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...Ralph Waldo Emerson Fund, donated by The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), the Liberal Religious Charitable Society, and the North Shore Unitarian Universalist Society, will allow HDS to appoint a full tenured professor in Unitarian Universalist studies. UUA is the umbrella organization for Unitarian congregations in North America...
Gore's appeal to moderates, his easy rapport with black leaders, and the fact that he will be the only white Southerner with a bloc of delegates constitute a large pile of chips. Says Nathan Landow, a fund raiser who helped coax Gore into the race: "If he doesn't get the top spot, he is the obvious running mate for any Northerner under any scenario, including a late entry by Mario Cuomo. Al Gore would bring all the necessary pieces...
...different as the two markets are, they have become inextricably linked through the computerized trading strategies carried out by big brokerage houses, pension fund managers and other institutional investors. One variation is called index arbitrage, in which traders try to make swift, sure profits by taking advantage of temporary discrepancies between the prices of stock-index futures and the actual stocks that make up the index. A related gimmick is portfolio insurance, in which money managers sell stock-index futures during a market decline to guard themselves against losses. Heavy use of these strategies can produce violent price swings...
...conduct a media campaign to ; alert all Dalkon Shield users about its dangers. That resulted in 190,000 more claims that have to be settled. Last month Judge Robert Merhige Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Richmond ordered the company to put $2.48 billion into a trust fund to cover Dalkon Shield claims. That is not an absolute cap on what Robins will have to pay, but it represents the best estimate of the company's liability...
...return to chemical-weapons production results from more than a decade of Defense Department efforts to persuade Congress to fund so-called binary weapons -- devices in which the two comparatively harmless components of a deadly compound are stored and transported separately. Only when the components combine -- when the shells are fired, for example -- do they become toxic...