Lorillard Inc. , the unit of New York-based Loews Corp. that makes Kent cigarettes , stopped using crocidolite in its Micronite cigarette filters in 1956 .
Although preliminary findings were reported more than a year ago , the latest results appear in today 's New England Journal of Medicine , a forum likely to bring new attention to the problem .
Dr. Talcott led a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the medical schools of Harvard University and Boston University .
The total of 18 deaths from malignant mesothelioma , lung cancer and asbestosis was far higher than expected , the researchers said .
Compound yields assume reinvestment of dividends and that the current yield continues for a year .
Nevertheless , said Brenda Malizia Negus , editor of Money Fund Report , yields `` may blip up again before they blip down '' because of recent rises in short-term interest rates .
Typically , money-fund yields beat comparable short-term investments because portfolio managers can vary maturities and go after the highest rates .
The 30-day simple yield fell to an average 8.19 % from 8.22 % ; the 30-day compound yield slid to an average 8.53 % from 8.56 % .
The federal government suspended sales of U.S. savings bonds because Congress has n't lifted the ceiling on government debt .
The government 's borrowing authority dropped at midnight Tuesday to $ 2.80 trillion from $ 2.87 trillion .
He had been a sales and marketing executive with Chrysler for 20 years .
And the city decided to treat its guests more like royalty or rock stars than factory owners .
The idea , of course : to prove to 125 corporate decision makers that the buckle on the Rust Belt is n't so rusty after all , that it 's a good place for a company to expand .
Back downtown , the execs squeezed in a few meetings at the hotel before boarding the buses again .
Preliminary tallies by the Trade and Industry Ministry showed another trade deficit in October , the fifth monthly setback this year , casting a cloud on South Korea 's export-oriented economy .
South Korea 's economic boom , which began in 1986 , stopped this year because of prolonged labor disputes , trade conflicts and sluggish exports .
Imports were at $ 50.38 billion , up 19 % .
Plans that give advertisers discounts for maintaining or increasing ad spending have become permanent fixtures at the news weeklies and underscore the fierce competition between Newsweek , Time Warner Inc. 's Time magazine , and Mortimer B. Zuckerman 's U.S. News & World Report .
However , none of the big three weeklies recorded circulation gains recently .
That got hard to take , '' he added .
The refund was about $ 55 million more than previously ordered by the Illinois Commerce Commission and trade groups said it may be the largest ever required of a state or local utility .
Judge Curry ordered the refunds to begin Feb. 1 and said that he would n't entertain any appeals or other attempts to block his order by Commonwealth Edison .
Commonwealth Edison now faces an additional court-ordered refund on its summer\/winter rate differential collections that the Illinois Appellate Court has estimated at $ 140 million .
The strong growth followed year-to-year increases of 21 % in August and 12 % in September .
Moreover , there have been no orders for the Cray-3 so far , though the company says it is talking with several prospects .
The documents also said that Cray Computer anticipates needing perhaps another $ 120 million in financing beginning next September .
Under terms of the spinoff , Cray Research stockholders are to receive one Cray Computer share for every two Cray Research shares they own in a distribution expected to occur in about two weeks .
No price for the new shares has been set .
John R. Stevens , 49 years old , was named senior executive vice president and chief operating officer , both new positions .
John D. Carney , 45 , was named to succeed Mr. Hatch as president of Eastern Edison .
That measure could compel Taipei 's growing number of small video-viewing parlors to pay movie producers for showing their films .
These three countries are n't completely off the hook , though .
`` What this tells us is that U.S. trade law is working , '' he said .
IBM , the world leader in computers , did n't offer its first PC until August 1981 as many other companies entered the market .
That stake , together with its convertible preferred stock holdings , gives Faulding the right to increase its interest to 70 % of Moleculon 's voting stock .
Esso Australia Ltd. , a unit of New York-based Exxon Corp. , and Broken Hill Pty. operate the fields in a joint venture .
Timex had requested duty-free treatment for many types of watches , covered by 58 different U.S. tariff classifications .
The White House said Mr. Bush decided to grant duty-free status for 18 categories , but turned down such treatment for other types of watches `` because of the potential for material injury to watch producers located in the U.S. and the Virgin Islands . ''
The company said Mr. Stronach will personally direct the restructuring , assisted by Manfred Gingl , president and chief executive .
Lord Chilver , 63-year-old chairman of English China Clays PLC , was named a nonexecutive director of this British chemical company .
Italian chemical giant Montedison S.p.A. , through its Montedison Acquisition N.V. indirect unit , began its $ 37-a-share tender offer for all the common shares outstanding of Erbamont N.V. , a maker of pharmaceuticals incorporated in the Netherlands .
The offer is being launched pursuant to a previously announced agreement between the companies .
The protracted downturn reflects the intensity of Bank of Japan yen-support intervention since June , when the U.S. currency temporarily surged above the 150.00 yen level .
It 's the latest investment craze sweeping Wall Street : a rash of new closed-end country funds , those publicly traded portfolios that invest in stocks of a single foreign country .
No fewer than 24 country funds have been launched or registered with regulators this year , triple the level of all of 1988 , according to Charles E. Simon & Co. , a Washington-based research firm .
The next province ?
`` Anything 's possible -- how about the New Guinea Fund ? ''
The surge brings to nearly 50 the number of country funds that are or soon will be listed in New York or London .
`` People are looking to stake their claims '' now before the number of available nations runs out , says Michael Porter , an analyst at Smith Barney , Harris Upham & Co. , New York .
