split .
wsj_0610_30|The new facility was to have been the world 's most advanced cereal manufacturing plant , and Kellogg 's largest construction project .
wsj_0745_28|In the end , Sir John -- rather than the government or Jaguar shareholders -- may hold the key that unlocks the golden share .
wsj_0745_21|In wooing British lawmakers , GM has pointed out that its willingness to settle for a minority stake would keep Jaguar British-owned and independent .
wsj_0745_20|It has relinquished a golden share only once before -- during British Petroleum Co. 's #2.5 billion ( $4 billion ) takeover of Britoil PLC in 1988 .
wsj_0745_23|While the visit was unrelated to Jaguar , GM Chairman Roger Smith answered the legislators ' questions about it over lunch Tuesday .
wsj_0745_22|This week , the U.S. auto giant paid for 10 House of Commons members and two House of Lords members to fly to Detroit and tour its operations there .
wsj_0745_25|Politics also influences the government 's thinking on the anti-takeover restriction .
wsj_0745_24|He said Jaguar ' should n 't be smothered by anyone else , ' recalled one participant .
wsj_0745_27|Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher might , however , be receptive to any request by Jaguar Chairman Sir John Egan for the restriction 's early removal to let GM amass more than 15% or mount a friendly suitor bid against Ford .
wsj_0745_26|The Conservatives do n 't dare jeopardize marginal Tory seats in Coventry , where Jaguar has headquarters , nor can the government easily back down on promised protection for a privatized company while it proceeds with controversial plans to privatize most of Britain 's water and electricity industries .
wsj_0584_24|McCaw 's bid also has a similar clause .
wsj_0584_25|Only McCaw 's proposal requires the company to begin an auction process in June 1994 for remaining shares at third-party prices .
wsj_0584_26|To mollify shareholders concerned about the long-term value of the company under the BellSouth-LIN agreement , BellSouth also agreed to pay as much as $10 a share , or $540 million , if , after five years , the trading value of the new cellular company isn 't as high as the value that shareholders would have realized from the McCaw offer .
wsj_0584_27|' We 're very pleased with the new deal .
wsj_0584_20|But I do n 't think we 're at that point yet . '
wsj_0584_21|Under its revised proposal , Atlanta-based BellSouth would have a 50% interest in the new cellular company and would be responsible for half of its debt .
wsj_0584_22|To sweeten the pact further -- and to ease concerns of institutional investors -- BellSouth added a provision designed to give extra protection to holders if the regional Bell company ever decides to buy the rest of the new cellular company .
wsj_0584_23|The provision , described as ' back-end ' protection , would require BellSouth to pay a price equivalent to what an outside party might have to pay .
wsj_0584_28|We did n 't expect BellSouth to be so responsive , ' said Frederick A. Moran , president of Moran Asset Management Inc. , which holds 500,000 LIN shares .
wsj_0584_29|BellSouth 's ' back-end protection was flawed previously .
wsj_0674_7|' I 'm happy that he feels positively about our company , ' he said .
wsj_0674_6|Martin Fabi , Innopac 's president and chief executive , said Innopac viewed Mr. Pattison 's decision to seek control as a ' very positive ' move .
wsj_0674_5|Revenue was C$291.6 million , up from C$252 million in 1988 .
wsj_0674_4|The results made net income for the year ended Aug. 31 C$2.7 million , or 20 Canadian cents a share , down from C$9.7 million , or 70 Canadian cents a share last year .
wsj_0674_3|Separately , Innopac reported a fourth-quarter loss of about C$2.6 million , or 18 Canadian cents a share , reflecting inventory write-downs .
wsj_0674_2|The company said it currently holds about 4.2 million of Innopac 's 13.8 million common shares outstanding , which have an aggregate market value of about 137.8 million Canadian dollars ( US$117.3 million ) .
wsj_0674_1|Jim Pattison Industries , a holding company with annual sales of about C$1.9 billion , largely from car dealerships and grocery stores , did n 't elaborate on the statement , and a company official declined further comment .
wsj_0674_0|Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. , one of a group of closely held companies owned by entrepreneur James Pattison , said it ' intends to seek control ' of 30%-owned Innopac Inc. , a Toronto packaging concern .
wsj_0674_9|Among other things , Innopac is involved in recycling polystyrene foam products that are often used by fast food chains , such as McDonald 's Corp. , for food packaging .
wsj_0674_8|Mr. Fabi wouldn 't say directly whether Mr. Pattison has disclosed potential terms for his planned bid for control .
wsj_0661_1|DPC Acquisition is controlled by Crescott Investment Associates , Wilson Investment Group , Kernel Corp. and Catalyst Partners .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_8|I think it 's a good thing that they ' re finally going to be downsizing you know some management because there is a whole lot of waste .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_9|Good news for AT and T today .
wsj_0670_1|The company said it has agreed to sell the extrusion division for $15 million to R.D. Werner Co. , a closely held firm based in Greenville , Pa. The charge is offset by an after-tax gain of about $30 million in the quarter from the previously announced pact to sell National Aluminum 's rolling division .
wsj_0670_0|National Intergroup Inc. said it expects to report a charge of $5.3 million related to the sale of its aluminum unit 's extrusion division for the third quarter .
wsj_0670_7|In fiscal 1989 , it had sales of about $40 million and an operating loss of $1.5 million .
wsj_0670_6|The extrusion unit produces bare and painted custom extrusions for building products and construction industries .
wsj_0670_5|The agreement also provides for potential payments of additional proceeds to National Aluminum over the next two years , depending on the plant 's shipping levels .
wsj_0558_7|In the latest quarter , Aetna had a $23 million loss on its auto/homeowners line , compared with earnings of $33 million last year .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_0|Major job cuts at AT and T. The long distance giant slashing up to eighteen thousand jobs , freezing executive salaries and shaking up management .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_1|The changes are part of a one point six billion dollar cost cutting initiative to revitalize its position in the telecommunications business .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_2|Earlier AT and T also announced an eighteen percent drop in profits for the fourth quarter .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_3|The company 's sales force applauded the shake up .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_4|It 's not something we 're not used to in the industry .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_5|But I think right now , for AT and T and the people here , it 's fairly intense as you might w- well imagine .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_6|I mean look at the stock .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_7|You know , since he 's been here the stock skyrocketed so , Yeah I think he 's doing the right thing .
NYT19980206.0460_35|Among high school graduates , the rate was 3.9 percent , and college graduates , 1.9 percent .
NYT19980206.0460_34|Among people with less than a high school education , the rate in January was 7.2 percent .
NYT19980206.0460_31|The rate for adult women rose 0.4 percent , to 4.4 percent .
NYT19980206.0460_30|` ` Those fumes will exhaust themselves , and the manufacturing sector is going to start getting beat up in the spring . ' ' The figures showed the unemployment rate for adult men declined to 3.8 percent last month from 4.1 percent in December , the lowest figure for almost two decades .
NYT19980206.0460_33|The analysis showed unemployment rates dropped steadily with higher levels of education .
NYT19980206.0460_32|For the first time , the Labor Department broke out unemployment by education level as well as gender , age and race .
wsj_0661_0|A unit of DPC Acquisition Partners launched a $10-a-share tender offer for the shares outstanding of Dataproducts Corp. , and said it would seek to liquidate the computer-printer maker ' as soon as possible , ' even if a merger is n 't consummated .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_1|A major focus of International Women 's Day is the plight of Afghan women .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_0|International Women 's Day is this coming Sunday , March eighth .
wsj_0661_3|The offer is based on several conditions , including obtaining financing .
wsj_0568_31|And Unisys is expected to do little better than break even in the fourth quarter .
wsj_0568_30|But the company said Friday that it had losses of $673.3 million through the first nine months , compared with earnings a year earlier of $382.2 million , or $2.22 a share fully diluted , as revenue inched up 1.4% to $7.13 billion from $7.03 billion .
wsj_0568_33|' I was feeling like I was too high to begin with , ' he said .
wsj_0568_32|So Steve Milunovich at First Boston said he is cutting his earnings estimate for next year to $2 a share from $3 .
wsj_0568_35|' The break-even point for next year is much lower , but is it low enough ? '
wsj_0568_34|Mr. Weil of Weil amp Associates said he will remain at $1 a share for next year but said he wonders whether even that low target is at risk .
wsj_0568_37|Reflecting the concern , Unisys stock fell a further 75 cents to $16.25 in composite trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange .
wsj_0568_36|he asked .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_5|The United Nations says women and children make up about seventy-five percent of the Afghan population .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_4|Afghanistan has been at war for twenty years , leaving a large part of the country 's male population dead or in exile .
wsj_0778_23|According to department policy , prosecutors must make a strong showing that lawyers ' fees came from assets tainted by illegal profits before any attempts at seizure are made .
wsj_0661_2|The investor group owns 1,534,600 Dataproducts common shares , or a 7.6% stake .
wsj_0778_22|The Justice Department has emphasized that the government 's fee-forfeiture power is to be used sparingly .
wsj_0584_36|' There 's nothing preventing BellSouth from buying up shares in the meanwhile . '
wsj_0679_2|Hewlett-Packard , a Palo Alto , Calif. , computer company , said it acquired the stock ' to develop and maintain a strategic partnership in which each company remains independent while working together to market and sell their products . '
wsj_0679_3|Octel said the purchase was expected .
wsj_0679_0|Hewlett-Packard Co. said it raised its stake in Octel Communications Corp. to 8.5% of the common shares outstanding .
wsj_0679_1|In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing , Hewlett-Packard said it now holds 1,384,119 Octel common shares , including 100,000 shares bought from Aug. 26 to Oct. 20 for $23.31 to $24.25 a share .
wsj_0679_6|That accord also called for Hewlett-Packard to buy 730,070 Octel shares in the open market within 18 months .
wsj_0679_7|In addition , Hewlett-Packard acquired a two-year option to buy an extra 10% , of which half may be sold directly to Hewlett-Packard by Octel .
wsj_0679_4|Hewlett-Packard affirmed it does n 't plan to obtain control of Octel , a Milpitas , Calif. , maker of voice-processing systems .
wsj_0679_5|According to the filing , Hewlett-Packard acquired 730,070 common shares from Octel as a result of an Aug. 10 , 1988 , stock purchase agreement .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_24|Lisa Schlein for VOA News , Geneva .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_20|These are only the symptoms of the problems that are facing Afghanistan .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_21|For women in Afghanistan to be able to realize their rights , there have to be conditions of peace and justice .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_22|Ms. Atimadi says that is the primary focus of her group , peace and justice .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_23|She says her group is appealing to individuals , to the international community , and to the combatants and people of Afghanistan to stop the bloodletting which has torn the country apart .
wsj_0637_5|Mr. Vaux said the share issue is part of a strategy to strengthen Labatt 's balance sheet in anticipation of acquisitions to be made during the next 12 to 18 months .
wsj_0184_1|Upjohn officials said they could n 't estimate the size of the charge until they determine which employees , and how many , will participate in the retirement plan .
wsj_0184_0|Upjohn Co. said it will offer an early retirement package to as many as 1,100 employees in a cost-cutting move expected to result in a fourth-quarter charge .
wsj_0184_3|The program , available to Upjohn employees 55 years old or older , could increase an individual 's retirement benefits 10% to 20% .
wsj_0184_2|But the pharmaceutical company said it ' anticipates the long-term savings resulting from the plan 's implementation will more than offset short-term costs . '
wsj_0184_5|Chairman Theodore Cooper called the program part of the company 's two-year strategy to implement budget constraints and ' an effective headcount-control program . '
wsj_0184_4|In addition , Upjohn is offering a one-time retirement bonus equal to six months of base pay .
wsj_0184_7|' It 's a cosmetic move , ' said Jonathan S. Gelles of Wertheim Schroder amp Co. According to Upjohn 's estimates , only 50% to 60% of the 1,100 eligible employees will take advantage of the plan .
wsj_0184_6|But some analysts questioned how much of an impact the retirement package will have , because few jobs will end up being eliminated .
wsj_0184_9|As a result , Upjohn will likely trim only about 275 to 350 of its more than 21,000 jobs world-wide .
wsj_0184_8|Upjohn further estimated that about 50% of the employees who leave for early retirement may be replaced .
wsj_0570_0|Crane Co. said it holds an 8.9% stake in Milton Roy Corp. , an analytical-instruments maker , and may seek control of the company .
wsj_0570_1|Crane , a maker of engineered products for aerospace , construction , defense and other uses , made the disclosure in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing .
wsj_0570_2|In the filing , Crane said that in the past it considered seeking control of Milton Roy , of St. Petersburg , Fla. , through a merger or tender offer and that it expects to continue to evaluate an acquisition from time to time .
wsj_0570_3|Crane officials did n 't return phone calls seeking comment .
wsj_0570_4|Crane holds 504,200 Milton Roy shares , including 254,200 bought from Sept. 14 to Thursday for $15.50 to $16.75 each .
wsj_0570_5|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday , Milton Roy shares leaped $2 , to $18.375 each , while Crane sank $1.125 , to $21.125 a share .
wsj_0570_6|John M. McNamara , chief financial officer of Milton Roy , said the company has no comment on Crane 's filing .
wsj_0570_7|Milton Roy recently fended off unsolicited overtures from Thermo Electron Corp. , a Waltham , Mass. , maker of biomedical products .
wsj_0570_8|Milton Roy disclosed in May that it was approached for a possible acquisition by Thermo Electron , which agreed to purchase Milton Roy 's liquid-chromatography line for $22 million in February .
wsj_0570_9|Thermo Electron acquired some 6% of Milton Roy 's common stock before throwing in the towel and reducing its stake in early September .
ea980120.1830.0071_5|Well , this is the eve of the Pope 's visit to one of the last bastions of Communism anywhere in the world , and it is already causing enormous expectations .
wsj_0316_4|Deseret , with about $100 million in assets , is the parent of the Deseret Bank , which has six offices and headquarters at Pleasant Grove , Utah .
wsj_0316_5|The purchase price is equal to about 1.65 times Deseret 's roughly $10.7 million book value , or assets less liabilities .
wsj_1003_17|He noted , however , that the company 's order entry has increased from the low levels of the early summer , following the end of labor negotiations .
wsj_0533_3|Merieux previously said it would ensure its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeover .
wsj_0533_2|It had been due to expire Friday evening .
wsj_0533_1|Institut Merieux S.A. , which offered 942 million Canadian dollars ( US$801.2 million ) , or C$37 a share for Connaught , said it would extend its bid , due to expire last Thursday , to Nov. 6 . A C$30-a-share bid by Ciba-Geigy Ltd. , a pharmaceutical company based in Basel , Switzerland , and California-based Chiron Corp. , a bioresearch concern , was extended to Nov. 16 .
wsj_0533_0|Two rival bidders for Connaught BioSciences extended their offers to acquire the Toronto-based vaccine manufacturer Friday .
wsj_0533_7|Institut Merieux , which already holds a 12.5% stake in Connaught , said that at the close of business Thursday , 5,745,188 shares of Connaught and C$44.3 million face amount of debentures , convertible into 1,826,596 common shares , had been tendered to its offer .
wsj_0533_6|Both offers are conditional on regulatory approvals and enough shares being tendered to give the bidders a majority of Connaught 's shares outstanding .
wsj_0904_5|Sales rose 50% to $2.1 billion from $1.4 billion .
wsj_0533_4|Merieux , a vaccine and bioresearch firm based in Lyon , France , is controlled 50.1% by state-owned Rhone Poulenc S.A. The Canadian government previously said Merieux 's bid did n 't offer enough ' net benefit ' to Canada to be approved , and gave Merieux an until mid-November to submit additional information .
wsj_0533_9|At last report , Connaught had 21.8 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0533_8|At the close of business Thursday , Ciba-Geigy and Chiron said 11,580 common shares had been tendered to their offer .
wsj_0006_0|Pacific First Financial Corp. said shareholders approved its acquisition by Royal Trustco Ltd. of Toronto for $27 a share , or $212 million .
wsj_0006_1|The thrift holding company said it expects to obtain regulatory approval and complete the transaction by year-end .
wsj_0918_14|Leading the gains for Du Pont in the latest quarter was its industrial products segment , where profit soared to $155 million from $99 million a year earlier .
wsj_0918_15|The company benefited from continued strong demand and higher selling prices for titanium dioxide , a white pigment used in paints , paper and plastics .
wsj_0918_16|James Fallon , a New Providence , N.J. , marketing consultant to the chemicals industry , says Du Pont still holds an edge in making the pigment because the company was ' first in with the technology ' to lower costs .
wsj_0918_17|He said Du Pont holds about 23% of the world-wide market , the largest single share , at a time when growing uses for the pigment have kept it in tight supply , although others are now adding low-cost production capacity .
wsj_0918_10|A spokesman for Seagram , the Montreal wine and spirits concern controlled by the Bronfman family , said the company will post additional pretax profit of about $33 million a year because of the additional Du Pont dividends .
wsj_0918_11|Du Pont also announced plans for a 3-for-1 stock split , although the initial higher dividend will be paid on pre-split shares .
wsj_0918_12|Du Pont 's stock rose $2.50 a share to close at $117.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday .
wsj_0918_13|Seagram closed at $84.75 , up 12.5 cents a share in Big Board trading .
wsj_0745_17|As Jaguar 's biggest holder and Britain 's biggest car maker , Ford could turn up the heat by convening a special shareholders ' meeting and urging holders to drop the limits early .
