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...become a force in the West, the carrier announced that it was buying Los Angeles-based Western Air Lines for $860 million. If approved by the Department of Transportation, the deal would give Delta two new hubs, in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The combined carrier would haul some 50 million passengers annually, making it the nation's third largest airline after United and American...
...three days of competition and camaraderie among a group of high school contestants in a California beauty pageant. Some 3,000 girls auditioned for the 16 roles in the musical, which is due to preview next month in Baltimore and open in New York City this November. "A long haul," says Hamlisch, who has been working on the $4 million song-and-dance spectacular for four years. "It's frustrating when you think you have it all together, then you see it in workshop and have to rework it. For the first time now, I can relax a little...
...private donors be counted on to maintain such programs over the long haul? Sponsors of the Boston program have already collected $4 million toward their $5 million goal. The participating companies hope to raise an additional $150,000 to $200,000 annually. Says New England Life's Phillips: "That amount plus interest income from the $5 million will sustain the fund." Whether the Dallas program will be as well supported remains to be seen. By week's end about 30 still had no benefactors. But Elaine Farrell, a board member of STEP who helped bring Lang to Dallas, is confident...
...dealers before | conviction. Federal agents last year relieved them of about $360 million. Local police are trying some innovative approaches. In Boston, New York City and Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including several BMWs and at least one Mercedes-Benz. And everywhere arrest totals are rising. Police in Florida nabbed 4,573 suspected cocaine sellers last year, more than double the number...
...reminders in Mexico last week of the country's continuing problems. Just before the Presidents met, the price of gasoline went up, unannounced and overnight, by an average of 36%. The following day Mexican authorities seized almost half a ton of cocaine at the border, their third biggest haul in the country's history. A couple of days later the former chief of the federal judicial police in Guadalajara, Armando Pavon Reyes, was sentenced to four years in prison for having accepted $100,000 in bribes from Rafael Caro Quintero, an arrested drug trafficker...