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...original $1 million offer had prompted three weeks of campus protests. Many students and faculty members denounced the deal as a cop-out for the university and a windfall for Berendzen. Last week's compromise got a better reception. Said Diane Jackson of the Undergraduate Student Confederation: "This is a compassionate solution that will allow Dr. Berendzen and the A.U. community the time they need to heal." Still, many faculty members are hoping that by the spring of 1992, Berendzen will choose to go elsewhere...
Webster's description of an Iraq under severe economic pressure is a depiction much bleaker than that put forward by the White House. In recent weeks the Bush Administration has been closing ranks to offer a suddenly more downbeat assessment of whether sanctions can work. In late October, George Bush was still expressing the hope that the embargo could force Saddam to retreat. But last week, a few days after the United Nations Security Council approved the use of military force in the gulf, he declared, "I've not been one who has been convinced that sanctions alone would bring...
...news for Iraqi industry, which is heavily dependent on parts and equipment from abroad. At the same time, the embargo on Iraqi exports, especially oil, has cost Saddam $1.5 billion a month since he invaded Kuwait in August, leaving his nation without the foreign exchange it must have to offer as payment for smuggled goods. For now, Iraqi factories can dip into preinvasion stockpiles or obtain parts plundered from Kuwaiti factories. But by next spring or summer, Webster predicted, "only energy-related and some military industries will still be functioning...
Though many expected the company to throw in the towel, AT&T stunned Wall Street last week by proposing the biggest acquisition in the brief history of the computer industry, offering to buy Dayton-based computer maker NCR for $6 billion. When NCR rejected the initial, friendly offer, its suitor shocked the business world once more by launching a hostile takeover attempt. In a face- to-face showdown with AT&T's board members in New York City, NCR management vowed to resist. But industry analysts generally believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening...
...offer goods at 20% to 60% off the usual retail price, a requirement that is specified in the stores' leases and that distinguishes such discount centers from ordinary malls. Try on a $218 Ann Taylor dress, slashed to $69.90. Reebok Sole Trainers that normally retail for $85, at $55. Anne Klein II perfume at $17.95 instead of the usual $32. More than 1.5 million shoppers , have done so since Sawgrass opened its doors in October. "Everybody is looking for bargains these days," says William Cohen, 36, waving a pair of jeans selling at $30 -- half-price -- at the jammed Guess...