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Even so, some Drexel insiders privately concede that the bonus payouts were excessive. "I certainly wouldn't have paid them," says a current Drexel director. "The bonuses were certainly consistent with the firm's culture and tradition, but if you're asking me an ethical question or a common-sense economic question, the answer is no. But that's the nature of the beast. It's a carry-over of the greed of the 1980s...
...Mozambique -- that remain most closely aligned with the East bloc, Ethiopia's regime has had scant luck with Marxism-Leninism for some time. More than a year ago, Moscow warned officials in the capital, Addis Ababa, that its multimillion-dollar military-assistance package would be significantly cut when the current agreement expires next year. Since then, the last of several thousand Cuban soldiers have departed, more than one-third of the 2,500 Soviet military and development advisers and their dependents have pulled out, and it is rumored that East Germans who ran the government's intelligence network have also...
...communist world threatens an end to the aid and favorable trade arrangements that have kept its lame economy hobbling along. -- Across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, other regimes also confront a money squeeze as Soviet funds dry up. -- With his brazen assertiveness and failure to endorse current borders, West Germany's Chancellor is creating unease over unification...
...greatest hits that sold 100,000 copies in a month, and copped three American Music Awards in January. Last week the Millis strutted their stuff on the Grammys and boogied off with the Best New Artist award. But it's those singles, those best-selling singles. The current entry, All or Nothing, is soaring high too. Unheard...
...reported strategy for Dakota heightened concerns that tobacco companies are trying to indoctrinate children and recruit minors. Half of all current smokers first lighted up by age 15, some 90% before they were 19. Some critics believe the industry is deliberately capitalizing on adolescents' desires to be popular and attractive by attributing those qualities to smoking / in its $2.5 billion annual ad spending. "You certainly don't see ads featuring 65-year-olds," notes Karl Bauman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying...