The dog days' big dogfight: D.C.'s Hafts' civil wars

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Multi-millionaires Herbert and Gloria Haft are embroiled in a bitter fight over their Dart Group Corp retailing empire. Dart owns Trak Auto, Crown Books and 50% of Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp. The feud started when Mrs Haft and son Robert started urging the senior Haft to retire. After Haft reneged on a promise to retire and threw Mrs Haft and Robert off the Dart board, she filed for separation. The Washington, DC, divorce court judge has decided that Mrs Haft should seek relief in civil court.

Book stores, Auto and home supply stores, Management, Economic aspects, Cases, Inheritance and succession, Divorce, Haft, Herbert H., Haft, Gloria, Dart Group Corp.

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Baby Bell battle in Congress

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House Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks introduced a bill on May 7, 1992, which would make the Baby Bells, the heirs of AT & T, wait 7 years before they could market electronic information services. If it becomes law, which is unlikely in the short 1992 congressional session, this would be a victory for newspaper publishers who are afraid of the possible competition. It is the first important piece of legislation to address the complex issue of dividing the marketing of information services.

Innovations, Marketing, Political activity, Information technology, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Telephone systems

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GAO: court overbuilding a peril; judge's planning faulty

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A 1993 General Accounting Office report has concluded that many federal courthouses are overstaffed and in some areas risk being overbuilt. The report concluded the judiciary's methods of predicting space needs are so flawed taxpayers risk paying more than $1.1 billion for unneeded courthouse space over the next decade. The Administrative Office of the US Courts has defended its methods.

Reports, Design and construction, United States. Government Accountability Office, Courthouses

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