Country funds offer an easy way to get a taste of foreign stocks without the hard research of seeking out individual companies .
It has been targeted by Japanese investors as a good long-term play tied to 1992 's European economic integration .
If the debts are repaid , it could clear the way for Soviet bonds to be sold in the U.S .
But a Soviet bank here would be crippled unless Moscow found a way to settle the $ 188 million debt , which was lent to the country 's short-lived democratic Kerensky government before the Communists seized power in 1917 .
The purchasing managers , however , also said that orders turned up in October after four months of decline .
Factories booked $ 236.74 billion in orders in September , nearly the same as the $ 236.79 billion in August , the Commerce Department said .
`` What sector is stepping forward to pick up the slack ? ''
The department previously estimated that durable-goods orders fell 0.1 % in September .
The government includes money spent on residential renovation ; Dodge does n't .
For the first time , the October survey polled members on imports .
While acknowledging one month 's figures do n't prove a trend , Mr. Bretz said , `` It does lead you to suspect imports are going down , or at least not increasing that much . ''
They blamed increased demand for dairy products at a time of exceptionally high U.S. exports of dry milk , coupled with very low import quotas .
Judging from the Americana in Haruki Murakami 's `` A Wild Sheep Chase '' ( Kodansha , 320 pages , $ 18.95 ) , baby boomers on both sides of the Pacific have a lot in common .
They worry about their careers , drink too much and suffer through broken marriages and desultory affairs .
If `` A Wild Sheep Chase '' carries an implicit message for international relations , it 's that the Japanese are more like us than most of us think .
That 's not to say that the nutty plot of `` A Wild Sheep Chase '' is rooted in reality .
It 's imaginative and often funny .
Along the way , he meets a solicitous Christian chauffeur who offers the hero God 's phone number ; and the Sheep Man , a sweet , roughhewn figure who wears -- what else -- a sheepskin .
But he is just one of several youthful writers -- Tokyo 's brat pack -- who are dominating the best-seller charts in Japan .
Their books are written in idiomatic , contemporary language and usually carry hefty dashes of Americana .
In Robert Whiting 's `` You Gotta Have Wa '' ( Macmillan , 339 pages , $ 17.95 ) , the Beatles give way to baseball , in the Nipponese version we would be hard put to call a `` game . ''
Despite the enormous sums of money they 're paid to stand up at a Japanese plate , a good number decide it 's not worth it and run for home .
The meeting , which is expected to draw 20,000 to Bangkok , was going to be held at the Central Plaza Hotel , but the government balked at the hotel 's conditions for undertaking necessary expansion .
In a victory for environmentalists , Hungary 's parliament terminated a multibillion-dollar River Danube dam being built by Austrian firms .
The Czech dam ca n't be operated solely at peak periods without the Nagymaros project .
The Toronto-based real estate concern said each bond warrant entitles the holder to buy C$ 1,000 principal amount of debentures at par plus accrued interest to the date of purchase .
In 1976 , as a film student at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York , Mr. Lane shot `` A Place in Time , '' a 36-minute black-and-white film about a sketch artist , a man of the streets .
The Artist hangs out in Greenwich Village , on a strip of Sixth Avenue populated by jugglers , magicians and other good-natured hustlers .
This cute child turns out to be a blessing and a curse .
He has a point he wants to make , and he makes it , with a great deal of force .
The movie ends with sound , the sound of street people talking , and there is n't anything whimsical or enviable in those rough , beaten voices .
Video Tip : Before seeing `` Sidewalk Stories , '' take a look at `` City Lights , '' Chaplin 's Tramp at his finest .
`` David Dinkins , '' says the kicker , `` Why does he always wait until he 's caught ? ''
`` Nasty innuendoes , '' says John Siegal , Mr. Dinkins 's issues director , `` designed to prosecute a case of political corruption that simply does n't exist . ''
The other has opposed a woman 's right to choose . ''
Against a shot of Monticello superimposed on an American flag , an announcer talks about the `` strong tradition of freedom and individual liberty '' that Virginians have nurtured for generations .
The legislation itself noted that it was introduced `` by request , '' and in 1983 Mr. Wilder introduced a bill to protect rape victims from unfounded interrogation .
Mr. Coleman said this week that he would devote the remainder of the political season to positive campaigning , but the truce lasted only hours .
By Tuesday night , television stations were carrying new ads featuring Mr. Coleman himself raising questions about Mr. Wilder 's sensitivity to rape victims .
`` Remember Pinocchio ? ''
But it resists yielding political ground .
In the past decade , Japanese manufacturers concentrated on domestic production for export .
Japanese money will help turn Southeast Asia into a more cohesive economic region .
Countries in the region also are beginning to consider a framework for closer economic and political ties .
Moreover , the Japanese government , now the world 's largest aid donor , is pumping far more assistance into the region than the U.S. is .
`` There 's an understanding on the part of the U.S. that Japan has to expand its functions '' in Asia , says J. Michael Farren , undersecretary of commerce for trade .
The issue is further complicated by uncertainty over the future of the U.S. 's leases on military bases in the Philippines and by a possible U.S. troop reduction in South Korea .
The teacher in question was Nancy Yeargin -- considered by many students and parents to be one of the best at the school .
Mrs. Yeargin was fired and prosecuted under an unusual South Carolina law that makes it a crime to breach test security .
By using them , teachers -- with administrative blessing -- telegraph to students beforehand the precise areas on which a test will concentrate , and sometimes give away a few exact questions and answers .
Critics say South Carolina is paying a price by stressing improved test scores so much .