NYT19980424.0421_5|The opinion , which found the gender distinction reasonable , relied heavily on outmoded generalities about family roles , including the flawed presumption that mothers have a closer relationship to their children than fathers do .
NYT19980424.0421_6|As Justice Stephen Breyer asked in a strong dissent , ` ` what sense does it make ' ' to apply citizenship barriers ` ` only to fathers and not to mothers in today 's world _ where paternity can readily be proved and where women and men both are likely to earn a living in the workplace ? ' ' Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy seemed to agree that the law amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination .
NYT19980424.0421_7|Butinstead of providing the votes to strike it down , they chose to uphold it on the flimsy ground that because the sex of the parent and not the child made the difference under the law , the plaintiff did not have standing to bring the case .
wsj_0918_18|Profit climbed to $98 million from $71 million in the petroleum segment , as Du Pont 's Conoco Inc. oil company was helped by crude oil prices higher than a year ago and by higher natural gas prices and volume .
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APW19980227.0476_0|THE HAGUE , Netherlands ( AP ) _ The World Court Friday rejected U.S. and British objections to a Libyan World Court case that has blocked the trial of two Libyans suspected of blowing up a Pan Am jumbo jet over Scotland in 1988 .
APW19980227.0476_1|Libya , which brought the case to the United Nations ' highest judicial body in its dispute with the United States and Britain , hailed the ruling and said it would press anew for a trial in a third neutral country .
wsj_0187_5|Subcontractors will be offered a settlement and a swift transition to new management is expected to avert an exodus of skilled workers from Waertsilae Marine 's two big shipyards , government officials said .
wsj_0187_2|' The situation is that the bankruptcy court will get out of the shipbuilding business .
wsj_0187_3|Everything will be taken over by the new company , ' said Christian Andersson , executive vice president of Oy Waertsilae , former parent of Waertsilae Marine .
wsj_0187_0|The Finnish government and major creditors of bankrupt shipyard Waertsilae Marine Industries Oy agreed in principle to form a new company to complete most of the troubled shipyard 's backlog of 15 ships .
wsj_0348_0|Ogden Projects Inc. said net income jumped to $6.6 million , or 18 cents a share , in the third quarter .
wsj_0810_9|Mr. Fournier said Navigation Mixte 's 1989 unconsolidated , or parent-company , profit is likely to be 4.7 billion francs ( $754.4 million ) , up from 633.8 million francs last year .
wsj_0810_8|For the moment , the sources said , he has decided against seeking a white knight or organizing a counterbid for Paribas .
wsj_0810_3|At a news conference , Mr. Fournier accused Paribas of planning to pay for the takeover by selling parts of the company , whose interests include insurance , banking , tuna canning , sugar and orange juice .
wsj_0810_2|Financiere de Paribas to bring its stake in Navigation Mixte to 66.7% .
wsj_0810_1|de Navigation Mixte Chairman Marc Fournier said his board unanimously rejected as too low the $1.77 billion bid by Cie .
wsj_0810_0|Cie .
wsj_0810_7|At the same time , he is expected to seek legal and regulatory means of blocking or delaying Paribas 's bid .
wsj_0810_6|But sources said he will be urging his allies to boost their stakes in Navigation Mixte , which is being traded in London and is to resume trading in Paris Tuesday .
wsj_0810_5|Mr. Fournier said that as Navigation Mixte chairman , he is prohibited by takeover regulations from organizing his own defense or doing anything besides managing current company business .
wsj_0810_4|The chairman said his board members , including representatives of West German insurance giant Allianz AG and French banks Credit Lyonnais and Societe Generale , hold nearly 50% of Navigation Mixte 's capital .
wsj_0778_8|Mr. Antar is being investigated by a federal grand jury in Newark , where prosecutors have told him that they may soon seek an indictment on racketeering and securities fraud charges .
wsj_0778_9|Under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law , or RICO , the government has the authority to seek to freeze or seize a defendant 's assets before trial .
wsj_0292_10|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading , Kimberly-Clark closed at $66.50 a share , up $1.50 .
wsj_0778_2|The issue has come to a boil in Newark , N.J. , where federal prosecutors have warned lawyers for Eddie Antar that if the founder and former chairman of Crazy Eddie Inc. is indicted , the government may move to seize the money that Mr. Antar is using to pay legal fees .
wsj_0778_3|The warning by the U.S. attorney 's office follows two decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court last June .
wsj_0778_0|The government is sharpening its newest weapon against white-collar defendants : the power to prevent them from paying their legal bills .
wsj_0778_1|And defense lawyers are warning that they wo n 't stick around if they do n 't get paid .
wsj_0778_6|A seizure also would make the case the largest -- and one of the first -- in which lawyers ' fees have been confiscated in a prosecution unrelated to drugs .
wsj_0778_7|' The people who suffer in the short run are defendants , but the people who suffer in the long run are all of the people , because there wo n 't be a vigorous private bar to defend the Bill of Rights , ' says Gerald Lefcourt , a criminal defense attorney who says he has turned down a number of cases to avoid possible fee seizures .
wsj_0778_4|In those cases , the high court ruled that federal law gives prosecutors broad authority to seize assets of people accused of racketeering and drug-related crimes , including fees paid to lawyers before an indictment .
wsj_0778_5|If the government succeeds in seizing Mr. Antar 's assets , he could be left without top-flight legal representation , because his attorneys are likely to quit , according to individuals familiar with the case .
APW19980626.0364_7|The extremist party recently took a surprising 13 percent of the vote in elections in a depressed eastern German state , and hopes to win its first seats in the federal parliament this September .
APW19980626.0364_6|Party spokesman Bernd Droese said the People 's Union would challenge the fine in court .
APW19980626.0364_5|The fine is twice the donation , as provided for under German party financing laws .
APW19980626.0364_4|Suessmuth said , however , that the law does not allow for providing a false address for any reason .
APW19980626.0364_3|The anti-foreigner party said it wanted to protect the donor from possible attacks .
APW19980626.0364_2|German law requires parties to publish the name and address of anyone who donates more than 20,000 marks ( dlrs 11,000 ) .
APW19980626.0364_1|Parliamentary president Rita Suessmuth said the People 's Union correctly listed Jacques de Mathan as having donated about 274,500 marks in 1995 , but gave a false address for him .
wsj_0918_9|The largest beneficiary will be Seagram Co. , which owns about 23% of Du Pont .
wsj_0918_6|Sales in the latest quarter were $8.59 billion , up 9.4% from $7.85 billion .
wsj_0918_7|The dividend increase was Du Pont 's second this year , an affirmation of statements by top executives that they intend to increase rewards to shareholders .
wsj_0918_4|The Wilmington , Del. , company reported net of $547 million , or $2.36 a share , which was in line with Wall Street estimates .
wsj_0918_5|In the year-earlier period , the company earned $461 million , or $1.91 a share .
wsj_0918_2|Du Pont , unlike companies hurt badly by sharp price declines for basic chemicals and plastics , is benefiting from its broad range of businesses .
wsj_0918_3|The profit gain was made despite a weakening in the housing market , for which the company is a supplier , and a strengthening in the dollar , which lowers the value of overseas earnings when they are translated into dollars .
wsj_0918_0|Du Pont Co. reported that third-quarter profit grew a robust 19% from a year ago on the strength of the company 's operations in various chemicals and fibers , and in petroleum .
wsj_0918_1|Du Pont also raised its quarterly dividend to $1.20 a share from $1.05 , a change that will increase the annualized payout to shareholders by some $140 million .
APW19980219.0476_7|` ` Obviously , it is deeply discouraging for the family after 22 months , but there is no proof of life .
APW19980219.0476_6|The Foreign Office said it had informed the family of Howes , 37 years old when he was kidnapped , that he probably died within weeks or months of his capture on March 26 , 1996 .
APW19980219.0476_5|In January this year , British police officers who had been searching for Howes concluded he had probably been killed soon after being captured .
APW19980219.0476_4|Howes ' team was clearing mines 17 kilometers ( 10 miles ) from Angkor Wat , the fabled 11th century temple that is Cambodia 's main tourist attraction , when it was attacked .
APW19980219.0476_3|There were many conflicting accounts of his fate .
APW19980219.0476_2|Howes had been working for the Britain-based Mines Advisory Group when he was abducted with his Cambodian interpreter Houn Hourth in March 1996 .
APW19980219.0476_1|Gen. Nhek Bunchhay , a loyalist of ousted Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh , said in an interview with The Associated Press at his hilltop headquarters that he hopes to recover the remains of Christopher Howes within the next two weeks .
APW19980219.0476_0|O'SMACH , Cambodia ( AP ) _ The top commander of a Cambodian resistance force said Thursday he has sent a team to recover the remains of a British mine removal expert kidnapped and presumed killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas almost two years ago .
wsj_0610_42|The company had a one-time charge of $14.8 million in the latest quarter covering the disposition of certain assets .
wsj_0610_43|The company would n 't elaborate , citing competitive reasons .
wsj_0610_40|Net fell 16% to $123.1 million , or $1.02 a share , from $145.7 million , or $1.18 a share .
wsj_0610_41|Sales rose 4.8% to $1.20 billion from $1.14 billion .
wsj_0584_15|McCaw , the largest provider of cellular telephone service in the U.S. , already owns about 9.4% of LIN 's stock .
wsj_0584_14|The previous BellSouth pact was valued at about $98 to $110 a share .
wsj_0584_17|Over the weekend , McCaw continued to call for an auction of LIN .
wsj_0584_16|In response to BellSouth 's amended pact , the Kirkland , Wash. , company extended its own offer to buy 22 million LIN shares for $125 apiece , which would give McCaw a 50.3% controlling interest .
APW19980322.0749_7|` ` We were unjustly pushed out of the talks in February but we are back , ' ' Adams said Sunday .
APW19980322.0749_6|But Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams kept his party out pending meetings with British Prime Minister Tony Blair 10 days ago and President Clinton last week .
APW19980322.0749_5|The British and Irish governments , which cosponsor the multi-party talks that are supposed to conclude by May , invited Sinn Fein to rejoin two weeks ago .
APW19980322.0749_4|They arrested two men in connection with the bomb factory , which also contained circuitry , detonating cord and the Mitsubishi truck that would have carried the bomb .
APW19980322.0749_3|Police found more than 1,300 pounds ( 600 kgs ) of fertilizer-based explosives Sunday in a shed in Dundalk , 50 miles ( 80 kms ) south of Belfast .
APW19980322.0749_2|Extremists have bombed two predominantly pro-British Protestant towns and fired mortar shells at a police station since Sinn Fein was expelled from peace talks on Feb. 20 in punishment for two killings blamed on the Irish Republican Army .
APW19980322.0749_1|Chief Superintendent Al McHugh said the bomb discovered in the Irish Republic was destined for an unknown target in Northern Ireland and ` ` would have caused massive destruction . ' ' The discovery appeared to be the latest attempt by extremists opposed to the IRA 's 8-month-old truce to undermine the peace process , set to resume Monday in Belfast .
APW19980322.0749_0|BELFAST , Northern Ireland ( AP ) _ Police seized a car bomb under construction Sunday in a town bordering Northern Ireland on the eve of the return to peace talks by the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party .
APW19980322.0749_9|` ` Nationalists in the north are not a minority in someone else 's country .
APW19980322.0749_8|He said the north 's substantial Catholic minority demanded a settlement that would promote Northern Ireland 's eventual unification with the Irish Republic .
wsj_0344_0|Price Stern Sloan Inc. said it hired an investment banking firm to assist in evaluating restructuring or merger alternatives and reported a net loss of $8.1 million , or $2.14 a share , for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 .
NYT19980206.0460_28|And the weakness of the Asian economies is also likely to lead to decreased demand for American exports .
NYT19980206.0460_29|` ` The economy has been running on the fumes of the strength from before the Asia shock , ' ' McCulley said .
NYT19980206.0460_22|His advisers said the results reflected not just from balancing the budget , but also initiatives like improved access to education and training and the opening of foreign markets to trade .
NYT19980206.0460_23|` ` There are enormous economic and social benefits from our nation 's high-employment economy , ' ' said Janet Yellen , the chairwoman of the White House 's Council of Economic Advisers .
NYT19980206.0460_20|The less money the government needs to borrow , the more is freed for private investment .
NYT19980206.0460_21|President Clinton welcomed the job figures at a news conference Friday .
NYT19980206.0460_26|Service industries also showed solid job gains , as did manufacturers , two areas expected to be hardest hit when the effects of the Asian crisis hit the American economy .
NYT19980206.0460_27|The major harm from Asia is likely to come from the plunge in the value of many Asian currencies relative to the dollar , a situation that is expected to lead to a surge of inexpensive imports into the United States , hurting American competitors .
NYT19980206.0460_24|Some of the biggest employment gains came in the construction industry , which added 92,000 jobs in January .
