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- <title>
- Aug. 03, 1992: Business:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 03, 1992 AIDS: Losing the Battle
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- BUSINESS
- Et Cetera
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- <p>JUDGMENT TO THE MAX
- </p>
- <p> Kevin and Ian Maxwell, sons and business associates of the
- late publishing czar Robert Maxwell, had trouble enough already.
- Kevin was indicted for conspiracy to defraud banks and for
- stealing from the pension funds of his father's employees, while
- Ian was hit for bank fraud. Now a British court has assessed
- Kevin $778 million in damages for his actions as a director of
- the firm that managed the funds. Ian's penalty is pending.
- </p>
- <p>WHAT'S A TYPEWRITER, MOMMY?
- </p>
- <p> They won't do your taxes, and you can't play bridge with
- them. Replaced by personal computers, typewriters are going the
- way of vinyl records. In a move that signaled the end may be near
- for a dying industry, Smith Corona announced it would shut down
- its last U.S. factory, in Cortland, N.Y., costing 875 jobs. The
- factory's operations are moving to Mexico, where they still make
- Volkswagen Beetles.
- </p>
- <p>BACKFIRE
- </p>
- <p> Attempts to defraud the U.S. government in a sale of military
- jet engines to Israel wound up costing General Electric $69
- million. In a Cincinnati federal court, GE's aircraft-engine
- division settled civil and criminal charges of conspiring with
- an Israeli air force general to bill the Pentagon for
- fictitious parts and testing equipment. A GE manager stationed
- in Israel between 1984 and 1989 blew the whistle on his employer
- two years ago.
- </p>
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