From: R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge - Marketing 508-620-2800 x4666)
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Subject: RECENT NEWS
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:14:20 GMT
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PRM - DOW JONES NEWS (DJ)                                     STORY 1

09/04 IPO Scorecard: Update On Selected Initial Stock Offers

 Company          (Symbol) Offer   Current Percent  Date
                            Price   Price   Change   Priced
  R2 Medical       (RMED)    4.75    5.75   up 21.1  9/1
  Swing-N-Slide    (SNSC)   11      10.5    dn  5    8/27
  Sunbeam-Oster    (SOC)    12.5    12.625  up  1    8/18
  Discount Auto    (DAP)    18      23.25   up 29.2  8/18
  Computervision   (CVN)    12      10.375  dn 13.5  8/14
  Amer Residential (AMRS)   13      13.25   up  1.9  8/13
  Tops Appliance   (TOPS)   14      12  dn 14.3  8/10
  Banyan Systems   (BNYN)   10.5    14.25   up 35.7  8/7
  Omega Healthcare (OHI)    21      20.125  dn  4.2  8/6
  Tadiran Ltd.     (TAD)    14.5    15.625  up  7.8  8/5
  Creative Tech    (CREAF)  12      13.5    up 12.5  8/3
  Fleet Mortgage   (FLG)    23      21.25   dn  7.6  7/31
  Enron Liquids    (ENP)    23      26.375  up 14.7  7/29
  Ampex Inc.       (AMPX)    6       7.25   up 20.8  7/16

PRM -    BOSTON HERALD   (BHLD)                               STORY 2

Firms forge PC game plans
Bay State high-tech companies tackle market move to desktop
Byline:   MICHAEL E. KNELL
Day of week: THU
09/03/92
   Four companies, four ways to play the personal computer
game.
   Firms in Massachusetts, hub of the 1970s mini-computer
boom, were slow to recognize the market's move to the desktop, but
at least firms are in the game.
   Desktop machines, linked with Silicon Valley or the Far
East, are often blamed for the bruising taken by the biggest
Massachusetts firms.
   Digital Equipment Corp. lost more than $2 billion last
year. Prime Computer shut down its hardware division. Wang
Laboratories filed for bankruptcy protection, two months after
Alliant Computer took the route. Data General struggled to stay out
of the red.
   Today, PCs have become part of the game plan for survival:
   Data General plays defensively. The Westboro company's PCs
are not aimed at consumers or new markets, said Vice President Bob
Mara. "The PC is an integral part of what our sales force can offer
our customers."
   About 10 percent of DG's $1.23 billion in revenue comes
from PCs, he said.
   DG this week unveiled two PCs, a smaller "notebook"
computer and a larger, standard-sized system. Offering "one-stop
shopping" to a someone buying other systems, DG keeps other vendors
out, Mara said.
   Digital Equipment plays a full-court press. The $14
billion Maynard firm moved aggressively, marketing hard, revamping
its strategy and reversing a dismal PC record.
   Digital has about $1 billion a year in PC sales and
service, built mainly on catalogue sales.
   Leading Edge plays no other game. For the Westboro

PRM -    MASS HIGH TECH (MAHT)                                STORY 4

Foley, Council Lead Fight Against Corp. Disclosure
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By Patrick Porter
4158 Words
08/10/92
Copyright Mass Tech Times Inc. 1992
Houston, TX, US --
    Just when it seemed that Massaachusetts was beginning to
overcome its reputation as an anti-business state, Jim Braude,
executive director of the Tax Equity Alliance of Massachusetts
(TEAM) has aimed a dagger at the heart of all publicly-traded
corporations, banks and insurance companies doing business in the
commonwealth.
    When Massachusetts voters go to the polls in November they will
be asked to decide whether these business organizations should be
forced to report their corporate excise tax payments to the state,
along with a range of other sensitive financial data, including: net
and gross income and assets; adjustments and credits that affect tax
liability; apportionment percentage (for multistate corporations);
and tax credits available for future years.
    Question 2 on the ballot--or Corporate Disclosure as the
initiative petition is called--would make Massachusetts the only
state in the nation to publish such sensitive information.
    Supporters of Question 2 argue that corporate disclosure is the
only way to find out if giant corporations are paying their fair
share of taxes. Opponents say the measure would put companies doing
business here at a competitive disadvantage. Moreover, disclosure
would give corporate raiders a motherload of data on Massachusetts
takeover targets. Corporate investment in the state would dwindle as
companies and jobs would flee the state.
    Indeed, J.P. Barger, chairman of the High Tech Council and
chairman of Dynatech Corp., a $500 million global high-tech
conglomerate headquartered in Burlington, recently negotiated an
lease agreement with his landlord giving Dynatech the right to
terminate the lease and move from the state if Question 2 becomes
law. More high-tech companies are said to be considering such
actions.
    Not surprisingly, every business organization of note in
Massachusetts opposes Question 2. Howard Foley, president of the
High Tech Council, is the most visible business leader opposing
corporate disclosure. Mass High Tech editor-in-chief Patrick Porter
interviewed Foley at the Council's headquarters in Waltham on July
20.
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