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- THE WEEK, Page 25BUSINESSEt Cetera
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- JUDGMENT TO THE MAX
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- 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.
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- WHAT'S A TYPEWRITER, MOMMY?
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- 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.
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- BACKFIRE
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- 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.
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