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...makers of nuclear paraphernalia-Westinghouse, Combustion Engineering, General Electric and Babcock & Wilcox-have scaled back their nuclear-equipment sales, but are doing a brisk business supplying fuel and repairing and retrofitting existing reactors. Much of the work involves upgrading the reactors to new federal safety standards passed after Three Mile Island, and simply replacing parts of older, worn-out reactors. Westinghouse, in fact, was sued by two California utilities last week over steam-generator breakdowns that have caused a 14-month shutdown of a 15-year-old nuclear plant near San Clemente...
Postal Supervisor James I. Jones inspected Lowell yesterday and supported Ferrante's concern about failing building materials or tools said Jean Babcock of the Public Information Service...
...Detroit milkman, Boesky earned degrees in both law and accounting and worked for two brokerage firms before starting his own partnership in 1975. His first big success came two years later when he made an estimated $7 million in the takeover battle for Babcock & Wilcox Co., the electrical power plant manufacturer. Before last week's setback, he had parlayed a $4.1 million investment into a firm with assets of $300 million in less than two years. A stylish dresser, Boesky stays in shape for his 18-hr, workdays by playing squash or tennis four times a week. Says...
...probably review the decision. If the Mikva ruling survives, a lower federal court will face a difficult choice: whether to remove the tax benefits given to veterans' organizations or to extend them to all charitable groups that lobby. The latter possibility naturally appeals to many organizations. Says Hope Babcock, a lawyer for the National Audubon Society: "Anything that will increase our ability to lobby will be beneficial." But the appeals court majority worried that enhancing this ability "might open a Pandora's box of woes and abuse." The IRS recognizes 328,000 charitable groups whose voices...
...Babcock said he did not know why more students applied this year, especially in light of the proposed financial aid cuts. "I've had loans every year, plus a grant and I wouldn't have been able to do it without them." he said...