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...Federal Aviation Administration play fair when the company won a $3.6 billion contract to upgrade the computers in the U.S. air-traffic- control system? No way, according to losing bidder Hughes Aircraft, which last week persuaded the General Services Administration to suspend the contract pending an investigation...
...Gillette by the Coniston Group, a New York-based firm. In last year's proxy contest, Gillette won by a 52 to 48 percent margin over Coniston, which had mounted a campaign to unseat four Gillettee board members in order to sell off the razor company to the highest bidder...
Obviously, financial donations to Harvard are crucial to maintaining its position as the nation's premier institution of higher learning--not to mention the nation's richest. But if officials give into the temptation to sell bits and pieces to the highest bidder, how can the University maintain its institutional independence and its own ethical integrity? And how can Harvard preserve its newfound status as an institution based on merit and no longer just status and wealth...
...country's top two candymakers. Rowntree Mackintosh, the maker of Kit Kat bars, is under attack from two Swiss companies seeking a larger share of the world chocolate market. One contender: Zurich-based Jacobs Suchard, which has acquired 18.7% of Rowntree's stock. But the more powerful bidder is giant Nestle, which has offered $3.9 billion for all outstanding shares. Rowntree Chairman Kenneth Dixon is asking the British government to help block the takeover...
...nude serenade had been purchased last week at Cabot House's annual Dutch Auction. "It was a good deal, for $52," said Brenda Wood, who was the highest bidder. Wood, who was visiting her daughter, Cabot resident Lori Wood '88, decided to buy the serenade for herself...