NYT19980206.0460_25|The increase reflected the strength of the housing industry , which has been helped not just by declining interest rates but also by unusually warm weather .
wsj_0745_11|And powerful political pressures may convince the Conservative government to keep its so-called golden share , which limits any individual holding to 15% , until the restriction expires on Dec. 31 , 1990 .
wsj_0568_26|' The information-systems industry is still going to be a high-growth business , and we 're confident that we have tremendous assets as a company .
wsj_0568_27|But we do n 't minimize the challenges of the near term . '
wsj_0568_24|That , he said , is why Unisys is overhauling its whole business : It needs to prepare for a world in which profit margins will be lower than computer companies have been used to .
wsj_0568_25|' We 've approached this not as a response to a temporary condition in the industry but as a fundamental change the industry is going through , ' Mr. Unruh said .
wsj_0568_22|He also said that the price wars flaring up in parts of the computer industry will continue through next year .
wsj_0568_23|He said the move toward standard operating systems means customers are n 't locked into buying from their traditional computer supplier and can force prices down .
wsj_0568_20|Jim Unruh , Unisys 's president , said he is approaching next year with caution .
wsj_0568_21|He said the strength of the world-wide economy is suspect , and does n 't see much revenue growth in the cards .
wsj_0568_28|Securities analysts were even more cautious , having been burned repeatedly on Unisys this year .
wsj_0568_29|Some had predicted earnings of more than $4 a share for this year , up from last year 's fully diluted $3.27 a share on earnings of $680.6 million .
wsj_0344_5|Net sales for this year 's third quarter were $14 million , down from $21.4 million last year .
wsj_0815_2|DIG is the vehicle being used to pursue to acquisition .
wsj_0815_3|Robert Mellor , Di Giorgio 's executive vice president , said the company stands to reap more money through the sale of individual units to others than by accepting DIG 's offer .
wsj_0815_0|Di Giorgio Corp. said it 's continuing talks with potential buyers of certain units , but has reached no agreement on any deals .
wsj_0815_1|Di Giorgio , a food wholesaler and building products maker , is seeking alternatives to an unsolicited $32-a-share tender offer of DIG Acquisition Corp. , a unit of Rose Partners Limited Partnership .
wsj_1003_27|National Intergroup stock closed at $15 , unchanged in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange .
wsj_1003_26|Last year 's results were hurt by $41.3 million in restructuring charges .
wsj_1003_25|The latest period includes gains of $9.1 million from early retirement of debt and tax loss carry-forward .
wsj_1003_24|Sales increased in the quarter ended Sept. 30 to $747.8 million from $623.5 million a year ago .
wsj_1003_23|National Intergroup , which owns 50% of the nation 's sixth largest steelmaker -- National Steel Corp. -- posted net income for the fiscal second-quarter of $8.6 million , or 33 cents a share , compared with a net loss of $50.3 million .
wsj_1003_22|Armco shares closed unchanged at $10.625 in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange .
wsj_1003_21|Moreover , the company said higher sales and shipments to service centers from its Armco Steel Co. joint venture failed to offset weakness in the automotive market , higher production costs and a poorer product mix .
wsj_1003_20|Operating profit dropped 46% in its specialty flat-rolled steel segment .
wsj_1003_29|However , its equity in the net income of National Steel declined to $6.3 million from $10.9 million as a result of softer demand and lost orders following prolonged labor talks and a threatened strike .
wsj_1003_28|The company noted that its Fox-Meyer Drug Co. , Ben Franklin Stores Inc. and Permian Corp. operations showed improvements as a result of restructuring moves .
wsj_0706_5|Earlier this month , Security Pacific , which is among the 10 largest bank holding companies in the U.S. , completed the acquisition of San Diego-based Southwest Bancorp .
wsj_0189_4|This year 's results included a gain of $70.2 million on the disposal of seafood operations .
AP900815-0044_44|The embargo is meant to cripple Iraq by cutting off its exports of oil and imports of food and military supplies .
AP900815-0044_45|Iraq imports about three-quarters of its foodstuffs .
wsj_0706_1|Security said it signed a letter of intent to purchase La Jolla Bancorp , agreeing to pay $15 of its own stock for each share of La Jolla .
wsj_0706_0|Security Pacific Corp. has set its sights on buying its second bank holding company this year .
wsj_0706_3|La Jolla is the parent company of La Jolla Bank amp Trust Co. , which has 12 branches in San Diego County .
wsj_0706_2|Based on the current number of La Jolla shares , that gives the transaction a value of $104 million .
wsj_0637_6|Labatt 's has no takeover bids outstanding currently , he said .
AP900815-0044_48|In Saudi Arabia , today is the eighth day of ` ` Desert Shield , ' ' the operation designed to confront an estimated 200,000 Iraqi soldiers now in Kuwait .
AP900815-0044_49|Iraq boasts an army of 1 million members .
wsj_0637_7|Lead underwriter to the issue is Toronto Dominion Securities Inc.
wsj_0904_6|Net for the year-earlier nine months also included a gain of $9.7 million , or 15 cents a share , in the carrying value of the Conner investment .
wsj_0637_0|John Labatt Ltd. said it plans a private placement of 150 million Canadian dollars ( US$127.5 million ) in preferred shares , to be completed around Nov. 1 . Proceeds will be used to reduce short-term debt at the beer and food concern , said Robert Vaux , vice president , finance .
wsj_0637_1|The preferred shares will carry a floating annual dividend equal to 72% of the 30-day bankers ' acceptance rate until Dec. 31 , 1994 .
wsj_0637_2|Thereafter , the rate will be renegotiated .
wsj_0637_3|Mr. Vaux said that if no agreement is reached , other buyers will be sought by bid or auction .
wsj_0158_10|Mark Shepperd , an analyst at UBS Phillips amp Drew in London , said , ' I suspect ( the departure ) will be fairly irrelevant for the company .
wsj_0158_11|I would be very surprised if his departure signals any change in strategy or change in profit expectations . '
wsj_0158_12|On London 's Stock Exchange , Reuters shares rose five pence to 913 pence ( $14.43 ) .
wsj_0158_13|In the U.S. over-the-counter market , American depositary shares for Reuters , each representing three shares in the London market , closed unchanged at $43.875 .
wsj_0158_14|The senior of the three executives who will assume Mr. Reupke 's duties is Nigel Judah , 58 , finance director and a Reuters board director .
wsj_0158_15|Peter Holland , 45 , deputy general manager , becomes director of corporate affairs .
wsj_0158_16|And Patrick Mannix , 46 , international technical manager , becomes director of group quality programs .
wsj_0745_12|' I really do n 't see the government doing something that Jaguar does n 't want over the next 14 months , ' said Kenneth Warren , a Conservative member of Parliament and chairman of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry in Britain 's House of Commons .
wsj_0356_2|Each right entitles shareholders to buy one-half share of common for $30 .
wsj_0356_3|Earlier this month , a group led by three of the company 's directors , Burt Sugarman , James M. Trotter III and Willam E. Trotter II , indicated it had a 45.2% stake in the Louisville , Ky. , fast-food company and that it planned to seek a majority of seats on Rally 's nine-member board .
wsj_0356_0|Rally 's Inc. said it adopted a shareholders rights plan to protect shareholders from an inadequately priced takeover offer .
wsj_0356_1|The plan provides for the distribution of one common stock-purchase right as a dividend for each share of common outstanding .
wsj_0356_4|The company said it was ' concerned about the announced intent to acquire control of the company ' by a Sugarman-led group .
NYT19980212.0019_6|The men took no money from their victim or from the establishment , said Detective Joseph Pentangelo , a Police Department spokesman .
NYT19980212.0019_7|Victor Miranda , who lives in Ms. Sanders ' apartment building at 405 Williams Ave. , said the laundry machines in the building were removed a few years ago to make room for management offices .
NYT19980212.0019_4|There were four or five people inside , and they just started firing . ' ' Ms. Sanders was hit several times and was pronounced dead at the scene .
NYT19980212.0019_5|The other customers fled , and the police said it did not appear that anyone else was injured .
NYT19980212.0019_2|` ` It looks as though they panicked , ' ' a detective , speaking on condition of anonymity , said of the robbers .
NYT19980212.0019_3|` ` They intended to rob the place .
wsj_0745_8|But an all-out bidding war between the world 's top auto giants for Britain 's leading luxury-car maker seems unlikely .
wsj_0745_9|' We will not go over a certain level , ' said David N. McCammon , Ford 's vice president for finance , at a news conference yesterday in Dearborn , Mich. ' There 's some price at which we 'd stop bidding . '
wsj_0745_6|Speculative investors , betting on an imminent clash between Ford and GM , pushed up Jaguar 's share price five pence ( eight U.S. cents ) to a near-record 720 pence ( $11.60 ) in late trading on London 's stock exchange yesterday .
wsj_0745_7|Since Tuesday , the shares have gained nearly 4% .
wsj_0745_4|The GM move follows Tuesday 's declaration by Ford , which holds an unwelcome 12.45% stake in Jaguar , that it is prepared to bid for the entire company .
wsj_0745_5|GM is close to completing a friendly deal with Jaguar that is likely to involve an eventual 30% stake and joint manufacturing ventures .
wsj_0745_2|The No .
wsj_0745_3|1 U.S. auto maker then wrote Jaguar that it intends ' to go to that 15% ' level once it wins the U.S. clearance to go beyond $15 million , a Jaguar spokesman said yesterday .
wsj_0745_0|General Motors Corp. wants to buy as much as 15% of Jaguar PLC , marking its first salvo in a possible full-scale battle against Ford Motor Co. for control of the British car maker .
wsj_0745_1|GM sought U.S. antitrust clearance last week to purchase more than $15 million worth of Jaguar shares but does n 't own any yet , according to GM officials here and at the company 's Detroit headquarters .
APW19980213.1310_1|Prime Minister John Howard , a monarchist himself , promised to put the question to a national referendum next year after convention delegates voted 89-52 for a republic , with 11 abstentions .
APW19980213.1310_0|CANBERRA , Australia ( AP ) _ Turning its back on 210 years of loyalty to the British royal family , a constitutional convention voted overwhelmingly Friday to make Australia a republic under its own president .
APW19980213.1310_3|` ` I want a referendum , ' ' Howard said .
APW19980213.1310_2|Spontaneous applause echoed through the chamber and public galleries as the crucial vote passed by a wide margin .
wsj_0981_8|The company said it estimates the Desert Inn remodeling will cost about $32 million , and the refurbishment of the three DC-8-62 aircraft , made by McDonnell Douglas Corp. , will cost around $24.5 million .
wsj_0981_9|MGM Grand said the latest stock offering wo n 't cover the $600 million or more cost of building the proposed resort and theme park , and added it will need to seek additional financing , either through bank borrowings or debt and equity offerings , at a later date .
APW19980213.1310_7|` ` This convention will be seen as a turning point in our history , ' ' Australian Republican Movement spokeswoman Mary Delahunty said .
APW19980213.1310_6|Treasurer Peter Costello , Environment Minister Robert Hill and Attorney General Daryl Williams all voted to support the republic Friday .
wsj_0981_4|The luxury airline and casino company , 98.6%-owned by investor Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda Corp. , earlier this month announced its agreements to acquire the properties , but did n 't disclose the purchase price .
wsj_0981_5|The proposed stock offering and issuance of nearly 1.8 million common shares in connection with the land purchase will bring MGM Grand 's total shares outstanding to 28.7 million , of which 72% will be owned by Mr. Kerkorian and Tracinda , according to the prospectus .
wsj_0981_6|In over-the-counter trading , MGM Grand was bid at $17.50 a share .
wsj_0981_7|Proceeds from the offering are expected to be used for remodeling the company 's Desert Inn resort in Las Vegas , refurbishing certain aircraft of the MGM Grand Air unit , and to acquire the property for the new resort .
wsj_0981_0|MGM Grand Inc. has agreed to pay $93 million and nearly 1.8 million common shares to buy 117 acres of land along the Las Vegas , Nev. , Strip as a site for its planned movie-studio and theme-park resort .
wsj_0981_1|Of the total purchase price , $50 million cash and $30 million in stock ( nearly 1.8 million shares ) would be paid to buy the existing 700-room Marina Hotel amp Casino from Southwest Securities , a Nevada limited partnership .
wsj_0981_2|The remaining properties to be acquired are the Tropicana Country Club amp Golf Course , a facility jointly owned by Ramada Inc. , of Phoenix , Ariz. , and the Jaffe family , and a small parcel owned by MGM Grand director James D. Aljian .
wsj_0981_3|The purchase price was disclosed in a preliminary prospectus issued in connection with MGM Grand 's planned offering of six million common shares .
wsj_0927_4|As a result , U.S. Trust 's earnings have been hurt .
wsj_0927_5|But Mr. Schwarz welcomes the competition in U.S. Trust 's flagship businesses , calling it ' flattery . '
wsj_0927_6|Mr. Schwarz says the competition ' broadens the base of opportunity for us . '
wsj_0927_7|Other firms ' are dealing with the masses .
wsj_0927_0|H. Marshall Schwarz was named chairman and chief executive officer of U.S. Trust Corp. , a private-banking firm with assets under management of about $17 billion .
wsj_0927_1|Mr. Schwarz , 52 years old , will succeed Daniel P. Davison Feb. 1 , soon after Mr. Davison reaches the company 's mandatory retirement age of 65 .
wsj_0927_2|Mr. Schwarz , who is president of U.S. Trust , will be succeeded in that post by Jeffrey S. Maurer , 42 , who is executive vice president in charge of the company 's asset-management group .
wsj_0927_3|U.S. Trust , a 136-year-old institution that is one of the earliest high-net worth banks in the U.S. , has faced intensifying competition from other firms that have established , and heavily promoted , private-banking businesses of their own .
wsj_0927_8|I do n 't believe they have the culture ' to adequately service high-net-worth individuals , he adds .
wsj_0927_9|U.S. Trust recently introduced certain mutual-fund products , which allow it to serve customers with minimum deposits of $250,000 .
wsj_0918_28|The stock split , which is subject to holder approval , would be paid on a still unspecified date in January to holders of record Dec. 21 .
wsj_0918_21|In the fibers segment , profit rose to $180 million from $155 million , a gain Du Pont attributed to higher demand in the U.S. for most textile products .
wsj_0918_20|A spokesman said herbicide use in some areas of the U.S. was delayed earlier in the year by heavy rains , thus increasing sales in the third quarter .
wsj_0918_23|Profit from coal fell to $41 million from $58 million , partly because of a miners ' strike .
wsj_0918_22|Two segments posted lower earnings for the quarter .
wsj_0918_25|For the nine months , Du Pont earned $2 billion , or $8.46 a share , up 18% from $1.69 billion , or $7.03 a share , a year earlier .
wsj_0918_24|And profit from polymers dropped to $107 million from $122 million amid what Du Pont called lower demand and selling prices in certain packaging and industrial markets .
wsj_0918_27|The increased dividend will be paid Dec. 14 to holders of record Nov. 15 .
wsj_0918_26|Sales increased 10% to $26.54 billion from $24.05 billion .
APW19980227.0487_10|Har-Shefi described Amir as an ` ` original thinker , ' ' as well as delusional and a liar .
wsj_0027_11|Neither they nor Mr. McAlpine could be reached for comment .
