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...bank that employed him as an outside "adviser" led to a city deposit of $2 million. The city attorney also filed a civil suit accusing Bradley of failing to disclose on city conflict of interest forms six investments totaling up to $420,000. Bradley now faces the prospect of stiff civil penalties as well as continuing investigations into his financial affairs...
Students who have shied away from Ec 10 because, of its stiff grading scale and mathematical emphasis should take heart: the course heads have made a number of changes this year designed to bring the class more in line with student expectations...
Bloch, 54, appears much more dynamic than the stiff-necked, melancholy personality portrayed on television. Always a meticulous dresser, he suggested that we meet "someplace where you need a coat and tie" in order to keep the casually attired press mob outside...
...Altman and Bonwit Teller are not the sort of stores that stiff their suppliers. But since the spring, several fashion houses have withheld shipments to the swank Manhattan department stores because of late payments. The stores have been caught in the enormous debt problems of their current owner, Australia's Hooker Corp., which is controlled by investor George Herscu. Last week Hooker's U.S. holding company sought protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
...Congress of People's Deputies, reformers take a historic stand against party rule, while scholars call into question the founder of the Soviet state. -- Denis Thatcher, the British Prime Minister's husband, keeps a stiff upper lip in public. -- Poland narrowly avoids political chaos again as the Communist's Czeslaw Kiszczak is chosen to be Prime Minister, while food prices soar...