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...victims and their attorneys. "They're hoping we'll die off," said Bob Speake, 66, a retired Manville employee who suffers from asbestosis. "A lot of the ones I know already have. They're trying to worm out of having to pay." Said Robert Sweeney, a Cleveland attorney who represents 268 claimants in asbestos-related suits: "It's an outrageous abuse of the judicial process. Chapter 11 is not intended for corporations with $2.2 billion in sales that are operating in the black." Vowed Ronald L. Motley, a Barnwell, S.C., attorney whose firm represents more than...
...reach 118. The new master of the basepaths is also the first man in history to achieve 100 steals in a season twice (the first time was in 1980), and he is currently 64 thefts ahead of his nearest competitor, Montreal's Tim Raines. With the exception of Cleveland, the extraordinary Henderson alone has more steals than any entire team in the American League. Marvels Tigers' pitching coach Roger Craig: "He can't steal first...
...Exxon unveiled a new electronic device called the "alternating-current synthesizer" that the company claimed could save energy by making electric motors more efficient. To help in developing and marketing the product, Exxon bought Reliance Electric Corp. of Cleveland for $1.2 billion, which was roughly twice as much as many industry analysts thought the firm was worth. Exxon has since discovered that its synthesizer is too expensive to be practical, and Reliance last year earned a mere $31 million for its new parent...
...Beethoven orchestral weekend); and at the Hollywood Bowl (during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Beethoven festival). Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles are each playing Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Stravinsky's The Firebird this summer. Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto? The Cleveland Orchestra is serving it up, and so are the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The beat goes...