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...system's selection will eventually exceed 15,000 songs, culled from the top hits of the past 30 years. So far, Capitol and Warner Bros. are among the leading record companies that have agreed to let their songs be distributed by the system. The firms, which will receive royalties whenever one of their songs is selected, hope to recoup some of the estimated $1.5 billion in sales that the record industry loses annually to home taping...
Nonetheless, as New York Bankruptcy Judge Howard Schwartzberg assumed his overseeing duties with Texaco, it seemed to many analysts that the company had suddenly gained the upper hand in the high-stakes brawl it had appeared to be losing. Said Sanford Margoshes, an oil analyst at the Shearson Lehman Bros. investment firm: "Texaco has bought time. Its prospects are not as bleak." Wall Street seemed to agree. When the New York Stock Exchange opened trading after Texaco's bankruptcy filing, the company's stock dropped from 31 7/8 to 28 1/2 a share. Then the holdings rebounded, closing last week...
...what he called the U.S. "corpocracy," management that was "bloated, risk-averse, inefficient and unimaginative." After such a harsh assessment of big business, it came as a surprise when Darman, 43, announced last week that he was leaving the Reagan Administration to become a managing director at Shearson Lehman Bros., one of the nation's largest investment-banking firms...
...bathrooms. In many cases, you'll find actors carrying props." Moreover, big- name actors sometimes agree to work for reduced wages on small pictures they believe in. Says Bette Davis, who stars in Alive Films' The Whales of August, to be released in September: "What Jack Warner ((of Warner Bros.)) never understood was that if an actor is offered a really good part, he'll do it for next to nothing...
...quoting lawyers close to the investigation, reported that Jefferies bought the stock at the request of Salim Lewis, a financier who has had business dealings with American Express chairman James Robinson. The SEC issued subpoenas to American Express and the two investment firms that managed the offering, Shearson Lehman Bros., which is an American Express subsidiary, and Salomon Brothers. None were accused of any wrongdoing. Robinson told TIME that he had also been subpoenaed personally, but said, "I absolutely and unequivocally deny any wrongdoing by me and, as far as we know, by anyone at American Express...