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...scheme under consideration at Justice is a fund to compensate victims of federal crime. At the White House, meanwhile, there is talk of having President Reagan name the week of April 20 National Victims' Rights Week. This seems to represent scant progress indeed...
...Berner. He used one to win a seat on the board of Curtiss-Wright almost 30 years ago. During the past decade he was also involved in three similar, though smaller, battles. But despite the challenge, Kennecott prevailed in Round 1, winning the proxy fight by a scant 1.1 million shares out of approximately 26 million voted at the annual meeting of company stockholders in 1978. Then, five months later, a federal court set aside that decision saying that shareholders might have been unduly influenced by the last-minute court battle that had preceded it, and ordered another vote. Thereupon...
Installment credit, which was rising at the rate of more than $3 billion a month in 1979, had slowed to a scant $146 million a month through October 1980. Credit cards are going into the drawer or into the wastebasket; more Christmas shoppers this year paid with cash than with plastic. Purchases that cannot be paid for immediately are often postponed. Last week when the washing machine wouldn't work, Cookie Sullivan, 35, a Winchester, Va., secretary headed for the Laundromat. Says she: "I'll be damned if my husband and I can afford a new machine with...
...their own backyards. General Motors is one of nearly 200 companies drilling for gas in Ohio, and today the automaker has 200 wells pumping on property adjacent to its Lordstown plant. American Standard supplies its Swissvale, Pa., switch and signal manufacturing factory with gas from four wells located a scant 40 ft. from the building...
...gross $750,000 this year, up $500,000 from 1978. An estimated 50 other publishers throng the field, ranging from giant, Canada-based International Self-Counsel Press (100 titles for a $1 million annual gross) to underground-style newsletters with circulations of less than a thousand. There is scant mystery about the forces underlying this boom. "People just don't know what their rights are," says American Bar Association Spokesman Richard Collins, "and they are scared to go to attorneys because they have no idea what they're getting into." Looking at it another way, people have...