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Care Enterprises Inc., a financially troubled nursing home operator, said negotiations with its banks are continuing for further extensions and waivers of loan covenant violations involving a$ 5 million principal payment that it missed last Friday

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The GAO was also to examine if the law has caused excessive red tape for employers, and if the law is being implemented well

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" Without voodoo, we would drown in our misery.'

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Twenty- eight thousand buildings were leveled in the quake, but a few years later, 20, 500 new ones had been built, and people of the reborn city were dancing in the streets

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Twelve- year- old Peter Reaves of Pittsburgh treasures " his free time to ride his bike, play ball and just hangout, " says his mother Debby

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Mrs. Bush, who disdains what she calls fake public displays of affection by the Dukakises, also will play an important role in her husband's campaign

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Although his colleagues weren't eager to satisfy him, they were even less eager to miss their flights home and a weekend of campaigning

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" You lose elections if you touch these things.'

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Industry watchers respect Genentech for pumping such a large chunk of capital into its basic science program, and for preserving its enviable scientific edge, but the investment isn't expected to yield products for several years

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" If we keep this up, we'll die with our flag.'

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Though the company's cash flow looks healthy on paper, one analyst said, much of it has to be plowed back into operations

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Watson's rhetoric is purged of offensive racial references and cooled to a sympathetic refrain about the misery of dispossessed country folk forced to sell their youngsters' lifeblood to money- grubbing factory owners from the North

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But the Supreme Court melted down my statue when it decided Hazelwood.'

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For the past 10 years the House Subcommittee on Africa, first under Stephen Solarz -LRB- D., N.Y. -RRB- and now under Howard Wolpe -LRB- D., Mich. -RRB-, has annually assaulted White House requests for aid appropriations

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This ought to lend greater U.S. support for fighting more overseas wars

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The potentially fatal clots dissolved within two hours among 82% of patients given Genentech's Activase brand of TPA, compared with 48% who used Abbokinase, Abbott Laboratories's brand of urokinase

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The EPA has targeted hundreds of sites across the country for cleanup of hazardous materials under its Superfund program

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A U.S. Department of Labor report prepared by the U.S. Embassy here said the country " continues to rely heavily on export of labor, tramsmigration and the capability of the informal sector to absorb surplus manpower to take up each year's slack in unemployment opportunities.'

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As voters trooped to the polls and caucus locations in the Northern Plains, Mr. Robertson accused Vice President Bush's campaign of playing a part in the disclosures about the sex life of television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart

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Mr. Donovan was fired and the OSS dissolved by presidential order well before the Nuremberg trials came under way

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Mr. Cossa's grain bin may be filling up, but just last month another 100 peasants -- looking for food and security -- moved into the village to escape the fighting in the countryside

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Equity capital is the clearest picture of a bank's net worth and its ability to absorb additional losses

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The stock market's sideways course this year may fill many investors with frustration, but to one Ohio money manager with a strong track record, it spells opportunity

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Great; when they' ve finished melting, we'll all have stew

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Even now, the cash flows of Federated, owned by Robert Campeau, provide relatively thin coverage of debt charges, says one analyst

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But the real decision rests with Mr. Kerkorian, the publicity- shy financier who pieced together the new MGM UA from assets retained when the venerable studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. in 1986

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Normal cooling costs are defined as the expected costs to cool a residence in average August weather, which is based on temperature records for the past 30 years

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She resigned, she says, in part because " I felt I was missing certain things in life that were as valuable as work.'

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Everyone was sleeping with Noriega

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" They do it to cool off the market, so to speak, because they need the copper and when they're buying they find themselves chasing the market upward, " he said

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In nine seconds two men were dead, one was missing and presumed so, and three young women -- Mrs. Charles H. Roy, Mrs. Robert A. Anderson, Mrs. David E. Stenstrom -- were left widows

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Plus a man who once ate an entire plane piece by piece

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" We haven't successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, " she said in a recent speech, " only to see them reimposed at a European level.'

