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...merchant not driven out of business is David Galgay, owner of Galgay the Florist, a Central Square establishment since 1919. Galgay says that subway renovations ruined business in Central Square for four years. "People avoided the square like the plague," says Galgay. "Once they clean up this area, business will improve," Galgay adds...

Author: By Arnold M. Zipper, | Title: Old Square Goes Yupscale | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...capital to mount their attacks. Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, an investment firm with $5.6 billion for use in takeovers, is a leader in the field. Since the takeover funds can borrow against their capital, they have the potential to raise as much as $300 billion. In a practice known as merchant banking, Wall Street firms, including KKR, Shearson Lehman Hutton and Morgan Stanley, are buying stakes for themselves in the companies they help investors take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fights on Wall Street | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Cornell (11-3, 2-0 Ivy) is led by junior Becky Merchant and senior Teri Duran, who complement each other the way Forman and Schossberger do for Harvard...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Set to Change Ways | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

...Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The jury found Alvarez, formerly a member of the Guadalajara homicide squad, guilty of six charges, including two counts of committing violent acts to support racketeering. Jurors saw a videotape of Lopez telling about the torture and slaying of Camarena on the orders of Mexican drug merchant Rafael Caro Quintero. The jury is deliberating separately on the fates of two other defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Justice for Camarena | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...most valuable discovery: a 1933 $10 eagle gold piece now worth $80,000 or more. The map, said the DEA last week, turned up in the home of a wind- surfing drug merchant known as "Colorado Bill" and "King Midas." Bill (the DEA is withholding his full name) can follow the auction from his cell in Lompoc, Calif., where he is doing 17 years for drug trafficking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Drug King's Midas Touch | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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