Word: counter
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DIED. CLARENCE L. HARRIS, 94, lunch manager who in 1960 let four black students remain seated at Woolworth's whites-only counter; in Greensboro, N.C. Harris did not serve the protesters, but his insistence that police not be called helped energize the sit-in, which after six months (and hundreds of demonstrators) succeeded in integrating the counter. The action sparked similar tests across the South...
WALL STREET CLEANING The National Association of Securities Dealers is getting rid of half its 6,500 over-the-counter securities. They'll go out the door unless they start reporting financial information regularly. These securities, too small to be listed on NASDAQ, are being reviewed alphabetically by ticker symbol. Noncompliant companies, listed on www.otcbb.com have 30 days to change their status or wind up on the National Quotation Bureau's pink sheets, available online by August...
...self-absorbed dictator, Giuliani would be only an average blowhard in the Capitol, so I find him more charming than his press clippings. He speaks without a text, makes his own calls, never goes off the record. We stop for lunch, and he puts a $20 bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike a lot of smug pols, at least...
Each side can be grateful it's over. Disney gets a public relations ogre off its back at a time when its fortunes are lagging. Also, it is spared the final phase of the trial, in which Eisner would have had to counter Katzenberg's estimate of future revenue by poor-mouthing the company's prospects. And Katzenberg gets a nice bundle--if not the $580 million he wanted. No dollar figure was disclosed, but the educated guess was around $250 million, including the $117 million Katzenberg has already received. The sum is to be paid within a year, giving...
...committed against Arabs and Muslims." That perception gives Bin Laden a steady supply of funds and recruits, despite U.S. attempts to put the squeeze on his international network. "To deal effectively with terrorism," says Dowell, "it?s also important to revive an effective Middle East process, for example, to counter the perception of injustice and the fertile ground it creates for Bin Laden...