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Into everybody's life someone like Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) is bound to fall. "Human Krazy Glue" is how Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the fallee in this hilarious case, describes him. For Bob is a classically needy nerd. Having no life of his own, Bob is desperate to attach himself to someone else's existence and draw psychic sustenance from it in great, draining gulps...
...rape allegations had been made against his nephew until after he returned to Washington. He later conceded that "Barry indicated to me that he had a call for me from the police," but the Senator never called the investigators back. He did, however, try to call Miami defense attorney Marvin Rosen three times by Sunday night. (Rosen's partner is now representing Smith.) In his sworn deposition, Patrick says he and his father talked about Smith's "whacked-out friend" shortly after the first police visit...
...used to being re-elected by an overwhelming margin? That seems unlikely this year. But the Calpers-led protest could be picking up support. Neuberger & Berman, a Manhattan firm that manages more ITT stock than any other institution -- 2 million shares -- is not happy. Wrote Neuberger portfolio manager Marvin Schwartz in a letter to Araskog: "One cannot escape noting that ITT stock has been an extremely dismal performer in the marketplace over the past 11-year period." That sorry record, Schwartz declared, "suggests that knowledgeable institutional investors do not think very highly of either the company or its prospects...
...federally run Tennessee Valley Authority could be another deep-pocketed customer for the first new reactor. TVA chairman Marvin Runyon says he may order a nuclear plant by the end of the decade. TVA also plans to restart one of three nuclear reactors at its Browns Ferry plant, near Athens, Ala., this summer. The facility had a serious fire in the mid-1970s and shut down in 1985 to correct safety problems. Runyon likes atomic energy because it is clean, but he lists four conditions that must be met if nukes are to regain the public's trust: "One-step...
...living well is the best revenge, forcing your boss to fork over $750,000 has got to be a close second. That is the amount Philadelphia-based brokerage Janney Montgomery Scott must pay gambling-industry analyst Marvin Roffman, according to a decision last week by a New York Stock Exchange arbitration panel. Roffman's complaint: that Janney had fired him as a result of pressure from self-styled dealmeister Donald Trump...