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MD	Could he plausibly interpret it as encouragement for the Fed to give primary emphasis to stabilizing the price level ?
MD	Should they be required to pay claims based on exorbitant costs for labor and materials ?
MD	Will Ogonyok begin a series of reports analyzing the failures of perestroika ?
MD	Will he try to gain a seat on or control of the board and force a radical split of USX into separate oil and steel companies ?
MD	Would n't the Japanese like a piece of it ?
VB	CALL IT un-advertising .
VB	Consider the fact that a mere 2 % drop in ozone would increase birth defects and mutations by allowing solar radiation to alter the DNA structure .
VB	Consider the facts underlying the 1989 conviction of Robert Chestman .
VB	Consider this :
VB	Enter Mr. Guzman Cabrera , who has a clear understanding of where union leaders fit in the pro-enterprise regime of President Salinas .
VB	Let the president demand strict new ethics rules : With four sitting House members accused of sexual misdeeds , amid the unfolding HUD scandal and after the Wright debacle , `` people are slightly dulled by scandal , '' says political humorist Art Buchwald .
VB	Look at what happened to UAL 's chairman , Stephen M. Wolf , and its chief financial officer , John C. Pope .
VB	SELL ` WHISPER ' STOCKS .
VB	Take Cleveland .
VB	Take Microsoft Corp. , the largest maker of personal computer software and generally considered an industry bellwether .
VB	Tell that to Atlanta , which Pittsburgh replaced as the most-livable city in 1985 .
VB	Were it true that a weak currency paves the way for trade surpluses , then presumably Argentina would be the center of today 's global economy .
VBD	Added another executive at a big bank : `` We were all a little goosey over the weekend trying to forecast what would happen -LCB- Monday -RCB- , but it 's been very quiet .
VBD	Died : S. Clark Beise , 91 , ex-president and chief executive officer of Bank of America NT&SA , Saturday , in Hillsboro , Calif .
VBG	According to Ned Davis , president of Ned Davis Research Inc. in Nokomis , Fla. , the average drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was about 21 % , and the decrease began an average of six months before a recession officially started .
VBG	According to Securities and Exchange Commission rules , McCaw is required to keep its offer for the cellular-phone and broadcasting concern open for at least five business days after the announcement of the financing , LIN said .
VBG	According to individuals familiar with the situation , the Frankfurt loss stemmed from a computer program for calculating prices on forward-rate agreements that failed to envision an interest-rate environment where short-term rates were equal to or higher than long-term rates .
VBG	According to my calculations , these outlays should have brought the value of my sedan to more than $ 22,000 on the open market -LRB- Figure 6 -RRB- , where I plan to offer it shortly .
VBG	According to one analyst , Bernard Savaiko of PaineWebber , New York , the stock market 's ability on Monday to rally from last Friday 's decline -- which seemed to indicate that the economy was n't going to fall either -- took the starch out of precious metals prices , and out of gold 's , in particular .
VBG	According to one analyst , workers at the Cananea copper mine in Mexico , which has n't been operating since it was declared bankrupt by the Mexican government in late August , are set to return to work .
VBG	According to some analysts familiar with the negotiations , the 10 % of equity would come directly from Donaldson Lufkin and a fund affiliated with the investment bank Blackstone Group , which would reduce their CNW equity holdings by 5 % each .
VBG	Advancing OTC stocks outpaced decliners by 1,120 to 806 .
VBG	Bashing the D.C. government is risk-free for members of Congress , who do not have to answer to their own constituents for it .
VBG	Buying was scattered across a wide range of issues , making the session fairly characterless , traders said .
VBG	Citing a $ 3.1 million provision for doubtful accounts , Dallas-based National Heritage Inc. posted a loss for its fourth quarter ended June 30 .
VBG	Declining issues on the Big Board were far ahead of gainers , 1,108 to 416 .
VBG	Depending upon how many warrants and options are exercised prior to completion of the transaction , Heritage would issue between 1.8 million and 2.35 million preferred shares , a Heritage spokesman estimated .
VBG	Echoing the response of almost all big corporations in the Bay Area , Don Waite , Seagate 's chief financial officer , said , `` I would n't expect this to have any significant financial impact . ''
VBG	Feeling they should devote more time to their families or their jobs , many yuppies are skipping their once-sacred workout .
