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...investors are sticking out their financial neck. Individual investors, who used to avoid the new-issues market because of its high risks and arcane mechanics, have suddenly taken to gobbling up initial public offerings. So far this year, there have been 539 IPOs, compared with 433 during the same nine-month period in 1992, itself a record year. The value of these new issues -- nearly $30 billion -- is 50% ahead of last year's pace...
DUBBED A MERE "PLANNING CONFERENCE," THE gathering was in fact historic. When negotiations resumed near Johannesburg after a nine-month deadlock, the meeting included 26 delegates from the widest spectrum of antagonists ever put together on South African soil. Besides the African National Congress and the governing National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch...
Ever since her searing experience during the Thomas hearings, University of Oklahoma law professor ANITA HILL has kept her own counsel for the most part. Not anymore. Beginning in August, Hill will take a nine-month sabbatical to explore the notion of founding (and funding) an institute to study racism and sexism in the U.S. Meanwhile, on Oct. 16, Hill and Georgetown University law professor Emma Jordan will convene a one-day conference on "Race, Gender and Power in America." Hill will take the mike as keynote speaker...
...suddenly part of a company as big as IBM. A new survey of customer satisfaction among business users of personal computers showed IBM out of the running, somewhere below 10th place and below average, its exact ranking not disclosed by the pollsters. Its stock is skidding along near a nine-month low. And at week's end, to underscore that the company is going through one of its toughest times in memory, it informed more than 10,000 employees that they would be taking a week's unpaid vacation in early July. Big Blue remains fearsomely strong (1990 revenues...
...police-misconduct suits. One was a $265,000 judgment to an 18-year-old white youth who was dragged from a car and beaten severely enough to suffer permanent ear damage. Although a civil-court jury found six officers at fault, Gates told the council that after a nine-month investigation, his department could not determine which officer had actually done the beating. "If you can't identify them, it's difficult to discipline them," he insisted. Members of the council were incredulous...