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If only employees would learn to " prioritize and organize, " corporate executives often argue, then tardy reports, missed deadlines and frantic late nights would disappear

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We should not deny the existence of abhorrent passages, but let us not pass over thousands of pages embodying tolerance, forgiveness and allembracing harmony, such as in " The Brothers Karamazov " and many others, and Dostoevsky's speech commemorating the death of Pushkin in which he urged Russian national universality

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Mr. Berg's murderers were bent on destroying what they call ZOG -LRB- Zionist Occupied Government -RRB-

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Whatever, I got tired staring at it night after night, though I liked the eerie scene of shrouded, ghostly warriors standing silently on platforms that slowly roll them down the road into oblivion

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It is that whatever tendencies any of them might have to talk turkey to the voters is withered by the clear evidence that the voters are not yet ready to hear it

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Blaming faulty lift- slab methods, OSHA has proposed$ 5 million in fines for contractors involved in the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment complex in Bridgeport, Conn., which collapsed last year, killing 28 people

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Administrators, who are required by state law to force- feed patients who can't or won't eat, are wrestling over what to do with one semicomatose tubefeeder

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Hollywood studios claim that cable operators have become a monopoly, that they pay too little in royalties, and that they can kick broadcasters off cable systems and freeze out Hollywood producers

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Mr. McKay has just dragged into the mud the reputation of a former prime minister and current foreign minister of one of this country's closest allies and in the process spotlighted the political sensitivities of the volatile Middle East

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Instead of buying assets and pumping up bank reserves last spring, the Fed should have been heeding the run- up in gold and commodities and playing the sell card

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Now, in a suit filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Claiborne alleges that Avon failed to keep an agreement to continue filling orders for the former venture, which had 1987 sales of about$ 27 million

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And so long as one- third of the black population is mired in poverty, blacks will not hear of dismantling programs that enabled so many within their ranks to escape poverty in the first place

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" Pacifism flourished under absolute U.S. protection

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At age eight, he wrote a story about people, somewhere far away, who ate stars hatched from purple pebbles

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Drafters want to clear up areas of confusion: Some filers this year stumbled over standard deductions on the 1040 long form or over the 1040EZ box asking if they could be claimed as anyone else's dependents

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The improvements have " been a catalyst for other owners nearby to fix up their buildings too, " adds David Fiederlein, the building agent

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" The rumbling you hear. .. is the sound of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft rolling over in their graves at having the name of their firm identified " in this kind of letter, says former Chief Justice Burger

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The speculation centers on whether some farmers would plow under their wheat crop, some of which is nearing harvest, to make the switch in time to grow soybeans, said Richard Loewy, senior grain and oilseed analyst at Prudential- Bache Securities Inc., New York

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" We're going to keep attacking.'

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Because$ 15 billion or more of long- term loans must be raised by whichever bidder wins the giant food company, they say, banks in lending syndicates for that deal may have trouble finding buyers in the secondary market for portions of their loans

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Between the two friends, money flows both ways

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You have to plant it when it's small, and wait for it to grow.

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In a prepared statement, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles Schwab said, " We're taking responsibility for what happened, for fixing it, and for making sure that it doesn't happen again.'

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Mr. Cohen, who is taking an active interest in the RJR deal because of the estimated$ 4 billion that Shearson would lend RJR, pleaded with Mr. Kravis not to become involved, according to these people

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Jack Scowen, a Conservative member of parliament from northern Saskatchewan, said that " unless somebody wants to stir up a bunch of garbage, " the language issue should be " left to die.'

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With its latest acquisition, Cartier, which is 46.8% -owned by Rothmans International PLC of Britain, will control more than 40% of the$ 2.2 billion international luxury- watch market and aims to eat into the market share of the other leader, Rolex, Mr. Perrin said

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If not, Mr. Mitterrand would dissolve parliament and call new elections

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Packages of " fight material " attacking Mr. Icahn are almost ready to be mailed to shareholders

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" It seemed to me an enormously powerful tool if you could knock out a gene responsible for a virus or cancer.'

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Tim Thiele, a Saskatchewan area manager for Ducks Unlimited, a conservation group, said thousands of small ponds where ducks nest and breed have evaporated

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But I'll tell you this: I haven't had a cold since I ate it

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Although foreign exchange traders had been awaiting Mr. Greenspan's testimony in the hope it would lend the currency market some long- sought direction, most said his statements had a neutral impact

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Says Charles Fuhrmann, a Merrill Lynch Capital Markets managing director, " This year we missed the greedseekers and tourists.'

