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After much wrangling, a compromise was reached. The defense's experts could visit Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Maryland, where the prosecution had sent the samples for testing, and could pare off 10% of each sample. But the material removed would in effect be held in escrow. After hearing expert testimony, Judge Ito would rule on the disposal of the sliced-off portions...
...aren't nearly as neurotic. true, Boston has a flourishing intellectual and artistic life, but if you're craving arts and intellect, then why not New York City? (I know why not New York City, but I thought only born-and-bred Bostonians like me realized that when you pare away the grime, violence, stress, affection and ennui, New York is just a wannabe...
...Premier Homme has a confessional feeling, unmediated by any of the distancing ironies and disguises Camus employed in works published during his lifetime. It cannot be known whether he was reaching for the looser and more lush writing style of this narrative or whether he did not live to pare away what he might have considered its excesses. But his hero, Jacques Cormery (the surname of Camus's paternal grandmother), is indistinguishable from his creator...
...that seemed shaken up. After a rash of acquisitions ranging from TV stations and printing presses to TV Guide magazine, News Corp. found itself with $9.5 billion of high- interest debt. That burden, compounded by a worldwide economic downturn, dealt the company a $308 million loss in 1991. To pare down the debt, Murdoch sold $1.2 billion of stock and spun off such assets as the Daily Racing Form, Seventeen and New York magazine. The moves still left News Corp. with $7.5 billion in IOUs but helped it record a profit of $605.2 million, on revenues of $7.48 billion...
...consists of slashing, or even denying, health benefits to retired employees (companies must now show the estimated cost of those benefits on their balance sheets as a liability, sometimes of embarrassing ; size). Some states have enacted only timid reforms, and others are being forced by a budget squeeze to pare down reforms put on the books in more prosperous times. Massachusetts, to take one prominent example, has delayed until 1995 some important steps in a comprehensive reform plan, enacted in 1988, that were originally supposed to be phased in over four years. Some companies worry about having eventually to deal...