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Equitable and the new managers must also face the unpleasant fact that the fund, which pays out about $21 million every month to 74,000 retirees, may be actuarially unsound. According to Daniel Shannon, who supervised asset management for a short period, long-term commitments to the union's...
His bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard...
In times of recession, nations inevitably turn toward protectionism as a means of shielding jobs from the threat of foreign goods. Even though the West and Japan are now recovering from the deepest economic slump since the 1930s, protectionist tendencies remain powerful. In an effort to defuse those tendencies in...
The Soviet Union? A Latin American dictatorship? Not this time. The unpleasant scenario is being played out on the sandy plains and flat farm land of eastern North Carolina. Nine young black men and a white woman were convicted 41/2 years ago of fire-bombing a grocery store during racial...
It was supposed to be her first routine medical checkup as First Lady, but Rosalynn Carter learned some unpleasant news at Bethesda Naval Hospital: she had a suspicious lump in her breast. With characteristic directness, Rosalynn, 49, wanted an immediate answer as to how serious it was. Captain William Fouty...