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Up stepped Cabbage Patch Kids, the industry's biggest hit ever

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Some executives never seem to grasp this precept

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Changes in Florida Federal's rate on its Liquidity Plus money market account are linked to a seven- day average for the federal funds rate, which is the rate on reserves that banks lend one another overnight

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On the side of his dash rides his beloved graph recorder, a combination of a slow moving scroll of paper and a stylus that moves as a vertical blur, etching the solid contours of the lake's bottom and the inverted arcs of fish

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Its value depends on how quickly you can bring it to market, and there are problems like zoning and water and the ability of the market to absorb inventory.'

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With her giant henchman, the evil Gen. Kael -LRB- possibly named after the film critic of the New Yorker magazine, Pauline Kael -RRB-, she's out to kill the baby who's destined to end her rule

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Already, he has changed the French political landscape in a way that may be more long- lasting than the Reagan Revolution in the U.S. Building the Socialist Party from scratch in 1971, Mr. Mitterrand went on to prove that a leftist could get elected without France's flying apart

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The Founders, however, not only indicated that the monetary unit should be a standard -LRB- that is, somehow fixed -RRB-, but also told us what that standard is by explicitly referring to the " dollar " in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

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Testing these waters, he tried to make book on whether Robert Bork would reach the Supreme Court and on how much Oral Roberts would raise in his attempt to escape being called to God, but the Gaming Control Board barred the action

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The poison, mostly vaporized in the heat, pushed past a relief valve, through the pipelines and out the vent tower

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He fills positions that have been vacant for more than a year

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Last summer, Mr. Sheehy targeted Farmers, America's seventh- largest property and casualty insurer, for a possible acquisition

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Santa Clara, Calif .- based Intel -- which makes a broad line of semiconductor products -- along with most other big U.S. chip makers, quit making so- called DRAM, or dynamic random access memory, chips after Japanese chip makers flooded the U.S. with cheap memory chips earlier in the decade

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At the Houston Petroleum Club, industry officials couldn't eat lunch of late without discussing speculation that Exxon was going to walk away with all of the Tenneco properties

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More than$ 5 million is being poured into this year's campaign, political insiders estimate, making it a hugely expensive municipal debate

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Though Mr. Calvino never wrote his sixth " memo " and in all probability would have touched up the text before publication, this last will and testament -- in all its wayward, digressive, allusive idiosyncracy -- is presumably as close as we'll ever get to the intellectual autobiography of a writer whose significance seems likely to last well into that coming millennium he addresses so warmly in these lectures

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As late as Wednesday night, jets carrying signatures were still touching down at the airport in Brasilia, and motorcades were flowing into town

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Deluxe balked and a competitor stepped in to accept the contract, startling investors

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But TWA allows police dogs trained in explosive detection to ride in seats -- at half fare

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It just eats your soul.'

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Chairs fly, Geraldo is bloodied, the governor is yelling " outta my face, Noriega- breath! " while the vice president screams " Read my lips, liberal man! " -RRB-/-R

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Describing the hospital- room scene on the day of the assassination attempt, where doctors and technicians were racing to save the life of the stricken leader of the free world, Mr. Speakes volunteers that though President Reagan was a robust 70-year- old, " he had the body of an older man, with a bit of flab and withered muscles that are dead giveaways that the body is not quite what it used to be.'

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In other sections, Col. Elting examines the telegraph, map- making, military intelligence and counterintelligence, the importance of flags and banners and of drums and trumpets

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But some physicians questioned the effectiveness of the drug, designed to dissolve gallstones, and how widely it might be used

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By joining the hostile bid, Shearson stepped over the line investment banks have long considered but rarely, if ever, crossed

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Frequently in bad contemporary movies, when men aren't undressing onscreen, they are riding around in cars with their buddies -- or avenging their deaths

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For example, director Dolores D. Wharton was shown riding a bike

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Wells Rich will handle corporate advertising and " market image and solutions advertising, " targeted mainly at other businesses

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As a first step, the phone company offers a recorded message reproducing what is purported to be the sound of a flying saucer taped in Europe

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It was a white New Year in Moscow, but by the time Christmas rolled around last week, unusually high temperatures, in the 30s and 40s day and night, had melted the snow away, leaving streets and sidewalks coated with mud and puddles

