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...fund the pensions of its 70,000 retired steelworkers. The firm has been mired in bankruptcy proceedings since 1986, primarily because of those obligations. In Los Angeles, First Capital Holdings, an insurance holding company whose failing California operating division was seized two weeks ago by insurance officials, sought Chapter 11 protection, sending chills up the backs of 62,000 annuity holders in 49 states. Amid a flurry of lawsuits and anguished questions across the U.S., a House subcommittee has begun to look at how the failure of insurance companies endangers pensions...
...will this chapter read in the history books? Probably as a tale of brilliance, bickering and blunders. Montagnier apparently isolated the virus first, but there is no reason to believe that Gallo purposely stole it. For his part, Gallo first used the virus to develop an AIDS blood test. In this case, success had two fathers, and both can lay a legitimate claim to that coveted Nobel...
Thus begins the latest chapter in the tangled history of GAF. Seized by the U.S. government in 1942 for its links to Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben, infamous inventor of the poison gas used in Hitler's concentration camps, the company was owned by the feds for the next two decades. During the early 1980s, GAF fought a bitter two-year battle in boardrooms, courtrooms and newspaper ads against Heyman's ultimately victorious takeover effort. Since then, in the words of one analyst, "Heyman made a lot of money, and he made a lot of people a lot of money...
...journeying, not burrowing in, is Raban's job. He returns to it just in time, with a roguish last chapter set offshore in the Florida Keys. He has rented a sailboat, and the wind is up, and banks of low nimbus clouds are swarming in from the northwest. Out of sight, the Key West highway is clogged with tourists, but that's their problem. Raban's narrative scuds toward the open sea, and the beguiled reader, as always at such moments, makes plans: sell the house, buy a boat. A case of salsa and a gallon of rum. How hard...
...said the chapter is planning community service activities, charity events and possibly a tutoring program. For the present, the chapter has elected interim officers to work over the summer, mainly on the fall rush and on the chapter's relations with the fraternity's alumni board...