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...White House. Chief of Staff James Baker insisted that "there is absolutely no connection" between the timing of Deaver's exit and the Journal story. Deaver reportedly has been offered more than $200,000 a year to head the Washington office of Burson-Marsteller, the world's largest public relations firm. After his departure, the cheery yet canny aide will doubtless remain a close consultant to the family (see cover story...
...N.Y.S.E.'s largest loser of 1984 was Colorado's Storage Technology, a computer-equipment manufacturer, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October. Investors also became discouraged with Western Union when it failed to recoup quickly its investment in new services like electronic mail. Hesston, a Kansas-based farm-equipment maker whose stock was among the best performers in 1983, suffered last year from depressed sales. Cincinnati's Omnicare, a hospital supplier, fell into disfavor after an accounting adjustment cut its profits. Williams Electronics of Chicago was zapped by declining interest in its coin-operated video games...
Crystal Oil, a Shreveport, La., refiner, posted the worst performance on the American Stock Exchange, dropping from 14 3/8 to 3 1/4. Healthdyne of Marietta, Ga., a manufacturer of devices that monitor infants for sudden-death syndrome, turned in the largest decline on the over-the-counter market, falling from...
...Coptic Church, this is the Christmas season--and President Hosni Mubarak, a Muslim, had a present last week for his Christian community. He released Pope Shenouda III, 61, from a three-year- long house arrest and allowed him to resume his duties as spiritual leader of the Copts, the largest Christian group (6 million) in any Arab nation...
...Oberhausen, site of one of Germany's largest industrial archives, Economics Historian Ulrich Nocken, a former student of Feldman's, checked the sources of the disputed quotes and said that of 100 Abraham footnotes, only six were correct. The rest of the book, he added, contained "mistakes of every possible kind." With this new evidence in hand, Turner and Feldman set out in earnest to expose Abraham's work. They wrote to Catholic University in Washington, where Abraham was under consideration for hiring, and Feldman attached Nocken's findings. The job evaporated. Abraham lost another opportunity at the University...