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Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross stands to earn a windfall after making a play last week for Harper & Row. Cross, who is already Harper's leading shareholder with 6% of the stock, offered $150 million for the rest of the book-publishing company. One day later Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, a publishing conglomerate, bid $220 million...
...officials, two of whom had allegedly made insider-trading profits only for their firms, not for personal gain. The cases suggested that prosecutors plan to go after not just greedy mavericks but overzealous employees and the companies for whom they work. As a result, major investment firms began to brace for the possibility of criminal charges and lawsuits for the misdeeds of a tiny fraction of their workers...
...clear that disease risk due to inhalation of tobacco smoke is not solely limited to the individual who is smoking," said Koop, who recently had a cervical disk removed and wore a massive neck brace as he announced the study. "The right of the smoker to smoke stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment." While no hard estimate of the number of lung cancers or other diseases caused by involuntary smoking is yet available, the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be responsible...
...issue was sparked by the October 27 fight that put 10 people in the University of Massachusetts infirmary with cuts and bruises and left student Yancey Robinson in a neck brace...
...most eerily advanced computerized operation of all may be nestled away on the twelfth floor of Boston's modernistic concrete-and-glass Federal Reserve Building, headquarters of the Batterymarch Financial Management investment firm. Owner Dean LeBaron has designed his own programs for a brace of Prime mainframe computers that daily spit out a list of several hundred sale or purchase contracts, usually for stocks in batches of 5,000 or 10,000 shares. The list is composed by the computers themselves, based on their general instructions of what and when to buy and sell. Up to 23 specially authorized brokers...