VBG	Fending off attacks on his economic policies in a House of Commons debate yesterday , Mr. Lawson said inflation `` remains the greatest threat to our economic well-being '' and promised to take `` whatever steps are needed '' to choke it off .
VBG	Following Mr. Linh 's appointment as secretary-general of the party at the sixth congress , Mrs. Thi has become the darling of `` doi moi '' , the Vietnamese version of perestroika .
VBG	Following is a weekly listing of unadited net asset values of publicly traded investment fund shares , reported by the companies as of Friday 's close .
VBG	Following the release of the company 's fourth-quarter earnings , Apple Computer dropped 3\/4 to 48 on volume of more than 2.3 million shares .
VBG	Having only a Republican measure makes the task harder .
VBG	Including those , he contends , who put about $ 1 million into the kitty for the Connecticut Association of Concerned Veterans and the Vietnam Veterans Service Center .
VBG	Leading the gains for Du Pont in the latest quarter was its industrial products segment , where profit soared to $ 155 million from $ 99 million a year earlier .
VBG	Looking ahead to 1990 , Mr. Sculley predicted `` another year of significant revenue growth , '' along with improved profitability , as the recovery in gross margins continues into 1990 .
VBG	Looking ahead to commodity markets this week :
VBG	Mourning for the father is overshadowed by the shame of burying him in a pauper 's grave .
VBG	Offering the wine at roughly $ 65 a bottle wholesale -LRB- $ 100 retail -RRB- , he sent merchants around the country a form asking them to check one of three answers : 1 -RRB- no , the wine is too high -LRB- 2 responses -RRB- ; 2 -RRB- yes , it 's high but I 'll take it -LRB- 2 responses -RRB- ; 3 -RRB- I 'll take all I can get -LRB- 58 responses -RRB- .
VBG	Operating profit , pretax profit and net income results , however , were provided for the immediately preceding six-month period .
VBG	PORTING POTABLES just got easier , or so claims Scypher Corp. , the maker of the Cup-Tote .
VBG	Probing more deeply into the doctrine of `` judicial restraint , '' he would have found a long history going back to the great decisions of Justice Holmes .
VBG	Punching away , we raised what I still think were all the right issues and landed more than one hard blow , but at the end of the affair , there was just the tiniest nagging worry that we had been aiming at the wrong target .
VBG	Reducing those rates moderately -LRB- say , to 75 % -RRB- would still provide substantial assistance to borrowers .
VBG	Responding to such questions is `` defensive , '' says Kenneth Olissa , Wang 's vice president , marketing .
VBG	Rising office vacancy rates in Fairfield County , Conn. , have builders and bankers scrambling to restructure loans .
VBG	Rising operating expenses are another problem .
VBG	Running the nation 's largest and most ornery city may be no treat , but at least Mr. Dinkins knows what to expect from it .
VBG	Seeking a middle path between opponents of change and radicals who demand overnight solutions , the article advocates what it calls a `` radical-moderate approach . ''
VBG	Shaving away some of the gain in that unit was a decline in U.S. oil production to 502,000 barrels of oil a day during the quarter from 527,000 barrels a day last year .
VBG	Sitting beside a banker at a luncheon in London , where he was working as a financial consultant , he learned that a large packet of Bally 's shares was up for sale .
VBG	Smiling broadly when he talks about Mr. Carpenter , Mr. Cathcart says the new Kidder chief is `` going to be recognized shortly as one of the real leaders in the investment-banking business . ''
VBG	Stabilizing the derivative markets would tend to stabilize the primary market .
VBG	Subscribing schools get the 12-minute daily Channel One news program , whose four 30-second TV ads during each show have drawn protests from educators .
VBG	Succeeding Mr. Whittington as deputy chairman of the group is Anthony Richmond-Watson , 43 , currently a main board member .
VBG	TREATING EMPLOYEES with respect is crucial for managers , says consultant Hay Group after surveys of a million workers .
VBG	Towering overcapacity in the synthetic fiber business , which accounted for half of the Dutch chemical company 's sales , led to huge losses and left Akzo 's survival in doubt .
VBG	Underscoring the size of the deficits of the past few years , the Treasury report showed that for the first time interest paid on the public debt -- $ 240.86 billion -- exceeded spending on Social Security , the single largest government program .
