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...bust was carried out with all the speed and precision of a major drug raid. There was nothing sleazy, though, about the locale: Manhattan's pinstriped financial district. On a chilly midmorning last week, a pair of federal agents strode into the gray stone headquarters of the blue-chip Kidder, Peabody investment firm. They headed for the 18th-floor office of Richard Wigton, 52, head of the company's risk-arbitrage and over-the-counter stock-trading departments. As Kidder, Peabody employees looked on in dismay, the officers arrested Wigton, then led the stunned executive away. The charge against Wigton...
...this stick after the Iran thing," conceded a senior U.S. diplomat. Indeed, the disappearance of Waite may have provided evidence of that. In the aftermath of the scandal over secret U.S. arms sales % in exchange for hostages, the temptation to seize and hold the Anglican envoy as a bargaining chip may have been too great for terrorists to resist...
COLUMBIA (88): Matt Shannon 4-1--10; John Vaske 6-0--12; Guido Casparis 4-1--9 Tony Chiles 1-7--9; Sean Couch 12-8--33; Chip Adams 2-0--6; Trevor Holland 0-3--3; John MacPhee 3-0--6; Galen Sorrells 0-0--0; Jon Dwyer...
Acrophobia set in at about 1:45 p.m., when sell orders began flitting through the exchange's super-DOT computer circuits in bunches of 1,000 to 2,000 shares each. Among the hardest-hit blue-chip stocks were 3M, which fell 7 1/4, to 126 3/4; Du Pont, which dropped 4, to 95; and Philip Morris, down 1 1/2, to 81. Some traders attributed the rout to the news of a statement by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that a legislative stalemate on banking deregulation could endanger the U.S. banking system...
...this week's study break in Lamont, roughly 100 students closed their books and put away their papers long enough to partake of Oreos with doublestuff, chocolate striped cookies, the Almost Home, the Chips Ahoy! chewy chocolate chip cookies and other sugary delights...