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...reaches hundreds of thousands here in Boston--than anywhere else," says Linda Pollack, executive producer of Boston's Channel 5 News at six, on which Miller's segments appear. According to Pollack, the newscast remains roughly tied for first with Channel 4 in the ratings. "Miller's a real asset in the race," she says...
John V. Lintner, Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration died in June in an automobile accident in Cambridge at the age of 67. He was widely known in financial and academic communities for his major contribution to the capital-asset pricing model, a method of estimating an investment's future value. Lintner headed the University's joint Ph.D. program in economics and business for 15 years. He also served as a consultant to the Treasury Department under both Democratic and Republican administrations...
...stake is America's most precious asset, its human capital. At stake, too, is simple human dignity. If wolves and bears and birds take meticulous care of their young, why are human beings subjecting theirs to whippings and punches and sexual perversion? Children, with their unrestrained love and unquestioning trust, deserve better. Says Sergeant Dick Ramon, head of the sex-crimes unit of the Seattle police department: "Child abuse is the ultimate crime, the ultimate betrayal." -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and James Wilde/New York
...Secretary Donald Regan, former chairman of Merrill Lynch: "The market was due for a pause. But it isn't overdone." Indeed, in the view of Regan and almost everyone else, the bull market still has a lot of life in it. Says Arthur Zeikel, president of Merrill Lynch Asset Management: "We are in the fourth or fifth inning of a nine-inning ball game...
Some conservationists remain suspicious of the Administration's assets policy, and Interior Spokesman Harmon Kallman acknowledges that the new plan "does not mean that we're not going to sell any land. All we are saying is that we are out from under any dollar goals set by the asset-management program." Or as one Interior official bluntly put it, "This way we can assure everyone we're not under the policy thumb of some green kids. Our program will just piddle along in low gear...