VBG	Using Gnu-Emacs , the spy could substitute a bogus `` atrun '' program for the one that routinely cleans up the Unix system every five minutes .
VBG	Writing in the 1960s Ms. Carson suggested that the human race could be eliminated in 20 years , and Mr. Wald suggested that life on earth might end by 1985 .
VBN	Accrued interest on the refund was about $ 18 million as of Oct. 25 .
VBN	Aided by a sharp gain in its travel business , American Express said net rose to $ 331.8 million , or 77 cents a share , from $ 273.9 million , or 64 cents a share .
VBN	Aimed at commercial photographers , the film can be used in very low light without sacrificing quality , says Donald Franz of Photofinishing Newsletter .
VBN	Automated teller machine operations also were up and operating yesterday , a bank spokesman said .
VBN	Based on his control of about 45 % of Winnebago 's 24.7 million shares , his annual dividend income would be cut to about $ 2.2 million from $ 4.4 million .
VBN	Blocked by patent protection from following suit , Dictaphone decided to go a step further and cut the cassette in half again -- down to the length of a paperclip .
VBN	Called Otto 's Original Oat Bran Beer , the brew costs about $ 12.75 a case .
VBN	Clad in his trademark black velvet suit , the soft-spoken clarinetist announced that his new album , `` Inner Voices , '' had just been released , that his family was in the front row , and that it was his mother 's birthday , so he was going to play her favorite tune from the record .
VBN	Compelled service is unconstitutional .
VBN	Continued export demand also supported prices .
VBN	Died : Alfred Hayes , 79 , former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , Saturday , in New Canaan , Conn .
VBN	Dubbed the `` Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance , '' the measure is vintage Whitten in asserting federal responsibility and in disdaining budget impediments .
VBN	Estimated and actual results involving losses are omitted .
VBN	Faced with a $ 40 billion foreign debt and skyrocketing inflation , Poland must privatize industry and eliminate subsidies to stabilize its currency and qualify for international assistance .
VBN	Given current headlines about the University of Florida , it may not be the last .
VBN	Given the structure of most credit programs , it is surprising that default rates are not even higher .
VBN	Guaranteed minimum 6 % .
VBN	Headed toward a record drop at midday , the London stock market recouped two-thirds of its losses in the wake of New York 's early rally .
VBN	Included in the sale are Cluett units that make men 's shirts under the Arrow name , socks under the Gold Toe name and menswear through the Schoeneman division .
VBN	Included was the charge that Sindona siphoned $ 45 million of Franklin funds for his other ventures .
VBN	Rated single-A-1 by Moody 's Investors Service Inc. and single-A by Standard & Poor 's Corp. , the non-callable issue will be sold through underwriters led by Merrill Lynch Capital Markets .
VBN	Rekindled hope that two New England states will allow broader interstate banking boosted Nasdaq 's bank stocks , but the over-the-counter market was up only slightly in lackluster trading .
VBN	Renewed efforts to fight drugs and crime will be costly .
VBN	SciMed said it `` remains committed '' both to the `` vigorous defense '' of its position that the catheter does n't infringe the Lilly unit 's patent , and to the pursuit of its own counterclaims , which allege Lilly engaged in antitrust violations and other wrongful acts .
VBN	Synchronized circuit breakers would not have halted the slide in prices on Friday , but they probably would have made for smoother , less volatile executions .
VBN	Taken together , the worries prompted a broad sell-off of stocks .
VBN	Taped just as the market closed yesterday , it offers Ms. Farrell advising , `` We view the market here as going through a relatively normal cycle ... .
VBN	Valued at $ 1.3 million , it was part of a four-crate shipment .
VBN	Written by Barbara Benedek , co-author of `` The Big Chill , '' `` Immediate Family '' takes the position that only rich people living in nice houses should have children .
VBZ	Adds Stacy Kotman , an economist at Georgia State University , `` There 's nothing positive about an earthquake , but it will probably generate more construction activity . ''
VBZ	Says Mr. Baldwin , `` We recognize that we may no longer have as high a priority in church life and experience . ''
VBZ	Says Todd Richter , an analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds : `` The shakeout in the publicly traded companies is over .
VBZ	Says a spokeswoman for the Brussels Bourse : `` Nobody around here will tell you they are happy the system did n't work .
VBZ	Says one city official : `` Everybody else had brought in the wagons and made their deal .