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...auction should bring in somewhere between $15 million and $30 million, which will help pay off the fair's $216 million deficit. Some of that cash will come from Expo 86 officials themselves. Expo Ernie, the stainless-steel and acrylic computerized robot that served as the fair's mascot, was acquired by Expo President Jim Pattison. Price...
Kuwait has flatly refused to cooperate in any such trade, and last December denied Waite's application for a visa. Washington has declined to bring pressure on the Kuwaitis to reconsider. Evidently as part of an effort to push the Reagan Administration to force a swap, Islamic Jihad over the past 13 months has released two of its American prisoners, Father Jenco, and the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary. Both had been held captive for more than a year. Waite had a hand in the two releases, though he has never spelled out his exact role...
...year in which the stock market has taken one heart-stopping roller-coaster ride after another, the last thing that investors needed was a new element of uncertainty. But many of them are worried that the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which President Reagan signed two weeks ago, will bring on fresh dips and hairpin turns. By lowering tax rates but eliminating many deductions and preferences, the legislation has already changed the investment climate and forced people to take a hard look at their stock portfolios...
...that will undoubtedly reap a windfall from tax reform is the financial-advice business. "Congress has given us a supposedly simplified tax law," says Jean Hehn, a tax adviser in Port Washington, N.Y. "Well, there are so many ifs, buts and whens in it that it's going to bring our profession tremendous business for a long time." One sign of the trend: Shearson Lehman Bros. last week advised its clients to buy stock in H. & R. Block...
...ready for change." She used to warn against eating fatty fish. "Now I tell them they can. The evidence has changed. Same goes for olive oil." But most of her colleagues and even doctors heap on only praise. "She has done more than any other journalist to bring accurate information about nutrition and health to the public," declares Robert Barnett, an editor of American Health. Says Dr. Ernst Wynder, president of the American Health Foundation: "When it comes to preventive advice, she is more on target that most doctors...