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Locusts fill the eerie silence of old battlegrounds; peasants give live locusts to their babies as toys

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That's partly because Iowa counties compute assessed valuation on a five- year rolling average that smoothes out peaks and valleys

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Engineers at General Binding, in Northbrook, Ill., devised a method that melts the adhesive by sending a low- voltage current into the cover itself, resulting in a smaller and less expensive unit

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Federated's board, following an all- day meeting yesterday, is expected to direct its financial advisers to examine alternatives to the Campeau bid, the sources said

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He returned to attack bats, helmets and pitched balls with equal gusto -LRB- he's in the league's Top 10 in five offensive categories -RRB-, and gave the club a needed injection of esprit

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The races mingle in department stores and at downtown restaurants, where city employees all eat between noon and one

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The Pac Man defense is named after the video game in which characters try to eat other characters before they get eaten themselves

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Meanwhile, GOP nominee George Bush's day was largely drowned out by union shipyard hecklers at a marine ironworks plant in Portland, Ore

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Public reaction to this melodrama nearly destroyed the administration and solidified the belief that no moderates existed in Iran

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" A strong opening in platinum coupled with a weak dollar just grabbed gold by the horns and took it on up, " he said

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Under a temporary restraining order entered early this month, Judge Parker barred Eastern from eliminating the jobs, but specifically permitted the company to cut its flying

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The former official says that Fidelity trucks, often manned by temporary or part- time workers, would roll in with piles of unlabeled goods collected from multiple addresses

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There isn't any indication that it could destroy the AIDS virus itself

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On Friday, another leader of the failed mutiny against President Aquino's government escaped prison

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The usually buoyant muscle man drags his way through the picture, though director Walter Hill probably should share the guilt for Arnold's apparent lethargy

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Mr. Shamir spent Tu Bishvat planting a tree at a Jewish settlement on the occupied West Bank, where he said he expected the settlement movement to grow and flourish

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A Texas Air spokesman declines to say what income, if any, the parent company is drawing from this flourishing new unit

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At the scene of the crash, survivors said they were able to escape the plane by crawling out at a split in the fuselage and by going through an emergency exit over the wing

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Pressure mounted on Pakistan to sign an accord aimed at securing the withdrawal of about 115, 000 Soviet troops from neighboring Afghanistan, but Islamabad appeared to be sticking to its demand for a new government in Kabul to oversee the pullout

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It was, after all, Mr. Nixon's detente that encouraged -LRB- and licensed -RRB- massive sales of militarily sensitive technology to the Soviet Union. -LRB- The Red Army did not " waltz " into Afghanistan as Mr. Nixon says here: It rode in -- in tanks built with U.S. help, licensed by Mr. Nixon, at the Kama River plant. -RRB-/-R

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The profit has been plowed back into the bank, which has pursued its mission -- to rebuild a decaying neighborhood -- with a singular focus

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And, he says ominously, there is always the problem of what to do if the Army diverts water into the rivers and it starts to rain

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The senator, who'd rolled up a 2-to-1 Dubuque County landslide six years earlier, barely edged Republican challenger Roger Jepsen this time -- and went on to lose the state in a stunning upset

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Prompted by news reports of alleged misappropriation of funds, the SEC visited the firm's New York headquarters last week with the intention of examining business records

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Currently, the company is fixing only 200 to 300 units a day, far below TRW's goal of 2, 000 units a day

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Pressure mounted on Pakistan to sign an accord aimed at securing the withdrawal of about 115, 000 Soviet troops from neighboring Afghanistan, but Islamabad appeared to be sticking to its demand for a new government in Kabul to oversee the pullout

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Indeed, thanks to a well- oiled political machine and skilled manipulation of Panamanian nationalism and class rivalries, Gen. Noriega may well remain in charge for months, even under withering pressure from the U.S

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News of Mr. Bilzerian's filing, under the Hart- Scott- Rodino Antitrust Act, knocked FlightSafety's stock up$ 2.25 a share yesterday to close at$ 26.75 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading

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Allen J. Krowe, 56 years old, leaves his job as executive vice president and a director of IBM to fill the positions at Texaco currently held by Richard G. Brinkman, who at 61, will retire early

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The issue is particularly hot in Florida, where a coalition of civic leaders, civil libertarians and Hispanic groups went to federal court recently in an unsuccessful attempt to knock the proposed amendment off the ballot

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" She's only had the chance to practice her conviction politics because the other side has been pouring paraffin over themselves and putting matches to it in front of the television cameras at routine intervals.'

