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Bank of Boston, New England's biggest bank and the 16th largest in the nation, paid a record $500,000 fine last month for failing to report $1.2 billion in shipments of cash to and from financial institutions abroad. While prosecutors never accused the bank of deliberately laundering money, the scandal swelled anyway. The bank gave no consistent account of why it broke a federal law that requires institutions to notify the Government of large cash transactions. During last week's hearings, Brown explained that at least eight top officials of the bank knew about the rule but wrongly assumed...
...Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, one of the nation's four largest post-doctoral fellowship programs, will move next fall into the largest of four buildings bought last November from Lesley College...
...scene looked more like a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly than a civil trial, as San Francisco's Nourse Auditorium last week became the largest courtroom in memory. Dozens of lawyers at 28 counsel tables appeared before California Judge Ira Brown at the start of what could be an 18-month megatrial. At issue is who should bear the cost of asbestos-related lawsuits; 25,000 of them have been filed against some 30 companies, mostly by former workers ill with cancer and lung disease associated with breathing in asbestos fibers. In the San Francisco case, five former asbestos...
...organizations that monitor human-rights abuses issued reports last week that will make it more difficult for the Administration to win over Congress. Americas Watch, a private nonpartisan group that monitors human-rights abuses in the hemisphere, contended that the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group, employs "the deliberate use of terror." The Washington Office on Latin America, a coalition of religious and academic groups, issued a report citing at least 28 murders, rapes, assaults and instances of torture committed by the contras...
...Frank Phillips Boulevard and rushed along the corridors of the Jane Phillips Episcopal Hospital and the Phillips Hotel. It spilled over into Frank Phillips Airport and gushed through every Phillips 66 station in town. In Bartlesville, Okla., last week, there was good reason for jubilation. Phillips Petroleum, the eighth largest U.S. oil producer, had succeeded in stopping New Yorker Carl Icahn's bid to take over the company after earlier beating back a similar attempt by Texan T. Boone Pickens. A three-month siege by corporate raiders had ended, and worries for the future were replaced by good feelings. "Hallelujah...