Word: inc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new law, the trusts cannot be top-heavy with stocks that relate to the official's job. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, for instance, is selling his stock in Scovill Inc., the manufacturing conglomerate he headed. But others are using complex disqualification agreements to avoid such drastic sales. Donald Regan, the new Treasury Secretary, has promised to disqualify himself somehow from matters that might affect his holdings in Merrill Lynch, the brokerage firm he formerly headed. Reagan's choice for Labor Secretary, Raymond Donovan, says he will not make decisions affecting the New Jersey construction companies...
...story, cement-block building that houses Black & Webster Inc. of Waltham, Mass., nestles in a wooded hollow, unspoiled by the soot of sprawling factories. From his white-marble-top desk, President Peter T. Webster, 41, can watch pheasants dart across the lawn. But the rustic setting is deceptive. Webster and his staff of 83 people, including six engineers and ten highly skilled machinists, turn out such space-age products as orbital riveters and vibratory feeders...
...trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture." The culprit: a term-paper mill named Collegiate Research Systems Inc. that sells roughly 500 ghostwritten essays in a good month from a 305-page catalogue, grossing about...
...Dial has won a decisive round in the battle: the Internal Revenue Service rejected a challenge from Merrill two weeks ago, ruling that Public Broadcasting Communications, Inc., which publishes Dial for the sponsoring stations, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Merrill had already lost a round with the Federal Communications Commission, which last month refused to prohibit PBS stations from promoting Dial...
Adding to protesters' woes, Joseph Mlot-Mroz of the mysterious Polish Freedom Fighters, Inc. showed up for Saturday's demonstration. The scourge of Boston area demonstrations, this stocky middle-aged man attends many public gatherings with a carefully painted placard disparaging Israel and praising the United States. He gives no explanation for the connection between Polish workers and politics in the Middle East...