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...hardly unique. These days millions of investors are being badgered by conflicting advice from bankers and brokers. That is because sliding interest rates are shaking up the entire investment industry. As the luster has faded from such multi-billion-dollar investment lures as money-market mutual funds and six-month bank certificates of deposit, investment experts have been scrambling to come up with new high-yield alternatives that will appeal to safety-conscious investors...
...unpleasant saga of two formerly Harvard-affiliated doctors convicted in 1981 along with a third colleague of gang-raping a nurse may finally drop out of the headlines. The former Harvard doctors--Arif Hussain and Eugene Sherry--learned in July that their six-month sentences had been upheld, as had an identical punishment for fellow defendant Alan Lefkowitz...
...unpleasant saga of two formerly Harvard-affiliated doctors convicted in 1981 along with a third colleague of gang-raping a nurse may finally drop out of the headlines. The former Harvard doctors--Arif Hussain and Eugene Sherry--learned in July that their six-month sentences had been upheld, as had an identical punishment for fellow defendant Alan Lefkowitz...
Once a brand is established and costs are met, each extra six-pack means more profits. Two weeks ago, Anheuser-Busch reported six-month profit gains of 24% over 1981 levels while selling only 10% more beer. That showed just how large profits can be once a firm is able to swallow the huge cost of launching a national product. As one beer executive points out, the drink's ingredients cost less than the bottle or can that it comes in and the advertising that is used to sell...
...Boston public school system, the oldest in the country, may now also be one of the worst, according to a recently concluded 13-part series by the Boston Globe, based on a six-month investigation by its "Spotlight" team. Among the findings...