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MOST ESOTERIC CULINARY STATUS SYMBOL Squid ink. It is favored as a murky, caviar-like sauce for pasta or the Italian rice triumph, risotto...
...album gives the impression of a kind of spiritual centering the Judds draw not just from music but from the way they live. "We are two generations," says Naomi, "and we play off each other." She listens to and learns from Elvis, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, and the Ink Spots. Wynonna admires singers as disparate as Nat King Cole and Bonnie Raitt. The Judds will cross any musical boundaries, but as they tell it, their real strength comes from staying close to the roots...
...sales: $4.9 billion) faces daunting problems. The company's computer operations have been hit by an industry-wide slump and intense Japanese competition. The twin setbacks have pushed the firm into deep financial trouble. Control Data lost $270 million during the first nine months of 1985, and the red ink could easily pass $300 million for the entire year. To help repay bank loans on which it defaulted last summer, the company is selling Ticketron, its electronic ticketing service, and other operations. An earlier attempt to raise badly needed cash by selling Commercial Credit, Control Data's financial unit, failed...
...back sharply or ran away from the business entirely, leaving the American firms to shoulder the losses alone. Finally, in 1984 underwriting losses swallowed up investment income entirely and, according to industry statistics, property-casualty insurers suffered an overall pretax loss of $3.8 billion. It was the first red-ink figure in nine years. In 1985 the pretax loss increased to $5.5 billion. Some 40 liability insurers have become insolvent in the past two years...
...Pentagon and FBI intelligence operations-though officials at the CIA, the Defense Department and the FBI insist conflicts are rare and coordination is already being improved. But Hoekstra says House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter objected that the legislation would unduly expand Negroponte's authority almost before the ink has even dried on last year's law creating the new intelligence czar post...