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...shell-shocked investors are wary of buying new issues. Of nearly $300 million in bonds that were scheduled to be sold this month, virtually every offering has been canceled or postponed. Without the ability to tap the junk market, would-be raiders will no longer be able to take aim at substantial targets...
Along with Yolanda King, Martin Luther King Jr's oldest daughter, Shabazz now spends much of her time working with a theater group whose aim is to teach minority children about their heritage...
Proponents of English legislation decried last week's decision. Said Yale Newman of the lobbying group called U.S. English: "These laws only aim to preserve English as a common language, to serve as a bridge across the language barriers that are present in our country...
NOTE is a noble endeavor. The concept is excellent, and the group's members have the energy and creativity to make it work. Their goals are as large as the subject matter they aim to address. They assume then a heavy burden which is made heavier when they feel obliged to buck dramatic conventions and traditional media. In its extremity of experimentation, the production fails at times to bridge the distance between the audience and the drama, though it does raise awareness and stimulate some campus discussion about AIDS...
Asked yesterday about the decision to bring lesser charges against those arrested in the men's room, Harvard police Chief Paul E. Johnson said, "We're not taking a position that anything worse should have happened. Our only objective and aim is to stop certain inappropriate behavior...