
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 12, 1990                   TAG: 9005140197
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT...

THE WAGES of leveraged buyouts can be unmanageable debt. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts spent a record $25 billion last year in buying RJR Nabisco. The company's operating performance has improved, but interest payments of $830 million caused a $222 million first-quarter loss. That's a lot of shredded wheat.

A MATHEMATICAL error caused the Hubble Space Telescope to point in the wrong direction and delayed for a week its first snapshots of the heavens. Gee, we hope somebody took the cap off the lens.

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