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...clock, a landmark since 1958, is utilized by passerby and frequenters of Au Bon Pain. Some interviewed in the Square yesterday said they count on its accuracy while going about their daily routines...
...million to acquire the last private buildings on the block (since 1990, $185 million has been spent buying up all the others), and officials confirmed that the Walt Disney Co. is all but recruited to renovate and stage live performances in the New Amsterdam Theater, the grand Art Nouveau landmark where Ziegfeld had his Follies. "It is the deal that we all dreamed about," says one of the project's masterminds. "When somebody like ((Disney chairman)) Michael Eisner comes in, everybody follows...
Should a woman lie to obtain an abortion? Norma McCorvey thought so when she cried rape 20 years ago. The ruse failed and she was forced to have the baby, but McCorvey became "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing reproductive freedom. Today, with the right to choose protected, the equal exercise of that right is in jeopardy, and important abortion proponents are urging women to follow McCorvey's example -- a strategy the Clinton Administration may eventually endorse, if only implicitly...
Still, Kondo said HRE persevered. "We wantedsomething that wasn't just a sign, but that wouldbe a landmark for the square," Kundo said...
...floor below the negotiators hammering out a pact on South Africa's transition council at the Johannesburg World Trade Center, businessmen from 150 U.S. companies and 10 U.S. states were gathered last week for a landmark trade show. Corporations large and small displayed everything from shampoo and ball bearings to portable toilets and pinball machines. All manner of blue- chip names were in attendance: Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Timken and Kellogg. "The potential is there," says Jan Pieterse, an executive at Upjohn, the Michigan-based pharmaceutical firm. "With South Africa able to $ play an important role, this is no longer...