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...crash -and two days later the near crash of a chartered Ethiopian Airlines jet whose pilot, trying to land at Lagos airport, clipped the top of a tree-might dissuade some of the 30,000 Nigerian Moslems who annually make the hadj to Mecca. The shuttle is a drain on the country's foreign currency reserves. Beyond that, the government suspects that some Moslems go on the pilgrimage year after year for a more earthly reason than paying homage to Allah. As well as allowing them to venerate "the place where Abraham stood up to pray," the trip gives...
...craftsman's feeling for his country. "We build this country," he said at the time of the Wall Street march. "We build these beautiful buildings and churches and highways and bridges and schools. We love this country. We were afraid it was going down the drain and nobody was doing anything about it." Like other members of the craft unions, however, he is choosy about who gets to build. Because of the rigid apprenticeship programs, outsiders, especially those from minority groups, have a hard time getting in the unions. Opposed to federal intervention, Brennan helped formulate the New York...
AFTER Founder Bernard Cornfeld finished manipulating and misusing the Geneva-based IOS mutual fund complex in 1970, it was a wonder that there were any assets left to drain off. In fact, enough cash and American stocks remained in IOS-managed funds to provide the makings of an international scandal juicier than any that Cornfeld produced. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Cornfeld's successor, Robert L. Vesco, and a group of Vesco's associates of "looting" no less than $224 million from four IOS funds so far this year. The SEC brought a civil action...
...movement that should be inserted here without delay. That has to do with the apart of basketball. Public school kids always figured that if there was one sport where the church was vulnerable in Indiana, it was basketball. Unfortunately, for the Jackson Tigers, this whole hypothesis went down the drain, so to speak, in the final game of the LaVille Sectional Tournament of the Indiana State Basketball Playoffs...
...both brands are "97% caffeine-free." Even more curiously, Sanka is made by none other than General Foods, which is pushing its new Brim. GF officials insist that Brim is aimed at people who want a heartier flavor than mild-tasting Sanka and that the new brand will not drain sales from the old one. Despite these assurances, the people at GF who are responsible for Sanka's success have strong grounds for coffee nerves, and investors will be interested to see whether internecine warfare in the marketplace will really perk up sales for the company...