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...through the eyes of Ben Christian, the company's ethical but naive new vice president, who is portrayed by Dennis Dugan. In one episode Cromwell, played by Patrick Macnee, formerly of The Avengers, is enraged because the company is about to lose a contract to sell $350 mil lion worth of air conditioners to Kuwait...
...bidding at Sotheby's in London lasted only two minutes, but when it was over the 12th century illuminated German manuscript known as "The Gospels of Henry the Lion" had fetched a glittering $11.7 million, the highest auction price ever paid for a work of art. The pristinely preserved, 13½-in.-by-10-in. medieval masterpiece contains more than 1,500 exquisite illustrations and 41 full-page miniatures, but its value is not merely aesthetic to its new owners, a consortium of buyers that included the West German government. The acquisition, says Banker Hermann...
...approximately fifty structural trades employees. Thus these fifty-odd workers faced the crisis of employment termination (lay-offs) as the University contracted an outside firm to replace these workers. A complex agreement was reached between the University and the unions representing the workers, an agreement which reserved the lion's share of termination pay and job placement assistance to (you guessed it) workers with twenty years or more on the job. It is a textbook case of a big white institution and white-dominated unions agreeing to give preference to seniority privileges over hard-won affirmative action protections...
...loss of the Globe-Democrat will leave metropolitan St. Louis (pop. 1 8 mil lion) with only one regional newspaper, the 105-year-old Post-Dispatch. It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies. The failure defied several newspaper-industry rules of thumb: the morning Globe-Democrat (daily circ 255,000) is bigger than the afternoon Post-Dispatch (daily circ. 230,000); it is published at what is considered a more advantageous time of day; and it is, at least in terms of local coverage, the better paper Nonetheless, the economic...
...Providence, Lion QB John Witkowski passed for 378 yards in his last game. But a 29-point Columbia fourth quarter rally couldn't overcome a 42-7 deficit...