APW19980227.0487_12|She said she gave the Amir brothers false information regarding the location of a weapons and ammunition cache when they asked her to help organize such a movement .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_9|She says security under the fundamentalist Taleban government is better , but everything else is worse .
wsj_0745_13|' The golden share is a single share , but it is the magic share . '
wsj_0027_10|The company said Mr. Stronach will personally direct the restructuring , assisted by Manfred Gingl , president and chief executive .
wsj_0923_0|Kyle Technology Corp. said a Seattle investor has signed a letter of intent to buy the company for about $3.1 million , or $1.20 a share .
wsj_0923_1|The investor , Donald A. Wright , plans to run the company , said a spokesman for Kyle .
wsj_0923_2|The transaction has been approved by Kyle 's board , but requires the approval of the company 's shareholders .
wsj_0923_3|Kyle manufactures electronic components .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_5|Weakened oil prices have already made life easier for motorists at the gas pump .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_4|ah next up is that thirteen dollar a barrel level we saw in the winter of nineteen ninety-four .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_7|That according to the Lundberg survey of ten thousand gas stations nationwide .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_6|Gas prices fell nearly two cents a gallon over the last two weeks .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_1|Now with a diplomatic solution to the crisis seemingly at hand , get set for oil prices from the Brent north sea variety to light swede crude to fall further .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_0|Despite the recent possibility of military conflict with Iraq , oil prices have been falling , that 's because of a worldwide glut of oil .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_3|that ' s built up a heck of a momentum and that momentum will look to increase .
CNN19980223.1130.0960_2|Oil prices have come down from the middle of October from a twenty-two dollar barrel level down to the fourteen dollars we ' re seeing today .
wsj_0583_6|It expects to post a loss of 6.4 billion yen for the year ending tomorrow and its liabilities currently exceed its assets by about 13.8 billion yen .
wsj_0583_7|' If you find sound , healthy companies in Japan , they are not for sale , ' said George Watanabe , a management-consultant at Tokyo-based Asia Advisory Services Inc. Statistics on acquisitions by foreigners vary in detail , because unlike Sansui , which is listed on the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges , most of the Japanese companies acquired by foreigners are privately held .
wsj_0583_4|' The myths that Japan is not open to concerns from outside has , I think , been demolished at a stroke , ' Mr. Nadir said .
WSJ910225-0066_63|Outside analysts think Saddam Hussein 's position is indeed precarious .
wsj_0583_2|Japanese government officials , eager to rebut foreign criticism of Japanese investments overseas , hailed the transaction as proof foreigners can make similar investments in Japan .
wsj_0583_3|Polly Peck 's chairman , Asil Nadir , echoed the official Japanese view of the accord , which was announced Friday .
wsj_0810_22|Mr. Fournier said the large institutions that hold nearly 50% of Navigation Mixte 's capital all strongly support him , but some analysts said they aren 't so sure .
wsj_0810_23|Allianz , for example , has said in official comments so far that it will remain neutral .
wsj_0810_20|The petition is still pending , but Mr. Fournier downplayed the likelihood of his organizing a takeover bid of his own for the much-larger Paribas .
wsj_0810_21|One big question now is the likely role of Mr. Fournier 's allies .
wsj_0810_26|The purchase of the additional 48% stake is expected to cost more than 11 billion francs ( $1.77 billion ) .
wsj_0810_27|Paribas says it will offer 1,850 francs ( $296.95 ) each for Navigation Mixte shares that enjoy full dividend rights , and 1,800 francs each for a block of shares issued July 1 , which will receive only partial dividends this year .
wsj_0810_24|Paribas is Allianz 's lead French bank .
wsj_0810_25|Paribas said Monday that it intends to bid to boost its stake in Navigation Mixte to 66.7% , from the 18.7% it already owns .
wsj_0810_28|Alternatively , it is to offer three Paribas shares for one Navigation Mixte share .
wsj_0810_29|The Paribas offer values Navigation Mixte at about 23 billion francs , depending on how many of Navigation Mixte 's warrants are converted into shares during the takeover battle .
wsj_0585_49|LIN now plans to dole out $42 a share in cash , up from the earlier $20 amount .
wsj_0585_48|The revised LIN-BellSouth agreement boosts the dollar amount of the special dividend LIN promises to pay shareholders .
wsj_0660_4|Under the pact , Montedision will make a $37-a-share tender offer for Erbamont stock outstanding .
wsj_0660_5|The tender offer will be followed by the sale of all of Erbamont 's assets , subject to all of its liabilities , to Montedison .
wsj_0660_6|Erbamont will then be liquidated , with any remaining Erbamont holders receiving a distribution of $37 a share .
wsj_0660_7|The companies said the transaction is being structured this way because the laws of the Netherlands Antilles , under which Erbamont is organized , do n 't provide for merger transactions .
wsj_0660_0|Montedison S.p.A .
wsj_0660_1|definitively agreed to buy all of the publicly held shares of Erbamont N.V. for $37 each .
wsj_0660_2|Montedison now owns about 72% of Erbamont 's shares outstanding .
wsj_0660_3|The companies said the accord was unanimously approved by a special committee of Erbamont directors unaffiliated with Montedison .
wsj_0026_0|The White House said President Bush has approved duty-free treatment for imports of certain types of watches that are n 't produced in ' significant quantities ' in the U.S. , the Virgin Islands and other U.S. possessions .
wsj_0026_1|The action came in response to a petition filed by Timex Inc. for changes in the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences for imports from developing nations .
wsj_0026_2|Previously , watch imports were denied such duty-free treatment .
wsj_0026_3|Timex had requested duty-free treatment for many types of watches , covered by 58 different U.S. tariff classifications .
wsj_0026_4|The White House said Mr. Bush decided to grant duty-free status for 18 categories , but turned down such treatment for other types of watches ' because of the potential for material injury to watch producers located in the U.S. and the Virgin Islands . '
wsj_0026_5|Timex is a major U.S. producer and seller of watches , including low-priced battery-operated watches assembled in the Philippines and other developing nations covered by the U.S. tariff preferences .
wsj_0026_6|U.S. trade officials said the Philippines and Thailand would be the main beneficiaries of the president 's action .
wsj_0026_7|Imports of the types of watches that now will be eligible for duty-free treatment totaled about $37.3 million in 1988 , a relatively small share of the $1.5 billion in U.S. watch imports that year , according to an aide to U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills .
wsj_0709_4|Results for that quarter included a $30 million , or 40 cents a share , write-down associated with the consolidation of a facility .
wsj_0709_2|The funeral home and cemetery operator changed from a fiscal year to a calendar year in December .
wsj_0709_3|In the comparable year-ago quarter , the second quarter ended Oct. 31 , Service Corp. had a loss of about $12.5 million , or 26 cents a share , on revenue of $175.4 million .
wsj_0709_0|Service Corp. International said it expects to report net income of 15 cents a share for the third quarter .
wsj_0709_1|The company said it expects to release third-quarter results in mid-November .
wsj_0610_39|As expected , Kellogg reported lower third-quarter earnings .
wsj_0610_38|Last year , the company earned $480.4 million , or $3.90 a share , on sales of $4.3 billion .
wsj_0662_2|Kofcoh is a New York holding company for Rosalco Inc. , which imports furniture and other items .
wsj_0662_3|David L. Koffman , president and chief executive officer of Jayark , holds about 40% of Kofcoh , Jayark said .
wsj_0662_0|Jayark Corp. agreed to pay $4 million in cash , $2 million of 12% convertible debentures , and 1.6 million common shares to acquire closely held Kofcoh Imports Inc. In over-the-counter trading Friday , Jayark was quoted at 87.5 cents bid , down 15.625 cents .
wsj_0662_1|At the market price , the transaction has a total indicated value of $7.4 million .
wsj_0662_6|The transaction is subject to approval by a panel of disinterested directors , the company said , adding that shareholder approval is n 't needed .
wsj_0610_32|But in recent weeks , construction-industry sources reported that early preparation work was slowing at the 185-acre site .
wsj_0662_4|Jayark , New York , distributes and rents audio-visual equipment and prints promotional ads for retailers .
wsj_0662_5|In the quarter ended July 31 , Jayark had an average of 5.6 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0542_8|Late last week , representatives of Dow Jones and Telerate began negotiations about the terms of the offer , but those talks did n 't result in any changes in the offer .
wsj_1035_5|' They have to continue to tighten their belts , ' said Craig Kloner , an analyst at Goldman , Sachs amp Co.
wsj_1035_4|Analysts had expected Consolidated to post a slim profit , and the company 's stock was down only 25 cents to $30.25 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday .
wsj_1035_3|Profit also suffered because of ' intense ' discounting in its long-haul trucking business , the company said .
wsj_1035_2|Revenue totaled $1.01 billion , a 43% increase from $704.4 million , reflecting the company 's acquisition of Emery earlier this year .
wsj_1035_1|The Menlo Park , Calif. , company said net was $7.4 million , or 22 cents a share , down from $32.3 million , or 86 cents a share , a year ago .
wsj_1035_0|Consolidated Freightways Inc. reported a 77% drop in third-quarter net income , citing expected losses in its Emery Worldwide shipping business .
wsj_0542_3|In Delaware Chancery Court litigation , Telerate has criticized Dow Jones for not disclosing that Telerate 's management expects the company 's revenue to increase by 20% annually , while Dow Jones based its projections of Telerate 's performance on a 12% revenue growth forecast .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_10|I think it 's excellent for the company .
CNN19980126.1600.1104_11|But investors are approaching the changes with caution shares of AT and T down nearly four at sixty-one and a half .
wsj_0542_2|The supplement contains various information that has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission since Dow Jones launched the offer on Sept. 26 , but it does n 't change the terms and conditions of the offer except to extend its expiration date .
wsj_0542_1|Dow Jones said it extended the offer to allow shareholders time to review a supplement to the Dow Jones tender offer circular that it mailed last Friday .
wsj_1031_3|As of Sept. 30 , Philip Morris had 926 million shares outstanding .
wsj_1031_2|The board is n 't aware of any attempts to take over Philip Morris , the company said .
wsj_1031_1|The giant foods , tobacco and brewing company said it will issue common-share purchase rights to shareholders of record Nov. 8 . Under certain circumstances , the rights would entitle Philip Morris holders to buy shares of either the company or its acquirer for half price .
wsj_1031_0|Philip Morris Cos . , New York , adopted a defense measure designed to make a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive .
wsj_0316_2|Terms call for First Security to issue about 0.55 share of its stock for each Deseret share held , or a total of about 550,000 First Security shares .
wsj_0316_3|It has about 12.3 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0316_0|First Security Corp. said it tentatively agreed to acquire Deseret Bancorp .
wsj_1031_4|In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange , Philip Morris shares closed yesterday at $43.50 each , down $1 .
wsj_0542_7|Dow Jones has said it believes the $18-a-share price is fair to Telerate 's minority shareholders .
wsj_0786_14|American Medical accepted the offer , meanwhile indicating it had heard from two other suitors .
wsj_1033_5|The unit , which is the holding company for Esselte 's non-Swedish units , accounted for 58% of sales and 71% of operating profit last year .
wsj_1033_4|Esselte AB sold the minority stake five years ago in a $40 million international share offering .
wsj_1033_7|Sales rose 2.9% to $329.2 million from $320 million .
wsj_1033_6|Separately , Esselte Business Systems reported third-quarter net income fell 5.9% to $9.5 million , or 46 cents a share , from $10.1 million , or 49 cents a share , in the year-ago period .
wsj_1033_1|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading , Esselte closed yesterday at $43.50 a share , up $1 .
wsj_1033_0|Esselte AB , the Stockholm office supplies company , as expected , proposed to acquire the 22% it doesn 't own of its U.S. unit , Esselte Business Systems Inc. The price in the proposal is $43.50 for each of the 4.9 million shares the parent doesn 't own , or $213.2 million .
wsj_1033_3|The unit said it can provide no assurance a transaction will occur .
wsj_1033_2|A committee of outside directors for the Garden City , N.Y. , unit is evaluating the proposal ; the parent asked it to respond by Oct. 31 .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_3|Saddam will know by our actions and our warning that we will be prepared to act again if we have evidence he is trying to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction capabilities .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_2|The US military buildup in the Persian gulf continues apace , more planes headed from the united states and senior officials say Iraq 's president Saddam Hussein can expect punishing air strikes to continue well into the future if he does n 't stop building biological and chemical weapons .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_1|Steve Hurst has that .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_0|President Clinton says he is committed to a possible strike against Iraq , despite objections from other countries .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_7|We 're trying to find a diplomatic solution .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_6|President Clinton , meantime , glossed over stern warnings from Moscow on Thursday that US air strikes against Iraq could do serious harm to relations with the Kremlin .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_5|The united states is not authorized to use force before going to the council .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_4|In a bit of television diplomacy , Iraq 's deputy foreign minister responded from Baghdad in less than one hour , saying Washington would break international law by attacking without UN approval .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_9|One contrary view of the issue presented itself to the president as he arrived in Philadelphia later in the day .
CNN19980213.2130.0155_8|And I hope that , whatever happens today , that our relationships with Russia will continue to be productive and constructive and strong , because that 's very important to the future of our peoples .
wsj_0816_0|Some lousy earnings reports whacked the stock market , but bond prices fell only slightly and the dollar rose a little against most major currencies .
wsj_0675_29|Commodities : Dow Jones futures index 129.49 , up 0.27 ; spot index 130.80 , off 0.24 .
wsj_1003_30|National Intergroup is negotiating for the sale of its 50% interest in National Steel to concentrate more fully on drug distribution operations .
wsj_0675_28|Bonds : Shearson Lehman Hutton Treasury index 3406.31 , off 19.29 .
wsj_0124_8|In American Stock Exchange composite trading , Citadel shares closed yesterday at $45.75 , down 25 cents .
AP900815-0044_51|Iraq said it invaded Kuwait because of disputes over oil and money .
AP900815-0044_50|At least 50,000 U.S. troops are expected to be committed to Desert Shield within weeks , including Marines , Army air assault forces , paratroopers and infantry .
AP900815-0044_53|Iraq has 17 million residents , and Kuwait about 1.9 million .
