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...most ever spent for a stock acquisition by a Middle Eastern nation. Adnan Khashoggi, 39, a U.S.-educated Saudi whose non-oil business empire already includes two small California banks, recently offered $14 million for a one-third interest in the First National Bank of San Jose. Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp., disclosed last week that "one very prominent Arab," whom he would not identify, bought more than 6 million shares of Occidental, an investment worth at least $80 million at current prices...
Steven Wexler, chief counsel for the Senate Subcommittee on Education and the lawyer who helped the Buckley and Pell aides hammer out their agreement on the amendment, said last night that the amendment would...
...without a duly-negotiated successor. And it has a discernible terminus--the day, ten days or so after the UMW's 38-member bargaining council approves a new contract, and a majority of members vote "yes" on the provisions President Arnold B. Miller and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association hammer out--provisions that will govern their working lives for the next three years...
Buckley, it was pointed out, circulated the amendment to his Senate colleagues four days before it was adopted on the Senate floor--with no debate. There were no hearings in committee session to weigh its merits or hammer out its wording. Fact is, as higher-ups around Mass Hall tell it, Buckley himself knew few details of the rider when contacted several days after its passage...
...Hammer Blows. Installing the mandibular staple is easier than bone grafting, winch can take as long as six weeks. In a 90-minute operation, Small makes an incision in the crease under the cinn. Then he drills a series of holes in the bone. He next positions the staple and hammers it neatly into place. Most patients require only aspirin afterward, feel comfortable witinn 48 hours, and can begin eating with their solidly anchored dentures witinn five days...