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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Texaco agreed to pay $140 million in one of the largest employee race-discrimination lawsuits to date. The two-year-old lawsuit had dominated headlines for the past two weeks, and prompted calls by Jesse Jackson for a boycott of the firm, after the release of a secret recording of a meeting in which Texaco executives discussed destroying company documents relevant to the case and ridiculed black employees as "black jelly beans." Under the settlement, Texaco will pay 1,500 present and former black employees who brought suit $115 million in cash, will provide $26.1 million...
...believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule fortified enclaves inhabited by some 400 Jews amid the city's 100,000 Palestinians, she has no doubts and no regrets. It's simple, she says, as she nuzzles her two-year-old son, "If I want to live anywhere in Israel, there is no reason I can't be here...
Russell lacks the sartorial splendor and ethnic heritage of Reeves, her predecessor. But she had no problem driving a two-year-old youngster through Rindge Park on a rider lawnmower on that afternoon...
Plainly, the four men and two women in the jury box felt otherwise. After just 15 minutes of deliberation, they convicted the Provenzinos of violating a two-year-old city ordinance that requires parents to "exercise reasonable control over their minor children." It was the first time parents had been charged under the ordinance. The Provenzinos were fined $100 each and ordered to pay $2,000 in court costs. Given that they could have been socked with civil damages of up to $27,000, Anthony, 48, a restaurant cook, and Susan, 44, a bookkeeper, got off easy...
...rocketed to such high prices on the basis of hope rather than proven results. Take Netscape, for example. While the company managed to earn $2.4 million on sales of $40.6 million in the final quarter of 1995, it still lost $3.4 million for the year. Yet the $5 billion market value of the two-year-old company already exceeds that of Delta Airlines, General Dynamics or Bethlehem Steel...