Word: inc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former altar boy and the son of an ex-FBI agent, Boyce grew up in Palos Verdes, Calif., a well-heeled suburb of Los Angeles. He became disillusioned with America after Viet Nam and Watergate. While working as a communications clerk with top security clearance for TRW Inc. in nearby Redondo Beach, he and a friend decided to peddle classified information to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The pair sold $76,000 worth of secrets before they were caught in early...
...stocks of companies involved in the battered housing industry, which has suffered from soaring mortgage costs, also fell sharply. The shares of Georgia Pacific, a leading lumber producer, dropped 7.1%, to 22⅞, while Ryan Homes Inc., a Pittsburgh home builder, dropped 5.2%, to 18¼. U.S. Home Corp. slumped two points...
...knows how long that process might take. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has lately been sending out strong and convincing signals that the central bank intends to stand firm, but demands that the Federal Reserve ease up are already mounting. Conservative Economist Michael Evans of Evans Economics Inc. last week urged the President to declare an end to tight money. Said he: "The President should say to Mr. Volcker, 'Look, we've made good progress with this policy, but now it is threatening to throw the economy into a serious recession, and it is time to loosen things...
...notorious employer of illegal farm laborers is Ukegawa Brothers Inc., a large tomato grower in northern San Diego County. Says Chris Hartmire, an assistant to the president of the United Farm Workers of America: "The Ukegawa workers are living on the ground, under trees, under shrubs, in makeshift huts. They're in a semi-slave situation." The workers bathe in irrigation canals and often drink contaminated water...
...been especially reluctant to sign because their contract, unlike those of the other unions, contains a "uniformity clause" that could allow concessions granted to the Bulletin to be extended to Philadelphia's Inquirer and Daily News. It is a "complex quagmire," grumbled Sam McKeel, president of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., owner of the News and the Inquirer. Until it is deciphered, "we won't know whether we want to move...