Finally, the divulges researchers studied interprets the hospital birth records of 3,683 of the veterans' children. "I understand that part of the reason for the larger write-downs (is that) some of the write-downs will go right to the bottom line without tax write-offs" Hennessy linked about $300 million of the charge to write-downs generated by Allied-Signal's decision to sell several units. The last time there was a sharper quarterly drop was the fourth quarter of 1981, when productivity fell at a 5. 3% annual pace. In the United States, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday remain the only days of the Catholic Church calendar on which strict fasting and abstinence from meat must still be observed; however, all Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence.
"They want everything" George Weisfuss said, gazing up at a platoon of GI Joes marching across a shelf at the supermarket-sized Toys R Us store in Woodland Hills . Furthermore, at a time when its operations were falling short of goals, CompuSave was hit by what it claimed was a smear campaign aimed at damaging its business and depressing the value of its stock. . Unfortunately, it's easier to create an image than it is to change one . "I've seen those Chase numbers, and they are very hard to support" said Michael Sumichrast, chief economist for the National Assn of Home Builders .
Wal-Mart has struck special bargains with manufacturers on some products and is passing the savings along to customers at its 845 discount department stores in the South, Southwest and Midwest . Most of the Times' panel also agrees that inflation will continue to be subdued in 1986, the result, in part, of falling oil prices and moderation in wage increases . He joined the company in 1983 after 12 years with Hilton Hotels in Asia, Hawaii and Los Angeles . Even the head of the Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce, which strongly opposed the growth-control measure in Thousand Oaks, said there is no evidence that the measure has harmed the city's economic development . The second-largest enrollment gains were in the area that includes South-Central Los Angeles and the airport. If the United States is going to push ahead with negotiations on the nuclear front in Geneva, they argued, then Europe must see some headway in Vienna on conventional forces There is a demographic problem related to all this. Seaway officials had hoped to open the lock before midnight Wednesday, but they said last-minute repairs would delay the scheduled reopening by a few hours.
laid off 600 employees at its Memorex manufacturing plant in Westlake Village in January, 1985 An incorrect date was published in Thursday's edition . Beyond this he envisages a multiracial confederation of states with internal autonomy, but with the center of power remaining in Pretoria . Maricela Felix wants desperately to forget the afternoon more than a year and a half ago when James Oliver Huberty turned a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro into a bullet-torn graveyard But she can't . So it was not without guilt that I studied the marketplace for a gas barbecue grill that I considered beautiful I'm still looking .
The definitive agreement calls for Trio-Tech International, a Burbank manufacturer of semiconductor testing equipment, to pay $14 million in cash for MQS Inspection, a Chicago-based industrial- testing concern with 20 laboratories nationwide Trio-Tech said MQS' sales exceeded $19 million last year . "He's just learning how to use his computerized wheelchair" "He just graduated from the USC Dental School" Hale added . First a caveat: one special election may not be reflective of how the new law will work, especially since Alatorre was the equivalent of an incumbent in the sense that he dominated the fund raising and the election . In the secondary market for Treasury securities, prices of short-term governments rose 1/16 point to 3/32 point and intermediate maturities rose from 1/8 point to 7/32 point but long-term issues slipped 1/16 point, according to the investment firm of Salomon Bros .
"I hope I can see the day when I'm that old and still as bright as she is" Dravecky said . Bankers Trust, the New York-based parent of Bankers Trust, the nation's eighth-largest bank, attributed the third-quarter performance to increases in fees, commissions and trust and custodian income, a lower provision for loan losses and a $13. 3-million gain due to changes in New York city and state tax laws . "If by contract, the county does require the nonprofit corporation to employ Edgemoor's current staff, it could cast doubt on the independent contractor status" said a report on the proposal . Jacobsen of Huntington Beach, a hospital administrator kidnaped eight months ago, said the 90-minute private conversation with Georges Sian and Michele Bitar yielded no new information . He received a zero increase before the Gramm-Rudman legislation, and he won't get any more now that the automatic cutbacks are in place.
So far, Thatcher has remained aloof from the fight between her two ministers, insisting that the government's role is not to make the decision but merely to ensure that Westland's shareholders are free to make the best choice. . His . 22-caliber, bolt-action rifle can pluck off a coyote at 500 yards-or as close as 10 feet . Likewise, Adobe Systems, the Mountain View publisher of software for desktop publishing . Some workers who watched the rally suggested that it was organized in part to aid Gonzales' reelection effort .
Fish swimming into the nets are trapped by their gills-thus the name . The child died of internal bleeding from blows to the abdomen, Deputy Dist Atty Lloyd M Nash said . Torres (D) x Interstate Handgun Sales An amendment to continue the existing federal ban on the interstate sale of handguns was adopted by the House on a vote of 233 to 184 . Shipments of manufactured goods rose 1. 6% to $200. 4 billion in November, the third increase in four months and the largest gain since a 1. 6% advance in December, 1984. . Insiders said Roberti was irked that Brown planned to upstage the governor's State of the State address Thursday with his own Democratic state of the state assessment without the benefit of Roberti's input. I have heard both these positions argued vehemently in recent days No doubt, each approach offers some satisfaction. Attorney Laurie Levenson said Lee faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $10,000 fine when sentenced April 14 by U. S District Judge Alicemarie Stotler.
I'm simply telling you that three-quarters of my applicants are offering to do so' Tenants Do the Fixing Up "As long as I don't make it a condition, they can unilaterally offer to put in new carpets and drapes, and paint the apartment" Tumlin said owners aren't doing much fixing up because they don't have to . The grounds used in the insurance industry's suit, filed late Thursday, are that the initiative being circulated for the trial lawyers by the Insurance Consumer Action Network violates a provision of the state Constitution against dealing with more than a single subject in an initiative . However, it turns out that a proposal was made only to a Spanos Construction Co . Some groups, like Italy's Red Brigades, have been virtually destroyed . Nor should it be thought to detract from our magnanimity that this immense shift is not purposeful but rather the result of a myopic, greed-crippled incapacity to adapt to the changes of the post-postwar world. In the overall tally on the Big Board, advances outnumbered declines by nearly three to two The exchange's composite index added 0. 50 to 120. 62.
Switzer, who was not a party to the negotiated guilty pleas, is scheduled for arraignment in the case Feb 6 . First, Congress and the President could agree on sharp reductions in federal spending-such as Gramm-Rudman requires . Even an increase to offset inflation would need voter approval . 5 election, 1,732 voters favored a city fireworks ban while 1,432 opposed one . "I am particularly pleased to report that we will acquire a promising new block as part of our successful negotiations" he said. That money will be used to develop an equestrian center in the hills south of Simi Valley, Johnson said.
