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WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich has made it through an ethics committee investigation with a punishment that will allow him to keep his job, but not without a few dents. A House ethics subcommittee will recommend that Gingrich be reprimanded for admittedly violating House rules, according to the Associated Press, but will stop short of imposing a more serious punishment such as a censure, which would make him ineligible to serve as Speaker. The recommendation is expected to go to the full ethics committee next Wednesday, a day after the House votes to elect a Speaker. Gingrich must...
...trend for med school admittance has been to recommend a year or two off after college, and me applying even earlier than normal...it means I go in with a strike against me," he says...
...graphics might be, for you to select this as the "Machine of the Year" doesn't make sense [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25]. There is more to home computing than playing one of Nintendo's five neat-o video games. For family transportation, would you recommend dirt bikes as cheap, exciting alternatives to a minivan? TODD SPANGLER New York City...
...brokers steer clients to specific stocks, especially stocks in which Oxford is a market maker, since the firm makes much bigger profits that way. (A market maker can sell out of its own inventory, rather than as a middleman between buyer and seller.) Brokers have every incentive to recommend such stocks because part of their compensation comes from the "spread"--the difference between the price paid by Oxford for the stock and the price charged to the customer. One of the stocks in which Oxford is a market maker is the controversial Hariston Corp...
...company has had little choice but to keep raising its rate of acquisition lest it disappoint shareholders, whom Ray Loewen has promised annual earnings growth of 25% or more. Perversely, though, that promise prompted stock analyst Steve Saltzman to recommend last April that Loewen shareholders sell their stock. "My concern," he says, "is that at some point this company suddenly hits a wall because it simply can't manage the growth." Even under the best conditions, such rapid growth would be hard to sustain; Loewen's battle with Jerry O'Keefe has made it infinitely more difficult. THE COST...