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...judge in Fort Worth slapped his Wal-Mart Stores chain with an $11.6 million fine because Walton, 70, was 17 days late in delivering a deposition. The chairman's testimony was subpoenaed for a trial in which a customer demanded $6 million after slipping in a Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The tardiness penalty dwarfed the $35,658.30 the jury awarded Andrew Carrizales, a Houston mechanic, for his injuries. The company will appeal Walton's fine...
...first Stewartt had a tough job explaining to earthbound environmentalists how Lighthawk might be useful. That changed after a successful four-year fight that led to the shutdown of the smoke-belching Phelps Dodge copper smelter at Douglas, Ariz., a notorious contributor to the West's airborne sulphur-dioxide levels. Now Stewartt, with five salaries to guarantee, two planes to maintain and the costly prospect of buying three more, spends half his time raising money. He has no house, no wife and lives out of a flight...
...spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beet Specials cost 60. ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches. Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
Despite the recent drop in oil prices, drilling rights for Texas land can still mean big bucks for universities there. Texas A&M University cashed in on some of its valuable real estate last month, approving bids for two oil, gas and sulphur leases on more than 1000 acres of its property...
...Magnuson. Reported by Susan Schindehette/White Sulphur Springs...