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...writing them off, Daiwa expects to report a $70 million profit for the six months that ended on Sept. 30. Yet Daiwa's 30 or so top officers, in a form of self-imposed wrist slaps, will take pay cuts of up to 30% for six months and will forgo their annual bonuses. The bank itself sold $336 million worth of real estate in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and other cities last week to help offset the losses. The situation at Daiwa could hinder Japan's attempts to clean up its banking mess...
More than 500 students will forgo breakfast and lunch today in observance of Yom Kippur--and they'll donate the money the College would otherwise have spent on the meals to charity as part of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's MAZON project...
...nuclear force credible beyond the year 2015 or so, when the present generation of warheads will have aged into obsolescence. In addition, say French officials, the objective is to gather the data necessary to perfect the simulation and computer-modeling techniques that will permit French nuclear scientists to forgo live tests in the future and sign the CTBT...
...herself or just wanted to win back her lover by getting rid of the kids, we will never know for sure. Either way, she was an extremist in the cause of love, and her sons, horribly enough, were human sacrifices to it. "Good" women put the children first. They forgo disruptive romantic entanglements; if necessary, they endure loveless marriages until the kids grow up. This is what Susan Smith would have done if she had any capacity for conventional feminine virtue: stuck by her philandering husband, and of course refrained from fooling around herself. Not that the children would necessarily...
...people delivered it as well." In a tense meeting, says Secretary of State Warren Christopher, he told Arafat, "Look, if you don't meet Israel's security needs, you won't have peace, and you certainly won't have us." In April, Arafat extracted a promise from Hamas to forgo violence until July 1. He also set up special security courts and ordered sweeps in the Gaza Strip that netted hundreds of Islamic activists. The cease-fire held, and the stalled peace talks were able to go forward...