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...endowment fund is $38 million, a large but, for its purposes, insufficient amount. It is a tribute to his gall that Hammer managed to get Oxy to pay out such sums, when he owned less than 1% of Oxy stock, on the questionable ground that the museum would pump up the company's prestige. Oxy shareholders are suing for waste of corporate assets. The niece of Hammer's wife Frances, who died in 1989, is also suing on the ground that the collection, having been jointly acquired with her aunt's money, should have been half hers and does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America's Vainest Museum | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...million from the holding company's three major banks, including the flagship Bank of New England, after the firm predicted a loss of up to $450 million for the fourth quarter of 1990. On Jan. 6, a Sunday, the government seized the banks and said it would immediately pump in $750 million as part of a $2.3 billion bailout financed by the FDIC fund. The rescue covered more than $2 billion in accounts worth more than $100,000, and $55 million in uninsured deposits at foreign branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Crisis in Banking: Requium for a Heavyweight | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...Exxon service station along the march route, some protesters applied stickers to a sign and embraced a gas pump. An employee swung at the activist with a squeegee, but failed to make contact...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Anti-War Group Marches to Boston | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

...would anyone want to call him that? Just because he wears #23 Just because his tongue dangles somewhere around his chest region during double-pump, 180-degree, Air Jordan slams like the one he pulled off against Harvard...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Some Coaches Get No Breaks | 1/4/1991 | See Source »

...doesn't simply pump out pulp paperbacks for mass consumption. His books are expensive works...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Student's First Love Is Fine Art of Publishing | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

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