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Lightning delayed the game twice in the second half, and the scoring came to a dead halt in the resulting mud. The Cavaliers scored two goals to the Tigers' one to send the game into overtime...
...WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...
...have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates a bear market has begun. Last Friday the market closed at 3437.19, up 9.64 points for the week and down 41.42 points from its April 16 peak...
...rights. The decision abides by the company's investment guidelines, adopted last year. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official downplayed the impact. "At present there are tens of thousands of foreign companies investing in China," he said. "If one or two want to withdraw, please do." Levi's withdrawal will halt production of 5 million pants and shirts a year...
There is only one problem with this fabled success story: the rescuers may have arrived too late. No matter how quickly manufacturers halt the production of CFCs, billions of pounds of the chemicals already produced will continue to seep into the atmosphere and rise inexorably to attack the ozone layer. Worse, measurement after measurement since the mid-1980s has shown that ozone loss has been greater and more rapid than scientists predicted. Last month in Science magazine, researchers disclosed new satellite readings showing that in 1992 the average concentration of ozone in the upper atmosphere around the globe...