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...case, Harvard, the 19th-largest stockholder in the Pittston Corporation, should divest itself of the 311,800 shares it holds...
...fanfare had barely quieted down after Sony's buyout of Columbia Pictures when the Japanese were at it again. Last week Japan's largest communications ( concern, Fujisankei, paid $150 million to buy a 25% stake in Britain's hottest record company, Virgin Music Group. Fujisankei's holding is the biggest Japanese share in any British company. The deal will give Fujisankei, which owns the daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun and a music and video company called Pony Canyon, entree to the West. Says joint chairman Hiroaki Shikanai: "We want to dispatch our thoughts and our culture to the world...
More is at stake than the survival of a single species. Conservationists fear that if they cannot rally to the rescue of earth's largest land mammal, there is little hope of preventing a multitude of lesser creatures from slipping into extinction. The elephant has become emblematic of the wild and the struggle to preserve...
Over recent decades the trade became concentrated in the Far East, where ivory ornaments are highly prized. Until this year's trade curbs, Japan, the largest consumer, took in some 40% of the world's ivory, in contrast to about one-third for the U.S. and Europe together. Last year Japanese carvers turned an estimated 64 tons of tusks into as many as a million hanko, or personalized name seals. Much of this ivory was bought from Hong Kong, which has long been the world's ivory marketplace. Between 1979 and 1987, Hong Kong imported 3,900 tons. That represents...
...number of council members. In order to promote more competitive council elections, there should be fewer representatives from each house or Yard area. Instead of five from most house and six from the few biggest ones, there should be three council members per house, and four for the largest houses...