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...profession is instituting a series of reforms designed to prevent future legal shocks. In January 92% of A.I.C.P.A. members voted to organize in forms other than partnerships, which saddle individual partners with maximum liability risk; most want to switch to general corporations. The plan needs approval from all 50 states. The group's members also voted overwhelmingly to maintain a long-standing policy that bars members from volunteering confidential client information to government agencies, making it even more unlikely that accountants will squeal on clients unless subpoenaed...
...trade deficit for the month did shrink to $5.77 billion from $6 billion in December, that was largely because of fewer imports. To no one's surprise, the biggest trade imbalance in January was with Japan. But to thwart any hard feelings, Tokyo said it would lower the maximum number of autos it can sell annually in the U.S. by 28%, from 2.3 million to 1.65 million...
...California voters' initiative will force the entire 80-member assembly ^ out of office in 1996. Narrowly passed in 1990, it imposes maximum terms of six years for assembly members and eight for state senators. Now that it has been upheld by the highest court, at least 12 other states from Oregon to Florida may put similar initiatives on their ballots...
Gravano, 46, was originally supposed to stand trial along with Gotti and Gambino lieutenant Frank (Frankie Locs) Locascio. But last fall, after learning that the government had witnesses ready to link him to several killings, Gravano struck a deal with the feds. In return for a maximum 20-year sentence, which he will probably serve in a high-security witness-protection cellblock, Gravano agreed to testify in Gotti's trial and others to come. He thus became one of the highest-ranking mafiosi ever to turn state's evidence and perhaps the most important gangland informant since Mob soldier Joseph...
...Tomassoni's achievement, this one year, is more impressive. He brought in one of the finest classes of recruits in the country and mapped out an arrangement of line to get the maximum production from both his veterans and newcomers...