Major trash-hauling firms have engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to wipe out competition and set artificially high prices for commercial trash disposal business in Los Angeles County, Dist.
Former anchorman Walter Cronkite, saying that last week's cuts of more than 200 jobs and $30 million from CBS News had caused "a big morale problem," nonetheless said Wednesday he would have resigned from CBS had he thought the situation hopeless.
Despite rising sales, Bergen Brunswig Corp. said its fiscal 1987 second-quarter profits dropped about 31% to $4.4 million from year-earlier profits of $6.4 million, largely because of sluggish demand for its lines of consumer electronic and home video products.
White House Chief of Staff Howard H.
India said today that it has decided to review its nuclear policy, hitherto restricted to peaceful uses, because of what it called an emerging nuclear threat from Pakistan.
Bellflower Unified School District plans to tackle its $5-million equipment and maintenance problem by borrowing $780,000 this fall under a business venture with seven other school districts and three community colleges.
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One of the many cynical jokes about Amin Gemayel that are making the rounds of Christian households here has the beleaguered president of Lebanon being confronted in his office by his son, demanding that he sign a school report card.
A special envoy sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to negotiate the release of American hostages held by Shia Muslim extremists said today that he saw a "real opportunity for a breakthrough."
Members of the Downtown Fullerton Assn. painted a dark picture for the future of their group, which has sought to revitalize retail activity in the downtown area.
Friction between Senate Republicans and the White House intensified Friday as Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) described budget concessions embraced by President Reagan as "surrendering to the deficit" and questioned whether the GOP-controlled Senate will accept them.
Imagine Botticelli's and Veronese's nude Venuses rolled into one and transformed into a voluptuous African fertility goddess.
The signals are becoming louder that Japan is about to make an onslaught into another major U.S. market--the housing industry.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone gave President Reagan a tiny Japanese television set on Sunday and then pledged to pump up consumer demand in his own country and slash its $52-billion trade surplus with the United States, according to a senior Administration official.
A coalition of local feminists asked Friday that the proposed Los Angeles County anti-pornography ordinance be scrapped because it violates the right of free speech and could be twisted into banning feminist and sex education books.
Kaiser Cement reported third-quarter net earnings of $7.4 million, compared to a net loss of $49.1 million for the same period last year.
President Reagan, sidestepping judgment on reports of widespread fraud in the Philippine election, said today that the voting is "evidence of a strong two-party system" and voiced hope that the two sides "can come together to make sure the government works."
Portrayed as right-wing "bully boys" intent on sabotaging the rule of law, opponents of the California Supreme Court on Monday made a bid for intellectual respectability with the release of a scholarly critique of the court by a Berkeley law professor who once worked for the late U.S.
Chairman James Montgomery said Great Western Financial will generate about $6.5 billion in real estate loans this year because of high fourth-quarter volume.
U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield predicted Friday that 1986 will be a difficult year in U.S.