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...bids are involved, as was the case with two former officials of Ashland-Warren, Inc., an Atlanta-based subsidiary of Ashland Oil, Inc., which boasts the dubious distinction of having paid in 1982 the largest antitrust penalties ever assessed a U.S. corporation. The executives were convicted of agreeing to slip $125,000 to a smaller company that had underbid them on a Tennessee highway project. In return, Ashland-Warren was to become a 100% "subcontractor...
...wife, says Psychologist Walker, is "the emotional glue that holds him together." As a consequence, he is desperately afraid of losing her. "All the time I knew she was going to leave me," says William, the Atlanta birthday-party batterer. "She liked to play the song Slip Away, and I knew she was going to do it." Explains Dick Bathrick, a clinical psychologist who with a colleague runs the only program for wife abusers in Georgia: "The husband is trying to make her be closer to him by controlling her physically?and he doesn't realize that he's driving...
Still trying to rebuild its house after the eruption caused by the IBM PC is Osborne Computer (1982 sales: $100 million). Osborne is one of several companies that have seen profits slip or disappear since the introduction of the PC. Concedes Founder and Chairman Adam Osborne: "The rapid emergence of the IBM standard was far more than we anticipated. IBM did it with an awesome speed, which took most people unawares...
...poaching. It's a sport. I know where the fish hides, in the deep pools at the banks underneath the roots. I tickle the salmon. He thinks I'm playing with him, which makes me sad because once I touch him he won't move. I slip the rabbit snare over his tail and jerk him out of the water. But as I get older, I find the fish looking at me, so nice, and then I say, 'Go on, have another chance,' and I throw it back." Derrick Worthington, 49, a former Royal Marine...
...chic department store: "Often in tough economic times, designers lose their sense of whimsy and feel that women prefer to invest in serious clothing. But this season the clothes are perky and upbeat." Perry Ellis is showing a line of cotton and linen boat-neck tops that can easily slip down on one side to uncover a shoulder, as Jennifer Beals' sweatshirt did in the movie Flashdance...