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...October 1992, they conceded they would be unable to meet a $1.3 billion obligation due in October 1994. Unsatisfied creditors, however, may be able to go after the Maxwell family fortune. According to a leaked report by Bankers Trust and Coopers & Lybrand, Maxwell assets are estimated to exceed liabilities by about $350 million...
...Only investments in "wealth-producing, future-oriented" programs like research and development would enjoy deficit financing. Clinton would push for union work-rule revisions, and he would impose a tax penalty on corporations that pay their executives excessive salaries -- a provision that could kick in when big shots' salaries exceed 25 times the earnings of a company's lowest- paid worker. Clinton views most current worker-training schemes as virtually useless. "Roughly 70% of corporate training expenses serve only 10% of employees," says Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank that is advising Clinton. "Companies...
Last spring the MSHA stunned the mining industry by announcing that the agency had found widespread fraud in its dust-sampling program, designed to prevent black lung. The tests are done to ensure that coal-dust levels in mines do not exceed 2 mg per cubic meter. The testing device consists of a small pump that draws air through a filter, which is sent to a federal lab and weighed for dust content. The MSHA said more than 500 companies at 847 mines had tampered with the filters. Civil penalties may reach a record $7 million. Last week 33 coal...
Then there is a third cluster of eight states with 51 electoral votes where Bush's popular vote did not exceed 53%. If Cuomo won all those electoral votes, he would be just 10 shy of the 270 needed for victory. Two other states won by Bush could provide the difference: Louisiana, where a third-party presidential race by David Duke could deflect enough Bush support to tip 10 ; electoral votes to Cuomo, and Michigan (20 votes), where the automobile-based economy is so depressed that a coalition between labor and minorities could doom Bush's prospects...
According to the association's statement, the number of people employed in schools exceed the number of people employed in several manufacturing industries. In addition, the school employment figures match construction employment figures "during the boom development years...