AP900815-0044_52|It accused Kuwait of deliberately slashing Iraqi oil revenues by overproducing oil and driving down prices , among other charges .
wsj_0938_24|Drabinsky and Gottlieb are ' anywhere close ' to arranging financing and that investors will need a solid offer before the stock begins to rise again .
wsj_1038_2|A year ago , Benjamin Franklin had profit of $1.8 million , or 23 cents a share .
wsj_1038_3|In over-the-counter trading yesterday , Benjamin Franklin rose 25 cents to $4.25 .
wsj_1038_0|Benjamin Franklin Federal Savings amp Loan Association said it plans to restructure in the wake of a third-quarter loss of $7.7 million , or $1.01 a share , reflecting an $11 million addition to loan-loss reserves .
wsj_1038_1|The Portland , Ore. , thrift said the restructuring should help it meet new capital standards from the Financial Institution Reform , Recovery and Enforcement Act .
wsj_1038_6|Initially , the company said it will close its commercial real-estate lending division , and stop originating new leases at its commercial lease subsidiary .
wsj_1038_7|Details of the restructuring wo n 't be made final until regulators approve the regulations mandated by the new federal act , the company said .
wsj_1038_4|The company said the restructuring 's initial phase will feature a gradual reduction in assets and staff positions .
wsj_1038_5|The plan may include selling branches , consolidating or eliminating departments , and winding down or disposing of unprofitable units within 18 months .
wsj_0786_11|It received more offers , but the auction was surprisingly won by IMA , which bid $28 a share and asked Mr. Gilleland to stay on as an equity participant .
wsj_0786_10|The following month , the company put itself up for sale .
wsj_0786_13|Then , after extending its offer four times waiting for a congressional tax ruling , IMA early this month lowered its offer to $26.50 a share amid turbulence in the junk bond market .
wsj_0786_12|He indicated that some assets might be sold off to service the debt .
wsj_0786_15|But they never materialized and IMA completed the purchase yesterday .
wsj_0675_23|--- Insurers could see claims totaling nearly $1 billion from the San Francisco earthquake , far less than the $4 billion from Hurricane Hugo .
wsj_0542_5|Telerate shares fell 50 cents on Friday to close at $20 each in New York Stock Exchange composite trading .
wsj_0786_16|Other new board members include John S. Harrison and Mark A. Adley of First Boston , James F. Lyons , William S. Goldberg and Harold S. Handelsman .
wsj_0675_22|--- Kellogg suspended work on a $1 billion cereal plant , indicating a pessimistic outlook by the cereal maker , which has been losing market share .
wsj_0675_25|--- Mobil is cutting back its U.S. oil and gas exploration and production group by up to 15% as part of a restructuring of the business .
wsj_0675_24|--- Nashua strengthened its poison-pill plan after announcing a Dutch firm is seeking to buy up to 25% of the New Hampshire copier company .
wsj_0675_27|Dow Jones industrials 2596.72 , off 17.01 ; transportation 1190.43 , off 14.76 ; utilities 215.86 , up 0.19 .
wsj_1025_0|Sotheby 's Holdings Inc. , the parent of the auction house Sotheby 's , said its net loss for the seasonally slow third quarter narrowed from a year earlier on a leap in operating revenue .
wsj_0675_26|--- Markets --- Stocks : Volume 170,330,000 shares .
wsj_1025_1|The New York-based company reported a third-quarter net loss of $5.1 million , or 10 cents a share , compared with a year-earlier net loss of $6.2 million , or 12 cents a share .
wsj_1025_2|Operating revenue surged 54% in the latest period to $42.9 million from $27.7 million .
wsj_1025_3|The company said 80% of its auction business is usually conducted in the second and fourth quarters , with the current quarter having begun ' extremely well . '
PRI19980205.2000.1890_1|The World 's Nancy Marshall reports on Mr. Blair 's current visit to Washington and the special relationship between the two leaders .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_0|The US is bolstering its military presence in the gulf , as President Clinton discussed the Iraq crisis with the one ally who has backed his threat of force , British prime minister Tony Blair .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_3|Posing for photographers with Clinton , Blair pledged to stand united with the president against Iraq , warning Saddam Hussein that the threat of force is real .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_2|President Clinton rolled out the red carpet for prime minister Blair , welcoming him not only as a close ally , but a close friend .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_5|Washington and London are virtually alone in warning Iraq of military strikes if it does n 't back down on the weapons inspection issue .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_4|The British aircraft carrier invincible is now patrolling the Persian Gulf alongside three US vessels .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_7|For The World I 'm Nancy Marshall in Washington .
PRI19980205.2000.1890_6|President Clinton says he and Blair will stand together not just on Iraq but also on arresting the terrorists suspected of blowing up Pan Am flight one oh three over Scotland .
wsj_0991_4|Total Assets plans and designs computer centers , computer security systems and computer backup systems .
wsj_0187_10|Waertsilae Marine 's bankruptcy proceedings began Tuesday in a Helsinki court .
wsj_0991_2|Revenue was about $4.5 million .
wsj_0991_1|Net income includes an extraordinary gain of about $100,000 from the reversal of bad debt and interest income .
wsj_0991_0|Total Assets Protection Inc. , rebounding from its earlier loss , expects to report earnings from operations of about $200,000 for the third quarter , J.C. Matlock , chairman , said .
wsj_0585_4|The SampP 500 is often used in arbitrage strategies .
wsj_0585_5|The portion of OTC volume attributable to program trading isn 't known , as it is on the New York Stock Exchange , where it amounted to more than 13% in September .
wsj_0585_6|Estimates from traders put it at less than 5% of Nasdaq 's average daily volume of roughly 133 million shares .
wsj_0585_7|Other market-maker gripes : Program trading also causes the Nasdaq Composite Index to lose ground against other segments of the stock market .
wsj_0585_0|Market makers in Nasdaq over-the-counter stocks are adding their voices to the swelling chorus of complaints about program trading .
wsj_0585_1|Their motivation , however , has a strong practical aspect : Program trading is hazardous to their paychecks .
wsj_0585_2|The most controversial form of program trading , stock-index arbitrage , is ' making it tough for traders to make money , ' declares Robert Antolini , head of OTC trading at Donaldson , Lufkin amp Jenrette .
wsj_0585_3|Stock-index arbitrage -- the computer-guided buying and selling of stocks with offsetting trades in stock-index futures to profit from fleeting price discrepancies -- affects the OTC market directly through the 31 stocks included in Standard amp Poor 's 500-stock index .
wsj_0585_8|Because of program trading it is more difficult to trade many OTC stocks without sharp price moves , a condition known as illiquidity .
wsj_0585_9|Moreover , the price volatility that is amplified by program trading is undercutting efforts to woo individual investors back to an OTC market that sorely misses them .
ea980120.1830.0071_18|Diane ?
ea980120.1830.0071_15|This is quite an extraordinary story unfolding here .
ea980120.1830.0071_14|The Pope 's visit is important , but they are also coming home .
ea980120.1830.0071_17|But now we ' re going to go back to New York , where Diane Sawyer has the rest of the news .
ea980120.1830.0071_16|We 'll come back to Havana later in the broadcast .
ea980120.1830.0071_11|Castro has said officially that it 's okay to be enthusiastic .
ea980120.1830.0071_10|Everyone appears to believe that somehow Cuba is going to change .
ea980120.1830.0071_13|Today , hundreds of people from the US began to arrive , including some Cuban Americans who left here when Castro came to power and are returning to Havana for the first time .
ea980120.1830.0071_12|And so , people are increasingly enthusiastic by the day- [ [ NS ] ] Today , Cuban television , which clings to the Communist Party line , actually began to promote its papal coverage .
APW19980227.0487_8|Instead , she turned to her community rabbi in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Beit El and told him about Amir 's statements .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_8|The controller at Boston center tries to raise TWA eight hundred .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_7|It just went down .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_6|Ah , we just saw an explosion up ahead of us here about sixteen thousand feet or something like that .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_5|But a minute and a half later , a pilot from a nearby flight calls in .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_4|TWA 's eight hundred heavy climb and maintain one five thousand leavin- three thousand .
APW19980227.0487_2|She took the stand for more than four hours Friday in a Tel Aviv magistrate 's court .
APW19980227.0487_3|Amir , 27 , is serving a life sentence for the November 1995 assassination of Rabin at a Tel Aviv peace rally .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_1|There 's nothing new on why the plane exploded , but you cannot miss the moment .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_0|In Washington today , the Federal Aviation Administration released air traffic control tapes from the night the TWA Flight eight hundred went down .
APW19980227.0489_8|( aa-kjd )
APW19980227.0489_4|The panel also will look at the exodus of about 2 million Rwanda Hutus to neighboring countries where they lived in U.N.-run refugee camps for 2 1/2 years .
APW19980227.0489_5|The investigation will consider the role of ` ` internal and external forces prior to the genocide and subsequently , and the role of the United Nations and its agencies and the OAU before , during and after the genocide , ' ' the OAU said .
APW19980227.0489_6|The panel will be based in Addis Ababa , and will finish its investigation within a year , it said .
APW19980227.0489_7|It is to be funded by voluntary contributions from within and outside the continent .
APW19980227.0489_0|ADDIS ABABA , Ethiopia ( AP ) _ The Organization of African Unity said Friday it would investigate the Hutu-organized genocide of more than 500,000 minority Tutsis in Rwanda nearly four years ago .
APW19980227.0489_1|Foreign ministers of member-states meeting in the Ethiopian capital agreed to set up a seven-member panel to investigate who shot down Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana 's plane on April 6 , 1994 .
APW19980227.0489_2|The assassination touched off a murderous rampage by Hutu security forces and civilians , who slaughtered mainly Tutsis but also Hutus who favored reconciliation with the minority .
APW19980227.0489_3|It also reignited the civil war .
wsj_0670_3|Revenue was $778.6 million .
wsj_0670_2|National Intergroup in the year-ago third quarter earned $22.5 million , or 97 cents a share , including a gain of $18 million from the sale of a steel tube company .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_14|Mark Potach says such members are also intensely attracted to apocalyptical fantasies .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_15|The approach of the year two thousand has many of these groups in a kind of millennial frenzy .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_16|Uh , uh a- they believe , or at least many of them believe , uh that they are approaching the Battle of Armageddon in which they will be pitted against the uh kind of Satanic forces trying to take over the world .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_17|Mr. Potach notes older , more traditional groups like the Ku Klux Klan are also opening new chapters , thanks in part to their ability to use new technologies like the Internet .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_10|The Internet has certainly helped uh hate mongers to organize and uh to feel that they are part of a larger community , even if uh they are essentially uh , you know , angry people sitting in their bedrooms uh all alone .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_11|Uh , in addition , white power racist music has become uh quite popular in certain sectors .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_12|Uh , there are over fifty thousand CDs a year sold with uh lyrics that are quite uh unbelievable .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_13|Many of these new members are joining chapters of the so called Christian Identity Movement which cites Biblical scripture as a foundation for a belief in white supremacy and anti-semitism .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_18|The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it received more than eight thousand reports of hate group crimes last year .
VOA19980303.1600.2745_19|Law enforcement authorities say such reports are likely to increase as police departments are now beginning to more accurately report hate crimes than they have in the past .
wsj_0585_58|Kirschner earned $376,000 on revenue of $14.5 million in the 1988 quarter .
wsj_0585_59|The company blamed a number of factors for the earnings decline , including softer sales of joint-implants .
wsj_0585_52|The stock fell 7/8 Thursday amid concerns over problems discovered with the chip .
wsj_0585_53|Intel told analysts that the company will resume shipments of the chips within two to three weeks .
wsj_0585_50|Intel eased 1/8 to 31 7/8 .
wsj_0585_51|The semiconductor concern said the interruption in shipment of its 80486 computer chip will be brief and have little impact on the company 's earnings .
wsj_0585_56|Kirschner Medical fell 4 to 15 .
wsj_0585_57|The company said its third-quarter earnings will probably be lower than the 16 cents a share it reported last year , despite a rise in the company 's revenue .
wsj_0585_54|Weisfield 's rocketed 9 1/2 to 39 after the jewelry store operator said it is in preliminary discussions , with a party it would n 't identify , regarding the possible acquisition of the company .
wsj_0585_55|Starpointe Savings Bank rose 3 to 20 after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. approved Dime Savings Bank of New York 's $21-a-share acquisition of Starpointe .
wsj_0991_3|In the 1988 third quarter , the company posted a net loss of $876,706 , or 22 cents a share , on revenue of about $5.1 million .
wsj_0981_12|The facility will be marketed toward families , and room rates will be between $35 and $55 a night , MGM Grand said .
wsj_0981_13|The prospectus did n 't include many details about the studio and theme park , although conceptual drawings , released this month , show that it may feature several ' themed ' areas similar to those found at parks built by Walt Disney Co.
wsj_0981_10|Construction is set to begin in early 1991 .
wsj_0981_11|The resort will include the MGM Grand Hotel , a multi-spired , castle-like facility that will include 5,000 rooms and 85,000 square feet of casino space .
AP900816-0139_9|` ` Very few ' ' of the 2,500 Americans in occupied Kuwait complied with the order , a senior U.S. official told The Associated Press .
AP900816-0139_8|Iraqi military authorities ordered all Americans and Britons in Kuwait to assemble at a hotel , officials said .
AP900816-0139_1|Bush , commenting on the two-week-old gulf crisis from his vacation home in Maine , said he saw little reason to be optimistic about a settlement of the dispute , which stems from Iraq 's invasion of oil-wealthy Kuwait and its subsequent military buildup on the border of Saudi Arabia .
AP900816-0139_0|The Persian Gulf showdown between Iraq and the United States took a more personal turn Thursday when Iraq 's Saddam Hussein called President Bush a liar and said the outbreak of holy war could bring thousands of Americans home in coffins .
AP900816-0139_3|Bush also said Thursday that King Hussein assured him Jordan would close the last remaining free port to most Iraqi trade as the economic embargo on materials to Iraq continued unabated .
AP900816-0139_2|After a two-hour meeting at his Kennebunkport home with King Hussein of Jordan , Bush said , ` ` I did not come away with any feeling of hope ' ' that Iraq would withdraw its army from Kuwait .
AP900816-0139_5|Pentagon sources in Washington meanwhile said the Bush administration plans to deploy 45,000 Marines to the region to back up the thousands of Army , Navy and Air Force troops already in place in the gulf and the Saudi desert .
AP900816-0139_4|Foodstuffs are among the goods being blocked from entry ; Iraq imports about three-quarters of its food .
AP900816-0139_7|Worries however grew about the safety of Americans and other Westerners trapped in Kuwait .
