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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even farther out to sea many food fish, except possibly sole, which stay near the bottom, will be contaminated. The season's take of crabs, including green crabs used for bouillabaisse, may be wiped out. In addition, ornithologists noted, an archipelago called the Seven Islands, France's largest marine bird sanctuary, is surrounded...
...invasion was dramatized last week by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., which has more than 400 branches in 40 countries. It announced that it is negotiating to buy a "significant equity position" in the parent company that owns Marine Midland, the 14th largest U.S. bank, with assets of $12 billion and more than 300 branches in New York State. Other foreign banks have followed the buy-in route too: European American Bank, which is owned by six European banks, bought out the bankrupt Franklin National in 1974 and now has 97 branches in New York City and Long Island...
...penalty, the reaction was genuine shock. Kodak, said the jurors, should pay Berkey $37.6 million in damages-and that was just the beginning. Because standard procedure is to triple damages for violation of antitrust law, the court is expected to raise the award to $112.8 million, one of the largest judgments ever against a U.S. corporation...
...biggest man in the largest manufacturing company in the world sits at a cluttered desk that is piled high with sales reports, production analyses, sheaves of magazines and a couple of dime-store signs that proclaim BLESS THIS MESS and PLEASE DON'T STRAIGHTEN THE MESS ON MY DESK! YOU'LL GOOF UP MY SYSTEM. Thomas Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors...
...where, oh where, are the jokes? Is it funny that the Rutles' first big hit song is called Hold My Hand instead of I Want to Hold Your Hand? Or that their largest American concert is held at New York's Che Stadium, not Shea Stadium? Is it a howl that John and Yoko (here named Ron and Chastity) hold their famous antiwar press conference in a bathtub rather than a bed? This is not humor; it's just British undergraduate silliness...