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Harvard has held Unocal shares at least since March 31, 1999, when the University reported owning 141,616 shares in the company, valued at over $5 million at the time. Online Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) records for Harvard do not extend past this time...
...University owned 37,974 shares of Unocal, according to filings with the SEC. If the University holds the same stake today, its value would exceed $2.1 million based on its share price at the close of trading yesterday...
...European circuit. Some old foes were waiting. In the midst of a February cross-country race in Birkenhead, England, two antiapartheid demonstrators rushed into her path, forcing her to drop out. A month later she won the world cross-country championship in Lisbon by a stunning 23 sec. but raced erratically after that...
...think Zola ran a good race tonight. I'm glad that she was competitive." But tougher competition may still be waiting down the road. Among the top runners missing from Saturday's race was Rumania's Maricica Puica, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in 8:35.96, 3 sec. slower than Slaney's time last week. Budd, who had predicted before the race that she would lose, was glad to see the rematch over. "It has taken a lot of pressure off both of us," she said, adding that it would be at least a year before she could legitimately...
...whole process consumes vast quantities of computer time. One minute of film may involve as many as 100 billion calculations, driving the costs of TV commercials as high as $4,000 per sec. But conventional filmmaking techniques can be even more expensive. Using a Cray X-MP supercomputer and the latest graphics technology, the special-effects team at Digital Productions was able to create the battling spaceships in the film The Last Starfighter for $4 million. To produce the same scenes with scale-model miniatures would have cost $12 million to $24 million...