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...insisted that Lazard be shut out. Intra officials put pressure on the two lead banks in the deal, Credit Lyonnais and Banque Nationale de Paris, both of which are government owned. Lazard was also excluded from a $25 million issue for another client, the state-owned utility, Compagnie Nationale du Rhone...
...merely prescribed corrective shoes to help relieve the condition. But new methods of detection and treatment have now greatly improved the prospects of scoliosis victims. A major advance has been the development of mass-testing procedures for use in the schools. Delaware, through a program involving the Alfred I. du Pont Institute and the state board of health, routinely checks schoolchildren with a simple test: the youngsters are asked to bend at the waist and touch their knees with their fingertips; a curvature will usually produce a visible fullness on one side of the rib cage or the other...
...around a bonfire, then retired to a large black tent as a chilly drizzle began. Inside, they sat cross-legged on carpets and feasted on whole roast lamb, spiced rice and Arab delicacies. En route back to the U.S., the group conferred with President Boumedienne in Algiers' Palais du Peuple on development policies for the Third World, then flew over the Atlas Mountains to Rabat, where they talked with Moroccan government officials about their country's economy...
...Good news," began the letter postmarked Bath, Ohio. "Did you know your family has an exclusive, particularly beautiful coat of arms?" Such news would not be much of a revelation to the Du Fonts, Lowells, Saltonstalls or other aristocratic U.S. families. But the Difatta family of Chicago was surprised to hear the news. So, too, was J.D. Johnson of Oxon Hill, Md., who puts an "R.Ph." (for "registered pharmacist") after his signature. His letter read: "Good news for the R-PH family...
...Amex is currently handling options trading in the shares of 13 companies, among them Du Pont, Union Carbide and U.S. Steel; it plans to increase its list to 20 stocks before long. Early investor interest was high, and Amex officials hope to do at least as well with options as the Chicago Board Options Exchange. C.B.O.E. members now collect commissions on an average daily volume of 40,000 option sales. Partly as a result, the price of seats on the C.B.O.E. has jumped from $10,000 to $40,000 in just 21 months...