Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had done repair work on seven nuclear-powered attack submarines. The GAO agreed with Rickover that the company's profits had reached as high as 37% on one job and averaged 21.7% for all seven...
...financial supermarkets, meanwhile, have been eyeing thrifts as possible additions to their growing line of services. Merrill Lynch and Shearson/ American Express are each in the process of buying a thrift. Stockholders of Newport Balboa Savings Association (assets: $65.2 million) in Southern California are selling the S and L to ITT Financial Corp. for $13.5 million, or $65 a share. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would be a bonanza for Newport Balboa owners, who paid $12.50 a share when the stock was first issued...
...John Wallace, director of Edgehill Newport, a 165-bed alcohol-treatment program in Newport, R.I., says flatly that the suggestion that an alcoholic might be able to return to social drinking safely is "a serious ethical problem, because at least 97% of alcoholics, if you let them drink, could...
DIED. Dolores Del Rio, 78, enduringly beautiful Mexican movie actress; in Newport Beach, Calif. Even in the silent era she tended to be typecast in such films as Ramona (1928) and The Loves of Carmen (1927); after sound, her accent limited her still further, though she starred in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). Finally sick of the Hollywood yoke, she returned to Mexico and helped establish the country's movie industry, notably with Maria Candelaria...
...Supply Corp. The notion actually dates back more than 3,000 years to the Egyptians, who used sea sponges soaked in citrus juices, which are slightly spermicidal, as contraceptives. When American Hospital showed little interest in Vorhauer's idea, he resigned and set up a tiny office in Newport Beach, Calif. Says he: "My kitchen was my first...