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...another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when an Australian wanted to know how much yogurt Americans consume. Answer: an average of 4.6 lbs. per person in 1987, a nearly sixfold increase since...
Once extremely private, Milken has sought to improve his public image by appearing at charitable functions and bidding reporters to "call me Mike." Last year Milken and his wife donated $198.1 million to the family's three charitable foundations, more than a sixfold increase from the previous year. Less than $15 million of these funds was actually disbursed, going to some 200 organizations. The remainder was invested by the foundations. That is perfectly legal, but the California attorney general's office began this month to investigate the Milken foundations' activities for possible irregularities...
...real estate portfolio in Dallas and other oil towns. The lending and real estate business foundered along with OPEC: energy-related loans now account for more than half of Mellon's $1.45 billion in write-offs and nonperforming assets. Mellon also has $178 million in repossessed properties, a sixfold increase from what it owned in late 1984. Bad loans to Mexico and Brazil further crimped the bank's strained resources. To make matters worse, Barnes soured relations in 1984 with a longtime local client, Gulf, by deciding to lend $150 million to Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens, who had previously...
...planning their vacations around Expo 86, the world's fair in Vancouver, B.C., will head down to the Pacific Northwest and California coasts. As a result, Seattle expects record crowds this summer. The city's Gray Line Tours reports that bookings on some of its trips are already up sixfold...
...pare down the size of the Federal Government, but many of his former top aides have quit to profit off Big Government as influence peddlers. None has been more successful more swiftly than Reagan's former deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver, who may multiply his White House income sixfold in his first year out of government by offering the nebulous blend of access, influence and advice that has become so valued in Washington (see box). Other Reaganauts now prowling Gucci Gulch include ex-Congressional Liaison Kenneth Duberstein and two former White House political directors, Lyn Nofziger and Ed Rollins...