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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Married for seven years and father of two children, Nagy calls himself a family man "with a vengeance." He once took "a paternity leave" to become the primary parent for his son while his wife, Holly Davidson, pursued her Ph.D. at Princeton. "We still think we are newlyweds, but I guess we're not," he says. "As Dick Van Dyke would say, we're very happily married...
...semester Nagy took a leave of absence to join his wife in Princeton. He obtained a fellowship at Princeton's Center for Advanced Learning, which allowed him to work on a book at home while caring for his son, Laszlo, age five. Nagy says he was the primary parent for Laszlo, and that his wife, her academic load lightened somewhat, has done more of the work in raising their daughter, Antonia...
...French-based pipeline suppliers that they would be "requisitioned" if they bowed to U.S. pressure. Last week Dresser-France was told that it would be the first to be taken over because its Soviet contracts called for the earliest delivery of equipment. Complained John James, chairman of the Texas parent firm, which lost an eleventh-hour battle to block...
...from 1980. The budget for television commercials alone has quadrupled, to $10 million. To spur sales of larger, more profitable stones, a new slogan has been created: "A diamond of a carat or more is only one in a million." For less affluent buyers, De Beers is urging American parents to give their teen-age daughters small, heart-shaped diamond jewelry "for those special occasions ... as only a parent...
...hardest-hit stocks on Wall Street recently has been that of Continental Illinois Corp., the parent of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co., the nation's seventh largest commercial bank (1981 assets: $45 billion). In the wake of huge reported loan losses following the collapse of Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City in June, Continental's stock has plunged to a mere 15%. Earlier this year the stock had traded at 36. Last week, in a public relations blitz designed to get the bad news behind him, Continental Chairman Roger Anderson took the highly unusual step...