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...working couples struggle to meet their family responsibilities, they are asking corporate America to lend a hand. Last week AT&T agreed to one of the largest expansions of family benefits ever achieved in labor negotiations. Under a three-year contract covering 160,000 members of its communications and electrical unions, AT&T will increase from six months to one year the parental leave it offers mothers and fathers of newborns. The company will also permit such leaves for the care of ailing relatives...
...more than a year, takeover artist and TWA chairman Carl Icahn has been missing from the roiling waters of corporate raids, beached by huge investments in Texaco and USX. But last week Texaco's largest stockholder sent a quiver through the New York Stock Exchange when he abruptly unloaded his 17.3% stake, or 42 million shares, for $2.07 billion (his profit: $600 million). The sale, which ranked as the largest single trade in Big Board history, was so unwieldy that three investment firms -- Shearson Lehman Hutton, Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Brothers -- teamed up to buy the shares. The bombshell transaction...
...they have been throughout most of postwar U.S. history, the British were the largest investors last year, plunking down $21.5 billion. In second place were the Japanese ($14.2 billion), ahead of the Canadians ($10.4 billion). U.S. firms have been popular targets partly because of the steady growth of the American economy during the past six years. Another reason for their attractiveness is the large and relatively homogeneous U.S. consumer market. American investors still control more assets overseas ($330 billion) than foreign owners do in the U.S. ($304 billion), but that advantage has been narrowing in recent years...
...Estate (HRE) unveiled plans to build a five-story "limited convenience" hotel on property across from the Harvard Union. In the fall, the University purchased the Quality Motor Inn and the Bence Pharmacy building on Mass. Ave. And in March, Harvard purchased from the St. Paul's Rectory the largest undeveloped plot in the Square...
...Energy officials tell The Crimson that they are working to restore funding to the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center. The center had claimed that its funding was cut off in the fall of 1987 for political reasons. The department had previously been the center's largest source of funds...