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While workers struck three plants, the company locked out about 1, 200 workers at a fourth plant, in Mobile, Ala

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DESPITE A modest rise in sales of luxury units, Miami's glut of condominiums isn't expected to be absorbed for three years, according to RealData Information Systems, a local consultant

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Unself- consciously, the littlest cast member with the big voice steps into the audience in one number to open her wide cat- eyes and throat to melt the heart of one lucky patron each night

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Iran said its jets bombarded an Iraqi military base and oil refinery in Baghdad, and Iraq said its forces attacked 10 Iranian towns

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The picture painted in the annual report shows one of the nation's largest banking corporations besieged by problems that it seems unable to control

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Having expanded to handle the 1986 and 1987 mortgage crush, lenders flush with deposits have money to lend but not enough borrowers

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Judges thus destroyed the time frame used in assessing risk

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Since Taipei lifted a travel ban in November, residents of Taiwan have flooded into China to visit relatives

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A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile

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A merger accord between Braniff and Pan Am was dissolved after Braniff failed to get sufficient cost concessions from Pan Am unions

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Farmers also has questioned B.A.T's ability to manage insurance operations and attacked its presence in South Africa

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A slick young marketing executive at the firm chastises him: " I told you it wouldn't fly

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Yesterday's sell- off cooled inflationary fears throughout the financial markets

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The Bank Board has been running Bell since it stepped in to take over the insolvent thrift in July 1985

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" We' ve already had a concerted tightening of credit by central banks around the world, so my guess is the Fed rests here and maybe{ does nothing different} until the{ presidential} election in November, " Mr. Gross added

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As Elle grabbed market share, other fashion magazines quickly revamped, redesigned and repositioned themselves

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" Nothing less than targeted, mandated reductions in acid- rain emissions in the U.S. " will satisfy Canada, Mr. Mulroney said in his prepared remarks

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After the close of trading, however, a National Weather Service official said the heaviest rains and strongest winds are expected today only in southwest Louisiana, where almost half of the state's soybeans are planted

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The reason is that, individually, banks have considered this sort of lending risky because the margins are too slim

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There's a lot riding on these tires

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Traders said only in the final hour did a few noticeable buyers step into the market

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The pilots' union has retained the accounting firm of Touche, Ross& Co. to plow through Texas Air's financial reports

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Tokyo is using its overvalued yen to press for big state projects -- which lend themselves to large business contracts

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Saudi Arabia is expected to continue flooding the market with oil for at least two more weeks, until two OPEC panels meet to consider ways to curb output and prop up prices

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" That's not such a young age to die here, " she says

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The peace lobby, which targeted the B-1, virtually compelled President Carter to cancel the plane, made the MX inevitable and got the B-1 anyway

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Of course, none or only some of the rules apply to Utah's private clubs -LRB- open to out- of- towners at a$ 5 fee -RRB- and beer bars, which sell setups and uncork wine but can't touch the liquor that you are free to bring in

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" We don't need the government trying to destroy the industry because of a few bad apples, " says David L. Ganz, an ANA board member and a lawyer for some coin dealers

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In Kindred 1002 alone, the scientists have examined 350 members

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We union members were there backing John Kennedy with our money, door knocking and votes in 1960

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Still, opponents paint the company as a heavy- handed marauder, riding roughshod over public will

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She seems to melt a little; she fits in better with Yefim's family

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" From an issuer's perspective, this is a market that occasionally stumbles over the truth but quickly picks itself up and hurries on as if nothing has happened, " said Joseph Fichera, a vice president at Smith Barney, Harris Upham& Co., paraphrasing Winston Churchill

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Nevertheless, they continue to pump money into the market

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The Bank of England added that it is " too early to be sure " whether the British government's recent efforts to cool down Britain's overheated economy " will prove sufficient to restore the economy to a sustainable path.'

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The investigators also are examining possible tax- law violations involving$ 11 billion in tax- exempt bonds underwritten by other firms

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Actigall could be used to dissolve the fragments that remain from that procedure

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