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...company's comeback is the work of Chairman Sanford Sigoloff, who has made a career of saving ailing firms through tough cost-cutting moves that have won him a nickname taken from the Flash Gordon comic strip: Ming the Merciless. When Sigoloff came to Wickes in 1982, he closed down several unprofitable divisions. After losses in 1982 and 1983 totaling $507 million, the company had net income of $296 million in its last fiscal year. To bankroll the Gulf & Western deal, Wickes has been issuing new stock and securities. About $500 million is in hand, and Sigoloff anticipates no trouble...
Actress ISABEL SANFORD (The Jeffersons) at Emerson College in Boston: "I think the most important part of a college education isn't so much what you learn academically, but what you learn about life -- and about yourself -- during your four years at school. You grow up so much during that time. You enter college young, somewhat naive and willing to learn. You leave, four years later, older, wiser and about $40,000 in debt. You have been through...
...Time to Heal. But the majority opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was so narrowly drawn that even many of those who had sided with the Nation were not seriously upset. "There is always a natural tension between the First Amendment and copyright law," said Bruce Sanford, general counsel for the Society of Professional Journalists, "and this does not alter the balance very much...
Atlantic Richfield hopes that those measures will effectively close the door to hungry corporate raiders like T. Boone Pickens who have been going after energy companies in recent months. Says Sanford Margoshes, an industry analyst with Wall Street's Shearson Lehman Brothers: "ARCO has made itself an ugly duckling and less attractive to a predator." Investors liked the moves. ARCO stock closed the week at 62 1/2, up 9 1/2 points...
...scientists quickly turned to the task. For years research on Parkinson's disease has been limited by the lack of an animal model on which to test new drugs and treatments. Would MPTP induce Parkinson's in animals? The answer, NIMH Researchers Sanford Markey and R. Stanley Burns soon discovered, was no in rats but yes in monkeys. Says Markey: "That was probably the biggest breakthrough in this story...