AP900816-0139_6|At a news conference , Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Jordan ` ` is seeking some guidance ' ' about a provision in the U.N.-backed trade embargo that allows food for humanitarian purposes .
wsj_0610_28|A company spokesman said it was ' possible , but highly unlikely , ' that the plant might never be built .
wsj_0610_29|' As we regain our leadership level where we have been , and as we continue to put new products into the marketplace and need additional capacity , we will look at resuming our involvement with our plan , ' he said .
wsj_0610_24|General Mills , meanwhile , finds itself constrained from boosting sales further because its plants are operating at capacity .
wsj_0610_25|A large plant in Covington , Ga. , is to come on line next year .
wsj_0610_26|A Kellogg officer , who asked not to be named , said the Memphis project was ' pulled in for a reconsideration of costs , ' an indication that the ambitious plans might be scaled back in any future construction .
wsj_0610_27|Initial cost estimates for the plant , which was to have been built in phases , ranged from $1 billion to $1.2 billion .
wsj_0610_20|In announcing the plant delay , Kellogg Chairman William E. LaMothe said , ' Cereal volume growth in the U.S. has not met our expectations for 1989 . '
wsj_0610_21|He said construction would n 't resume until market conditions warrant it .
wsj_0610_22|Kellogg indicated that it has room to grow without adding facilities .
wsj_0610_23|The company has five other U.S. plants , including a modern facility at its Battle Creek headquarters known as Building 100 , which is to add bran-processing and rice-processing capacity next year .
wsj_0292_9|Sales rose 6.7% to $4.27 billion from $4 billion .
wsj_0292_8|In the first nine months , profit rose 10% to $313.2 million , or $3.89 a share , from $283.9 million , or $3.53 a share .
wsj_0292_7|In the 1989 period also , interest expense and tax rates were lower than a year ago .
wsj_0324_4|Among them , Home Shopping , QVC and CVN already control most of that young and fast-growing market , which last year had sales of about $1.4 billion .
wsj_0292_5|Newsprint results continued to be depressed , the company added , because of industrywide price discounting .
wsj_0292_4|Those gains came from higher prices , particularly for disposable diapers and tissue products , and from increased sales , primarily for feminine-care products , the company said .
wsj_0324_1|for about $423 million .
wsj_0292_2|Sales rose 6.2% to $1.45 billion from $1.37 billion .
wsj_0292_1|The consumer-products and newsprint company said net rose to $108.8 million , or $1.35 a share , from $90.5 million , or $1.12 a share , a year ago .
wsj_0324_2|QVC agreed to pay $19 and one-eighth QVC share for each of CVN 's 20 million fully diluted shares .
wsj_0583_14|Some of Sansui 's fellow audio-specialty companies , such as Aiwa Co. and Pioneer Electric Corp. , responded to the challenge by quickly bringing out mini-component products of their own , by moving heavily into the booming compact disk businesses or by diversifying into other consumer-electronics fields , including laser disks or portable cassette players .
wsj_0583_15|Sansui was late into the mini-component business and failed to branch into other new businesses .
wsj_0583_16|As the yen soared in recent years , Sansui 's deepening financial problems became a vicious circle .
wsj_0583_17|While competitors moved production offshore in response to the sagging competitiveness of Japanese factories , Sansui lacked the money to build new plants in Southeast Asia .
wsj_0583_10|If the strong yen and the high stock prices of Japanese companies were n 't deterrents enough , webs of cross-shareholdings between friendly Japanese companies and fiercely independent Japanese corporate attitudes repel most would-be acquirers .
wsj_0583_11|Usually when a Japanese company is ready to sell , it has few alternatives remaining , and the grim demeanors of Sansui 's directors at a joint news conference here left little doubt that this was not the company 's finest hour .
wsj_0583_12|Sansui was once one of Japan 's premier makers of expensive , high-quality stereo gear for audiophiles .
wsj_0583_13|But in recent years , the market has moved toward less expensive ' mini-component ' sets , miniaturized amplifiers and receivers and software players that could be stacked on top of each other .
wsj_0583_18|' Our company has not been able to cope very effectively with ' changes in the marketplace , said Ryosuke Ito , Sansui 's president .
wsj_0583_19|But even a Japanese company that looks like a dog may turn out to be a good investment for a foreign concern , some management consultants maintain .
wsj_0158_8|' If I were choosing the people of tomorrow , I would have chosen the people who are now on the board , ' he said .
wsj_0158_9|A Reuters spokesman said the departure reflects ' no change in strategy or profits . '
wsj_0158_2|His appointment to that post , which has senior administrative , staff and policy responsibilities , followed a several-year tenure as Reuters 's editor in chief .
wsj_0158_3|No successor was named , and Mr. Reupke 's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives , the company said .
wsj_0158_0|Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager to pursue unspecified interests , a move the news organization termed an ' amicable separation . '
wsj_0158_1|Mr. Reupke , 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran , had been the information-services company 's general manager for only six months .
wsj_0158_6|He also rejected reports that his departure stemmed from disappointment the general manager 's post had n 't also led to a board directorship at the London-based news organization .
wsj_0158_7|Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters 's eight-person executive committee who did n 't also serve on the company 's board of directors .
wsj_0158_4|In a telephone interview , Mr. Reupke said his departure was for ' personal reasons , ' which he declined to specify .
wsj_0158_5|' There is no business reason for my departure , ' nor any disagreement over policy , he added .
wsj_0805_1|The Dearborn , Mich. , energy company stopped paying a dividend in the third quarter of 1984 because of troubles at its Midland nuclear plant .
wsj_0805_0|CMS ENERGY Corp. said management would recommend to its board today that its common stock dividend be reinstated at a ' modest level ' later this year .
wsj_0805_2|In addition , CMS reported third-quarter net of $68.2 million , or 83 cents a share , up from $66.8 million , or 81 cents a share , a year ago .
wsj_1040_5|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday , Oneida 's shares closed at $18.375 a share , unchanged .
wsj_1040_4|The company has about 8.8 million shares outstanding .
wsj_1040_3|The move rewards shareholders and should improve the stock 's liquidity , Oneida said .
wsj_1040_2|The cash dividend paid on the common stock also will apply to the new shares , the company said .
wsj_1040_1|The Oneida , N.Y. , maker of consumer , food-service and industrial products also declared a quarterly cash dividend of 12 cents a share , with the same payable and record dates .
wsj_1040_0|ONEIDA Ltd. declared a 10% stock dividend , payable Dec. 15 to stock of record Nov. 17 .
wsj_0938_23|asked Pierre Panet-Raymond , an analyst and broker with Toronto securities dealer McDermid St. Lawrence Ltd. Mr. Panet-Raymond said he does n 't think Messrs .
wsj_0938_22|' Where 's the bid ? '
wsj_0938_21|On the Toronto Stock Exchange , Cineplex closed at C$12.875 , off 37.5 Canadian cents , well below the C$16.40 level .
wsj_1042_2|About 1.1 million Class C warrants were issued , the company said .
wsj_1042_5|Avon also said it will issue an additional 243,677 of the Class C warrants to holders of its Class A , Class B and unclassified warrants .
wsj_1042_4|The warrants may be exercised until 90 days after their issue date .
wsj_0938_25|Mr. Drabinsky could n 't be reached for comment .
wsj_1042_6|Issuance of those warrants will be at the rate of one-third warrant for each warrant exercised .
ed980111.1130.0089_2|Yesterday New York governor George Pataki toured five counties that have been declared under a state of emergency .
ed980111.1130.0089_3|He added one more today .
ed980111.1130.0089_0|The lights are out and the heat is off and those vital signs are not likely to change much over the next several days for p- people in parts of the northeastern US and eastern Canada .
ed980111.1130.0089_1|A powerful ice storm continues to maintain its grip .
ed980111.1130.0089_4|Helicopters are flying over northern New York today trying to locate people stranded without food , heat or medicine .
ed980111.1130.0089_5|In Maine , about a half million people still don 't have power and they ' re going to have to live without it for a while .
wsj_0157_1|Under terms of the new proposal , Equus , managed by Equus Capital Corp. , Houston , would pay $12 cash and one new preferred share with a liquidation preference of $1.65 a share for each of Tony Lama 's 2.1 million shares outstanding .
wsj_0157_0|Tony Lama Co. said that Equus Investment II Limited Partnership has proposed changing the offer for the company to $13.65 in cash and stock from an all-cash transaction .
wsj_0157_3|The El Paso , Texas , maker of Western boots and leather accessories said the preferred stock would accrue dividends at a 12% rate , but would n 't be paid for the first two years .
wsj_0157_2|Previously , it offered $13.65 a share in cash , or $29 million .
wsj_0157_5|Neither Equus nor Tony Lama gave a reason for the changed offer and Tony Lama could n 't be reached for comment .
wsj_0157_4|The stock would be redeemed in five years , subject to terms of the surviving company 's debt .
wsj_0157_6|However , Tony Lama said it would promptly submit the offer to a special committee of the company 's board .
AP900815-0044_28|Bush then sent U.S. troops and planes to Saudi Arabia , saying Iraqi troops massed nearby in Kuwait threatened Saudi Arabia and its vast oil reserves .
AP900815-0044_29|Twelve Arab League nations voted for an Arab force to protect Saudi Arabia , with the vanguard of Syria 's contingent arriving Tuesday , according to diplomatic sources in Riyadh , the Saudi capital .
wsj_0151_3|The action followed by one day an Intelogic announcement that it will retain an investment banker to explore alternatives ' to maximize shareholder value , ' including the possible sale of the company .
wsj_0151_2|Mr. Ackerman already is seeking to oust Mr. Edelman as chairman of Datapoint Corp. , an Intelogic affiliate .
wsj_0151_1|The move boosts Intelogic Chairman Asher Edelman 's stake to 20% from 16.2% and may help prevent Martin Ackerman from making a run at the computer-services concern .
AP900815-0044_27|The U.N. Security Council on Aug. 6 ordered a global embargo on trade with Iraq as punishment for seizing Kuwait .
wsj_0151_7|But Mr. Ackerman said the buy-back , and the above-market price paid , prove that Mr. Edelman is running scared .
wsj_0151_6|He added , ' This has nothing to do with Marty Ackerman and it is not designed , particularly , to take the company private . '
wsj_0151_5|Mr. Edelman declined to specify what prompted the recent moves , saying they are meant only to benefit shareholders when ' the company is on a roll . '
wsj_0151_4|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday , Intelogic shares rose 37.5 cents to close at $2.75 .
wsj_0348_7|Revenue rose 33% to $378.1 million from $283.8 million .
wsj_0558_10|Third-quarter results included net realized capital gains of $48 million , which included $27 million from the sale of Federated Investors in August and a $15 million tax credit .
wsj_0558_11|In the nine months , net rose 4.3% to $525.8 million or $4.67 a share , from $504.2 million , or $4.41 a share , last year .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_15|She says this puts the very existence of women 's families at risk .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_14|Yet , the Taliban have forbidden them to work .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_17|In cities , such as the capital Kabul , women are totally dependent on international aid for survival .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_16|She says the plight of women in urban areas is greater than that which exists in rural parts of the country .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_11|And today , the right to work is equal to r- the right to survival .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_10|Women do not become victims of armed attack , but they do not have the right to work .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_13|Women have become the sole support of their families .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_12|Ms. Atimadi says the war has created a nation of widows .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_19|The aim is to bring in not only the focus on women 's right to education , access to work , but look beyond that and look at the roots of , uh of these problems .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_18|Ms. Atimadi says the women of Kabul symbolize the suffering of all the women in Afghanistan .
wsj_0778_18|In that suit , the SEC accused Mr. Antar of engaging in a ' massive financial fraud ' to overstate the earnings of Crazy Eddie , Edison , N.J. , over a three-year period .
wsj_0778_19|Through his lawyers , Mr. Antar has denied allegations in the SEC suit and in civil suits previously filed by shareholders against Mr. Antar and others .
wsj_0778_10|According to individuals familiar with Mr. Antar 's case , prosecutors issued their warning this week after one of Mr. Antar 's attorneys asked whether legal fees might be subject to seizure .
wsj_0778_11|In a letter , prosecutors told Mr. Antar 's lawyers that because of the recent Supreme Court rulings , they could expect that any fees collected from Mr. Antar may be seized .
wsj_0778_12|Prosecutors have told Mr. Antar 's attorneys that they believe Mr. Antar 's allegedly ill-gotten gains are so great that any money he has used to pay attorneys derives from illegal activities .
wsj_0778_13|Therefore , they said , the money can be taken from the lawyers even after they are paid .
wsj_0778_14|Justin Feldman and Jack Arseneault , attorneys for Mr. Antar , both declined to comment on the matter .
wsj_0778_15|In Newark , U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito said , ' I do n 't think there 's any legal reason to limit forfeiture of attorney 's fees to drug cases . '
wsj_0778_16|Mr. Alito said his office ' just responded to an attorney 's question about whether we would go after attorney 's fees , and that is different from actually doing it , although we reserve that right . '
wsj_0778_17|Mr. Antar was charged last month in a civil suit filed in federal court in Newark by the Securities and Exchange Commission .
NYT19980206.0460_3|With growing opportunities for work drawing more people into the labor force , the unemployment rate remained at 4.7 percent last month , just a notch above its quarter-century low .
NYT19980206.0460_2|It was the third consecutive month that job generation has been exceptionally strong .
NYT19980206.0460_1|The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 358,000 jobs last month , far above the 235,000 forecast by economists .
NYT19980206.0460_0|WASHINGTON _ The economy created jobs at a surprisingly robust pace in January , the government reported on Friday , evidence that America 's economic stamina has withstood any disruptions caused so far by the financial tumult in Asia .
NYT19980206.0460_7|But economists said the wage increase was not enough to raise any concerns about higher inflation .
NYT19980206.0460_6|The gain left wages 3.8 percent higher than a year earlier , extending a trend that has given back to workers some of the earning power they lost to inflation in the last decade .
NYT19980206.0460_5|Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees rose 4 cents , to $12.51 .
NYT19980206.0460_4|The demand for workers also led employers to raise wages again last month .
NYT19980206.0460_9|Stocks rose , pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up 72.24 points , to 8,189.49 , leaving the index within 70 points of its record high set on Aug. 6 . In the bond market , a sensitive barometer of inflation anxiety , prices edged up , pushing down the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond to 5.92 percent from 5.93 percent .
NYT19980206.0460_8|And because the Federal Reserve has made clear that it expects the economy to slow in coming months as ripple effects from Asia reach the United States , investors disregarded the large jobs gains , betting that neither a rise in interest rates nor resurgent inflation is looming .
NYT19980206.0466_1|We 're not going to dignify the latest false leak with a response . ' ' McCurry on Friday ` ` I want to be absolutely clear , to the extent there is any implication or the slightest suggestion that Mrs. Currie believes that the President or anyone else tried to influence her recollection , that is absolutely false and a mischaracterization of the facts .
NYT19980206.0466_0|WASHINGTON _ Following are statements made Friday and Thursday by Lawrence Wechsler , a lawyer for the White House secretary , Betty Currie ; the White House ; White House spokesman Mike McCurry , and President Clinton in response to an article in The New York Times on Friday about her statements regarding a meeting with the president : Wechsler on Thursday ` ` Without commenting on the allegations raised in this article , to the extent that there is any implication or suggestion that Mrs. Currie was aware of any legal or ethical impropriety by anyone , that implication or suggestion is entirely inaccurate . ' ' White House on Thursday ` ` For the past few weeks we ' ve been subjected to false leaks designed to mislead both reporters and the American public .
NYT19980206.0466_3|` ` Once again , I never asked anybody to do anything but tell the truth .
NYT19980206.0466_2|I am shocked and dismayed by the numerous leaks regarding Mrs. Currie 's grand jury testimony . ' ' Clinton on Friday .
NYT19980206.0466_5|I was pleased that Ms. Currie 's lawyers stated unambiguously this morning _ unambiguously _ that she 's not aware of any unethical conduct .
NYT19980206.0466_4|I know about the stories today .
wsj_0751_4|The thrifts agreed to the transaction in August 1988 .
wsj_0751_1|Starpointe holders , who approved the plan last April , will receive $21 in cash a share , or a total $63 million .
wsj_0751_0|Dime Savings Bank of New York was cleared by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to acquire Starpointe Savings Bank of Somerset , N.J. , the banks said .
wsj_0751_3|A closing date has n 't been set .
wsj_0751_2|The FDIC cleared the move yesterday , and the banks must wait at least 30 days before closing the purchase .
wsj_0667_7|These payments consisted of $54 million in scheduled payments and $121 million in prepayments , funded by $82.8 million from operating cash flow , zero-coupon subordinated debt and assets sales .
wsj_0667_6|The company has made payments of $175 million against the original $585 million of bank debt incurred in connection with the recapitalization .
wsj_0667_5|Shoney 's said the latest restructuring affected bank indebtedness that was incurred to finance $585 million of the company 's $728 million recapitalization that took place in 1988 .
wsj_0610_7|Kellogg 's current share is believed to be slightly under 40% while General Mills ' share is about 27% .
wsj_0667_4|The combined effect of these changes is expected to save the company about $4 million in interest expenses next year , or six cents a share .
wsj_1042_1|Currently , Avon , based in Santa Monica , Calif. , has 3.3 million common shares outstanding .
wsj_1042_0|AVON RENT-A-CAR amp TRUCK Corp. said it declared a dividend of one warrant for each three shares of common stock .
wsj_1042_3|Each of the Class C warrants will enable the holders to purchase one share of common stock at $5.50 .
wsj_0610_0|This has n 't been Kellogg Co. 's year .
