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...good portion--$140,000--of those voluntarily-withdrawn expenses has been connected to maintaining Bok's off-campus home and operating the office of Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of the Medical School, according to The Washington Post. Even costs associated with Bok's official car have been brought into the whole mess...
...might be able to read the directions to build bookshelves in multiple languages, but I certainly couldn't put them together better than any other person with two hands. A good portion of the students here can't hook up their own computers. Even more have compact disk players that baffle them. And if you can find a student who put together his or her own futon, get them...
Maybe so. Icahn won't do badly either. Even though owners of TWA's common stock would get nothing under the proposed deal, Icahn, who owns 90% of the stock, will benefit. Another portion of the agreement gives most of the stock in the restructured firm to owners of TWA's mostly worthless bonds. As the airline's largest bondholder, Icahn will receive a 20% stake in the company. He has agreed to pay $35 million for bonds and stock worth an additional 25%. All in all, Icahn has managed an impressive financing feat, maintaining control and getting...
...real steps toward privatization, the Soviet government announced last week that it is offering to sell at least 30% of its largest industrial company, Volga Automobile Associated Works, maker of Lada sedans, to a foreign investor. The portion of the company up for sale is worth more than $1 billion. The most likely purchaser is the Italian automaker Fiat S.p.A. But the Soviets are not about to miss out on any better offers: they have hired Bear, Stearns, the Wall Street investment banking house, to provide them with some American know-how. Bear, Stearns is bullish on the U.S.S.R. Says...
Elvis Presley could probably swing through parts of South Carolina in a flying saucer these days without anyone noticing. Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff...