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...impoverished than ever, and in the U.S. there were simply too many circles of the rich and self-pleased -- in the oil and entertainment industries, in politics, in the media business, among wealthy alumni of Midwestern cow colleges, lately in the computer industry -- for any one social elite to retain its dominance, much less an elite that was running out of energy and wealth...
Margolies-Mezvinsky, a one-term Representative, was defeated in a bid to retain her seat in Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District. Emerging victorious, was her Republican opponent and perpetual politician, John...
Also at stake in this process is the home rule petition passed two weeks ago by the Cambridge City Council seeking to retain some form of rent control, despite the passage of Question...
...supporters of the home rule rent control petitions argued that since voters of Cambridge, Brookline, and Boston rejected Question 9 they should be allowed to retain some protection...
...cooperating fully with the SEC's review. The SEC is also reportedly investigating partnership sales practices of other Wall Street firms, including Merrill Lynch & Co. The probe comes at a bad time for PaineWebber, which is in the process of acquiring Kidder, Peabody Group, Inc. and trying to retain Kidder brokers...