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...sugar, wheat and milk, and to negotiate $685 million in loans from the International Monetary Fund. He raised taxes and cut the amount available in this year's budget for spending in state-controlled industries and public works. Not least he opened up the state-controlled banking, insurance, cement and beer industries to private investment, a step that Portugal's center-right parties have been urging for years...
Violence broke out only after dark, while Aquino's body was being laid into a temporary cement sepulcher, where it will remain until members of his family can agree on a final resting place. Before masons had cemented the vault closed, several thousand youths returned to the center of Manila, within a block of Malacanang, beating pots and pans and shouting, "Laban!" (fight). They were met by squads of police toting guns and riot shields. As the youths threw rocks and small homemade grenades, the police waded in, eventually dispersing the demonstrators by shooting into...
...have approved the breaking up of the empire he built. Says Executive Vice President Neil Call: "He would be concerned about how fast we're doing it." Bluhdorn sensed that the conglomerate had got out of control and sold Brown, a paper-products firm, insurer Providence Capitol and cement producer Marquette. Davis completed the sale of Consolidated Cigar for $120 million...
...computer enthusiasts in and around Milwaukee who call themselves "the 414s" after that city's telephone area code. Using home computers connected to ordinary telephone lines, they had been breaking into computers across the U.S. and Canada, including one at a bank in Los Angeles, another at a cement company in Montreal and, ominously, an unclassified computer at a nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos...
...Japanese also used the oil shortages to make their industries more efficient. Large industrial firms in such sectors as cement, pulp and paper, and transit made major adjustments to comply with the government's demand for energy conservation. Many steel companies fitted blast furnaces with recovery turbines that use the pressure at the top of the furnaces to generate electricity for other steel-mill uses. Continuous casting, in which molten metal is formed directly into products for shipment and bypasses the cooling stages, helped decrease by 10% the amount of energy required to make a ton of steel. From...