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...there is one thing an electric utility is supposed never to do, it is omit a quarterly dividend; investors buy utility stocks primarily to get those dividends. Last week the unthinkable happened: New York's Consolidated Edison Co., the biggest U.S. power generator, skipped its dividend for the first time in its 89-year history. The news gave Wall Street a high-voltage shock. Con Ed stock promptly lost a third of its value, dropping from 18 to 12 (it closed the week at 12⅜), and the dive dragged down prices of many other utility stocks...
...design under preparation by architect I.M. Pei will omit an 85-foot-high glass pyramid, eliminate two 350-seat auditoriums and place the John F. Kennedy School of Government in its own building on the 12-acre site...
...proposal written by Richardson. It suggested that Nixon appoint a "verifier" of the tapes, an individual of "wide experience, strong character and established reputation for veracity." He would be given the tapes "for as long as he considered necessary," as well as a transcript of the tapes that would omit portions that "were not pertinent." His job would be to play the tapes and correct the transcript as needed. He could paraphrase any "embarrassing" language-an apparent reference to Nixon's propensity for coarse phrases. This verifier could also delete references harmful to "national defense or foreign relations...
Summing up, Judge Hoffman acknowledged that he had approved the entire deal. It would not, he said, satisfy everyone. He did not like the fact that Agnew's guilt or innocence on the mass of charges would remain unresolved: "It would have been my pre erence to omit these statements and end the verbal warfare as to this tragic event in history." He said that when the accused standing before him is a lawyer, a tax accountant or business executive, he normally puts him in jail, and that is where he would have been inclined to send Agnew, were...
...cutoff date, however, small-and medium-size investors will have some of the shopping clout now available only to those who deal in orders of $300,000 or more−mostly banks, pension funds and other institutional investors. These large-scale buyers and sellers can bargain for commissions that omit charges for services like providing research and holding stocks in custody that many investors may not want or need. When smaller investors are given the same privilege, broker commissions are expected to go down...