NYT19980424.0421_4|The majority 's views were expressed in three separate opinions , the most disquieting of which was written by a liberal member , Justice John Paul Stevens , and joined by a conservative , Chief Justice William Rehnquist .
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wsj_0650_1|The company said the debentures are being issued at an issue price of $849 for each $1,000 principal amount and are convertible at any time prior to maturity at a conversion price of $25 a share .
wsj_0650_0|Sun Microsystems Inc. , a computer maker , announced the effectiveness of its registration statement for $125 million of 6 3/8% convertible subordinated debentures due Oct. 15 , 1999 .
wsj_0650_2|The debentures are available through Goldman , Sachs amp Co.
wsj_0585_29|But , he observes , while makers suffer losses when program trading drags the market down , they also make money when program trading pushes the prices higher .
wsj_0585_28|Joseph Hardiman , president of the National Association of Securities Dealers , which oversees trading on Nasdaq , agrees that program trading is hurting the market 's efforts to bring back small investors .
wsj_0585_27|No one has big positions and no one wants to take big risks . '
wsj_0585_26|' It 's harder to sell stocks when the sell programs come in because some market makers do n 't want to { take the orders } .
wsj_0585_25|But this skittishness , Mr. Antolini says , is creating liquidity problems in certain OTC stocks .
wsj_0585_24|' It makes no sense for us to put money at risk when you know you 're going to lose , ' says Mr. Antolini , of Donaldson Lufkin .
wsj_0585_23|In such an environment , market makers can suffer huge losses both on trades made that day at steadily dropping prices and in the value of their inventories of shares .
wsj_0585_22|On days when prices are tumbling , they must be willing to buy shares from sellers when no one else will .
wsj_0585_21|And to protect their reduced capital investment from eroding further , market makers became quicker to lower price quotes when sell programs are in progress .
wsj_0585_20|Market makers , to cut costs , slashed inventories of stocks they keep on hand to sell investors when other holders are n 't selling .
wsj_0167_0|RMS International Inc. , Hasbrouk Heights , N.J. , facing a cash-flow squeeze , said it is seeking other financing sources and waivers from debenture holders .
wsj_0167_1|The company said that because of softening sales it isn 't in compliance with requirements that it maintain $3 million in working capital .
wsj_0167_2|RMS distributes electronic devices and produces power supplies and plastic literature displays .
wsj_0167_3|RMS said it had a loss of $158,666 , or 10 cents a share , in the third quarter , compared with a year-earlier loss of $26,956 , or two cents a share .
wsj_0167_4|Sales rose to $3 million from $2.9 million .
wsj_0167_5|For the nine months , the company reported a net loss of $608,413 , or 39 cents a share , compared with year-earlier net income of $967,809 , or 62 cents a share .
wsj_0167_6|Sales rose to $9.8 million from $8.9 million .
wsj_0348_5|Ogden Projects , which has interests in solid-waste recovery and hazardous-waste cleanup , said it has 13 facilities in operation , up from seven a year ago .
wsj_0161_2|In addition , Hadson said it will write off about $3.5 million in costs related to international exploration leases where exploration efforts have been unsuccessful .
wsj_0161_3|The company also cited interest costs and amortization of goodwill as factors in the loss .
wsj_0161_0|Hadson Corp. said it expects to report a third-quarter net loss of $17 million to $19 million because of special reserves and continued low natural-gas prices .
wsj_0161_1|The Oklahoma City energy and defense concern said it will record a $7.5 million reserve for its defense group , including a $4.7 million charge related to problems under a fixed-price development contract and $2.8 million in overhead costs that wo n 't be reimbursed .
wsj_0161_4|A year earlier , net income was $2.1 million , or six cents a share , on revenue of $169.9 million .
wsj_1006_9|At a news conference , Mr. Nadeau said the sale of the three non-food businesses , which account for nearly half the company 's C$900 million in assets , should be completed in a ' matter of months . '
wsj_1006_8|Mr. Nadeau also is chairman and chief executive of Unigesco Inc. , Provigo 's controlling shareholder .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_9|TWA eight hundred , if you hear center , ident .
WSJ910225-0066_43|The date was unaffected by the last-ditch Soviet peace initiative .
wsj_1006_1|The non-food operations accounted for about 27% of Provigo 's 7.38 billion Canadian dollars ( US$6.3 billion ) in sales in the latest fiscal year .
wsj_1006_0|In a stunning shift in direction , Provigo Inc. said it will sell all its non-food operations to concentrate solely on its retail and wholesale grocery business .
wsj_1006_3|Mr. Lortie joined Provigo in 1985 and spearheaded the company 's drive to grow outside its traditional food business .
wsj_1006_2|In a related move , Pierre Lortie , chairman and chief executive , resigned .
wsj_1006_5|Bertin Nadeau , newly appointed chairman and interim chief executive of Provigo , would n 't say if Mr. Lortie was asked to leave .
wsj_1006_4|He could n 't be reached for comment .
wsj_1006_7|' At this stage it was felt I was perhaps more pertinent as chief executive . '
wsj_1006_6|' Mr. Lortie felt less pertinent , ' Mr. Nadeau said , given the decision to dump Provigo 's non-food operations .
APW19980227.0487_6|She said Rabin 's murder was ` ` a black stain on Israel , ' ' Israel radio and Israel army radio reported .
WSJ910225-0066_41|The decision was made after Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , returned from a visit with military commanders in Saudi Arabia , administration officials say .
APW19980227.0487_7|Har-Shefi said she heard Amir talk about killing Rabin but did not tell the police because she did not believe he was serious .
WSJ910225-0066_46|Mr. Bush forestalled further diplomatic maneuvering by issuing an ultimatum on behalf of the allies demanding that Iraq withdraw within a week , starting at noon Saturday .
NYT19980424.0421_0|The New York Times said in an editorial on Saturday , April 25 : The Supreme Court took a detour this week from the core principle of gender fairness it vindicated two years ago in its ruling invalidating the use of sexual stereotypes to justify denying women admission to the Virginia Military Institute .
APW19980227.0487_4|Newspaper reports have said Amir was infatuated with Har-Shefi and may have been trying to impress her by killing the prime minister .
WSJ910225-0066_47|Administration aides said that the idea of the ultimatum was Gen. Powell 's .
APW19980227.0487_5|Har-Shefi acknowledged she told police interrogators that Rabin was a traitor and that she prayed for him to have a heart attack and die .
WSJ910225-0066_44|The real problem with the Soviet proposals , U.S. officials now say , was that they all would have required lifting economic sanctions against Iraq .
wsj_0127_4|Pretax profit fell 3.7% to #128 million from #133 million and was below analysts ' expectations of #130 million to #135 million , but shares rose 6 pence to 388 pence in early trading yesterday in London .
wsj_0127_5|Reed is paying an interim dividend of 4.6 pence , up 15% from 4 pence a year earlier .
wsj_0127_6|Sales fell 20% to #722 million .
wsj_0127_7|Earnings were hurt by disposal of operations in its restructuring , Reed said .
wsj_0127_0|Reed International PLC said that net income for the six months ended Oct. 1 slipped 5% to #89.7 million ( $141.9 million ) , or 16 pence a share , from #94.8 million ( $149.9 million ) , or 17.3 pence a share .
wsj_0127_1|The British paper , packaging and publishing concern , said profit from continuing lines fell 10% to #118 million from #130.6 million .
wsj_0127_2|While there were no one-time gains or losses in the latest period , there was a one-time gain of #18 million in the 1988 period .
ABC19980114.1830.0611_2|ABC 's Lisa Stark has more .
APW19980227.0487_0|JERUSALEM ( AP ) _ Taking the stand in her own defense , a friend of Yitzhak Rabin 's assassin said Friday that she regretted calling the prime minister a traitor and praying for his death .
NYT19980424.0421_1|By a 6-3 vote , the court upheld a discriminatory immigration law that gives a child born overseas to an unmarried American woman a better chance at citizenship than a child born to an unmarried American man .
APW19980227.0487_1|Margalit Har-Shefi , 22 , has pleaded innocent to charges that she failed to report Yigal Amir 's plan to kill Rabin .
wsj_0610_11|Kellogg is so anxious to turn around Corn Flakes sales that it soon will begin selling boxes for as little as 99 cents , trade sources say .
wsj_0610_10|Analysts say much of Kellogg 's erosion has been in such core brands as Corn Flakes , Rice Krispies and Frosted Flakes , which represent nearly one-third of its sales volume .
wsj_0610_13|' They are not a happy group of people at Battle Creek right now . '
wsj_0610_12|' Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios have eaten away sales normally going to Kellogg 's corn-based lines simply because they are made of oats , ' says Merrill Lynch food analyst William Maguire .
wsj_0610_15|Another analyst , John C. Maxwell Jr. of Wheat , First Securities in Richmond , Va. , recently went to a ' sell ' recommendation on Kellogg stock , which closed Friday at $71.75 , down 75 cents , in New York Stock Exchange composite trading .
wsj_0610_14|Kellogg is based in Battle Creek , Mich. , a city that calls itself the breakfast capital of the world .
wsj_0610_17|' Kellogg 's main problem is life style .
wsj_0610_16|' I do n 't think Kellogg can get back to 40% this year , ' he said .
wsj_0610_19|Mr. Maxwell said he would n 't be surprised if , over the next two years or so , General Mills ' share increased to 30% or more .
wsj_0610_18|People are reading the boxes and deciding they want something that 's ` healthy ' for you -- oats , bran . '
wsj_0165_6|Heritage owns and operates television and radio stations and in-store advertising and promotion programs .
wsj_0165_4|The preferred stock , which would have a dividend rate of $1.76 a year , would be convertible into Heritage common at a rate of four common shares for each preferred .
wsj_0165_5|New York-based POP Radio provides , through a national , in-store network , a customized music , information and advertising service which simulates live radio .
wsj_0165_2|Depending upon how many warrants and options are exercised prior to completion of the transaction , Heritage would issue between 1.8 million and 2.35 million preferred shares , a Heritage spokesman estimated .
wsj_0165_3|In national over-the-counter trading yesterday , POP plunged $4 to $14.75 .
wsj_0165_0|Heritage Media Corp. , New York , said it offered to buy the shares of POP Radio Corp. it does n 't already own in a stock swap .
wsj_0165_1|Heritage , which owns 51% of POP 's 3.6 million shares outstanding , said it will exchange one share of a new preferred stock for each POP common share it does n 't already own .
wsj_0973_9|Mr. Marous said the business will achieve higher sales this year than the company 's target goal of 8.5% .
wsj_0973_8|A bright spot is the company 's power-generation business , which is experiencing a surge of growth for the first time in years .
wsj_0973_3|Since 1983 , Westinghouse has shed 70 businesses that it did n 't expect to produce 10% operating margins while acquiring 55 businesses .
wsj_0973_2|In 1988 , the company earned $822.8 million , or $5.66 a share , on sales of $12.49 billion .
wsj_0973_1|John C. Marous , chairman and chief executive officer , also said the company expects sales from continuing businesses to rise 8.5% annually through the next three years .
wsj_0973_0|Westinghouse Electric Corp. , capitalizing on a major restructuring program , expects operating margins of more than 10% and double-digit per-share earnings growth next year , top officers told securities analysts here .
wsj_0973_7|GNP is the total value of the nation 's output of goods and services .
wsj_0973_6|Even if the gross national product is either flat or in the growth range of 2% to 2.5% , ' we can handle that , ' Mr. Marous said .
wsj_0973_5|Westinghouse expects to meet its corporate goals despite a softening in the economy .
wsj_0973_4|In the past 20 months alone , Paul E. Lego , president and chief operating officer , said the divestiture of $300 million of slow-growth , low-profit businesses has been more than offset by $600 million in profitable acquisitions .
wsj_0927_27|Mr. Taylor also was named a director , increasing the board to 22 , but is not part of the new office of the chairman .
wsj_0927_26|He previously held similar responsibilities .
wsj_0168_3|That amount is convertible into shares of Meridian common stock at $2 a share during its one-year term .
wsj_0168_2|The McAlpine family , which operates a number of multinational companies , including a London-based engineering and construction company , also lent to Meridian National $500,000 .
wsj_0168_1|The sale represents 10.2% of Meridian 's shares outstanding .
wsj_0168_0|Meridian National Corp. said it sold 750,000 shares of its common stock to the McAlpine family interests , for $1 million , or $1.35 a share .
wsj_0927_25|Frederick B. Taylor , 48 , also was named a vice chairman and chief investment officer , a new post .
wsj_0168_5|The sale of shares to the McAlpine family along with the recent sale of 750,000 shares of Meridian stock to Haden MacLellan Holding PLC of Surrey , England and a recent public offering have increased Meridian 's net worth to $8.5 million , said William Feniger , chief executive officer of Toledo , Ohio-based Meridian .
wsj_0168_4|The loan may be extended by the McAlpine group for an additional year with an increase in the conversion price to $2.50 a share .
wsj_0927_24|Mr. Roberts continues as treasurer , and Mr. Wonham remains responsible for the offices of comptroller , planning , marketing and general services .
