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BankAmerica spent last week dodging a $3.4 billion merger bid by First Interstate Bancorp and an informal takeover offer from Citicorp. But the beleaguered San Francisco company realizes that its shareholders will scream foul unless it does something to rescue its foundering finances (more than $1 billion in losses in the past six quarters). To raise cash, BankAmerica has decided to consider selling one of its crown jewels, the highly profitable Charles Schwab discount-brokerage subsidiary. The most probable buyer is none other than Charles Schwab, the company's founder, who sold out to BankAmerica in 1983 for $52 million...
Even city officials admit that some of the foul-ups were caused by incompetence. But most were the result of the way the city is forced to do business. On any contract above $50,000, a regulation called the Wick's Law says that a minimum of four contractors must be hired, with the business going to the lowest bidders, who may not be the best performers. Trump used ten of his most trusted subcontractors. Said he: "Yes, they worked hard for me because they know there is a lot of work coming at them from us. But they were...
...none of his fellow students connected him with "Antosha Chekhonte," the pseudonym under which he wrote comic stories. It was not until 1887, with the staging of his play Ivanov, that the public knew the author as A.P. Chekhov. Reviewers were generally hostile; "a flippantly cynical piece of foolishness, foul and immoral," said the man from the Muscovite Newssheet. But with the appearance of the story The Steppe in 1888, Chekhov was compared with Tolstoy and Gogol...
...previous game, Kess threw three innings of no hit ball with his left hand and then three more with his right. We would cheer our foul balls as real achievements...
Schloer did not appear to be a victim of foul play, said Larry Gillis, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police. "I understand that [Schloer] had a history of cardiac problems," Gillis said...