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Both executives said they had always seen their time at the IOP as an "interlude." Moore said he had not expected to spend the past dozen years there, but had become involved in long-term projects such as the Center for Press and Public Policy expected to open this fall...
Throughout this year and his term as Local 26 president, job security has been the central issue facing labor at Harvard, says Bozzotto. In order to run its eating establishments more efficiently, Harvard has in the past two years contracted out both the Faculty Club and Kresge Hall, the Business School dining hall. The change in management has threatened jobs in both places, and the union will attempt to revise the contract so as to assure jobs and the continuation of Harvard benefits to workers after a change in management...
...garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trading in stocks that he had intended to plug in his column for the paper, and Paul Thayer, former chairman of LTV, received a four-year term for obstructing a Government investigation into his role in an insider stock- trading scheme...
Indeed, when Presser, 59, returned from Las Vegas to Cleveland for arraignment on Saturday, he interrupted a honeymoon that began with his fifth marriage on May 4 (to ex-Local 507 Secretary Cindy Jarabek, 38). He was anticipating near certain re-election to a five-year term as president by the Teamsters International convention that opens in Las Vegas on Monday. Presser is the fourth of the past five Teamster chiefs to be indicted either while in office or shortly thereafter...
Eliminating the capital-gains break for individuals. The committee's plan repeals the current provision that allows taxpayers to exclude from taxation 60% of the long-term profits they make when they sell stocks, real estate and other assets. Instead, such gains would be taxed as ordinary income. Doing away with the capital-gains break could hurt entrepreneurial companies like Silicon Valley's electronics upstarts, which depend on venture-capital financing. Reason: those potential backers would lose an important incentive if their profits were taxed at a higher rate. Says California Senator Alan Cranston, who plans to fight the committee...