AP900815-0044_8|In a letter to President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran , read by a broadcaster over Baghdad radio , Saddam said he will begin withdrawing troops from Iranian territory on Friday and release Iranian prisoners of war .
wsj_0927_23|Donald M. Roberts , 54 , treasurer , and Frederick S. Wonham , 58 , who takes responsibility for the funds-service group , were named vice chairmen and will serve in the office of the chairman .
wsj_0927_22|Schwarz and Maurer .
wsj_0152_2|In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange , Telerate shares closed at $19.50 , up 12.5 cents .
wsj_0927_20|Mr. Schwarz 's father was a U.S. Trust trustee until 1974 .
wsj_0583_29|He took Polly Peck , once a small fabric wholesaler , and used it at as a base to build a conglomerate that has been doubling its profits annually since 1980 .
wsj_0583_28|Such risk taking is an everyday matter for the brash Mr. Nadir , who is 25% owner of Polly Peck as well as its chairman .
wsj_0583_21|' Attitudes { toward being acquired } are still negative , but they 're becoming more positive , ' Mr. Murasawa said .
wsj_0583_20|Yoshihisa Murasawa , a management consultant for Booz-Allen amp Hamilton ( Japan ) Inc. , said his firm will likely be recommending acquisitions of Japanese companies more often to foreign clients in the future .
wsj_0583_23|Whether Polly Peck 's acquisition makes sense remains to be seen , but at the news conference , Mr. Nadir brimmed with self-confidence that he can turn Sansui around .
wsj_0583_22|' In some industries , like pharmaceuticals , acquisitions make sense . '
wsj_0583_25|He said Polly Peck will greatly expand Sansui 's product line , using Sansui 's engineers to design the new products , and will move Sansui 's production of most products other than sophisticated audio gear offshore into Polly Peck 's own factories .
wsj_0583_24|Sansui , he said , is a perfect fit for Polly Peck 's electronics operations , which make televisions , videocassette recorders , microwaves and other products on an ' original equipment maker ' basis for sale under other companies ' brand names .
wsj_0583_27|And while Polly Peck is n 't jettisoning the existent top-management structure of Sansui , it is bringing in a former Toshiba Corp. executive as executive vice president and chief operating officer .
wsj_0583_26|' Whatever capital it ( Sansui ) needs so it can compete and become a totally global entity capable of competing with the best in the world , that capital will be injected , ' Mr. Nadir said .
wsj_0938_0|Cineplex Odeon Corp. directors said the company 's chairman and chief executive , Garth Drabinsky , is considering bidding 780.6 million Canadian dollars ( US$666 million ) to acquire the company .
wsj_0938_1|The board said Mr. Drabinsky and Vice Chairman Myron Gottlieb are negotiating financing before offering C$16.40 a share to acquire all of Cineplex 's shares outstanding .
wsj_0938_2|The directors added that the two executives have n 't reached a final decision to proceed with a bid and that until an offer is made the board will continue seeking higher offers from other bidders .
wsj_0938_3|The directors said if Messrs .
wsj_0938_4|Drabinsky and Gottlieb mail an offer to shareholders by Nov. 22 , it will reimburse them a maximum of C$8.5 million for expenses related to a bid .
wsj_0938_5|' We consider that his bid is an acceptable bid , ' said Sandra Kolber , spokeswoman for the independent directors ' committee appointed last May to solicit and review bids for the company in the wake of a dispute between Mr. Drabinsky and Cineplex 's major shareholder , MCA Inc. MCA and Cineplex 's other major shareholder , Montreal-based financier Charles Bronfman and his associates , have agreed to tender their holdings to an offer by Mr. Drabinsky unless a higher offer is made by another bidder .
wsj_0938_6|MCA holds half of Cineplex 's equity and 33% of its voting rights through restricted voting shares , while Bronfman interests hold about 24% of the company 's equity .
wsj_0938_7|Ms. Kolber said the committee had received other bids .
wsj_0938_8|She declined to identify other bidders but said Mr. Drabinsky 's offer ' is all cash , and it 's for all of the company . '
wsj_0938_9|Several Cineplex analysts have speculated that outside bids received by the committee were either disappointingly low or for only part of the company .
AP900815-0044_39|In exchange , the buildup of U.S. forces in the region would halt .
AP900815-0044_38|In an interview from Jordan on ABC , he declined to discuss details , but said : ` ` I don 't think that his majesty would be traveling at this crucial moment if the Iraqi leadership did not have a rational approach to the future . ' ' A CBS News report citing unidentified Jordanian sources said that Saddam 's message called for an international conference to be convened to discuss an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait .
AP900815-0044_37|Crown Prince Hassan , King Hussein 's brother and political adviser , was asked today about the message the king was said to be carrying .
AP900815-0044_36|The monarch will meet Bush on Thursday in Kennebunkport , Maine .
AP900815-0044_35|King Hussein was reportedly carrying a message to Bush from Iraq 's Saddam , with whom the king met Monday .
AP900815-0044_34|Truckloads of goods rolled into Iraq from Jordan on Tuesday and Iraqi-bound cargo was unloaded from ships at the Red Sea port ofAqaba despite the U.N.-ordered sanctions .
AP900815-0044_33|Turkey and Saudi Arabia in effect shut down Iraq 's major oil outlets through those countries , but according to Jordanian officials , a smaller line into Jordan remained operating .
AP900815-0044_32|The size of the contingent was not disclosed .
AP900815-0044_31|The predominantly Moslem nation of Bangladesh said today its troops would join multinational forces in Saudi Arabia .
AP900815-0044_30|Egyptian and Moroccan troops are already there .
wsj_0558_6|In New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday , Aetna closed at $60 , down 50 cents .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_8|Ms. Atimadi says Afghan women have been victims of severe violations of human rights for the past twenty years and she says she sees no end to the misery .
wsj_0558_4|The insurer has started processing claims from the Northern California earthquake nearly two weeks ago .
wsj_0558_5|But because these claims are more difficult to evaluate and have been coming in more slowly , the company has no estimate of the impact of the earthquake on fourth-quarter results .
wsj_0558_2|Last year catastrophe losses totaled $5 million , when net was $235.5 million , or $2.07 a share .
wsj_0558_3|The year-earlier results have been restated to reflect an accounting change .
wsj_0558_0|Aetna Life amp Casualty Co. 's third-quarter net income fell 22% to $182.6 million , or $1.63 a share , reflecting the damages from Hurricane Hugo and lower results for some of the company 's major divisions .
wsj_0558_1|Catastrophe losses reduced Aetna 's net income by $50 million , including $36 million from Hugo .
wsj_0778_25|They also worry that if the government applies asset-forfeiture laws broadly , the best defense lawyers will be unwilling to take criminal cases unless they are assured of being paid .
wsj_0778_24|Still , criminal defense lawyers worry that defendants are being deprived of their Sixth Amendment right to counsel and a fair trial if the government can seize lawyers ' fees .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_3|Lisa Schlein reports from Geneva .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_2|Special events are being organized by the European Commission and individual nations in Europe , North America , and other parts of the world .
wsj_0778_21|Mr. Antar , the SEC said , made more than $60 million from the sale of his shares between 1985 and 1987 .
wsj_0778_20|The SEC has alleged that Mr. Antar aimed to pump up the company 's stock price through false financial statements in order to sell his stake and reap huge profits .
wsj_0558_8|Profit for its commercial insurance division fell 30% to $59 million , reflecting higher catastrophe losses and the price war in the property/casualty market for nearly three years .
wsj_0558_9|However , Aetna 's employee benefits division , which includes its group health insurance operations , posted a 34% profit gain to $106 million .
wsj_0918_8|' We have n 't benefited the shareholder as much as we need to , ' said Edgar Woolard Jr. , Du Pont 's chairman and chief executive officer , in an interview several months before he entered his current position in April .
wsj_1003_18|steel business , said third-quarter net income dropped 8% to $33 million , or 35 cents a share , from $36 million , or 39 cents a share in the year-ago quarter .
wsj_1003_19|Sales dropped to $441.1 million from $820.4 million , because the company no longer consolidates its Eastern Steel division , which is now a joint venture with Kawasaki Steel Corp. Along with reduced volume , analysts said the nation 's fifth largest steelmaker was hurt by holding higher-cost inventory when raw material costs of such key products as nickel dropped .
wsj_1003_16|At the same time , production costs , compared with a year ago , were boosted by higher raw material and employment costs , which resulted from the company 's new labor pact effective June 1 . ' We anticipate that steel market conditions will exhibit a further moderate decline in the fourth quarter as the automotive sector remains weak and customers continue to adjust inventories , ' said Bethlehem Chairman Walter F. Williams .
wsj_0585_42|Weakness in big technology stocks hurt the composite as well as the Nasdaq 100 Index , which fell 1.4% , or 6.43 , on Friday , to 437.68 .
wsj_1003_14|Still , Bethlehem 's core basic steel operations experienced a steep drop in operating profit to $58.6 million from $186.4 million a year ago , when the industry enjoyed strong demand and pricing .
wsj_1003_15|The company said its shipments declined as a result of a reduction in inventories by service centers , a lackluster automotive market and increasing competitive pressures in the construction market .
wsj_1003_12|However , in spite of the difficult industrywide environment of high cost and low volume , Bethlehem ' had pretty good earnings numbers , ' said Michelle Galanter Applebaum , an analyst with Salomon Brothers Inc.
wsj_1003_13|Ms. Applebaum had estimated third-quarter earnings of 55 cents a shhha55 cents a share , ents a share , but ssa share , but said the losses for the unusual items were larger than expected .
wsj_1003_10|Of all the major steelmakers , Bethlehem would seem to be the most vulnerable to a slowdown .
wsj_1003_11|It hasn 't diversified beyond steel , nor has it linked up with a joint venture partner to share costs and risks .
wsj_0332_4|The takeover would be followed by a restructuring of Orkem 's U.K. unit , including the addition of related Orkem businesses and possibly further acquisitions .
wsj_0332_5|Orkem said it eventually would seek to make a public share offering in its U.K. business .
wsj_0332_0|Orkem S.A. , a French state-controlled chemical manufacturer , is making a friendly bid of 470 pence ( $7.43 ) a share for the 59.2% of U.K. specialty chemical group Coates Brothers PLC which it does n 't already own , the two sides said .
wsj_0332_1|The offer , which values the whole of Coates at #301 million , has already been accepted by Coates executives and other shareholders owning 12.4% of the company .
wsj_0332_2|The acceptances give Orkem a controlling 53.2% stake in the company .
wsj_0332_3|Orkem and Coates said last Wednesday that the two were considering a merger , through Orkem 's British subsidiary , Orkem Coatings U.K. Ltd. Orkem , France 's third-largest chemical group , said it would fund the acquisition through internal resources .
wsj_0585_38|The main reason for this lag is that individual investors own 65% of the OTC market 's capitalization , according to Mr. Hardiman , much more than on the Big Board .
wsj_0585_39|Such investors tend to be more cautious than institutional investors are about re-entering the market after massive selloffs , market makers say .
wsj_0585_34|The problem , market makers say , is that while the industrial average and the SampP 500 usually recover as buy programs kick in , the Nasdaq Composite frequently is left behind .
wsj_0585_35|Eight trading days after Oct. 12 , the day before the stock market plunge , for instance , the Nasdaq Composite had fallen 4.3% , compared with 3.3% for the SampP 500 , 3.5% for the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index and 3.6% for the industrial average .
wsj_0585_36|This gap eventually closes , but slowly .
wsj_0585_37|Three days later , as of Friday 's close , the Nasdaq Composite was down 6% , compared with 5.9% for the industrial average , 5.7% for the SampP 500 and 5.8% for the Big Board Composite .
wsj_0585_30|' Sometimes { traders } lose sight of that , ' he says .
wsj_0585_31|The OTC stocks in the SampP 500 include Nasdaq 's biggest , such as Apple Computer , MCI Communications , Tele-Communications and Liz Claiborne .
wsj_0585_32|These big stocks greatly influence the Nasdaq Composite Index .
wsj_0585_33|When the computers say ' sell , ' the composite tumbles as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average .
wsj_0670_4|The company also said it continues to explore all options concerning the possible sale of National Aluminum 's 54.5% stake in an aluminum smelter in Hawesville , Ky. The sale of the extrusion division is subject to audit adjustments for working capital changes through the closing .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_3|Annan wrapped up a three hour meeting with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Baghdad today .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_2|A UN spokesman says UN secretary general Kofi Annan is on the verge of a breakthrough , but added it 's not done yet .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_1|Diplomacy appears to be making headway in resolving the united nation 's standoff with Iraq .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_0|CNN headline news , I 'm Sachi Koto .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_6|The UN security council insists any deal must allow UN inspectors unrestricted access to all suspected weapons sites .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_5|One major sticking point has been Iraq 's proposal to open it 's presidential sites for no more than sixty days .
CNN19980222.1130.0084_4|He 's expected to meet with Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz later this afternoon .
APW19980308.0201_2|` ` Stop the bloodshed in Kosovo , ' ' the protesters chanted .
APW19980308.0201_3|Meanwhile in the capital , Ankara , a few hundred ethnic Albanians laid a black wreath at the gate of Yugoslavian embassy .
APW19980308.0201_0|ISTANBUL , Turkey ( AP ) _ Some 1,500 ethnic Albanians marched Sunday in downtown Istanbul , burning Serbian flags to protest the killings of ethnic Albanians by Serb police in southern Serb Kosovo province .
APW19980308.0201_1|The police barred the crowd from reaching the Yugoslavian consulate in downtown Istanbul , but allowed them to demonstrate on nearby streets .
APW19980308.0201_6|At least 51 people were reported killed in clashes between Serb police and ethnic Albanians in the troubled region in recent days .
APW19980308.0201_7|Turkey , worried about civil war in Kosovo spilling to the whole Balkans , urged all Balkan states to sign a joint declaration that the Kosovo crisis be solved peacefully and without any change of borders .
APW19980308.0201_4|Ethnic Albanians comprise 90 percent of the population in Kosovo , but Serbs maintain control through a large military and police presence .
APW19980308.0201_5|Serbian police say they are trying to eliminate the pro-independence Kosovo Liberation Army and restore order .
APW19980308.0201_8|Turks feel they have special ties to the whole region , which they ruled for hundreds of years during the Ottoman Empire .
APW19980308.0201_9|They also share Islam with the ethnic Albanians .
PRI19980121.2000.2591_10|Well , frankly , I do n 't , but the answer is coming up in just a few minutes .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_7|The group has branches in Pakistan , Iran , Europe , Australia , and North America .
wsj_0189_12|Ralston said its Eveready battery unit was hurt by continuing economic problems in South America .
wsj_0189_13|Ralston shares closed yesterday at $80.50 , off $1 , in New York Stock Exchange composite trading .
wsj_0189_10|Its cereal division realized higher operating profit on volume increases , but also spent more on promotion .
wsj_0189_11|The Continental Baking business benefited from higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales , it added .
WSJ910225-0066_5|But it has offended some , especially in Arab countries , who now believe that Mr. Bush 's real objectives are the demise of Saddam Hussein and the destruction of the Iraqi military , not just the liberation of Kuwait .
WSJ910225-0066_4|The allied rejection of the last-minute Soviet-led diplomatic effort to avoid the ground war enabled Mr. Bush to seize the initiative from an Iraq seemingly bent on dictating peace terms .
WSJ910225-0066_7|asked Abdul Latif Shekar , a customs officer in Egypt , a country participating in the attack on Iraqi troops .
WSJ910225-0066_6|' Why have a war ? '
WSJ910225-0066_1|Similarly , while cautioning about the uncertainty of early battle reports , White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said late yesterday that ' the operation has been very successful . '
WSJ910225-0066_0|' So far , the offensive is progressing with dramatic success , ' said a buoyant Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf , commander of U.S. forces .
WSJ910225-0066_3|But even continued military success carries political and diplomatic risks for President Bush and the U.S.
WSJ910225-0066_2|Amid reports that thousands of Iraqi soldiers had surrendered , administration aides were also upbeat in private , with one even talking of victory within a week .
WSJ910225-0066_9|Iraq was ready to withdraw . '
WSJ910225-0066_8|' I think the Gorbachev plan was a good one .
VOA19980305.1800.2603_6|An Afghan refugee in Switzerland , Homira Atimadi , is a senior official of a group called the International Working Group on Afghan Women .
wsj_0583_32|--- Joann S. Lublin in London contributed to this article .
wsj_0583_30|In September , it announced plans to acquire the tropical-fruit business of RJR Nabisco Inc. 's Del Monte foods unit for #557 million ( $878 million ) .
wsj_0583_31|Last month , Polly Peck posted a 38% jump in pretax profit for the first half to #54.8 million from #39.8 million on a 63% rise in sales .