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" The new irrigation tunnel has allowed us to plant 6, 000 willow trees and 600 apple trees and to earn money for the education of our children, " she says, tears welling in her eyes

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The international debt crisis will drag on

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Attorneys said the creditors recently voted 12- 0, with one abstention, to ask Mr. Toren to step down, but Mr. Toren said his decision was strictly his idea

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Like soap operas, the spots try to grab the viewer with heavy doses of drama and emotion

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Moreover, it could eliminate U.S. dependency on overseas bases, since the lasers would be based on U.S. terra firma and the targeting systems would be space- based

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Nikko's Mr. Axilrod predicts the central bank will try to hold the interest rate on federal funds -- the closely watched rate on reserves that banks lend each other overnight -- at about 6 1 2%, down from the 6 3 4% rate in recent weeks

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Major retailers have become very good at playing competing manufacturers against one another to obtain free display fixtures, cooperative advertising, extended payment terms and other concessions, as well as price discounts, he said

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But sources inside the company acknowledge that management has examined such options as a restructuring or recapitalization, or a friendly transaction with another company

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However, the final outcome of negotiations on these joint ventures rests largely on whether Texaco can fight off Mr. Icahn at the annual meeting

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Other gems include stories about why Colgate- Palmolive's Soaky bubble bath proved a marketplace dud -LRB- the suds went flat when kids urinated in the bathwater -RRB-, and how Norton Simon made a bundle by outwitting its bankers -LRB- anticipating higher interest rates, the company sold$ 250 million in debentures at 9.5% in 1979, and a year later lent the money at 17% and 18% to the same institutions, such as the Bank of America, that had bought the bonds -RRB-

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For starters, factoring has flourished because many merchants are so willing to do it for a share of the telemarketer's proceeds

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" We are beginning to ride the same boat as the U.S., " says Yasuo Hayashi, the director of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's textile division

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Philip Morris could be forced to deal with the same problems it has struggled with at General Foods -- pumping new life into old products

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But to improve its profitability, it recently targeted mid- sized businesses as well

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The State Department cited " compelling " evidence of North Korean complicity after a confessed North Korean agent said on South Korean television that she planted the bombs

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Is there any chance that the spirit of a united Europe can be planted beyond the Oder- Neisse Line

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The Bundesbank stepped in when the dollar was trading around 1.8440 marks, which was up from its levels late Friday, and continued selling dollars throughout the morning, dealers said

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Social Security surpluses also will help make the deficit evaporate within the next five years

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The biggest missed opportunity, however, may have come last autumn, when the notion of naming former Gov. Alexander to the Dole ticket was first broached

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" Dukakis's fate now rests as much in Bush's hands as his own, " Mr. Hickman believes

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Such probes, which are pieces of DNA that stick to the DNA in a sample, have provided crucial evidence in more than a dozen murder and rape cases during the past year and are increasingly used in paternity testing

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Consumers weren't particularly fond of its taste, and it didn't dissolve easily in cold milk

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At the core of the company's problem is its Peach Bottom nuclear power facility, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered shut in March 1987 when control- room operators were discovered playing video games and sleeping on the job

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So lawmakers themselves are stepping into the void and drafting new aid packages

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" We' ve got the kids, plus all their teen- age friends who do nothing but eat

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Carl C. Icahn, Texaco Inc.'s major shareholder, sued to dissolve the company's agreement with Pennzoil Co. that bars Pennzoil from supporting his reorganization plan for Texaco

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" If the S& P would' ve closed, sell orders would' ve flooded New York " and sent the stock market sharply lower, said one harried trader overlooking the raucous S& P trading pit

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This doesn't mean some situations won't lend themselves to symbols

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The typical opinion of the Supreme Court is so long and verbose, so filled with legalese synonyms, so encrusted with substantive footnotes, so totally unclear and inconsistent in the use of legal terms of art that only the devoted professional can hope to follow and understand what is going on

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" I found myself sleeping out on the steps in boot camp, " he recalls

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But Mead kept the information flowing to all bona fide customers of its service

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Orion, a contract carrier which formerly flew for United Parcel Service, had agreed to replace Eastern pilots if they followed the machinists on a walkout

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The dissident group plans to attack several provisions that block claimants' ability to seek compensation from any source other than the special trust fund

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He is stepping down this month to write a book, but Bill Bennett is more interesting even at political twilight than most cabinet officers are at high noon

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So far, the outside money hasn't flooded in; Owens- Illinois and affiliates still account for 95% of the mutual funds' total assets of$ 267 million

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Iowa farmers were just as demanding as candidates approached that state's contest 10 weeks ago, but those voters were stepping out of a portrait of American Gothic

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